Yesterday, I pulled out the AI board for the PRM/BS SUSs. (After the investigation it was restored)

Contrary to our expectation, the board D000186 was not Rev. A but Rev. B.

According to Jay's note in D000186 (for Rev.D), the differences of the Revs are as follows

Rev.A: Initial Release (Analog Biquad version, 4dB 4th order elliptic with notches)
Rev.B: Filter implemented by Freq Devices chip
Rev.C: Differential input version with better RF filtering
Rev.D: 3rd order 0.5dB ripple Cheby with notches at 16K&32K, DB25 input version

I went to the WB EE shop and found bunch of AI filter modules. At least I found one Rev.A and six Rev.D.
I found at least one Rev. C.

I took Rev.A and Rev. D to see the difference of the transfer functions.
Rev.A has more ripple but steeper roll-off. Rev. D is flater at the pass band with slower roll-off.
Rev.D has more phase lag, but it will be fine once the entire frequency response is shifted to x4 high frequency.
The notch frequency of the Rev. D looked right.

I made the empirical pole/zero modeling of the transfer functions.
The LISO models are attached as the ZIP file.
I faced an unexplainable phase behavior at around one the notches for Rev.A.
This may suggest there could have been internal saturation is the stage during the sweep.

More importantly, Rev. D has differential inputs although the connector formfactor is different from the current 40pin IDC.
In fact we should not use Rev.A or Rev.B as they have single end inputs.
Currently the inputs of the AI's for the SUSs are single ended while the DACs are differential.
This means that
1) We waste a half of the DAC range.
2) The negative outputs of the DACs are short-circuited. OMG
3) The ground level fluctuation between the DAC and the SUS rack fluctuates the actual actuation voltage.

Now I am looking at the noise performance of the filters as well as the DAC output noise and range.
I hope we can use Rev.D by replacing the connector heads as this will remove many of the problems we currently have.

I started a long measurement of the PRC's transmissivity. I'm leaving the lab and I'm going to be back at about 8 tonight. Please do not disturb the interferometer. it is important that the MC and the PRC stay locked all the time.

 That measurement is finished. I'm now going to start another one that will take another hour or so. I'm leaving it running for the night. If you want to work on the IFO, it should be definitely done by 11pm.

A measurement will be running for the next hour. Please be careful.

At the moment I'm running a measurement on the PRC and I'm planning to leave it going for the time we'll be at the 40m meeting.

Please be careful in the lab. Thank you.

{Yuta, Yehonathan}

We measured the AS55 demod board conversion from the amplitude of a 55MHz signal to a demodulated signal. We hooked the unused REFL55 LO into the PD input port on the AS55 demod board.

The REFL55 LO was measured to be 1.84 Vpp. The IQ outputs were: I = 0.86 Vpp, Q = 2.03 Vpp giving an amplitude of 2.205 Vpp. The overall conversion factor is sqrt(0.86**2+2.03**2)/(1.82/2)=2.422.

We also set to measure the loss in the RF cable from AS55 PD to the demod board on 1Y2. REFL55 was connected with a long BNC cable to the input of the cable under test. REFL55 at the input was measured to be 1.466 Vpp and 1.28 Vpp at the output signifying a transmission of 87.6%.

[Suresh / Kiwamu]

 The measurement of the spot positions on the MC mirrors are DONE.

Surprisingly the spot positions are not so different from the ones measured on May.

(some notes)
We used Valera's script senseMCdecenter to estimate the spot positions ( see his entry).

It returns so many EPICS error messages and sometime some measured values were missing. So we had to throw away some of the measurements.

Anyways we gave the resultant ASCII file to Valera's matlab file sensmcass.m to get the actual amount of off-centering in milli-meter.

The attached file is the resultant plot from his matlab code.

{Yuta, Yehonathan}

For MICH noise budgeting we measure the input electronics noise which includes the AS55 RFPD, preamp, demod board, the whitening, and the AA filters, and the ADC noises. To do so we simply close the laser shutter and take the spectrum of C1:LSC-AS55_I_ERR_DQ and C1:LSC-AS55_Q_ERR_DQ shown in attachment 1.

Next, we measured the output electronics noise which includes the DAC, dewhitening and AI filters, and coil driver noises. We disabled the BS watchdog and went to 1X4 rack. We measured the spectrum of one of the lemo outputs on the BS coil driver module using an SR785. Attachment 2 shows the spectrum together with the SR785 dark noise.

