Hi Elliot,
to my knowledge you can connect about 40 devices to 1 CAN bus, for bus load reasons.
You should also consider that any break in the CANbus lines will disconnect all
devices behind the disruption.
We had something like 30 devices (Wiener crates, and similar devices) to one TIP810 controller.
This turned out to be very messy when people disconnected a crate and forgot to bridge
the cable.
Burkhard
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Am 16.03.2011 um 14:16 schrieb Elliott Wolin:
> To all EPICS CAN experts,
>
> We are about to construct a 3000 channel CAN system. Please contact me if you have any experience controlling CAN buses from EPICS.
>
> Our current thought is to use about 8 Anagate Ethernet-to-CAN controllers, four channels per controller, to talk to the CAN devices, about 100 devices per CAN bus. We'd use the ASYN framework to implement the driver that talks to the Anagate devices (they communicate via TCP/IP).
>
> I am open to suggestions and alternative solutions. I am especially interested in existing drivers for any type of Ethernet-based CAN controller so that we can avoid writing a new driver.
>
> Also, is the ASYN framework the best choice if we have to develop a new driver?
>
> Finally, to Marty Kraimer et al: is the Java IOC and port driver framework ready? Might we use this instead?
>
> Thanks,
>
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> Sincerely,
> Elliott
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