moog animatics smart motor - need contract help to configure

 I've seen plenty of servo circular connectors with combined power & signal, but not DB's.

I learn something new every day, thank you.

spumco wrote:

 I've seen plenty of servo circular connectors with combined power & signal, but not DB's.

Thanks for the help here. Yeah the motors were bought cheap without much direction at that time. I like your plan to buy some thing else. I finally put brakes on this project when I saw the SMNC software had no backlash comp and limited to run in Windows. Plus the $700.+ price tag made me come here to ask. This forum has become stronger since I started this machine over 10 years ago. Now I am getting to the part that requires less brawn. Thanks again for your input I will listen to your advice.

Thanks for that. I bought a new set of daisy chain cables from motion industries and now I have that and a open frame power supply, a shunt and the usb to rs232 cable. wow I am overkill in the race to broke. Ha Ha I can only laugh now. It is what I get for not checking what is up. Thank you for your help. Yes this stuff will be fun to test and maybe find some value coming back later. At least they are un-used and may be needed as replacements.

Thanks for all the help from this forum about Moog smart motors. I am listening to all the advice and I have plenty of hope for my project now. I think with all said here I will use these motors to just test and sell later. Thanks for taking time to answer many questions and send me in the right direction. Any progress I make with the Moog motors I can try to post later. For now I am going to get a closed loop stepper solution, a Mesa card and get some beer also. All the post are great!!

spumco wrote:

And good luck finding the correct DB7-ish connector with the two big DC bus terminals. 

Just search for "5W2 d-sub", for example:
uk.rs-online.com/web/p/d-sub-connectors/9235211