Inquiry about matching 4 axes EtherCAT drive
The pointers to the PDO are 0x1600 .. 0x16C0 and 0x1A00 .. 0x1AC0.
This is a normal offset pattern for a multi axis node. The offset per axis is 0x40, so 1600, 1640, 1680, 16C0 and 0x1A00, 0x1A40, 0x1A80 and 0x1AC0.
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