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by DougPLC
Mon 10. Sep 2018, 12:59
Forum: PCAN-View
Topic: Help to decode PCANView trace for Comm Stoppages
Replies: 3
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Re: Help to decode PCANView trace for Comm Stoppages

Thanks for the recommendation but the folks on the Siemens forum don’t know anything about CAN bus.
How would electrical noise on the CAN bus show in a PCAN View trace?
If a station on the bus does not respond to an RTR what does that do to the performance of the bus?
by DougPLC
Thu 23. Aug 2018, 16:55
Forum: PCAN-View
Topic: Help to decode PCANView trace for Comm Stoppages
Replies: 3
Views: 4456

Help to decode PCANView trace for Comm Stoppages

I have almost no experience with CAN but have used PCANView 3.2 at someone else's direction.
Now my issue is on a different assembly machine using a Siemens S7-315 with ProfiBus to CAN bridge. The machine I/O is on CAN but we see a momentary communications freeze at random intervals - could be 15 ...