Read Driver Temperature

To read drive parameters that are not setup as PDO parameters that are updated at the cyclic EtherCAT cycle rate, you can use DriveParamRead and DriveParamWrite function blocks. These are found in the library of hte KAS IDE software under Fileld Bus>EtherCAT

You will enter the string based parameter names like 'Motor.Temp' as inputs to the function block, as well as the EtherCAT address for the device you want to read with 1001 being the first device on the network, 1002 the second, and so on. You will have to continue to recall the function blockc (cycle the Execute input) if you want to read a parameter more than once, so if you want to continually monitor temperature you can tie it to a timer that calls the function block at a certain rate. It can take around 20ms to execute one of these functions, and only one can be active for each AKD drive at a time. This means you cannot read or write multiple parameters at the same time for a single drive, but you can read the same parameter for multiple drives at once.