DRV.TYPE

Description

Reads the drives FieldbusClosedA Fieldbus is an industrial network system for real-time distributed control (e.g. CAN or Profibus). It is a way of connecting instruments in a plant design type. Only “2 = EtherCATClosedEtherCAT is an open, high-performance Ethernet-based fieldbus system. The development goal of EtherCAT was to apply Ethernet to automation applications which require short data update times (also called cycle times) with low communication jitter (for synchronization purposes) and low hardware costs” is available on MKD-C, MKD-N and AKD-N

DRV.TYPE allows you to select the operational fieldbus for your drive. This parameter is read-write on the CC drive models and read-only on all other drive models. To change the operational fieldbus of your drive:

  1. Set DRV.TYPE to one of the following values. Only values 0 to 3 are selectable. All other values are read only.

    0 = Analog (no EtherCAT or CANopen) with no position indexer functionality.
    1 = Analog (no EtherCAT or CANopen) with position indexer functionality.
    2 = EtherCAT
    3 = CANopen
    4 = SynqNetClosedSynqNet is a digital machine control network. Built on the 100BT physical layer, SynqNet provides a synchronous real-time connection between motion controllers, servo drives, stepper drives, I/O modules, and custom devices
    5 = EtherNet/IP
    6 = BASIC Langauge (not fieldbus)
    7 = Profinet
    8 = sercos® III
  1. Save the parameters to the NV memory on the drive by issuing the DRV.NVSAVE command
  2. Power cycle the 24 V supply to the drive. When the drive has finished powering up, it will be working with the new selection.

Changing DRV.TYPE does not immediately change the type of the drive fieldbus selection. You must power cycle the drive to start the drive with the selected functionality.

You cannot use EtherCAT and CANopen at the same time. Use FBUS.TYPE or DRV.INFO to identify the fieldbus currently in use.

DRV.TYPE does not change if you use DRV.RSTVAR.

General Information

Type

R/W on the CC drive model. R/O on all other drive models.

R/O

Units

N/A

Range

0 to 8

2

Default Value

2

N/A

Data Type

Integer

Start Version

M_01-03-00-000

Related Topics

AKD Models

FBUS.TYPE, DRV.INFO