Anilam with 7i97

    Im not sure that I am far along enough yet to be able to answer that. I am still in the middle of trying to figure out what everything is in pncconfig and plug as much in as I can. Now I did try to turn on an axis in the pnc setup but was not able to achieve this. Im sure im missing something though. After I get to a point where Im understanding thisI will check back on this post and update you 

Ok Im glad you said something. I was kinda at a point of not knowing what to do next but ill check out the velociity feed and see where it might plug in too. Also I was using the pnc with a 7i92 x 7i77 with one 7i77

Yes, a 7I97 configuration is quite different. I would suggest starting with the basic7i97 configuration here:

 

How's your E-stop connected? Make sure it's wired so you stand a chance to kill power to the drives in case you get a runaway (as in configuring encoder backwards).
Some of the older Anilam drives enable on power up with a relay. Turn off when activating estop or a limit switch. Are you able to switch power on with the mesa hardware?

No I am not able to turn it on with the mesa hardware yet. I actually kind unhooked everything I had done to start over. I had so many wires in my cabinets I didnt need that made things way more complicated to me than they needed to be so I have take all of those out. Mostly the ones that ran to my console, which is where the estop was originally located. It looks like the old estop would kill power or kill a part of the servo control board. Now while I do plan to figure back in a new estop I could pronabnlyget away with not having it for now as I have a switch on the cabinet that I am arms length away from to kill power.
As far as finding out what my enable is, I decided instead of trying to hook it all up at once and hope its right I am going to slow down and do the hook ups one by one while checking things in my HAL file. I was just really far off track I believe but I watched a youtube video that Tommylight had and am going to take the approach he did. Thanks for all the help too seriously. This is all pretty much new to me. Im just a machinist you know trying to take the next step. Its going to get done though one way or another because I want it to happen. Im going to figure out all you guys have said and get back to you when I do