• IFR main panel;


• IFR configuration panel;


• IFR HV panel;


• IFR LV panel;


• IFR FEE DAQ crates;


• IFR MON crates;


• IFR HV-mon crates;


• Chillers;

• Gas System;

• Summary Page;


• CAN-bus problems;


• After power outage;

Login on a machine placed in IR-2 and type the following command:

• startepics

• If the frame around the subsystem's button is GREEN , the subsystem is OK.


• If the frame around the subsystem's button is RED there is an High Level Alarm.


• If the frame is YELLOW there is a Low Level (warning) Alarm.


• If the frame is white the subsystem is not receiving new data (=> comunication problem).

• LV ON: You can switch OFF/ON the Power Supplies from the Switch panel located in the Electronic House. When the LV are OFF the frame around the LV button on the IFR main screen is RED.


• FEE ON: You can switch OFF/ON the FEE crates from the Switch panel and from the FEE screen. If one of the eight FEE crates is OFF the FEE button will be RED on the main screen.


• HV ON:  Each HV channels is ON when its CAEN STATUS is ON (V0=VMON).

• LOCAL: The IFR shifter can change the IFR STATE following the following steps:


• Set the IFR into the LOCAL mode (button on the bottom right);


• Change the IFR state using one the 5 buttons into the local square area (on the left);


• GLOBAL: The BaBar shift leader changes the IFR STATE using the global button on the main babar screen;


• OFF: All the HV channels have 0 Volts and are OFF (safe state);


• INJECTABLE:HV is at the values indicated by V0 inj (safe state);


• RUNNABLE: HV is at the vaues indicated by V1 run

• C1: Barrel sextants 0,1,2;
• C2: Barrel sextants 3,4,5;
• C3: Endcap Backward;
• C4: Endcap Forward;
• C5: Spare channels;
• Cylindrical.

Each crate has two different kind of alarms: the CRATE alarm and the CHANNEL alarm. In this panel you can see that there is no alarm in any of the CRATE, therefore all the HV channels connected to the crates are OK.

On the IFR HV panel there are other useful information:

• The total current drawn in each sector is reported on the right part of the screen;
• The total number of tripped and masked channels are reported on the bottom;
• The number of "bad" and masked channels are written on the right of the sector button.

As an example, this panel shows the channels connected to crate No 4:



 
All the channels are ON, except for channel #25 and #27. Note that these channels are also masked (last right column of buttons in red). Therefore they will not generate BaBar-wide alarms and incommodate the people on shift.
How are the HV alarms defined ???
Each HV CAEN channel has an HV CHANNEL alarm defined as the logical OR of two different alarms: the Overcurrent alarm and the Status alarm.

• the OverCurrent Alarm is yellow (warning) or red (high alarm) when Imon is greater than Iord by a given amount;
• the Status Alarm changes when the HV status is: ramp-up or ramp-down;
• the Status Alarm is red when the HV status is: trip, uv, ov, uc, oc.
• the CRATE HV alarm is the logical OR of all the channels connected in that crate.
• the IFR HV alarm, placed on the main IFR panel, is the logical OR of the 6 crate alarms.

In this panel you can also see the actual voltage value of the channel Vmon compared to the set value Vord
If you have a "bad" HV channel (trip, overcurrent....) you can remove it from the State Machine by masking that channel using the corresponding red button in the right column.

What does MASKED channel mean ????

• You can mask an HV channel anytime, you do not need to go in local mode.
• A masked HV channel does NOT ramp (up/down) automatically.
• Masked channels are not included into the ALARM state machine and into the RUNINJ State machine.
• You can change by hand the HV parameter of the masked channels both in local and in global mode.

• You can mask an HV channel to remove an alarm and to remove the NOT RUNNABLE flag.


• This is the fastest way to make the IFR runnable when you have an HV trip problem.


• Then you can set the voltage of the masked channel by hand, choosing the best V0 value.

• Find the "bad" crate and then switch ON it using the Control button under the crate symbol. Remember to use the Enable button before to switch ON it;
• Check the switching panel in the electronic house and then try again.
• If you have a white alarm....this is not a real problem......go to the next section.

Below are the control panel from which you can check in detail what is wrong with the crate and the control button to switch the crate remotely on/off.

• Click on Details... button and you will get the IFR-MON IOC STATUS panel:
  
  
• Click on Control button and you will get the control button from which you can switch the VME crate on/off. Remember to use the Enable button before to switch ON it;
  
  

• Click on Details... button and you will get the IFR-HV MON IOC STATUS panel:
  
• Click on Control button and you will get the control button from which you can switch the VME crate on/off. Remember to use the Enable button before to switch ON it;

• Click on the SIAM ctl button corresponding to the tower with the alarm.
• Check if it is possible to reset the alarm by resetting the corresponding SIAM channel. You need to have an OK condition for that channel in order to reset it.

Click on the Gas  button in the IFR main panel:

• Look for readings out of the reference ranges
• To be sure to have up to date readings, check if the Freshness number changes
• The readings are updated when the Freshness number changes.
• Usually it's updated within 30 seconds

• The trigger section is stuck
• Gas section is still in counts and not in physical quantities
• You can see physical readings in the Gas System
• The LV section of backward and forward encaps could be white

• If the IODC lose the comunication with a CAN-bus line the LV or the FEE alarm frame becomes WHITE.


• This is not a "real" alarm; the LV and the FEE systems are working but the IODC is not able to monitor them.


• If the comunication does not come back in a 5 minutes you can RESET the CAN-bus line (switching off/on the GMBs). To do this you can use the switch panel placed in the electronic house on the IODC VME crate. On the panel there are 8 switches for the BARREL monitor crates and 4 switches for the ENDCAP monitor crates.


• Switch off/on ONLY the MONITOR CRATE corresponding to the lost CAN-bus line.


• YOU DO NOT NEED to switch off/on the LV or the FEE crates.


• YOU DO NOT NEED to reboot the CPU.

• If you can't turn LV power supplies ON by using EPICS panels, and reboooting IOC does not help, it may be because modules in the IFR_MON VME crate are "hung" and don't communicate through CANBUS to another parts of the system. The easiest method to reset them from such state is to cycle AC power on VME crate. This will cause general alarm because of SIAM modules in this crate, so make sure to tell shift leader that you are going to generate such alarm before proceeding