Help with a power supply (farnell G6 60a)

[ktz]

Hi all,

I'm brand new to the forum and dreadfully new to electronics in general, but am doing my best to learn and I figured this may be a good place to start. (ps - this is not homework..I'm not a student of an electrical engineering, just an enthusiast trying to learn .

I'm trying to power a matrix of 64 servo motors through a board via a single power supply. I've got the board and calculated the power required as 6v @ 500mA x 64, so roughly 6v @ 32amps. I purchased a power supply online that will supply 6v @ 60amps (so plenty for the motors). The power supply in question is a Farnell G6-60A. It arrive as a single unit without cables, etc and a slightly confusing (to a rookie) front panel that I certainly don't want to hook up incorrectly. Can anyone help?

My guess would be to first buy a mains lead, clip the connector off, and screw the wires into the appropriate terminals (on the left in the photo). The manual states to then link the mains to the appropriate voltage on the 3-way terminal block on the right (which is 240V as I am in the UK). How would this be done? Just a single wire from the live block on the left to the 240V block on the right? After that, I'm a little confused on what to hook up to what to get power from the unit to my board @ 6V.

Sorry for the rookie questions, any help would be greatly appreciated!

The operating manual is here: http://3gcl.no-ip.org/3GCL/Datasheets/Electronics/SMPS/Farnell PSU/FARNELL. G6-60A. PSU. OPERATING GUIDE..pdf

 

[Tom.G]

(that first link, to imageshack.us, is broken)

On the second three-way terminal strip: to select 240V mains power jumper the top two terminals together, the ones labeled 240V and 220V.

On the six-way terminal strip, jumper:
+S to +
- to -S
IN1 to PROG

The Output is those two big studs with nuts on them labelled + and -.
You can adjust the output voltage with that adjustment just above the six-way terminal strip.

Cheers,
Tom