HOW TO PICK A MOTION CONTROL BOARD

Not sure if I'm getting this straight. Let me tell you what I found again just so there is not miscommunication. On L6 there was 220VAC on 1 & 3 and wires a lot of other places on L6 except for the +15V, 0Vm, GND, -15V.

So above it looks like you're telling me to check the +-15V terminals on L6? I'm not sure how I'm going to do that if there are no signal wires going into them. Or maybe you're saying all the voltages going into L6 need to be checked to see if they're correct so the GETSTART LED will light on.

Sorry I'm not getting this right away. Even though I'm having fun with this project, I just don't have a lot of experience and it may take me a couple of times to get things straight.

connect IF and RF to 0v dc ( pulse and controller ) terminal 1 and 3 ( to enable the drive this needs to be connected to eiither 0v or +15vdc ) after removing any connections to the terminals

apply your 9v battery ( any battery ( 3 > 9v )will do or a variable supply 0 - 10v ) to 0v terminal 8 ( 0v 0vm / 8 and + to terminal E101 / 10 or E102 /9 ) do not connect to earth ( terminal 7 )
the lower the voltage the better as this will limit the movement speed , should it take off !
if it moves then to reverse direction just reverse the battery connections

Yes the drive manual manual says you will not get servo-on (and the LED ) unless the +- 15 are within tolerance, since you dont get the LED the drive thinks something is not enabled or wrong. This is why you need to check possible causes.

The drive enables are positive to enable not ground (according to the schematic)

Okay, I will give this a try after work tonight!

Tonight I tried to make 15V through batteries, the power supply, and resistors I had on hand, but was only able to get down to 17.2 VDC. I don't think that was in tolerance. I'll try again tomorrow and get the correct 15VDC, if that is what I was suppose to connect to IF & JF. Also, it takes me a little bit to try these, because I have to drive across town to get to my lathe, so I'm not slacking if I don't get right back to you.

After reading the posts more carefully, it occurs to me that maybe I should have connected the +-15V or 0Vm on L6 to the main boards (Axis 1) IF & JF with wires? (See attached PDF) Also, you mention removing any connections to the terminals. I attached a picture of what the board looks like with all the connections on it right now. I haven't messed with the wires because I think most go to the dead anilam controller, which is disconnected from the plug so I wasn't going to worry about that, maybe I should?

Thanks!

Here is the image file of the connections I think what you're asking me to try?

yes correct L6 is output connector for + - 15v etc so after checking that these terminals give you + - 15v with reference to the 0v connector , connecting L6 + 15v to RF and IF should enable the drive ( connecting to 0v should disable )

then seperately using a 9v battery or similar connect as per your pdf

YOU DO NOT WANT TO APPLY DC POWER TO L6
The +- 15 are OUTPUTS

If you do not measure +-15 v from these points when the 230VAC is on, you need to trace back and find out why

I'll give it another try today, thanks!

One question before I try this today. Should I disconnect all the wires on the L6 terminal block? You can see all the connections on the picture. thx!

The 230VAC input is needed as thats what powers the +-15 volt supply that runs all the low voltage logic on the drives.