daniel.sigg@LIGO.ORG - posted 17:44, Tuesday 09 January 2018 - last comment - 19:29, Tuesday 09 January 2018(40067)
TEC controllers
Sheila, Terry, Nutsinee, Daniel
We were unable to drive a voltage to the SHG TEC. There is an error in the SQZ chassis 2 wiring list E1600384 missing the power cable for the TEC controllers. The TEC readbacks also suffers from some typos.
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sheila.dwyer@LIGO.ORG - 19:29, Tuesday 09 January 2018 (40070)
Yesterday Terry put together a test adapter to get the pin out of our SHG TEC (which was modified to work with the comerical controller in the optics lab), to the pin out required for using beckhoff control.
We found that during the import of TEC code for the OPO at LLO some channel names were added for the SHG which included underscores in the channel names in beckhoff. When the channels names are exported to EPICs periods in the IFO structure can be translated to underscores, so we ended up with multiple channels with the same name. We deleted the new TEC structures for the SHG, so we are now back to the ALS TEC code for the SHG. We caused a few problems for the IMC crew while doing this, and it required a DAQ restart.
We also found that the linking and configuration of the resistance measurement module was (EL3692) was not correct, so we changed it to match the configuration of the ALS one (select the module, under process data tab select Predefined PDO Assignment '2ch. fixpoint +float'') We link to the input called SAI Inputs Real Channel 2
That allowed us to read back the temperature of the thermistor, but now we have found that the beckhoff chassis isn't applying any voltage across the TEC.
Some more info on the TEC work today: