jbeasley Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 Maybe I'm missing something but I decided to do some testing on my Power Brick LV with 465 CPU. I have the 4 Servo EtherCAT option and so I purchased a couple of R series Ethercat temposonics rods. We do a lot of hydraulic positioning applications and I wanted something to play around with. When I went to configure EtherCAT I realized that version 4 doesn't support the EtherLab stack. I loaded version 3 and opened system setup. Configured the rod and Loaded the PDO's to the pmac. then went back to IDE 4 terminal and activated EtherCAT. Everything Looks good from an initial setup I have Position and Velocity Feedback. Not really sure about the whole DC thing but I will figure that out as i move forward with ECAT. I was just wondering why you don't include the System Setup Application or at least the Etherlab portion of it in version 4? Is there some other way I should have configured the EtherCAT network and loaded the PDO's that I'm missing? Thanks, John. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omron Forums Support Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 A configuration is all that is needed to store EtherLAB setup (not the case for Acontis). I would suggest setting up EtherCAT in IDE 3.1.4.0 as the first part of your project (after clock setup, but that is kind of part of EtherCAT) and then taking a configuration. You can add existing that configuration into your IDE 4 project or copy the contents into a header (global includes) file to make it a permanent part of your IDE project. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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