Beckhoff EtherCAT EK112 Series Manual page 20

Product overview
• With Fast Hot Connect devices the establishment of an Ethernet connection is accelerated compared
to the normal Fast Ethernet connection.
If in addition the use of Distributed Clocks functions is omitted in the entire topology, then the
resynchronization time of the components is also dispensed with. Group boot up of < 1 second is then
possible, from plugging in the Ethernet connection to the OP state.
• An incorrect port allocation is detected in the TwinCAT ADS Logger
Fig. 8: Detection of incorrect port allocation in the TwinCAT logger
Configuration
The configuration of Fast Hot Connect groups in the TwinCAT System Manager takes place in exactly the
same way as Hot Connect groups, specifying the associated group ID.
Fig. 9: Configuration of a Fast Hot Connect group
Corresponding Fast Hot Connect ports are marked red in the TwinCAT System Manager.
20 Version: 3.6 EK112x, EK15xx