Jim, I also have some leadshine EL8 drives, I was working with them for a bit but got frustrated and put it on the back burner, if you wouldn't mind sharing your setup files that would be a huge help. I bought them about a year ago, it took a while to get all the components. I did manage to get them to move with linuxcnc but i got following errors I just could not figure out. At the time I couldn't find anyone else working with these drives.
I would love to pull it all back out and get it running. I don't know if you have a build thread but i would love to follow what you are working on,
This is how far i got.
Eric