A-5
Appendices
NJ/NX-series CPU Unit Built-in EtherCAT Port User’s Manual (W505)
A-1 EtherCAT Status in Relation
to CPU Unit Status
A
A-1-3 Controller Errors Other Than Errors in the Built-in EtherCAT Master
Refer to 9-1 Overview of Errors if a Controller error occurs in the built-in EtherCAT master.
A-1-3 Controller Errors Other Than Errors in the Built-in EtherCAT
Master
CPU Unit sta-
tus
Memory related to EtherCAT master
Down-
loading
master
and slaves
settings
Slaves
Device
variables
Category
_EC sys-
tem-
defined
variables
Network
configura-
tion infor-
mation
Diagnos-
tic and
statistical
informa-
tion/Proto-
col
monitor
Current
errors
Slave out-
puts
Slave
communi-
cations
status
A major fault
level Control-
ler error
occurs.
Device
variables
that are not
retained:
Initial val-
ues
Axis vari-
ables:
Retained
Continu-
ally shows
EtherCAT
communi-
cations sta-
tus. (Does
not depend
on the
operating
mode of
the CPU
Unit.)
Does not
change.
(Does not
depend on
the operat-
ing mode
of the CPU
Unit.)
Continu-
ally shows
EtherCAT
communi-
cations sta-
tus. (Does
not depend
on the
operating
mode of
the CPU
Unit.)
Retained
(Do not
depend on
the operat-
ing mode
of the CPU
Unit.)
--- In Opera-
tional state,
the values
from before
operation
stopped
are output.
When the
slaves
have
entered
Safe-oper-
ational
state, the
outputs
depend on
the slave
settings.
Inputs are
enabled.
EtherCAT
communi-
cations
stop.
Enters the
Safe-Oper-
ational
state.
A partial fault
level Control-
ler error
occurs.
Shows the
I/O data
exchanged
on the Eth-
erCAT
communi-
cations.
Continu-
ally shows
the output
data sent
from the
EtherCAT
master.
(Does not
depend on
the operat-
ing mode
of the CPU
Unit.)
Does not
change.
(Does not
depend on
the operat-
ing mode
of the CPU
Unit.)
A minor fault
level Control-
ler error
occurs.