MachMotion Apollo III 1000 Series Manual page 27

Note: Nothing will work on the Apollo III motion controller unless the Emergency Stop terminals are connected
together!
Our control has an estop button wired into this terminal on the apollo board. If you would like to add additional e-stop
buttons you can wire them in series to the existing estop circuit.
Emergency stop input is set up inside the software by setting the E-Stop Input Signal to HiCON [P14] Input5 and should
be pre-configured for you. When it is set up correctly, any time the emergency stop terminals are disconnected, the
system will be disabled.
7.4 Motors
To set up the motors, the drives must be connected to the controller, the Apollo III controller must be configured, and
the control software must be set up as defined below.
7.4.1 Connecting Drives
The Apollo III motion controller uses step and direction to control the axes. It can use differential or single-ended
outputs. For differential outputs there are two signals for step (step + and step -) and two signals for direction
(direction + and direction -). For single-ended there is only one signal for both step and direction. All MachMotion
products use differential outputs.
7.4.2 Differential Control
Most systems use differential step and direction. The step and direction outputs are located on the bottom row of RJ1,
the large RJ45 jack block. See the diagram below.
Figure 43 Emergency Stop Connection
Figure 44 Software E-Stop Setup