EtherCAT Chassis Temp

[craige]

Does the EtherCAT chassis provide any way to monitor the chassis or processor temperature in either Scan Mode or FPGA mode? I know devices like PXI and CRIO allow you to monitor the CPU and Chassis Temperature respectively but I'm wondering about the EtherCAT.

[Jesse_D]

Sorry, no. You will have to create a udv 

[craige]

I'm not sure I understand your response. Are you saying that I can configure a UDV to return the EtherCat Chassis temperature? If so, there is no reason to be sorry, this is what I'm looking for. Please clarify. Thank you.

[Jesse_D]

Hi craige, 

At first read I thought you were asking for scan engine supported solutions. You can return the temperature with a udv but you have to create an FPGA vi to do so however, 

There is an IO variable on the FPGA when you create it called "chassis temp." simply pipe that variable to an appropriate UDV. You might check the examples also, I thought one of them showed how to do it.