Replacing Anilam 5000M - Recomendations?

I have a few stepper motor CNC routers running LCNC and just got my hands on a Republic-Lagun VBM-1000 with a wonky Anilam 5000M controller that may need replacing if I'm unable to cost effectively fix it. As this is my first foray into servos, I'm looking for advice. The mill is driven by brushed DC servos. The electrical cabinet is all Anilam, including the servo amplifiers. I'm driving the steppers on my CNC routers with Mesa 7i96's and would like to stay with Mesa, unless you all have other ideas. Please lay them on me!

I converted my BP knee mill from Anilam 1100M to EMC (now LinuxCNC) years ago using 5i25 and 7i77. I ditched everything except the drive boards and DC power supply for the drives IIRC. I put an Automation Direct GS2 drive for the spindle using the GS2 component.

JT

Thanks, JT, especially for turning me onto the GS2, which I guess is now the GS20 series. Do you leave the manual spindle speed control set at high speed/maximum rpm? I'm guessing the analog or frequency output from the VFD can be wired to the Mesa board to display spindle speed on LCNC?

I leave the spindle in high gear and usually just run the spindle at 1800 and use the dial to tweak the speed. I put an encoder on the spindle so I "can" but haven't used that to get spindle speed but I do use it for rigid tapping.

There's some photos of it here gnipsel.com/images/bp-knee-mill/

JT

I got the Anilam controller working. It's antiquated, at least as far as I'm concerned; sneaker net file transfer via very slow USB-floppy emulator. I'll run with it for a while before spending any more money. Thanks!