New ethercat / probe basic control for minimonster

One step closer. mmmm. motors being so much smaller gives a lot more room in the enclosure too which is nice.
Z has no brake, but being shorted to the resistor in the drive lets the spindle drop very slowly now, so nothing bad will happen from a sudden power cut. now... to make it run!

 

K, installed ethercat... I guess..? haha. i need to decipher all the instructions.

BUT, I have another problem. setting up the servos it seems the configuration software is $500? This makes no sense to me. Never seen a drive where you had to pay extra just to configure and tune it. Am I missing something here? Anyone using Omron G5 servos?

ok, z motor hooked up and powered.

im basically lost at this point.

anyone want to walk me through or point me to nice simple sequential "do this then this" instructions?

as of right now i did the ethercat install, and nothing much else. if i type ethercat slaves in the terminal it shows me nothing.

here is my drive manual
www.megatech.ro/doc/590/Accurax%20G5%20w...20Users%20Manual.pdf

thanks!

So, any help on ethercat finding my drives would be nice. When i try twincat, it sees the drive but then it triggers a communication error. so something is set wrong somewhere.

ok, i dont know what the issue was, but it works now. i see the slave.......

what next?
need a wizard

ihavenofish wrote:

need a wizard

Try summoning Gandalf

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Needed some time to find this, see if it helps

or the wizard
forum.linuxcnc.org/ethercat/54495-ethercat-auto-configurator

watched that vid... doesnt help. haha. (well no, it helps a little)
the auto config i did see but i got the impression it wasnt quite ready to go.