On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 7:02 AM Brian Martin <
bmm@...> wrote:
No problem, o1bigtenor. I want to know more about Ethercat also. Go ahead with the discussion!
Does an Ethercat drive network directly to the PC, or is there still a motion control interface/card?
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Greetings
My phrase is 'what I know I can write on paper with big block letters and there is still plenty of room?
inside the thimble, after inserting the paper, for my finger' - - - - which is to say - - precious little.?
AIUI its a ethernet modification - - - to speed communications between devices, specifically?
- - again, AIUI, for drives to controls. There is a master info source at:?
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my search engine (duckduckgo) included this with that address:?
The?EtherCAT?technology overcomes the system limitations of other Ethernet solutions: The Ethernet packet is no longer received, then interpreted and copied as process data at every connection. Instead, the Ethernet frame is processed on the fly.
So - - - it would seem that the value is in high speed connections.?
I'm not sure at what level ethercat comes into its own - - - haven't been able to?
find anything like 'a noobs guide to ethercat' . As usual one is expected to be?
at least sorta of a master form the get go - - - - docs are so tedious to write?
is what needs to be remembered (NOT - - -imo!). So the whole seems like it?
could be useful - - - but exactly how - - - well - - - that's why I was asking for?
info tips.?
(One more technology to master)
From the still quite befogged mind of?
(LOL)
