Click the [Start Sercos scan] button to start searching for real, physical axes and power supplies that are connected to the Sercos bus of the selected controller.
To perform the search,
othe Sercos bus is switched to phase 0,
oall applications will be stopped,
oand all diagnostic messages must be confirmed.
After clicking the [Start Sercos scan] button you may see a dialog with a corresponding security note, if applicable. At this point you still have the chance to cancel the scan process.
At the end of the scan process it is checked whether devices are connected to the Sercos bus that are not yet in the PLC Configuration.
If such devices are detected, a dialog is displayed with the question whether the missing devices shall now be added to the PLC Configuration.
If you confirm with Yes, there is an attempt to add the missing devices to the PLC Configuration.
You do not have to make any entries to add them.
The devices are not specifically parameterized, but added with general basic settings.
Which devices can be added and what happens in case of an error is described in chapter Manually add devices.
Assigning Respective Sercos Objects to Connected Devices
After scanning the program attempts to assign Sercos objects from the PLC Configuration to the devices connected to the Sercos bus by using the Identification mode. All devices that were assigned automatically are highlighted in a non-white color.
In addition to the identification mode the type must match.
The column header of the Scanned devices column displays the number of scanned and automatically assigned devices.
NOTE: Automatic assignment is performed after each scan process. Assignments that already exist might be discarded. If values have been copied before from assigned Sercos devices (highlighted in green), there is a high probability that the previous assignment will be found again for these objects.
