Someone used Leadshine EtherCAT Stepper Drives?

I was wondering if someone has already used the ethercat compatible stepper drives?

For example :
Leadshine DM522-CAN DM-CAN Serie EtherCAT Stepper Drives
Costs about 75 $ a piece relating to 250 $ a piece for EL7041

you may Better go for standard DM556 and use a real ethernet BOB
this gives you way more options
the CAn are for standalone Systems designed not realy for CNC stuff as you run syncronised axis

I doubt it. (As I have seen nothing.) But will be certainly interested if you took this task on yourself and then share with other kids in class.

I would be also interested if someone tested the offerings from Trinamic. Could be better than this Leadshine.

(Do you have any experience with EL7041? Does it really have such terrible encoder counter maxing out at 0.4 Mpulses per second?)

tommylight wrote:

Here you go, not much but still useful :

Thats nice and I think that I have already seen this, but I meant the mid last year EtherCAT slave ICs for motor control and GPIO based stepper drivers.

Hello,
Have you heard anything new relating to that?
I just ordered some to experiment..
What would be needed to make them work? Are you aware of example hal or ini files that I could use?
Would one need to write C code in linuxcnc-ethercat or would it be feasible with setting and configuring registers in xml files?
Also does it make sense to go that way for a gantry CNC using the generic etherlab driver?

Thank you in advance.

Hi @theshade

simply using the generic linuxcnc-ethercat configuration you have enough to control it,Do you have any manual of PDO registers and configuration?

Greeting
Chimeno