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EtherCAT slave off detection (with Master on INIT)

We are writting our diagnosys utility for EtherCAT using CAA DEVICES DIAGNOSYS & IODrvEtherCAT libraries.
Our goal is to have good info, find & solve problems.

Today we have info about everything. We can act, ask, restart master / slaves.

But, if during a random power shut down (storm) some remote slave power goes into OFF, the network can not restart.
How can we find the OFF slave? We have some big projects with several distributed slaves. Where is the problem?
If we loose some slave after Master is OPERATIONAL, we can detect. But, after some random shut down, when some distributed protection is down and its slave is off; the Master is not starting and we can't get info about the problem. If we found the off slave and we power it ON, the network starts... But, some times... WHERE is a big problem.... read more

Posted by omar-escalante 2021-09-27