Emergency Messages

Emergency messages are used to signalize device errors. An emergency message contains a code that clearly identifies the error (specified in the communication profile DS-301 and in the individual device profiles DS-40x). The following table shows some of the available error codes. Emergency messages are automatically sent by all CANopen® modules.

Emergency error

code (hex)

Meaning / error cause
00xx Error on reset or no error
10xx General error
20xx Current error
21xx - Error on device input side
22xx - Error inside the device
23xx - Error on device output side
30xx Voltage error
31xx - Supply voltage error
32xx - Error inside the device
33xx - Error on device output side
40xx Temperature error
41xx - Ambient temperature
42xx - Temperature inside the device
50xx Hardware error in the device
60xx Software error in the device
61xx - Device-internal software
62xx - Application software
63xx - Data
70xx Error in additional modules
80xx Monitoring
81xx Communication
90xx External error
F0xx Error of additional functions
FFxx Device-specific errors