ProblemSolvingQuestions

This page should help you to find out why your network is not working by providing questions. Answering these questions should help to find out what is possibly going wrong.

• Are there two 120 Ohm resistors across the bus at each end to terminate the network drivers? See CanCabling and DeviceNetCable
• Is there at least one other node on the bus?
• Are both CAN tranceivers (when there are only 2 nodes) fault tolerant?
• Are all the nodes CAN-A or are there CAN-B compliant devices?
• Are the grounds between nodes connected together?
• Are you using a Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) dongle to listen in on the messages. In other words: "can you trust at least one member at the bus?".
• Are you using an CAN speed according your network cable lenght ? See CanCabling