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Wed Jun 4 13:46:42 2008 |
josephb | Configuration | Cameras | Changing incident angle images | Attached are images from the GC650 and GC750
when the incident angle was varied from 0
tilt (normal incidence) to 5,10, and 20 degrees. |
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519
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Wed Jun 4 16:57:12 2008 |
josephb | Configuration | Cameras | Dark images from cameras (electronics noise measurement) | The attached pdfs are 1 second and 1 millisecond
long integrations from the GC650 and GC750
cameras with a cap in place - i.e. no light.
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520
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Thu Jun 5 10:46:26 2008 |
josephb | Configuration | Cameras | Approximately uniform reflected white light | In an attempt to investigate the structures
seen in previous images for the GC750, I
aimed it at a relatively clean section of |
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521
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Thu Jun 5 13:35:23 2008 |
josephb | Configuration | Cameras | GC750 looking at 1064nm scattered light | I've taken 200 images of the GC750 (CMOS)
camera while holding it by hand up to a beam
card (also held by hand) in the path of ~5mW |
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525
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Fri Jun 6 16:47:04 2008 |
josephb | Configuration | Cameras | GC650 scatter images of 1064nm light | Took images similar to the scattered light
images from earlier, except with the CCD
GC650 camera. The first three attached plots |
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530
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Wed Jun 11 15:30:55 2008 |
josephb | Configuration | Cameras | GC1280 | The trial use GC1280 has arrived. This is
a higher resolution CMOS camera (similar
to the GC750). Other than higher resolution, |
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682
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Wed Jul 16 16:28:14 2008 |
josephb | Configuration | Computers | Fixed IP address on Switch | Realized today that the change I made back
on June 30th to the switch was to the wrong
switch. I had disabled the DHCP setting |
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777
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Thu Jul 31 16:11:22 2008 |
josephb | Configuration | Computers | Matlab on Megatron | Matlab now works on megatron.
I did a few things:
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779
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Fri Aug 1 10:45:46 2008 |
josephb | Configuration | Computers | Megatron now running tcsh | At Rana's request, I've remotely switched
Megatron over to using tcsh. I had to ssh
-X in order ot use the "/sbin/system-config-users" |
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809
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Thu Aug 7 11:54:26 2008 |
josephb | Configuration | Cameras | New code + gstreamer allows for easy saving and compression of images | Modified the CamSnap code to output the image
data stream to standard out. This can then
be piped into a gstreamer plugin and then |
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813
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Fri Aug 8 10:58:05 2008 |
josephb | Configuration | Cameras | Cameras and gstreamer | In regards to camera failure:
1) I forgot to reconnect that particular
camera to the network (my fault) so thats |
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815
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Fri Aug 8 12:21:57 2008 |
josephb | Configuration | Computers | Switched X end ethernet connections over to new switch | In 1X4, I've switched the ethernet connections
from c1iscex and c1auxex over to the new
Prosafe 24 port switches. They also use |
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823
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Mon Aug 11 12:42:04 2008 |
josephb | Configuration | Computers | Continuing saga of c1susvme1 | Coming back after lunch around 12:30pm, c1susvme1's
status was again red. After switching off
watchdogs, a reboot (ssh, su, reboot) and |
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824
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Mon Aug 11 13:59:23 2008 |
josephb | Configuration | Computers | | While poking around the crate, I noticed an
error light on one of the c1susvme2 related
boards was lit, while the corresponding light |
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825
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Mon Aug 11 15:07:49 2008 |
josephb | Configuration | Computers | Procyon aka fb40m switched to new switch | I've connected Procyon to the Prosafe 24 port
switch with a new, labeled Cat6 cable. Quick
tests with dataviewer shows that its working. |
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828
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Tue Aug 12 12:21:13 2008 |
josephb | Configuration | Cameras | Variation in fit over 140 images for GC650 and GC750 | Used matlab to calculate Gaussian fits on
145 GC650 images and 142 GC750 images. These
were individual images (no averaging) looking |
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835
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Thu Aug 14 15:51:35 2008 |
josephb | Summary | Cameras | FOUND! The Missing Standoff! | We used a zoom lens on the GC750 to take this
picture of the standoff while inside a plastic
rubber-glove bag. The standoff with bag |
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839
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Fri Aug 15 11:52:32 2008 |
josephb | Configuration | Cameras | Multi-computer display and recording of digital camera output | Through the magic of gstreamer, I've been
able to live play on one machine, compress
the image, send it to another machine via |
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847
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Mon Aug 18 15:32:18 2008 |
josephb | Configuration | Cameras | How to multicast with gstreamer and Gige Cameras | In order to get multicasting to work, one
simply needs to understand the address scheme.
