Marco Reps video on youtube about 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 featureimage missing /media/kunena/emoticons/smile.png

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

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

hey guys im trying to test this but i cant find parameter number 6098 to set the homing method to 6 in motion studio, could you please tell me how you configured this parameter?