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ID	Date	Author	Type	Category	Subject	Text
87	Sat Jul 31 11:54:20 2010	Aidan	Computing	SLED	SLED Test Day 5 - Re-tuned current set-point control voltage	Main Points Re-set SLED current set-point control voltage to 0.111V SLED
88	Wed Aug 4 09:57:38 2010	Aidan, James	Computing	Hartmann sensor	RMS measurements with Hartmann sensor	[INCOMPLETE ENTRY] We set up the Hartmann sensor and
92	Wed Aug 18 18:38:11 2010	Aidan	Computing	Hartmann sensor	Hartmann sensor code	I downloaded and tested revision 47 of the Adelaide Hartmann sensor code from the SVN (https://trac.ligo.caltech.edu/Hartmann_Sensor/browser/users/won/HS_OO?rev=47).
100	Thu Nov 4 13:31:19 2010	Won Kim	Computing	Hartmann sensor	Frame Grabber SDK installation	Appended below is the step by step procedure that
101	Tue Nov 23 06:15:08 2010	Won	Computing	Hartmann sensor	Image folder structure	Attached below is a diagram that describes the organisation of image folders that I am using at the moment with Run_initialize
102	Tue Nov 30 11:01:19 2010	Aidan	Computing	General	New workstation added in TCS Lab. New Static IP	I added a workstation at 10.0.1.26 in the TCS lab.
103	Tue Nov 30 11:03:19 2010	Aidan	Computing	Frame Grabber	EDT frame grabber works under Ubuntu	The new machine in the TCS lab is running Ubuntu. I installed the frame-grabber into it and, after loading the configuration file
114	Mon Feb 28 17:33:07 2011	Aidan	Computing	Hartmann sensor	Hartmann Seidel abberation channels in frame builder	Using the same methods as before, see below, I've added some Hartmann sensor EPICS channels to the frames.
115	Mon Feb 28 17:56:32 2011	Aidan	Computing	Hartmann sensor	Got HWS code running and interface to EPICS	Here are the notes from today's efforts:
120	Thu Mar 3 07:30:18 2011	Won	Computing	Hartmann sensor	Effect of high pixel count on rms	We have been investigating how pixel count is related to the centroid displacements by taking several sets of image frames with	11x
121	Tue Mar 8 11:30:26 2011	Aidan	Computing	Hartmann sensor	Hartmann sensor code changes and NTP server	I've made the following changes to the Hartmann sensor code and to the machine running the HWS.
122	Tue Mar 8 18:28:14 2011	Aidan	Computing	General	TO DO notes	Write a Wiki page that describes how to add channels to the Athena Box Write a Wiki page that describes how
123	Tue Mar 8 18:48:00 2011	Aidan	Computing	Hartmann sensor	HWS code is running and recording centroids	The Hartmann sensor is running continuously and is now recording data to file. The formatting has changed slightly with the data now stored
125	Wed Mar 9 01:00:12 2011	Peter Veitch, Won Kim	Computing	Hartmann sensor	Control of frame rate usign external trigger	We managed to successfully apply frame rate control via external trigger from a pulse generator.
131	Fri Apr 1 02:41:55 2011	Won	Computing	Hartmann sensor	exposure time and reproducibility of centroids	Here is a brief and preliminary summary of rms of centroid displacements calculated at a number of different exposure time values.	9x
132	Fri Apr 1 09:51:45 2011	Aidan	Computing	Hartmann sensor	Prism measurement	I analyzed the results from the prism experiment. The time series and spectra of the prism are attached.
134	Tue Apr 12 22:30:59 2011	Aidan	Computing	EPICS	Installed the thermistor on the Hartmann plate/created MEDM ADC Input screen	I restarted the Athena box and created an MEDM screen that shows the 8 differential input voltages next to their corresponding
135	Tue Apr 12 22:46:27 2011	Aidan	Computing	EPICS	Added temperature sensor channels to the frame builder and restarted fb1	Added the following to the frame builder in /cvs/cds/caltech/chans/daq/C4HWS.ini and restarted daqd as per instructions
138	Mon Apr 18 15:03:49 2011	Aidan	Computing	DAQ	Athena DAC channels hooked up to BNC patch panel	I added the four Athena DAC channels to the second BNC patch panel in the rack. At the moment there are only two EPICS channels
140	Fri Apr 22 19:51:37 2011	Aidan	Computing	EPICS	pyepics installed on princess_sparkle	I installed the pyepics package on princess_sparkle since this is much easier under Ubuntu than under CentOS.
141	Sun Apr 24 18:31:18 2011	Aidan	Computing	Network architecture	Added hosts and network drives on TCS machines	Under edit ... I added the names of the network
142	Mon Apr 25 16:28:27 2011	Aidan, Joe	Computing	Network architecture	Fixed problem network drive fb1:/cvs on Ubuntu & CentOS machines	With Joe's help we fixed the failure of princess_sparkle to mount the fb1:/cvs directory when relying
144	Tue May 10 00:55:08 2011	Won	Computing	Hartmann sensor	Matlab Compiler and Matlab Compiler Runtime	I have spent some time with Matlab Compiler and Matlab Compiler Runtime (MCR).
