Quote Originally Posted by Doddy View Post
https://industrial.panasonic.com/con...s_manual_e.pdf is my "source of truth" here - please confirm yourself that it's applicable to your servo drive.

From that link, page 11, fig 6-1-1 shows the intent of the 24V supply - though in that link it's referred to as COM+ and COM-, and specified as 12-24V. This is the feed to the isolated inputs to the servo driver, and the purpose is entirely to manage that interface. For this, use the same 24V supply as you use on the MB3 for the servo COM+/COM- pins. If you look at the schematic in 6-1-1, you'll note the series resistor on the opto-isolator inputs - 4k7, a quick bit of Ohms law resolves that as you need a sink capacity of around 5mA per input, so with your schematic with the MB3, Y316 needs to be able to sink 5mA - it's rated at 70mA, and will be fine. (I'll not bore people with the maths here, by all means IM me if you need that explaining, Nemo.... oh, looking up, I think I did in the earlier post).
Aye you did, and got it wired, but I cannot get the servo to move, I have wired it to the correct pins etc in Mach4/ESS.

I have been through several wiring scenarios in the book but to no avail, when I connect Servo ON it does lock the spindle of the servo.

Looking though I think the Pulse Input Mode should be "3" - it's set at "0" could someone confirm please? Page 37 https://www.airgunownersclub.co.uk/d...s_manual_e.pdf

Can anyone work out what connections are actually needed for the MB3 - do I need all the connections from page 11 and also the ones at top of page 13?

thanks - any help appreciated.