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5 Setting Up EtherCAT Communications with the Sysmac Studio
NJ/NX-series CPU Unit Built-in EtherCAT Port User’s Manual (W505)
5-4 EtherCAT Master and Slave Parameter Settings
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5-4-2 Setting EtherCAT Slaves
(2) If the input device is disabled, always write the value of the device variable.
Relation between Operation and the Slave Information at a Disabled Slave
If the actual network configuration has a slave in a position of a slave set to disable (or disabled
slave), the slave operation depends on the slave information. The operation differs by the result of
comparison between the slave information of the disabled slave and the slave information of the
slave on the actual network configuration.
The table below gives the operation of the disabled slave.
Slave information Operation for disabled slave
Node address
Vendor ID/
Product code
Message com-
munications
Process data
communica-
tions
Error
Back up/
Restore/verify
Same Same Performed Not performed Normal opera-
tion (no error)
Performed
Same Different Not performed Not performed Network Config-
uration Verifica-
tion Error
Not performed
Different Same Not performed Not performed Network Config-
uration Verifica-
tion Error
Not performed
Different Different Not performed Not performed Network Config-
uration Verifica-
tion Error
Not performed
Device variable
of input device
Device variable
of input device
Device variable
of input device
Considered FALSE
if the input device
is disabled.
Process A when input signal is ON
Process B when input signal is ON
_EC_DisableSlavTbl
[node_address_of_input_dev
ice] system-defined variable
R