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852
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Tue Aug 19 13:34:58 2008 |
josephb | Configuration | Computers | Switched c1pem1, c0daqawg, c0daqctrl over to new switches | Moved the Ethernet connections for c1pem1,
c0daqawg, and c0daqctrl over to the Netgear
Prosafe switch in 1Y6, using new cat6 cables. |
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897
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Fri Aug 29 11:01:49 2008 |
josephb | Configuration | Computers | Attempt to change a channel gain in ICS-110B | As noted earlier by Rana, I was playing around
with the /cvs/cds/caltech/chans/daq/C1IOOF.ini
file with help from Rob. I had made a backup |
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898
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Fri Aug 29 11:05:11 2008 |
josephb | Summary | Computers | c1asc was down this morning | I had to manually reboot c1asc this morning,
as for some unknown reason its status was
red, and the fiber lights on the board were |
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900
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Fri Aug 29 12:43:44 2008 |
josephb | Summary | Computers | c1susvme1 down | Around noon today, c1susvme was having problems.
The C0DAQ_RFMNETWORK light was red. The
status light was off, the sig det light was |
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941
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Thu Sep 11 11:29:14 2008 |
josephb | Configuration | Computers | Final netgear switch in place in 1Y2 | I've placed the final (of 4) Netgear prosafe
24 port switch at the very top of 1Y2. At
that location, there are no holes left to |
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948
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Mon Sep 15 14:00:52 2008 |
josephb | Configuration | Computers | 1Y9 Hub and C1asc | The 1Y9 switch is now using a labeled Cat6
cable in cable trays to connect to the main
switch in the offices. In addition, the |
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965
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Thu Sep 18 14:36:54 2008 |
josephb | Configuration | Computers | Name server and Epics | The problems Rob was experiencing last night
was due to part of the setup (or rather testing
of the setup) of the new nameserver running |
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973
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Fri Sep 19 11:21:45 2008 |
josephb | Configuration | Computers | Nameserver and Rosalba | I tried modifying the nsswitch.conf file to
include going to dns in addition to local
files for everything (services, network, |
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992
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Thu Sep 25 14:03:08 2008 |
josephb | Configuration | Computers | | [quote]
We (Joe) need to buy a GigE card for linux1
and to also set up conlog and conlogger to |
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1006
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Mon Sep 29 13:33:39 2008 |
josephb | Configuration | Computers | Gigabit network finished and conlog available on Nodus | The last 100 Mb unmounted hub has been removed
(or at least of the ones I could find).
We should be on a fully gigabit network with |
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1033
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Wed Oct 8 12:35:56 2008 |
josephb | Configuration | Computers | New Network diagram for the 40m | Attached is a pdf of the new network diagram
for the 40m after having removed all of the
old hubs. |
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1067
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Wed Oct 22 12:37:47 2008 |
josephb | Update | Computers | Network spreadsheet | Attached in open office format as well as
excel format is spreadsheet containing all
the devices with IP addresses at the 40m. |
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1098
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Tue Oct 28 12:01:01 2008 |
josephb | Configuration | Computers | linux2 | [quote]I have removed linux2 and its cables
from the control room and put it into 1Y3
along with op340m.
