General diagnostics

Import Device description File DFF (.xml)

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Please make sure to choose EtherCAT DFF, whilst importing the salves description file:

Master specific diagnostics

LED state

The LEDs on our master hardware have a wide variety of states to get a first hint of what might be the issue:

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If you pay close attention you will already see the mismatching topology now.

Sycon.net Diagnosis

If this isn´t noticed or if the network is build incorrectly by hand the error: 0xC0CD0043 "Topology error detected" will be shown in the general diagnosis:

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All Error Codes from 0xC0D50001 to 0xC0D500F0 are a direct reference to the standardized "AL StatusCodes" ranging from 0x0001 to 0x00F0.

Slave specific diagnostics

LED state

As for the Master the Slave Stack will also show it´s current state via the LEDs:

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