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AMETEK ASD Series User Manual

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Programming: Digital Interface Control

Sorensen ASD Series

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M551177-01 Rev A

In case the power supply will be controlled over serial Modbus interface
(with EtherCAT interface only for monitoring), the write register
“Ethercat_config” allows to disable the write actions coming from
EtherCAT. See Table 4-8.

Table 4-15 shows the command registers that must be set in order to
operate the power supply from EtherCAT.

Table 4-15. Commands Bits Required for EtherCAT Operation

Bit

Value

Description

ON

1

To enable output.

FLOATING_POINT_ENABLED

1

Because the variable type of the
PDOs is set to floating point
numbers.

DIGITAL PROGRAMMING
MODE

1

To enable digital programming.

EtherCAT Process Data Objects (PDOs) and variables are presented in
Table 4-16. The variables in red (accompanied by down arrow) are Write
Only. The variables in yellow (accompanied by up arrow) are Read only.