How to know when a CAN bus command is really sent??

[CFBFP]

Hi

 

is there a way to know when a CAN bus command is sent?

 

I'm using the instruction "CANopen SDO download STR", the predefined functionblock to send a command.

 

Cause i want to send multiple commands as fast as possible i need to know when a previous sent command has finished in the servocontroller i am working with.

 

Now I start a timer after each command for  which I know the command is certainly processed before sending a next command (in my case in need to set it 40ms, what is to slow)

 

Someone has ideas how to handle this?

 

thanks

[Eyal Koren]

Hi CFBFP,

 

In general, CANopen has a success bit for NMT, Emergency, TPDO and RPDO commands.

However, SDO commands does not have this acknowledgment indication. 

If you cant use PDO commands in your application, you can try the following:

Use SB242 (CANopen SDO in Progress) and SB243 (CANopen SDO transfer failed) to create logic that will resend a command in case it failed to send.

[CFBFP]

Thank you for the valuable information.