Tried measuring the actuator matrix for MC1.

With the watchdogs tripped I cut the loops for pos, pitch and yaw open just before the servos. Then I injected a fixed sine at 0.4Hz into the three DOFs (suspos, suspit, susyaw) one by one, while looking into the error signal just before the servos.

                                                         Response DOF

                                     pos                 pit             yaw

Injection DOF pos          0.008417       0.00301        0.004975
                     pit            0.01295         0.01959        0.0158
                     yaw         0.007188        0.002152     0.0144

Inverting that and dividing by the norm gives us

 0.8322   -0.1096   -0.1669
-0.2456    0.2869   -0.2293
-0.3777    0.0118    0.4211

Somehow putting this into the 'To coil' matrix has an effect even with the watchdog tripped!?!?

I'm working on the AbsL experiment. A measurement which involved the PRC locked is running at the moment.

Please make sure of not interfering with the interferometer until it is done. Thank you.

 I'm done for the moement.

I realized that I need to take into account somehow the DC power from the photodiode. By now the measurement of the transmitted beat's power is affected by the total power circulating inside of the PRC and thus it depends on the cavity alignment.

I closed the laser shutter and turned down the flipping mirrors.

I'm planning to restart measuring by 2.30pm today. Till then the interferometer is available.

Leaving for dinner. Back in ~1hr.

I left a measurement running. Please don't interfere with it till I'm back. Thanks.

 Per Alberto's instructions, I have closed the shutter on his laser so that the Adaptive Team can play with the Mode Cleaner.

I just started a measuremtn that will be running for the next hour or so. Please be careful with the interferometer.

Done. IFO available

TL;DR: Have successfully measured the UGF of the AUX laser on my Red Pitaya! Attached is one of my data runs (pdf + txt file). 

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• Figured out how to get a rudimentary coherence (use scipy.signal.coherence to get Cxy = abs(Pxy)**2/(Pxx*Pyy), then find what point is the closest to the frequency I'm inserting on that iteration of the swept sine and get the coherence closest to that). Not precisely the coherence at the frequency I'm inserting though, so not perfect... more of a lower bound of coherence.
• Figured out how to get the UGF from the data automatically (no error propagation yet... necessary next step)
• Put my red pitaya in the X-arm AUX laser control electronics (thank you to Anchal for help figuring out where to put it and locking the x-arm.) Counts dropped from 4500 to 1900 with the x-arm locked, so 58% mode matching. I lose lock at an amplitude >0.05 or so.
• Wrote a little script to take data and return a time-stamped text file with all the parameters saved and a time-stamped pdf of the TF magnitude, UGF, phase, and coherence, so should be easy to take more data next time!

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• need to take more accurate coherence data
• need to propagate uncertainty on UGF (probably high...)
• take more data with higher coherence (the file attached doesn't have great coherence and even that was one of my better runs, will probably increase averaging since increasing amplitude was a problem)

We measured the TF of the X-arm laser PZT using the Moku so we can begin fitting to that data and hopefully creating a digital filter to cancel out PZT resonances. 

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We calculated the DFD calibration (V/Hz) using:

Vrf = 0.158 mV (-6 dBm), Km = 1 (K_phi = Km*Vrf), cable length = 45m,  Tau = cable length/(0.67*3*10^8 m/s) ~ 220 ns. 

We've taken some preliminary data and can see the resonances around 200-300 kHz.

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Next steps are taking more data around the resonances specifically, calibrating the data using the DFD calibration we calculated, and adjusting parameters in our model so we can model the TF.

Yesterday, we set up the loop to measure the PZT of the transfer function - the MokuLab sends an excitation (note - a swept sine of 1.0 V) to the PZT. The cavity is locked to the PSL and the AUX is locked to the cavity. In order to measure the effect of our excitation, we take the beat note of the PSL and the AUX. This gives us a transfer function as seen in Attachment 1. The sampling rate of the MokuLab is set to 'ultrafast' (125kHz), so we can expect accurate performance upto 62.5kHz, however, in order to improve our readings beyond this frequency, modifications must be made to the script (MokuPhaseMeterTF) to avoid aliasing of the signal. A script should also be written to obtain and plot the coherence between the excitation and our output. 

