Re: [etherlab-users] Communication to a SoE drive

2013-10-03 Thread Jordi Blanch
Nobody with experience trying to work with a Sercos over EtherCAT drive? On Tue, 01 Oct 2013 17:16:09 +0200, Jordi Blanch wrote: > Dear Sebastien, > > thank you very much for your answer, but I have downloaded the > "Kollmorgen AKD EtherCAT Communications Manual" and it doesn't seem that > this

Re: [etherlab-users] Communication to a SoE drive

2013-10-01 Thread Jordi Blanch
Dear Sebastien, thank you very much for your answer, but I have downloaded the "Kollmorgen AKD EtherCAT Communications Manual" and it doesn't seem that this drive is a Sercos Over EtherCAT (SoE) drive, but a CANOpen over EtherCAT (CoE) drive. I need to know how to communicate to a Sercos Over Ethe

Re: [etherlab-users] Communication to a SoE drive

2013-10-01 Thread Sebastien Blanchet
Hi, Unlike Beckhoff terminals, servo drives are very complex ethercat slaves. Often you have to send SDO commands to the servo drive to configure PDO mapping. After that you can communicate with the servo drive with PDO. this is an example for Kollmorgen AKD: http://lists.etherlab.org/pipermai

[etherlab-users] Communication to a SoE drive

2013-10-01 Thread Jordi Blanch
Hello all, we would like to use EtherCat Master to communicate to a SoE drive, but we do not know how to proceed. We have been able to use EtherCat Master to communicate to Beckhoff terminal modules properly, but it doesn't seem that we have to use the same commands to send/receive informatio