A6 1000w troubles.

I purchased the 1000w a6 servos and followed the thread using the posted xml and hal files. I can get the servo to show its position n linuxcnc however I can't get it to power up. it sits in a 88nr state and can easily be turned by hand.

Hi
I have the 400w version, should be the same. I'll post my comfig as soon as I have access, but it rather looks like an issue of drive side configuration.

-does the manual jog according to the manual work?

-can you readout any error codes? For example when toggling the arrow buttons on the drive

-did you do configure the drive with their software over usb? I did PID tuning there and also had first time power on the motors through this.

-there are some digital inputs that default to overtravel/undertravel with active low according to the manual page 212, make sure these are connected properly or disabled

your machine enable signal is probably not passed to the drive? is the drive in op mode at all? check with 'ethercat slaves' in a terminal. and post your full config with ini, hal, and ethercat xml

github.com/shulter/biber-ethercat/blob/main/tools/servo-tune.py

here is a script for tuning the servos over the ethercat bus with the most important parameters. it's hardcoded for one of my machines, just edit it. (todo: implement a bus enumeration at startup, get rid of the hardcoded stuff)

it wasn't possible to get the stepperonline tuning software for windows to talk to all servo drives simultaneously. it was really annoying to tune a dual servo gantry that way.