Also attached are - Attachment 2 -  the circuit diagram of the setup, and Attachment 3 - the TF data calculated.

Edit - the SR560 as shown in the circuit diagram has since been replaced by a broadband splitter (Minicircuits ZFRSC-42-S+).

It was only a mediocre locking night.  I was foiled for a long time by 2 things, both of which are now taken care of in the scripts, so I don't waste so much time again.

• Somehow FM4 (LP700) in the CARM_A filter bank was turned off.  It took me a long time to figure this one out. 
  • At first, I had a 2056Hz oscillation, and then if I notched that, I would have problems at the edges of my notch.
  • I turned on the LP1000 in CARM_B (which we don't usually use) to fight the 2k resonances, but then I had violin mode problems. 
  • I couldn't turn off the violin mode filters on MC2 for the transition, so the edges of these notches were causing instability.
  • Anyhow, in the end, I realized that FM4 of CARM_B wasn't on, but it usually is.
  • It is now turned on in the carm_cm_up.sh script.
• After that fiasco, I had trouble turning on the ASC loops.
  • Turns out we had left the offsets in place from last night in the ASC loops, so that when I zeroed the outputs of the transmission QPDs, the offsets in the ASC loops didn't make any sense, and they pushed the IFO severely out of alignment.
  • Now the ASC down script (which is run by the carm down script) zeros the filter bank offset values

Scripts are checked into the svn.

I used Q's handy-dandy 2D histogram plotter (..../scripts/general/dataHist, which I have taken the liberty of adding to the svn) to set the PRCL offset when I was locked on REFL165.  Here is a version of the plot, when I had an offset of +10 in the PRCL filter bank. There was so much noise on the PRCL input that I quit bothering to try and put in an excitation or ramp the offset value.  Note that I have since moved this offset to PRCL_A's offset instead, so taking this plot again should have PRCL_IN1 centered around zero.

I had trouble doing something similar for PRCL when I was locked on REFL55.  At first, the offset was so poor that POP110 was only about half the value it was when locked on REFL165, and it had a huge amount of RIN.  I tried just doing a z avg of the PRCL_B_IN1 (REFL55I) while locked on REFL165, and that said that REFL55I had an offset of +33.8 counts, so I tried an offset of -33.8 counts to get to zero.  But, that was still terrible for POP110 power.  As I increased the offset, eventually up to +30 counts, POP110 kept getting better and better.  I lost lock at that point (while trying to get 10 sec of histogram data), so I'm not sure that +30 is the final value.  I want to also get equivalent histograms with POP22 and POPDC (and maybe arm transmissions?) as the X-axis on these plots.  There's no excitation, so all of these can be collected at once.

By babysitting the ITM alignment (looking at the rough DC values of the optical lever error siganls), and doing a little adjustment of the ASC differential offset, I was able to keep lock a few times for more than 2 or 3 minutes while all 1f.  Not a whole lot longer than that though, even if I wasn't "poking" the interferometer other than maintaining alignment.

Jamie and I have had a few back-and-forths on this, but I wanted to write down my thoughts on the parts of the SUS infrastructure that we need for the active tip tilts.

I think we want the ASC pitch and yaw filter banks.  I also think we want to change the channel names so that they are C1:SUS rather than C1:IOO, to make scripting easier.  A corollary to this is that we should make the DC bias sliders have the same naming structure as the regular suspensions (C1:SUS-TT#_{PIT/YAW}_COMM).  This makes scripts like the save/restore scripts easier.  If we keep the IOO naming, it would still be convenient to add the _COMM.

I am having trouble imagining what we might want the lockins for, so I propose we leave them out.

Do we want the output matrix (PIT/YAW -> coils) to be a filter bank matrix?  If we want f2a filters, we need to change this to a filter bank matrix.

I also think we want a master on/off switch for the AC actuation (ASC stuff).  We don't have sensors, so we won't have watchdog-ing, but it might be useful to have a 'panic' switch.  Perhaps though if we are careful to set limits on the ASC filter banks, we won't ever have a panic about actuating too hard.

I'm think I'm joining Jamie's side in the medm screen debate....I think we want a separate TT_SINGLE screen, laid out similar to the SUS_SINGLE, but without all of the irrelevant parts.

EDIT:  Yuta just pointed out to me that right now, the TT DC bias sliders are not recorded anywhere (_DQ, conlog,...).  We *must* fix this.

