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KEB C6 to Beckhoff BK1120

dking10
2022-11-16
2022-11-16
  • dking10 - 2022-11-16

    Hello,
    I have a KEB C6 LC-HMI and I am trying to communicate with a Beckhoff BK1120 fieldbus coupler over EtherCAT. I have successfully added the bus coupler in the device tree (navigator in KEB Combivis) but I cannot seem to scan or add the (5) KL-series I/O modules beyond the coupler. I have added the .xml description files for the KL-series to the file folder where the device repository is looking, and when I scan for devices on the EtherCAT master, I can see the BK1120 but below it are only (5) numerical strings. When I try to "install missing descriptions" and point to the .xml files I want, I get the "It is not possible to install device descriptions from the device repository" error.

    Are these I/O modules accessible in the tree? The Beckhoff technical assistant seemed to think it may require "byte mapping" to access these, but suggested I check here.

    Thank you.

     
  • dking10 - 2022-11-16

    Thank you very much for your help! I installed the MDP xml file in Device Repository per your direction and was able to add the IO devices individually.

     

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