Bernhard Lauss

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MuCAP Slow Control Status
Bernhard Lauss
MuCAP Collaboration Meeting PNPI, Gatchina, Ru,
June 14-18, 2004
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General Definition
Slow Control (is sub-part of the main DAQ) All
parameters which are not detector hit times -gt
main DAQ
? Temperatures, Magnetic Field, Humidity,
H2-Pressure, Count Rates, selected Hit energy,
main contributions by Steve Fred B
MuCAP Collaboration Meeting PNPI, Gatchina, Ru,
June 14-18, 2004
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Present Setup
MuCAP Collaboration Meeting PNPI, Gatchina, Ru,
June 14-18, 2004
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Computers
CHEETAH / DOLPHIN
TURTLE
CAMAC - Crate 8 4 Serial Ports MSCB
Slow Control
BEARS
NI DAQ Cards
MuCAP Collaboration Meeting PNPI, Gatchina, Ru,
June 14-18, 2004
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Bears.psi.ch
Computer (Windows) located on the experimental
platform 2 National Instruments DAQ Cards read
out via LabView - total 2x8 differential Inputs
attached sensors 2 Hallprobes (upper/lower
coil) 6 Temperatures (RTDs) 2 x TPC
upper/lower coil ePC1,
ePC2 H2-Pressure 1 Humidity Sensor Gas-flow
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June 14-18, 2004
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Windows 2000
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June 14-18, 2004
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present LabView Page
MuCAP Collaboration Meeting PNPI, Gatchina, Ru,
June 14-18, 2004
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Turtle.psi.ch
Computer (LINUX) located in the barack controling
via MIDAS CAMAC crate - Scalers - I/O
Units - DAC (TPC thresholds) -
Discriminators (eSC thresholds) - ADCs (energy
of selected eSC hits) Keyspan - USB ? 4 serial
ports adapter USB extender Control of 3
Nitronic High Voltage Supplies on experimental
platform VsCom - USB ? 8 serial port
adapter Control/Readout of HV Supplies (TPC,
muPCs, ePCS) MSCB - PSI Slow Control Bus - ePC
currents,
MuCAP Collaboration Meeting PNPI, Gatchina, Ru,
June 14-18, 2004
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MuCAP Collaboration Meeting PNPI, Gatchina, Ru,
June 14-18, 2004
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MIDAS Page Presently /hv-midas/hv-frontend 3
Nitronic HV Supplies /Scalers/frontend CAMAC
Readout read also LabView file Bears
(LabView writes via Samba directly on Turtle
disc (Steve set this up last year for the first
time) when starting up bears mu.vi - reconnect
network drive G as Turtle/data/labview_data
turtle is in MuCAP Workgroup
MuCAP Collaboration Meeting PNPI, Gatchina, Ru,
June 14-18, 2004
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MuCAP Collaboration Meeting PNPI, Gatchina, Ru,
June 14-18, 2004
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3x32 High Voltages 1-64 eSC
MuCAP Collaboration Meeting PNPI, Gatchina, Ru,
June 14-18, 2004
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TPC thresholds
MuCAP Collaboration Meeting PNPI, Gatchina, Ru,
June 14-18, 2004
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Discussion Which other parameters should be
monitored ? Do we need new / other sensors
? e.g 3-axis magnetometer
MuCAP Collaboration Meeting PNPI, Gatchina, Ru,
June 14-18, 2004
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MuCAP Collaboration Meeting PNPI, Gatchina, Ru,
June 14-18, 2004