EasyCAT Arduino shield

meister wrote:

since i don't want to open a new thread, i'll just ask here:

I have now received my Ethercat Click and I am wondering
if it is possible to control several motors with one EtherCat client ?
 

Can you specify in more detail, what is your controller and what kind of motors you want to control?
When you decide to use EtherCAT, you will use EtherCAT servo/stepper drives.
 

i only ever see controls for one stepper per esc and wonder whether it would be possible to control several motors with, for example, an arduino with a lan9252, purely in terms of the protocol

There are ethercat slaves for two steppers and more.

Examples:
EL7062 2-channel EtherCAT Terminal
Rovix ESD-A6 6-axis EtherCAT stepper drive

ahh, great, thank you very much.
somehow the topic of ethercat is a bit of a challenge for me,
but it will get better

meister wrote:

i only ever see controls for one stepper per esc and wonder whether it would be possible to control several motors with, for example, an arduino with a lan9252, purely in terms of the protocol

 

the FR400 is a slave that manages 5 open loop steppers with I/O, which can be implemented, to manage a CNC.
Thanks to him the fantastic world of LCNC opened up to me