Re: CAN questions

[Rolf Keitel <rolf@triumf.ca>]

At TRIUMF we use small CAN-based  controllers  for controlling approx. 550
electrostatic and magnetic power supplies. We use a simple home-made
protocol using Andrew Johnson's IP driver for the TIP810. No bad CAN
experiences to report.

- rolf -

John Maclean wrote:

> At the APS we are considering adopting CAN for one of our applications
> requiring some remote I/O.
>
> This particular project needs ~32 binary I/O channels and ~6 low res. (8
> to 12 bit) analog inputs per node.
>
> Is any one already using a similar off-the-shelf solution, or do people
> generally build their own custom CAN board? Is anyone interfacing
> CANopen or DEVICEnet products to EPICS?
>
> Someone, (management), also asked me if I knew of anyone who's had a bad
> experience with CAN. I didn't, but as a matter of interest I'd be
> interested to hear of any experiences with CAN, either bad or good.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John.

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