Ethercat HAL driver

@sven ... my drives are Chinese too, but before complaining and saying that the assistance and manuals are bad I would like to give them the benefit of the doubt and wait for their end-of-year parties to end and finally back to the office to answer mine requests. Up to now I have been happy with them .... I tried their ethercat and I'm having problems, but I don't usually use ethercat in my work .... so maybe the cause is mine..... but I use different china drive type and brand .... however it is Chinese practice, and I think they have learned from the Japanese for this, consider the manual a kind of optional .... if you need a specific one you have to request it ... too often I have found some facts just for me ... .. also from famous Japan brands .... it seems to me that the user manual is a wholly European and American habit .... some mail makes a user complained of bad control on vdf thoshiba .... I guess he didn't ask the specific manual of the modbus .... Japanese "transcribe their secrets and most lustful commands" on the field bus in general (even ethercat or other) ..... this just to talk with friends.

Regarding my drives obviously if they don't give an answer I'll be happy to do bad publicity here on the forum.

in each case they are ethercat cia402 compliant drives, therefore objects 6091 subidx01 and 02 and 6092 subidx 01 and 02 should keep the gear ratio in memory so that the control units and encoder units can match .... now how now if I try to ascribing this from xml is not accepted (but this would also be correct, the values should be permanently written in eeprom) and from twincat I don't see the registers. I believe at this point that I need a software from the manufacturer. Your ET60 must be the same I think .... but your manual is not online on producer sites I see .... so that ssnz a well written manual is impossible to know how things are, for you as well as for me.

regards
btk

I foud your manual here ) forum.linuxcnc.org/24-hal-components/223...mkjlovaxfw&start=910

I see your problem .... nothing about gear scaling or scaling on manual .... :pinch: :pinch: and in xml many references to modbus world .... I have the supect you must set scaling parameter via modbus .... than you can use axis correctly.

regards
bkt

bkt wrote: @sven ... my drives are Chinese too, but before complaining and saying that the assistance and manuals are bad I would like to give them the benefit of the doubt and wait for their end-of-year parties to end and finally back to the office to answer mine requests. Up to now I have been happy with them .... I tried their ethercat and I'm having problems, but I don't usually use ethercat in my work .... so maybe the cause is mine..... but I use different china drive type and brand .... however it is Chinese practice, and I think they have learned from the Japanese for this, consider the manual a kind of optional .... if you need a specific one you have to request it ... too often I have found some facts just for me ... .. also from famous Japan brands .... it seems to me that the user manual is a wholly European and American habit .... some mail makes a user complained of bad control on vdf thoshiba .... I guess he didn't ask the specific manual of the modbus .... Japanese "transcribe their secrets and most lustful commands" on the field bus in general (even ethercat or other) ..... this just to talk with friends.

Regarding my drives obviously if they don't give an answer I'll be happy to do bad publicity here on the forum.

in each case they are ethercat cia402 compliant drives, therefore objects 6091 subidx01 and 02 and 6092 subidx 01 and 02 should keep the gear ratio in memory so that the control units and encoder units can match .... now how now if I try to ascribing this from xml is not accepted (but this would also be correct, the values should be permanently written in eeprom) and from twincat I don't see the registers. I believe at this point that I need a software from the manufacturer. Your ET60 must be the same I think .... but your manual is not online on producer sites I see .... so that ssnz a well written manual is impossible to know how things are, for you as well as for me.

regards
btk

Hi @bkt,

I am new to LinuxCNC and this is why i have little experience in Configuring ... so on, its obvius that i made many failures.

it was not my intention to complain about the drive's/manufacturer. :laugh:

I am only an electrician, i usually mount the EtherCAT drives and Devices in an Electrical Control Cabinet and wire them only

About the objects 6091 / 6092 when i try to readout the object in terminal with ethercat upload -p 7 -t int16 0x6092 01

it outputs this:

SDO transfer aborted with code 0x06020000: This object does not exist in the object directory

Also in TwinCAT it does not exist.

I try to get some information from the manufacturer too, and share my expirience here.


I have the manual, but it's sometimes little confusing

Hello @btk,
-the scale you have in the .ini file doesn't point to any signals.

-you are sure that the registry of
-It seems to me that the record would be but I could be wrong

-Have you tried to change the scale here?
Hello @jc2ktr
-Have you used the manufacturer's program to find the appropriate values?
* you need to configure the engine parameters, I assume you are using an ECT60


When configuring in position mode, linux no longer has control over the diver, it only sends position and reads position, you have to apply the scale here

chimeno wrote: Hello @jc2ktr
-Have you used the manufacturer's program to find the appropriate values?
* you need to configure the engine parameters, I assume you are using an ECT60


When configuring in position mode, linux no longer has control over the diver, it only sends position and reads position, you have to apply the scale here

Code:

<pdoEntry idx="607A" subIdx="00" bitLen="32" halPin="poscmd" halType="float" scale="1000"/>

Code:

<pdoEntry idx="6064" subIdx="00" bitLen="32" halPin="actpos" halType="float" scale=".001"/>

Hello @Chimeno,

i tried to setup/configure my driver with the program, but it seems that my driver is not compatible with it. I always got error messages.
And in the Selection window my driver was not listed, even when i tried to load the .xml file which i got with my driver.

even when i try to scale my signals in these lines:

it does not change the moved distance... when jog 10mm the axis moves 25

i will write a email to rtelligent about my scaling issue, and wait what they have to say.
Maybe it´s a stupid simple solution

Thanks again chimeno

Hello @jc2ktr
If it may be a good idea to send an email if they can help you,
can you check this if the scale changes?

Greeting
Chimeno