[Etherlab-users] EL3356 steady state always off

[Mike O'Connor]

Hi

Does such a thing exist in the open? We have been slowly working one a 
slave XML processor for our Clockwork (https://github.com/latproc) 
control language, but its not finished.

Mike

On 17/5/21 5:55 pm, Tom Wong-Cornall wrote:
> On Sat, May  8 '21 at 11.03 NZST, Saul Cuen-Rochin <saulcuen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm trying to use EL3356 with etherlab master 1.5.2, but the "steady state"
>> {0x6000,0x09,1} read-only bit is always OFF. thus I always get a 0 value
>> from the "value" {0x6000,0x11,32} variable.
>>
>> I used the same setup with TWINCAT3 and I get the values readings just
>> fine, the steady state bit is turned ON as expected..
> I've not used that exact module, but having had a couple of surprises
> like this, check your Startup List in TwinCAT. You might find TwinCAT
> has set a non-default value for 0x8000:29/0x8000:2A which define the
> steady state window. You might need to set these parameters to sensible
> values with e.g. ecrt_slave_config_sdo().
>
> There are a few Beckhoff slaves (e.g. AX5805, EP8309) where the list of
> these startup parameters are so vast and intricate that it made sense to
> write a TwinCAT XML startup list parser to do this automatically, rather
> than have endless config knobs in our software.