Requirements

The following conditions must be satisfied in order to operate a servo drive from the AX2000 series on EtherCAT.

Hardware

Servo drive

Requirements 1:

The AX2090-B110 interface card allows servo drives from the AX2000 series, with serial numbers of 780 266 0000 and above, to be used.
You will find the serial number on the servo drive's type plate.
In addition, a hardware status 29.02 is required as a minimum. These numbers indicate the production week; the first two numbers are the calendar week, while the last two numbers are the year of production.  

The hardware status is printed on the interface board and can be read through the ventilation slots on the top side of the servo drive.

Requirements 2:
In this example: 29.02 indicates the 29th calendar week in the year 2002.

The hardware status, firmware version and serial number can also be displayed by the Commissioning software for the AX2000 (Drive.exe, "DriveTool").

Requirements 3:
Requirements 4:

A firmware version of 6.78 or above must be installed on the servo drive!

EtherCAT AX2090-B110 interface card

Requirements 5:

Requirements 6:

The FPGA fitted on the AX2090-B110 interface card must be of Build 22 or higher.
The interface card's FPGA version can be displayed by the TwinCAT System Manager:

Requirements 7:

TwinCAT

Requirements 8:

You require TwinCAT 2.10 (Build 1313 or above) to be able to communicate with the AX2090-B110 interface card.
You will find the current version on our web site at www.beckhoff.com in the area ">->software->TwinCAT".

Requirements 9:

Network card

In addition, the TwinCAT EtherCAT driver in your PC requires an Ethernet card with an Intel chipset.