[etherlab-users] Slave DC start time calculation

2018-05-16 Thread Philippe Leuba
Hi All, I can not understand how to configure correctly my slaves with the ecrt_slave_config_dc() function. I use nine EL7211-9014 servo controllers and the XML declarations is: DC DC-Synchron #x700 0 3 0 1000 SYNC0 and SYNC1 should be fired at each cycle. My realtime cycle is at

Re: [etherlab-users] Cyclic Synchronous Position mode

2018-05-16 Thread Michael Ruder
Hi Graeme, thanks for the detailed reply! With my now modified cycle, I get a difference of about 4.45 cycles. As I now receive the current position before I send out the next target position (while it was the opposite way before), it makes sense it is one cycle more. But I compare the

Re: [etherlab-users] How to perform DC time synchronisation the right way?

2018-05-16 Thread Michael Ruder
Hi Graeme, hi Gavin, wow, thanks for the great, detailed and quick replies! This was extraordinarily helpful! I like Graemes suggestion for the cycle very much. I can cope with the delayed PDO sending much better than I could cope with a fixed, rather long wait in my cycle. I modified my