145	Wed May 11 09:07:03 2011	Aidan	Computing	Hartmann sensor	Changed ownership of /opt/EDTpdv	I changed the ownership of /opt/EDTpdv to controls with the command: controls@princess_sparkle:/opt/EDTpdv$
146	Wed May 11 18:38:47 2011	Aidan	Computing	Hartmann sensor	test_HS binary	From Won: (the zip file is also on the SVN /users/won/compiled_code/test_HS.zip)
147	Wed May 11 18:44:54 2011	Aidan	Computing	Hartmann sensor	Matlab Compiler and Matlab Compiler Runtime	Installing MCR I located the MCRInstaller on our distribution of MATLAB on the Ubuntu machine
148	Tue May 17 16:08:02 2011	Aidan	Computing	Hartmann sensor	Write speed of the frame grabber to file	The attached file shows the output of the command. The maximum average frame rate is 57.2Hz when the nominal frame rate
149	Wed May 18 18:52:12 2011	Aidan	Computing	Hartmann sensor	Test of position modulation algorithm	I measured the prism and displacement of the Gaussian beam on the Hartmann sensor. The beam pointing was modulated at 10mHz
154	Fri Sep 2 14:41:48 2011	Aidan	Computing	Hartmann sensor	QFLD-950-3S long term test finished	I ran a test of the HWS with the QFLD-950-3S for 5 days. The test was terminated as we need to disconnect all the cabling and tidy
181	Mon May 13 14:09:02 2013	Zach	Computing	DAQ	C2ATF model rebuilt	ATF:1812
182	Thu Dec 15 14:02:01 2016	Aidan	Computing	Network architecture	Correct network settings for Ubuntu 14 in /etc/network/interfaces	These settings work to get a computer onto the TCS/ATF network.
183	Fri Dec 16 10:41:33 2016	Aidan	Computing	Network architecture	Correct network settings for Ubuntu 14 in /etc/network/interfaces	Spelt out in a searchable fashion: auto <portname> iface <portname> inet
189	Wed Oct 11 19:14:16 2017	Jon Richardson	Computing	Electronics	Replaced TCS Monitor	I replaced the dead 24" monitor on the work bench, which is connected to the video multiplexer. Mike Pedraza was
192	Fri Oct 13 18:35:29 2017	Jon Richardson	Computing	Electronics	Installed Maku Ethernet CCD Camera	I installed the Maku Gigabit CCD camera driver software on the hws-ws machine. The camera viewer can be opened from the terminal
194	Tue Oct 24 10:19:53 2017	Jon Richardson	Computing	Electronics	Installed Maku Ethernet CCD Camera	There is an SDK for the camera with compiled examples. For a really quick image grab from the command line, use the following:
195	Tue Oct 24 15:05:57 2017	Jon Richardson	Computing	Electronics	Installed a Realtime Beam Profiler for the Mako CCD Camera	Aidan found a C demo code for acquiring a single image from the Mako CCD camera and saving it to disk (SynchronousGrab -- aliased
196	Wed Oct 25 15:34:14 2017	Jon Richardson	Computing	Frame Grabber	Mako CCD Camera Code is Fixed	I fixed a bug in how the raw Mako CCD camera images are being read into memory. The bmp files turn out to have a block memory layout
197	Thu Oct 26 10:21:28 2017	Aidan	Computing		Beam size EPICS channels added to TCS-WS softIoc	I've added a softIoc to TCS-WS to capture the beam size from the MAKO camera. The IOC is run using ...
198	Thu Oct 26 10:31:31 2017	Aidan	Computing	DAQ	Beam size EPICS channels added to TCS-WS softIoc	These are also being written to frames on FB4.
199	Thu Oct 26 10:45:44 2017	Aidan	Computing	DAQ	Beam size EPICS channels added to TCS-WS softIoc	See attached photo for how data is written to frames ...
201	Tue Oct 31 14:37:49 2017	Aidan	Computing	DAQ	New Acromag units for AWC experiments - XT1221 ans XT1541	I set up an Acromag DAC today with the fixed IP address 10.0.1.56. Last Friday Andrew and Antonio set up an ADC unit with fixed
202	Thu Nov 9 14:18:56 2017	Aidan	Computing	DAQ	FB4 ip address has changed	We've had trouble logging into FB4. I access the computer directly in the AWC lab and found that the IP address had changed
203	Tue Nov 14 19:08:00 2017	Jon Richardson	Computing	Network architecture	Rsync Server for Automatic LDAS Backups	I implemented an access point for LDAS to pull data from the TCS lab EPICS frame archive (fb4:/frames) via rsync. The setup
206	Mon Feb 5 15:08:06 2018	Aidan	Computing	DAQ	Frame builder clock is totally wrong	The framebuilder on FB4 thinks the current time is 26-Jan-2018 6:18AM UTC. The date command on FB4 yields the correct date and
212	Wed May 30 18:50:05 2018	awade	Computing	DAQ	Rebooted fb4	Time was still off by nine days as of yesterday. I tried rebooting remotely to see if time would correct to system clock. It didn't
213	Wed May 30 18:59:49 2018	awade	Computing	DAQ	FB4 ip address has changed	Maybe you've resolved this now. I moved the DHCP allocation to 10.0.1.160 and above around that time because a bunch of
221	Thu Aug 16 11:52:27 2018	Aidan	Computing	DAQ	Added AWC thermocouple reader back to acromag1	Thermcouple reader is plugged into an Acromag ADC (10.0.1.55) acromag1 is now reading this in: ~/modbus/iocBoot/iocTest/test_acromag.cmd
222	Wed Oct 17 16:17:45 2018	awade, Aidan	Computing	DAQ	Added AWC thermocouple reader back to acromag1	Acromag IOC process was removed from PSL lab acromag1 computer a few months ago. Aidan needs them again but it would be better
224	Tue Dec 4 16:57:08 2018	Aidan	Computing	Hartmann sensor	Updated GIT version of HWS code	I changed the HWS code to the new git.ligo HWS version. Object files are in ~/hws scripts

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