Re: Confused as to what J20 on Sound Logic board does...

Have you verified that this will work with the 300 series servo
drives?

I think you will have a much more desireable product if it functions
with the 300 series as well as the 200 series. Perticularly by
incorporating the err/reset on the 300 series.

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "James Cullins"
<jcullins@c...> wrote:

> Ross
> Yes that was the original intent of J20 how ever after emailing

Marris

> he discourages disabling the drives that way. He tells me the best

way is to

> remove the 5v to the gecko drives. I have a new rev board coming

out soon

> that does this. It also has the Estop input, and connector to

install a

> daughter board for Spindle speed control, which is under

development.

> To do that with the current board. you can wire the 5v form one of

the

> step,dir 5v connectors to one pin of J20 and wire the other pin of

J20 the

> 5v input to all the Geckos. Then the Geckos would not have 5v until

Mach1 or

> 2 is running and the Estop icon cleared. This would stop motion

even if

> Mach1 did not stop.
>
> You are correct about giving the Estop and your method does not

depend on

> the software to disable the outputs.
> I just drew up one way to hook this up if anyone is interested just

email me

> and I will send it to you.
> Regards
> Jim Cullins
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ross" <rrcarl@n...>
> To: <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2003 7:45 PM
> Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Confused as to what J20 on Sound

Logic board

> does...
>
>
> > I beleive J20, when connected to the inhibits on the Gecko drives,
> disables the drives if power is not applied to the board. Jim will

correct

> me if I'm wrong.
> >
> > I can tell you for sure that when you sut down power to the Sound

Logic

> board, an Estop is tripped in Mach1. If you want to set up a

master Estop

> and have Mach1 go to an Estap condition when youj trip an Estop,

just set up

> your master Estop switch to kill AC power to your electronics.

When you do

> that, Mach1 will trigger an Estop automatically. You do not need

to wire

> any special relays to make the Sound Logic board send an Estop to

Mach1.

> >
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