I'm working on a lathe retrofit with 6i25 (operating as 5i25) and 7i77 and there are some things that confuse me while working on power and connections.
I have already managed to get the +-10V servo drives working, but having trouble understanding power connections and field I/O.
I have seen in other threads that I should get some pins named like hm2_5i25.0.7i77.0.0.input-xx and hm2_5i25.0.7i77.0.0.output-xx, but instead I get hm2_5i25.0.gpio.0xx.in(_not) and hm2_5i25.0.gpio.0xx.out.
I suppose that something will change as soon as I connect field power. I read in page 16 of the 7i77 manual that "VIN power must be present for the 7I77 field I/O to be detected and operate", but I'm a little bit confused with the following sentence, so I have not connected power to the board yet: "For example with a standard 24V field power, +24V connects to the 7I77s field power input (on TB1) and the outputs on TB5 and TB6 now source +24V power to loads".
My understanding is that TB1 is used to provide +5V for the board operation, encoders and servo drive analog outputs, so I cannot understand why +24V field power connects to TB1. Also, TB5 pins are servo drives outputs +-10V, so what kind of loads is the manual refering to?