Reports until 11:56, Thursday 25 August 2016
H1 CDS (DAQ, PSL)
david.barker@LIGO.ORG - posted 11:56, Thursday 25 August 2016 (29302)
Dolphin card installed in PSL front end computer

WP6120

Daniel, Keita, Jim, Dave:

We installed a spare Dolphin card into the h1psl0 front end computer. The sequence was:

  1. change h1ioppsl0 model to add the pciRfm=1 flag
  2. edit h1psliss model to add two dolphin receivers and process this data
  3. edit h1lsc model to pickoff TR_[X,Y] and send as two new dolphin channels
  4. edit dolphin manager's node configuration and restart on h1boot
  5. h1psl0: kill models, power down, install Dolphin card, connect to switch, power up.
  6. On power up of h1psl0 the MSR Dolphin fabric glitched (as we suspected) which stopped all SUS, SEI and ISC models in the corner station.
  7. h1ioppsl0 IRIG-B drifted negative, we waited until it became good before we could check the new Dolphin IPC was functioning correctly.
  8. we restarted the sender (h1lsc0), but the dolphin was not working. After scratching my head a bit, I realised I had not loaded the new h1lsc model. Once I did this, all was working correctly.
  9. restarted all models on all MSR front ends which are on dolphin
  10. restarted the DAQ to resync to the new h1psliss model

We found that the PSL-OPC shutter still closed, investigating this offline.

I checked that the received data on the two new dolphin channels were correct, and they are.

I noticed that the channels are called TR_[X,Y]_NORM but they are picked off before the NORM filter modules in the LSC model, so perhaps not normalized or incorrectly named.