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Yes, this was not ELOG'd by me, unfortunately. This was the MC tickler which I described to some people in the control room when I turned it on.
As Koji points out, with the MCL path turned off this injects frequency noise and pointing fluctuations into the MC. With the MCL path back on it would have very small effect. After the pumpdown we can turn it back on and have it disabled after lock is acquired. Unfortunately, our LOCKIN modules don't have a ramp available for the excitation and so this will produce some transients (or perhaps we can ezcastep it for now). Eventually, we will modify this CDS part so that we can ramp the sine wave.
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I've written a new TICKLE script using the newly found 'cavget' and 'cavput' programs. They are in the standard epics distribution as extension binaries. They allow multichannel read/write as well as ramping, delays, incremental steps, etc. http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/tech-talk/2012/msg01465.php.
Running from the command line, they seem to work fine, but I've left it OFF for now. I'll switch it into the MC autolocker at some point soon. |