12-05-2012 12:46 PM
I'm working on a system with a cRIO chassis and three Ethercat chassis'. If I have all four chassis connected with ethernet cables, I have no problem communicating. However, I'd like to use fiber optics to connect the second ethercat chassis with the last ethercat chassis, rather than use a long ethernet cable. I haven't been able to get this to work. The fiber optic converters are okay, I've tested them. Has anyone else experienced this problem? Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks.
12-07-2012 06:42 AM
Hi JFMoynihan,
Which version of the NI-Industrial Communications for EtherCAT are you using? In the Readme file for version 2.3, it says...
"Fixed a latency issue caused by using fiberoptic converters in an EtherCAT network"
Hope this helps!