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9 Setting Up Slave Terminals
NX-series EtherCAT Coupler Unit User’s Manual (W519)
9-2 Setting Slave Terminal Parameters
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9-2-2 Settings as an EtherCAT Slave
Setting Parameter
The setting parameter is given in the following table.
1 Double-click EtherCAT under Configurations and Setup in the Multiview Explorer.
Or, right-click EtherCAT under Configurations and Setup and select Edit.
2 Drag an EtherCAT Coupler Unit from the Toolbox to the EtherCAT Configuration Edit Tab Page
and drop it under the master.
The EtherCAT Coupler Unit is added under the master.
Slave Terminal
Configuration
Yes
These settings are for the Slave Terminal. Click the Edit Slave Terminal Config-
uration Button to edit these parameters.
*1. Register Slave Terminals that are not installed on the EtherCAT network but are scheduled for addition at a
later date as disabled Slave Terminals. Even for a disabled Terminal, you can set process data allocations
and use the process data through system-defined variables and device variables in the user program.
Setting Setting range Description
Diagnosis History/Flags 0 or 1 This parameter specifies whether notification is provided with
emergency messages.
0: No notification
1: Notification
The default setting is 0.
Setting Up the Slave Terminal as an EtherCAT Slave
Settings Settable Description
EtherCAT Coupler Unit
Drag & Drop