[Mirko, Den, Jenne]

We're modifying the c1oaf model, and we got to talking about the "Fx" part of "FxLMS".  In the past, we put in a guess for the filter.  What if we use the static wiener filter as the F, and send the wiener filtered witness channels to the adaptation algorithm? 

Are the wiener filter and the plant compensation filter ("Fx") the same?  Will this work?  Or is there some reason that they must be different?

Also:  Notes to self:  Put in filtered witness channels as well as regular into Adapt block.  Make sure that the order/number of inputs is correct.

 More meditations...

Mirko and I were talking about the tunability required for each DoF.  For right now, we're going to give each DoF its own mu and tau (adaptation gain and adaptation decay), but we're leaving all of the other things (number of taps, number of witnesses, delay, downsample rate) the same for each DoF's adaptation.  This may need to change later, but we'll get there when we get there. 

The one I'm most concerned about is the number of witnesses...  Mirko is suggesting that we give each adaptation algorithm all witnesses, and unused ones should converge to ~0.  I agree in principle, but I'm not sure that it's actually going to work that way.  I think we may need to be able to tell the algorithm which witnesses to look at for which DoF. 

Also, the Delay.... we may need to adjust it for each DoF.  In Matt's OAF "manual" in elog 395, he mentions the need to calculate the delay based on a plant TF.  Presumably since (except for the MC) all the witnesses come in together, and all the DoFs come in together, the delay should be about the same for all?  We'll have to see...

(Gautam, Pooja)

Aim: To develop medm screen for GigE.

Gautam helped me set up the medm screen through which we can interact with the GigE camera. The steps adopted are as follows:

(i) Copied CUST_CAMERA.adl file from the location /opt/rtcds/userapps/release/cds/common/medm/ to /opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/medm/MISC/.

(ii) Made the following changes by opening CUST_CAMERA.adl in text editor.  

• Changed the name of file to "/cvs/cds/rtcds/caltech/c1/medm/MISC/CUST_CAMERA.adl"
• Replaced all occurences of "/ligo/apps/linux-x86_64/camera/bin/" to "/opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/GigE/SnapPy_pypylon/" & "/ligo/cds/$(site)/$(ifo)/camera/" to "/opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/GigE/SnapPy_pypylon/"

(iii) Added this .adl file as drop-out menu 'GigE' to VIDEO/LIGHTS section of sitemap (circled in Attachment 1) i.e opened Resource Palette of VIDEO/LIGHTS, clicked on Label/Name/Args & defined macros as CAMERA=C1:CAM-ETMX,CONFIG=C1-CAM-ETMX in Arguments box of Related Display Data dialog box (circled in Attachment 2) that appears. In Related Display Data dialog box, Display label is given as GigE and Display File as ./MISC/CUST_CAMERA.adl

(iv) All the channel names can be found in Jigyasa's elog https://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:8081/40m/13023

(v) Since the slider (circled in Attachment 3) for pixel sum was not moving, changed the high limit value to 10000000 in PV Limits dialog box. This value is set such that the slider reaches the other end on setting the exposure time to maximum.

(vii) Set the Snapshot channel C1:CAM-ETMX_SNAP to off (very important!). Otherwise we cannot interact with the camera.

(vii) GigE camera gstreamer client is run in tmux session.

Now we can change the exposure time and record a video by specifying the filename and its location using medm screen. However, while recording the video, gstream video laucher of GigE stops or is stuck.

I tried rebooting megatron, to see if that might help, but everything still acts the same. 

I tried using daqconfig and changed channels from deactiveated to activated.  I learned by activating them all, that the daq can't handle that, and eventually aborts from an assert checking a buffer size being too small.  I also tried activating 2 and looking at those channels, and it looks like the _DAQ versions of those channels work, or at least I get 0's out of C1:TST-ETMY_ASCPIT_OUT_DAQ (which is set in C1TST.ini file).

I've added the SENSOR channels back to the /csv/cds/caltech/chans/daq/C1TST.ini file, and those are again working in data viewer.

At this point, I'm leaving megatron roughly in the same state as last night, and am going to wait on a response from Alex.

Last night, I connected megatron's BO board to the analog dewhitening board.  However, I was unable to lock the y arm (although once I disconnected the cable and reconnected it back the xy220 the yarm did lock).

