Anyone looking at CS3E-D1008 drivers from Leadshine?

In case anyone finds this thread and is considering these drives for EtherCAT...

Ordered D1008 and NEMA34 LeadShine closed loop stepper, followed LinuxCNC EtherCAT crib sheet(s), wired up a home switch to Beckhoff EL1xxx input, made one joint ini & hal, it properly homed the motor.

The LeadShine Windows sw is still beta internal use only. Their servo sw has a pull down to select the motor. The Stepper sw has no motor pulldown. You get a large number of opaque settings. For example, the default for "open or closed loop" on the drive is "2". Not Open or Closed but "2". Error messages are Windows pop-ups in Chinese which don't copy/paste into translate. There is a language choice in the app but it doesn't appear to apply to error messages.

Have any of you LeadShine stepper folks figured out how to configure the driver for a specific motor?

You could try google translate on a mobile phone using camera function to translate error messages

The answer probably lurks in either `ethercat sdos -p <leadshine ID number>` or the ESI file for the CS3E-D1008.

It doesn't look like I managed to add the CS3E series to linuxcnc-ethercat.github.io/esi-data/devices/#Leadshine yet, and I'm not at my LinuxCNC dev machine right now, so I can't really look it up. *Most likely* the Windows software just sets a bunch of 0x2xxx SDOs for resistance, current, etc, using a lookup table in the software, but you can probably get the right values out of Leadshine's datasheets.

I've been working on a generic driver for CiA 402 devices , and I'm keeping Leadshines in mind, but I'm starting with the RTelligent ECT60 first.  It was slightly easier to order than any of the Leadshines . There are some generic CiA 402 ways of setting/discussing motors, but I kind of doubt that any of the cheap drivers use them. They look kind of half-done, at least in the 2007 version of the spec that I'm looking at.

Also--it looks like "2" is closed-loop and "0" is open loop. See page 20 of the CS3E User Manual (v1.5) on their website. It should help explain a few of the parameters, but probably not everything.

I'm considering picking up a Leadshine 2CS3E-D5xx soonish, to test multi-axis CiA 402 devices, but it probably won't help you this month.