Marco Reps video on youtube about EtherCAT

Evgeny wrote:

Hi. If you figure out how I can send you 10GB of data, I can send you an acronis image of my system, the drivers are already installed and the configuration runs.

Thank you very much for the offer. wouldnt this be full of configurations made exactly to your hardware? not sure this is the best method to fix...

You might want to check the ethercat_conf file name... You config uses ethercat-conf (hyphen) where the files is usually an ethercat_conf (underscore).

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Thanks for the comments guys, running this fixed my issue.(not sure why)
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y linux-headers-$(uname -r) ethercat-master linuxcnc-ethercat

I looked into the matter and realized that I don't really need limited torque auto-homing for my drives. these drives are absolute and onceloved correctly advised me to use this feature

The key problem is that you don't have the battery and the corresponding encoder cable for recording the encoder position.

I have already paid for them and am waiting for them to arrive from China.

I pulled myself together and added a spindle frequency drive control panel via RS485 modbus
I did it through vfdmod and it works great
 
 
 

in fact it is absolutely not needed if you are using absolute encoders

Hi Everyone. Thank you all for contributing to the Ethercat Integration. I am also a new user trying to configure an EL8 drive.

I have installed rodw's iso from his Google Drive and followed his step-by-step thread with no errors. However LinuxCNC is not opening, giving me the attached report. I have cloned Marco Reps' files from GitHub ( github.com/marcoreps/linuxcnc_leadshine_EL8.git ) and adjusted the XML file to reflect my bench test, a single EL8 drive and one EK1100 i/o. I compiled his cia402, el8_homecomp, always_homed, and servospindle components. I have also installed the EtherCAT drivers from here:  github.com/sittner/linuxcnc-ethercat .

Any help would be much appreciated.