@Chimeno,
Albert, you have helped me big time in the past, and as always I am super grateful.
Back when I was having problems with the EL5151's, you helped me figure out my problem with the logic voltage and it has changed everything. I had totally overlooked the problem as I assumed everything was fine when the input LED's were flashing rapidly. I learned a lot about "Weak Pull-Up Resistors", and I should never make the mistake again LOL I was pulling my hair out at times and just plain aggravated that I could not get it working before you helped enlighten me through TwinCAT. I will never forget seeing the A-B channels finally register in TwinCAT, then I set it up in LCNC, and the counter finally was adding counts. It was a super awesome day for me as I finally had everything working fully through EtherCAT instead of a hybrid machine with a Parallel Port and slow slow speed.
But the main reason I was super happy about getting it working was because of my father. In the middle of last year both of my parents were diagnosed with Cancer only 3 weeks apart. My mom was stage 3 with breast and lymph node cancer and my dads was esophageal, both were serious life threatening surgeries, my father had a 50/50 chance just making it through surgery. I had been working feverishly to get this machine back online to make some parts he was wanting and trying to balance spending as much time with them every day that I could. I did not get it done before his surgery but that did not matter at the time as only my parents mattered. Material things don't mean anything when a family member is facing death. But thankfully he made it through the surgery and has been recovering this year, and I have been trying to help him with projects he has been wanting to do to keep himself going and not stop life.
So now the machine is working better than it came from Hurco as it is running fully on EtherCAT and is rock solid on reliability unlike before. My dad knows that "Albert from Spain" has helped get the machine working fully again. It was sad when the OEM computer went out back 2+ years ago, but now it was all worth it to retrofit with EtherCAT. As always, I greatly appreciate the help and wish I could return the favor, but you are way more advanced on EtherCAT and I will never catch up LOL.
Robert
