Definitive cyclic data maximyom sizes
I am configuring a CIFX 50-RE Ethercat slave using version v2.2.4.0 of the firmware and I am trying to work out what is the maximum length of the cyclic data I can configure.
The Ethercat Slave Protocol API document sugests in the specifications that a netX 50 card will support 1024 of input and 1024 of output data.
However the warmstart message configuration only allows up to 200 input and output and a max of 400 for both.
Has any any ideas why there is the disparity between the two descriptions?
Tony
Hello Tony,
you are not the only person mixing up netX50 with netX100/500.
The CIFX50-RE supports only up to 200 bytes input and up to 200 bytes output. The netX50 supports up to 1024 bytes in each direction.
A future version of the CIFX50-RE firmware will support up to 256/256 bytes. Get in contact with Hilscher and ask for an update.
Andreas Jacob
Hilscher Gesellschaft fuer Systemautomation mbH
Hi Tony,
please take care. The cifX50RE board is NOT equipped with a netX50! It uses a netX100/500.
So please confirm, that you are using a cifX50 card. In that case you should be able to use the 1024 byte.
Regards
AJ