Elmo controlled axis produces a continuous ticking when drive is in motion.

What is the problem?

  less than a minute  

This could be caused of not setting a Distributed Clock (DC) or setting it incorrect. The Distributed Clock of a etherCAT slave can be set via ECAT-tool.

Here an example of setting the SYNC0 to 1ms:

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The SYNC0 should be set to the systems cycle time as specified in the config.json. Per default the system runs at 1kHz.

For more information about DCs check out EtherCAT Distributed Clocks.