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 > Outbound scan for Spam or Virus by Barracuda at Delta Tau _______________________________________________ etherlab-users mailing list etherlab-users@etherlab.org http://lists.etherlab.org/mailman/listinfo/etherlab-users
