Thanks John. I'm not sure if I understand what needs to happen still. I'm still learning, so please bear with me. I also apologize for the length of this post.
I based my drawing of the barrier strips on the drawing on the acopian site (
http://www.acopian.com/single-l-goldboxa-d.html) but I left out the L AC and N AC connections since Acopian is connecting those for me to a fuse and an IEC inlet. I assume they'll connect the chassis ground to the ground pin on the plug so maybe I can ignore them for now.
I read that for the supply designated as +18V, send the + output to the +18V rail and take the - output and connect it to 0V/common/ground; for the supply designated as -18V, connect the - output to the -18V rail and connect the + output to 0V/common/ground. I think I'm confused in the nomenclature. Does 0V/common/ground have anything to do with chassis ground?
My board is 16x4x2 so I'm keeping it simple and waiting to do the power redistribution until I'm more comfortable with drilling holes in the motherboard to add new headers. I figure it will be fine with power connected at a single point for now.
I will connect the outputs from the power supply to a rectangular connector whose mate will be installed at the rear of the console. On the console side, each connection will go directly to either the motherboard, the mic inputs for phantom, or to the VU lights. For the time being, I plan to feed the sense connections along the side of the motherboard and solder them at the end of the appropriate traces.
This is how I understand it so far. I'll update my diagram later when I'm home since it makes more sense to me visually.
1) Using 12AWG wire, on 18V supply #1, the + output terminal supplies the +18V on the motherboard.
2) Using 12AWG wire, on 18V supply #2, the - output terminal supplies the -18V on the motherboard.
3) Using 12AWG wire, connect the - output on supply #1 with the + output on supply #2 to connect to the common/0V pin on the motherboard. Can I just connect these with jumpers on the barrier strip at the rear of the power supply and send to the console from one of the jumpered terminals?
4) Rather than write out all of the sense connections, is it correct that they should connect somewhere to the output with corresponding polarity? This can be somewhere where the power is distributed (i.e. motherboard), or I can use jumpers on the barrier strip right?
5) + output on 48V unit goes to the mic jacks.
6) - output on 48V unit goes to common/OV
7) +5V output needs to go to the motherboard and the VU meter lights
8.) - 5V output goes to common/0V?
9) what goes to "LED ground" on the motherboard?
10) there are 2 connections to the VU meter lights, one is +5V, what is the other? I assumed it was the - connection.
What I've written above eliminates the common/chassis ground connections I had earlier.