[etherlab-users] Yaskawa servo drives SII

[Henry Bausley]

I did not have any success until Yaskawa gave me a drive with firmware
3.01, older firmware did not work for me!

On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 21:17 +1300, Ravi Chemudugunta wrote:
> I am in the process of setting up and playing with the Yaskawa servo
> drive (sigma five), I plugged it into the master, good news is that it
> shows up as a slave, but I can't get it to do much more else.
> 
> Doing some goggling on the topic, I came across this thread
> 
> http://lists.etherlab.org/pipermail/etherlab-users/2010/000939.html
> 
> I get more or less the the exact error, as mentioned, being:
> 
> "
> EtherCAT ERROR 0-0: Error on last command while reading from SII word
> 0x0080.
> "
> 
> The post also mentions that with the newer firmware, this error does go away.
> 
> "
> 2.) In addition, I just received another drive from Yaskawa and they
> have updated their firmware(3.01 now) and the SII content size error no
> longer occurs. This one is visible without the latest version.
> Hopefully now I can get this drive to servo motors with the etherlab
> master.  I will keep you posted.
> "
> 
> Will the drive work without the 3.01 upgrade? or is the error purely
> an annoyance?
> 
> Generally speaking, if the slave configuration fails, is it possible
> to still use reg_pdo etc. to manually setup the pdo's or make sdo
> requests against the object dictionary (since those address are known
> through a paper specification)?
> 
> 
> cheers,
> 
> -ravi
> 





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