Hello,
I am using the CK3E controller and I have heard in passing that it is possible with PPMAC to create EtherCAT slave alias's. It would be my understanding that this would enable swapping failed components in the EtherCAT ring without recreating the Ecat_Config file? Or adding a new component in the middle of the ring without recreating the Ecat_Config? Is this possible? What do slave alias's actually mean or do? I can't find any information in the SRM on it. Any explanation would be greatly appreciated!
Also, would it be possible to "hot plug" periphery machinery into the EtherCAT ring and pro-grammatically load a different Ecat_Config allowing PPMAC to control the periphery machinery as well as the resident machine? Of course there would have to be motion programs created, motor tuning done etc but I would think this would be possible and if so could be quite powerful. Thanks in advance!!!!