Hi,
Has anyone had experience using a "CU1128 | EtherCAT junction" from Beckhoff
(*) with the etherlab master?
It seemingly looks like a dumb device, but the documentation hints at
particular steps to set it up with TwinCAT:
```
Topological configuration
With the CU1128, special attention
Hi
I'm learning how to use ethercat
When I start ethcat and want to see the status I get the message below:
hsu@hsu-desktop:~/ethercat-1.5.2/examples/dc_user$ sudo
/etc/init.d/ethercat start
/etc/sysconfig/ethercat: 1:
Never used them, but just had a quick look at the doco (just cos I was curious).
- It mentions the ability to Hot Connect any of the ports, but there's no
configuration behind this, just the usual hardware support.
- It is detected as three ESC's (as that's what it has internally), each one
The "waiting for devices" state means that no network devices are available for
EtherCAT yet.
You need to check your configuration file (if you're using SysV
/etc/init.d/ethercat then the file is /etc/sysconfig/ethercat; if you're using
SystemD ethercat.service then the file is
I have one in a test system (though not using it in production) and it works
fine. As Graeme said it basically just works without configuration, though
if you're specifying devices by network position then you need to be careful
about the ordering, since it will appear at three different places
