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● Disconection: Pull out the connector by pressing the tail of the registered jack.
4.4 EtherCAT Communication Description
■ EtherCAT Specifications
Item Description
Communication protocol EtherCAT Protocol
Available services CoE (PDO, SDO)
Synchronization mode Distributed clock for the drive and synchronous
input/output for I/O
Physical layer 100BASE‑TX
Baud rate 100 Mbit/s (100Base‑TX)
Duplex mode Full duplex
Topology Linear topology
Transmission medium Network cable
Transmission distance Less than 100 m between two nodes
Number of slaves Up to 72 slaves
EtherCAT Frame length 44 to 1498 bytes
Process data 1486 bytes at most for an individual Ethernet frame
■ Wiring
The PLC achieves EtherCAT bus communication through CN3, which requires the
following communication cable:
Communication cable requirements
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