Ethercat random jitter fix

sorry, I got messed up, should test the ethercat upload commands with 
refClockSyncCycles="-1"

If you could also do some more testing, I'd really like to get to the bottom of this

also with refClockSyncCycles="-1" (don't move just start)

Check pll_reset_cnt, does it increment every ~1/sec?

Also could you move the first servo drive as the first slave, and try with refClockSyncCycles="-1"?




 

@rodw

rodw wrote:

Hakan wrote:

grandixximo's linuxcnc-ethercat repo, right?
That pll-err value shows it's not the linuxcnc standard code. That oscillates around zero.
 
Please expand on what you mean here.

This is a standard RIP install of Debian 2.10 except its in a folder under /usr/lib, grandixximos driver built from source, Ethercat from repos. That should make no difference. For me, latency etc is fine on my hardware which makes it weird.

 

In Scott's linuxcnc-ethercat repo pll-err oscillates around 0.
In grandixximo's repo pll-err oscillates around that number 992000 something.
It's not necessarily wrong, it was just how I could tell.

As mentioned, with only the refClockSyncCycles="-1" parameter, the axis makes noise, but it's only for reconfirmation.
Parameter values ​​are with refClockSyncCycles="-1"
ethercat upload -p 0 -t uint32 0x1C32 0x06 return 0x00000000 0
ethercat upload -p 0 -t uint32 0x1C33 0x06 return 0x00000000 0
ethercat upload -p 1 -t uint32 0x1C32 0x06 return 0x00000000 0
ethercat upload -p 1 -t uint32 0x1C33 0x06 return 0x00000000 0
ethercat upload -p 0 -t uint32 0x1C33 0x03 return Failed to upload SDO: Input/output error
ethercat upload -p 1 -t uint32 0x1C33 0x03 return SDO transfer aborted with code 0x06010001: Attempt to read a write-only object
ethercat upload -p 0 -t uint32 0x1C32 0x09 return 0x00030d40 200000
ethercat upload -p 1 -t uint32 0x1C32 0x09 return 0x00000000 0

I can't reverse I/O with the drive. I/O is always 0, the drives follow. I would have to change everything hal, but this configuration works fine with Debian 10 and now also with Trixie, but with refClockSyncCycles="1"

The pin pll , oscillation value about 1 second value 0 after 4210619, after 1 second restar with 0

please check hal pin
ecat.0.pll_reset_cnt

with refClockSyncCycles="-1"
 

With refClockSyncCycles="-1" the value of the ecat.0.pll_reset_cnt pin is continuously increasing, it never stops, it increases in a positive direction more and more, in a short time it was already at 20,000

with  refClockSyncCycles="1" the pin ecat.0.pll_reset_cn remain stable = 0

can you run ethercat master a few times consecutively while running with

refClockSyncCycles="-1"

and paste here the DC reference and the App time values?

at least 3~4 consecutive times please

do the same for 

refClockSyncCycles="1"