Typical error messages

Typical error messages 1:

If you are in the manual mode menu and the position value (2) is greyed out, this has the following reason: A greyed out shown actual position for EtherCAT drives indicates a "WC state error". In this case, the WC state flag generated by the EtherCAT master is "true", which means that the NC does not receive valid position data from the drive.

The corresponding EtherCAT drive is probably not in EtherCAT state SafeOp or Op. Further analysis is required to ascertain why the drive is not in this state.

Typical error messages 2:

To investigate further, open the TCDriveManager via Configuration (3). In the status bar, another error code is shown at Diag Code (4). Check the drive state (5). Select Diagnostics (6) from the tree structure, in order to obtain further information about the error. A list (7) on the right shows the whole error history. Update the list via the button with the two green arrows (8). Once the cause is identified and corrected, reset the axis via the R button (9).

Typical error messages 3:

After a short time, the error indication will disappear from the status line for the axis (10), and the drive will be in OP state (operational) (11). Update the list of error messages once more (8). It should contain no more error messages (12).

Typical error messages 4:

In the manual mode menu for the axis, the position value (13) is shown in black again.

Press the F8 button to acknowledge the NC error (14) in the manual mode menu.

The drive is ready for operation again when the "Ready" flag is set.