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1175
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Thu Dec 4 16:29:20 2008 |
josephb | Configuration | Computers | Error message on Frame Builder Raid Array | The Fibrenetix FX-606-U4 RAID connected to
the frame builder in 1Y7 is showing the following
error message: IDE Channel #4 Error Reading |
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1253
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Mon Jan 26 14:51:54 2009 |
josephb | Configuration | VAC | | We need a new RS-232 to Ethernet bridge in
order to interface properly with the new
RGA. The RGA has a fixed baud rate of 28.8k, |
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1294
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Wed Feb 11 15:01:47 2009 |
josephb | Configuration | Computers | Allegra | So after having broke Allegra by updating
the kernel, I was able to get it running
again by copying the xorg.conf.backup file |
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1333
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Mon Feb 23 16:42:08 2009 |
josephb | Configuration | Cameras | Camera Beta Testing | I've setup the GC650 camera (ID 32223)
to look at the mode cleaner transmission.
I've also added an alias to the camera server |
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1355
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Wed Mar 4 17:20:04 2009 |
josephb | Update | Cameras | Camera code upgrades | I've updated the digital camera python
code as well as changed the network topology.
At the moment, both cameras are connected |
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1385
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Wed Mar 11 11:30:15 2009 |
josephb | Configuration | Cameras | | I modified the Video.db file used by c1aux
located in /cvs/cds/caltech/target/c1aux.
I added the following channels to |
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1496
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Sun Apr 19 11:34:33 2009 |
josephb | HowTo | Cameras | USB Frame Grabber - How to | To use the Sensoray 2250 USB frame grabber:
Ensure you have the following packages
installed: build-essential, libusb-dev |
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1497
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Sun Apr 19 11:51:05 2009 |
josephb | Update | Cameras | Mafalda may need an update | I tried installing libusb-dev on mafalda
in order to try getting the usb frame grabber
to work on it, but could not as it could |
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1581
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Wed May 13 12:41:14 2009 |
josephb | Update | Cameras | Timing and stability tests of GigE Camera code | At the request of people down at LLO I've
been trying to work on the reliability and
speed of the GigE camera code. In my |
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1590
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Fri May 15 16:47:44 2009 |
josephb | Update | Cameras | Improved camera code | At Rob's request I've added the following
features to the camera code.
The camera server, which can be started |
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1901
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Fri Aug 14 10:39:50 2009 |
josephb | Configuration | Computers | Raid update to Framebuilder (specs) | The RAID array servicing the Frame builder
was finally switched over to JetStor Sata
16 Bay raid array. Each bay contains a 1 |
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1904
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Fri Aug 14 15:20:42 2009 |
josephb | Summary | Computers | Linux1 now has 1.5 TB raid drive |
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1967
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Fri Sep 4 16:09:26 2009 |
josephb | Summary | VAC | Rebooted RGA computer and reset RGA settings | Steve noticed the RGA was not working today.
It was powered on but no other lights were
lit. |
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2068
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Thu Oct 8 11:37:59 2009 |
josephb | Update | Computers | Reboot of dcuepics helped, c1susvme1 having problems | Power cycling c1dcuepics seems to have
fixed the EPICs channel problems, and c1lsc,
c1asc, and c1iovme are talking again. |
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Thu Nov 5 16:41:14 2009 |
josephb | Configuration | Computers | Megatron's personal network | In investigating why megatron wouldn't
talk to the network, I re-discovered the
fact that it had been placed on its own private |
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2192
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Fri Nov 6 10:35:56 2009 |
josephb | Update | Computers | RFM reboot fest and re-enabled ITMY coil drivers | As noted by Steve, the RFM network was
down this morning. I noticed that c1susvme1
sync counter was pegged at 16384, so I decided |
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2195
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Fri Nov 6 17:04:01 2009 |
josephb | Configuration | Computers | RFM and Megatron | I took the RFM 5565 card dropped off by
Jay and installed it into megatron.
It is not very secure, as it was too tall |
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Fri Nov 6 18:02:22 2009 |
josephb | Update | Computers | Elog restarted | While I was writing up an elog entry, the
elog died again, and I restarted it.
Not sure what caused it to die since no one |
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