Backup Tab

This function is used to replicate a PCMM or the controller portion of the AKD PDMM. Clicking the button will save the data to the SD card.

The 1.2 GHz single core Runtime In computer science, runtime (or run-time) describes the operation of a computer program, the duration of its execution, from beginning to termination (compare compile time). Within KAS, runtime also refers to the virtual machine that manage the program written in a computer language while it is running firmware file is optional. If provided, an 800 MHz single core model can be replaced with a 1.2 GHz single core model. If the 1.2 GHz single core Runtime firmware file is not included, then an 800 MHz single core model can only be replaced with another 800 MHz single core model.

After starting the Backup, an alert will be presented to confirm the backup should proceed.

This function replicates the network topology as well as the AKD, AKD PDMM, AKD-C, AKD-N, and AKD2G drives' unique ID, firmware and data. To accomplish the backup, a copy of the firmware package is required. There are several possible scenarios upon clicking this button.

• If an archived copy of the same firmware package is on the controller as is used on the drives then clicking the button will start the backup.
• If a copy of the firmware package cannot be found, you will be prompted to browse for one or more. A link to the Kollmorgen website is provided; all firmware packages can be found on the site.
  
• If an archive is found on the controller but it does not match the network configuration then you will be prompted to browse for one or download one from the website.
• The following message will be displayed if the EtherCAT ***EtherCAT 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 network topology discovered during backup does not match the topology expected by the KAS application. The message displays the number of devices that were discovered, the number that were expected, and how many are disconnected.
  

For all other EtherCAT devices, such as couplers, IOs, ServoStar drives, and third-party devices, only the unique ID is backed up.