Setting etherCAT address on RTA drive

AN-410 Setting EtherCAT address on RTA drive

RTA EtherCAT drives run on the EtherCAT network with a Trio Motion Coordinator as the EtherCAT master.

This document shows how to set the Configured Alias Address for the drive

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