I've got an old Sigma II SGDS-02A05A 200W servo drive and hopefully matching 200W servo motor SGMAH-02A1A4C. I'm buggered if I can get the thing to come out of base block, so it's little more than a brick.

The manual for the drive doesn't give much away and the SigmaWin+ software is equally cryptic.

The "bare minimum" setup instructions for testing in jog mode get me to the point where it displays "Jog" on the display but I should be able to get it out of base block by pressing the mode button. It refuses to do so.

The motor has an absolute encoder which requires a battery to keep the encoder awake. I might be forced to connect something up to the battery terminals, although the s/w claims the encoder setup was completed and it shows a position coming from the encoder. There's no mention of needing an encoder battery to jog the motor at this point.

Anyone any experience of these drives have an idea what I might be missing?