Dear Dave, There are (at least) two kinds of EtherCAT servo drives:
Type 1: CoE (CAN over EtherCAT) for example: Kollmorgen AKD, Beckhoff AX2000 and Elmo GOLD families Type 2: SoE (SERCOS over EtherCAT) for example: Beckhoff AX5000 family I think that both are difficult to learn because the documentation is available only for TwinCAT. --- sebastien On 01/02/2014 09:11 PM, Dave Scheinman wrote:
After much fumbling around I've successfully managed to get Etherlab up and running and talking to a Beckhoff EK1100 with some Digital and Analog I/O. Ultimately I would like to use Ethercat to control some brushless motors. Companies like Advanced Motion Control and Elmo make Ethercat drives in the current/voltage range I am interested, but I am open to other suggestions. Does the Etherlab community have a suggestion on which vendor's drives will provide the most seamless integration with Etherlab? The Beckhoff hardware has pre-made Simulink blocks provided with Etherlab but I am unclear how to go about creating these blocks for an arbitrary servo drive. Is this documented somewhere? Thanks! ~dave _______________________________________________ etherlab-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.etherlab.org/mailman/listinfo/etherlab-users
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