Before calling the SPEED7 EtherCAT Manager you have always to save
your project with ‘Station è Save and compile’.
1. Click at an inserted IO device ‘EtherCAT Network’ and select ‘Context menu
è Start Device-Tool è SPEED7 EtherCAT Manager’.
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The SPEED7 EtherCAT Manager opens. Here you can configure the EtherCAT
communication to your Sigma-5 drive.
More information about the usage of the SPEED7 EtherCAT Manager may be
found in the according manual or online help.
3. For the Sigma-5 EtherCAT drive to be configured in the SPEED7 EtherCAT Man-
ager, the corresponding ESI file must be installed. The ESI file for the Sigma-5
EtherCAT drive can be found under www.yaskawa.eu.com at ‘Service
è Drives & Motion Software’. Download the according ESI file for your drive. Unzip
this if necessary.
4.
Open in the SPEED7 EtherCAT Manager via ‘File è ESI Manager’ the dialogue
window ‘ESI Manager’ .
5. In the ‘ESI Manager’ click at [Add File] and select your ESI file. With [Open], the
ESI file is installed in the SPEED7 EtherCAT Manager.
6. Close the ‘ESI Manager’ .
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Your Sigma-5 EtherCAT drive is now available for configuration.
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