Example Trio program to run EtherCAT Homing on the remote drive (0x6060 = 6)

Example Trio program to run EtherCAT Homing on the remote drive (0x6060 = 6)

The attached program can be adapted to run drive homing on the Motion Coordinator if it is not possible to do the homing in the controller using DATUM.  See the EtherCAT specification for drive homing mode in CiA402.

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