So either A) I've got the wrong cable, or B) I've got the wrong logic being sent to the analog dewhitening filters.

During testing, I ran into an odd continuous on/off cycle on one of the side filer modules (on megatron).  Turns out I had forgotten to use a ground input to the control filer bank (which allows you to both set switches as well as read them out), and it was reading a random variable.  Grounding it in the model fixed the problem (after re-making).

I've added the control logic for the outputs going to the Contec Digital Output board.  This includes outputs from the QPD filters (2 filters per quadrant, 8 in total), as well as outputs going to the coil input sensor whitening.

At this point, the ETMY controls should have everything the end station FE normally does.  I'm hoping to do some testing tomorrow afternoon with this with a fully locked IFO.

I was talking with Vladimir on Friday discussing the Binary Output board, we looked at the manual for it (Contec DO-32L-PE) and we realized its an opto-coupler isolated open-collector output.  He mentioned they had the right kind of 50 channel breakout board for testing in Riccardo's lab.

This morning I borrowed the 50 channel breakout board from Riccardo's lab, and along with some resistor loads, test the BO board.  It seems to be working, and I can control the output channel on/off state.

The tst model wasn't compiling this morning due to some incorrect lines in the RfmIOfloat.pm file located in /home/controls/cds/advLIgo/src/epics/util/lib file on megatron. 

The error was "Undefined subroutine &CDS::RfmIOfloat::partType called at lib/Parser2.pm line 354, <IN> line 3363."

I changed RfmIO to RfmIOfloat on lines 1 and 6.
Basically the first 6 lines are now

package CDS::RfmIOfloat;
use Exporter;
@ISA = ('Exporter');

sub partType {
        return RfmIOfloat;
}

The tst now compiles.  At the moment, I believe we should be able to switch megatron in for ETMY and attempt to lock the arm.  The whitening/dewhitening filters are still not automatically synced in software and hardware, but I don't think that should prevent locking.

I found megatron in a similar state to that which nodus was in yesterday. Clued by the fact that MCautolocker wasn't executing the mc scripts (as was evident from looking at the wall StripTool trace), I tried ssh-ing into megatron, but was unable to (despite it being responsive to ping requests). So I went into the VEA and plugged in a monitor to megatron - saw nothing on it. With no soft reboot options available, I power cycled the machine via the front panel button. It came back up smoothly. I manually restarted the autolocker, FSSslow and EX thermal control processes (the former two with initctl, while the latter runs in a tmux session). Everything seems alright for now. Not sure how long megatron has been dead for.

IMC was not locked for the past several hours. Turned out MC autolocker was stuck, and I could not ssh into megatron because it was in some unresponsive state. I had to hard-reboot megatron, and once it came back up, I restarted the MCautolocker, FSS slow servo and nds2 processes. IMC re-locked immediately.

I was pulling long stretches of OSEM data from the NDS2 server (megatron) last night, I wonder if this flakiness is connected. Megatron is still running Ubuntu12.

[koji, gautam]

In addition to c1psl needing a reboot, megatron was un-ssh-able (although it was responding to ping). Clue was that the NPRO PZT control voltage was drifting a lot on the StripTool trace. Koji hard-rebooted the machine. Now IMC is locked, and FSS slow servo is also running.

[Rana, Koji, Joe]

We pulled the phase shifters in the 1X2 rack out to make room for megatron.  Megatron will be converted into c1ioo, and the 8 core, 1U computer will be used as c1lsc.  A temporary ethernet cable was run from 1X2 to 1X3 to connect megatron to the same sub-network.

The c1lsc machine was worked on today, setting it up to run the real time code, along with the correct controls accounts, passwords, .cshrc files, etc.  It needs to be moved from 1X1 to 1X4 tomorrow.

 I started reverting Megatron into a standard Ubuntu workstation after Joe/Osamu's attempt to steal it for their real time mumbo jumbo.

First, I installed a hard drive that was sitting around on top of it. That whole area is still a mess; I'm not surprised that we have so many CDS problems in such a chaotic state. There's another drive sitting around there called 'RT Linux' which I didn't use yet.

Second, I removed the ethernet cables and installed a monitor/keyboard/mouse on it.

Then I popped in the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS DVD, wiped the existing CentOS install and started the standard graphical installation of Ubuntu.

