How to Communicate with Lenze Servo Position Conroller via CAN or Profibus and Labview

[Brian_Beal]

It sounds like 200 Hz will be plenty fast, then.

[GA1]

Is there any negative to going with the faster of the two CAN modules?

[Jochen]

Just for your information:
Comsoft is just about to release a cRIO Profibus master module. I will check with Comsoft to get the information about the targeted release date and performance benchmarks. I'll post this information here soon.

Best regards,

Jochen Klier
National Instruments

[GA1]

Thanks for the update! I will contact them to see when the scheduled release is.

[DirkW]

Hi GA1

Never mind if we are talking about cRIO. There is no limit in this case. the Limit applies for the PCI/PXI CAN board together with the CANopen Library for LabVIEW.

But the problem is, we do not have a out of the box CANopen solution for cRIO yet. I made some basic examples to communicate with drives using PDO, but thats only a starting point. have a look to the attached example. It is not that difficult to create your own CANopen solution, if you know the protocoll at least a little. 😉

Its for LV 8.2. Let me know if you need more help.

DirkW

[GA1]

Thanks again. I received some basic vi's from Jorge Noguera in San Diego, but have yet to buy the CRIO controller or Lenze CAN controller. Unfortunately, I don't have even basic knowledge of the CANopen protcol, though I have been researching it.

Brian

[Dan_Barber]

http://www.ctiautomation.net/Lenze-Servo-Motors.htm