Reports until 18:31, Thursday 07 November 2013
H1 CDS
sheila.dwyer@LIGO.ORG - posted 18:31, Thursday 07 November 2013 - last comment - 10:52, Friday 08 November 2013(8433)
epics communication with corner plc2, timing system

Something was wrong with communication between the cornner beckhoff plc2 and epics.  When I tried to change something in an medm screen, it would not change,  When I stoped PLC2, it would change the value on the medm screen.  Also, on the LSC refl common mode board medm screen, things were just continuously flipping, altough on the twincat side nothing seemed to be changing.  I tried commenting out all the changes I had made to the PLC, which didn't change the situation, tried rebuild all, clean all.  I tried shutting everything on the etchercat machine down and running the installation scripts again,  the epics did not come back.  Dave restarted the epics gateway, and things seemed to come back (at least from the other PLCs).  I was able to change values on medm screens, but the change didn't make it to the twincat side.  Then patrick suggested rebooting h1ecatc1, so I did and that seems to have fixed the problem. Adding back in my changes one at a time did not reproduce the problem. 

ALso, the timing system erros are back, Xend, Y end and Corner.  I'm not sure why.

 

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daniel.sigg@LIGO.ORG - 10:52, Friday 08 November 2013 (8438)CDS

Yesterday, we swapped the end link chassis in End Y to the H1 version which has the safety terminals on a separate rail. We only realized now that this required a change in the system manager to remove the safety terminals left from the H2 system. The system is running again properly.