Megatron's specs attached: 

I called Alex this morning and explained the problems with megatron.

Turns out when he had been setting up megatron, he thought a startup script file, rc.local was missing in the /etc directory.  So he created it.  However, the rc.local file in the /etc directory is normally just a link to the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file.  So on startup (basically when we rebooted the machine yesterday), it was running an incorrect startup script file.  The real rc.local includes line:

/usr/bin/setup_shmem.rtl mdp mdc&

Hence the errors we were getting with shm_open().  We changed the file into a soft link, and resourced the rc.local script and mdp started right up.  So we're back to where we were 2 nights ago (although we do have an RFM card in hand).

Update:  The tst module wouldn't start, but after talking to Alex again, it seems that I need to add the module tst to the /usr/bin/setup_shmem.rtl mdp mdc& line in order for it to have a shared memory location setup for it.  I have edited the file (/etc/rc.d/rc.local), adding tst at the end of the line.  On reboot and running starttst, the code actually loads, although for the moment, I'm still getting blank white blocks on the medm screens.

Wall StripTool traces showed that IMC has not been locked for at least 8 hours when I came in this morning. Going to the IMC autolocker log, it looks like the last timestamp was at ~6pm yesterday. Megatron was responding to ping, but I couldn't ssh into it. So I went over to the machine and did a hard-reboot via front panel power switch. The computer took ~10mins to come back online and respond to ping. Once it did, I was able to ssh into it. However, trying the usual commands to restart the IMC autolocker and FSS Slow loops didn't work. Specifically, monitoring the logfile with tail -f Autolocker.log, I would see that the autolocker seemed to get stuck after starting the "blinky" script. Trying to restart the process using sudo initctl restart MCautolocker, init would print to shell that the restart had worked, and reported the PID, but the logfile wouldn't update "live" as it should when tail is used with the -f option. All very strange .

Anyways, as a last resort, I kill -9'ed the PID for the init instance, and init automatically restarted the Autolocker - this did the trick, IMC is locked now and logfile seems to be getting updated normally.

I also cleared a bunch of matlab crash dump files in the home directory.

The MC autolocker and FSSslow scripts weren't running on Megtron. These were started by running the following commands on megatron:

The new autoburt cronjob was failing because the .cron file was not executable (fixed by chmod +x burtnew.cron), and the new perl script didn't use the full path for ifconfig. Similarly, the simulink webview updating script was failing because the full path for matlab wasn't being given. Both of these fixes have been tested and commited to SVN. 

In general, cron scripts can be a real pain, since the cron process doesn't run our .bashrc, and so doesn't know about updates to $PATH, or other environment vairables that get updated through /ligo/cdscfg/workstationrc.sh, which is called by .bashrc. So something that manually works fine in the terminal may not play out as expected when run by cron.

SLOWDC servo was dead. I followed EricQ's instruction.

MC Autolocker got stack somewhere. I had to go to megatron and kill MC Autolocker.

init relaunched the autolocker automatically, and now it started properly.

Last night around 5pm or so, Alex had remotely logged in and made some fixes to megatron.

First, he changed the local name from scipe11 to megatron.  There were no changes to the network, this was a purely local change.  The name server running on Linux1 is what provides the name to IP conversions.  Scipe11 and Megatron both resolve to distinct IPs. Given c1auxex wasn't reported to have any problems (and I didn't see any problems with it yesterday), this was not a source of conflict.  Its possible that Megatron could get confused while in that state, but it would not have affected anything outside its box.

Just to be extra secure, I've switched megatron's personal router over from a DMZ setup to only forwarding port 22.  I have also disabled the dhcp server on the gateway router (131.215.113.2).

Second, he turned the mdp and mdc codes on.  This should not have conflicted with c1omc.

This morning I came in and turned megatron back on around 9:30 and began trying to replicate the problems from last night between c1omc and megatron.  I called Alex and we rebooted c1omc while megatron was on, but not running any code, and without any changes to the setup (routers, etc).  We were able to burt restore.  Then we turned the mdp, mdc and framebuilder codes on, and again rebooted c1omc, which appeared to burt restore as well (I restored from 3 am this morning, which looks reasonable to me). 

Finally, I made the changes mentioned above to the router setups in the hope that this will prevent future problems but without being able to replicate the issue I'm not sure.

Megatron's top fan, rear ps, and temperature front panel lights were all lit amber this morning.  I checked the service manual, found at :

http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/prod/sf.x4600m2?l=en&a=view

According to the manual, this means a front fan failed, a voltage event occured, and we hit a high temperature threshold.  However, there were no failure light on any of the individual front fans (which should have been the case given the front panel fan light).  The lights remained on after I shutdown megatron.  After unplugging, waiting 30 seconds, and replugging the power cords in, the lights went off and stayed off.  Megatron seems to come up fine.

I unplugged the IO chassis from megatron, rebooted, and tried to start Peter's plant model.  However, it still prints that its starting, but really doesn't.  One thing I forgot to mention in the previous elog on the matter, is that on the local monitor it prints "shm_open(): No such file or directory" every time we try to start one of these programs.

I've changed megatron's controls account default shell to tcsh (like it was before).  It now sources cshrc.40m in /cvs/cds/caltech/ correctly at login, so all the usual aliases and programs work without doing any extra work.

We are moving towards a first test of getting Kiwamu's green locking signals into the new front end at the new X end, as well as sending signal out to the green laser temperature control.

Towards that end, we borrowed the router which we were using as a firewall for megatron.   At the moment, megatron is not connected to the network.  The router (a linksys N wire router), was moved to the new X end, and setup to act as a firewall for the c1iscex machine.

At this point, we need to figure which channels of the DAC correspond to which outputs of the anti-imaging board (D000186) and coil driver outputs.  Ideally, we'd like to simply take a spare output from that board and bring it to the laser temperature control.  The watchdogs will be disabled when testing to avoid any unfortunate mis-sent signals to the coils.  It looks like it should be something like channels 6,7,8 are free, although I'm not positive if thats the correct mapping or if there's a n*8 + 6,7,8 mapping.

The ADC should be much easier to determine,  since we only have a single 16 channel set coming from the lemo breakout box.  Once we've determined channels, we should be all set to do a test with the green system.

We changed the pointer on /cvs/cds/caltech/target/gds/bin/awgtpman from

/opt/gds/awgtpman    to

/cvs/cds/caltech/target/gds/bin/awgtpman.091215.

Then killed the megatron framebuilder and testpoint manager (daqd, awgtpman), restarted, hit the daq reload button from the GDS_TP screen. 

This did not fix everything. However, it did seem to fix the problem where it needed a rtl_epics under the root directory which did not exist.  Alex continued to poke around.  When next he spoke, he claimed to have found a problem in the daqdrc file.  Specifically, the cvs/cds/caltech/target/fb/ daqdrc file.

set gds_server = "megatron" "megatron" 10 "megatron" 11;

He said this need to be:

set gds_server = "megatron" "megatron"  11 "megatron" 12;

However, during this, I had looked file, and found dataviewer working, while still with the 10 and 11.  Doing a diff on a backup of daqdrc, shows that Alex also changed

set controller_dcu=10  to set controller_dcu=12, and commented the previous line. 

He also changed set debug=2 to set debug=0.

In a quick test, we changed the 11 and 12 back to 10 and 11, and everything seemed to work fine.  So I'm not sure what that line actually does.  However, the set controller_dcu line seems to be important, and probably needs  to be set to the dcu id of an actually running module (it probably doesn't matter which one, but at least one that is up).  Anyways, I set the gds_server line back to 11 and 12, just in case there's numerology going on.

I'll add this information to the wiki.

I did a full make clean and make uninstall-daq-tst, then rebuilt it.  I copied a good version of filters to C1TST.txt in /cvs/cds/caltech/chans/ as well as a good copy of screens to /cvs/cds/caltech/medm/c1/tst/.

Test points still appear to be broken.  Although for a single measurement in dtt, I was somehow able to start, although the output in the results page didn't seem to have any actual data in the plots, so I'm not sure what happened there - after that it just said unable to select test points.  It now says that when starting up as well.  The tst channels are the only ones showing up.  However, the 1k channels seem to have disappeared from Data Viewer, and now only 16k channels are selectable, but they don't actually work.  I'm not actually sure where the 1k channels were coming from earlier now that I think about it.  They were listed like C1:TST-ETMY-SENSOR_UL and so forth.

RA: Koji and I added the SENSOR channels by hand to the .ini file last night so that we could have data stored in the frames ala c1susvme1, etc.