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IFR Detector Control Documentation |
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List of arguments:
IFR Main
panel
Login on a SOLARIS machine placed in IR-2 and type the
following command:
- source
/nfs/bbr-srv01/u1/1/bin/solaris/startEpics
If you have any problem open a NEW xterminal and try again.
Now you are running the BaBar ODC Main EPICS Screen:
Pushing on the IFR button you will get the IFR ODC Main Screen
In general:
- 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).
IFR
Configuration Screen
In this panel you can find the main setting values for the HV for each
subdetector area:
The IFR can run in 2
different MODEs and 5 different STATEs:
The MODEs are:
LOCAL and GLOBAL;
The STATEs are: OFF, INJECTABLE, RUNNABLE, CALIBRATION and SPECIAL.
- 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
What are the HV
setpoints of the IFR STATEs ???
The HV setpoints are written into the IFR configuration screen and they
are divided in Runnable (V1 run) and Injectable (V0 inj).
The setpoints are divided accordingly to the detector areas: Barrel,
Endcap Forward, Endcap Backward and Cylindrical.
Special setpoints are allocated for Special set and the spare channels.
It is possible to change the set points by moving the cursor in the
area, edit the new value and give enter key.
What does mean HV ON,
LV ON and FEE ON ????
- 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).
IFR HV panel
The IFR HV system is
divided in 6 regions/sectors corresponding to the HV crate at which the
region is connected. They are called:
- C1: Barrel sextants 0,1,2;
- C2: Barrel sextants 3,4,5;
- C3: Endcap Forward;
- C4: Endcap Backward;
- 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 allarm in any
of the CRATE, therefore all the HV channels
connected to the crates are OK.
On the IFR HV panel
there are other usefull information:
- The total current drown 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 1:
All the chennels are ON, except for channel #33 and #37. Note that
these chennels are
also masked (last right column of buttons in red). Therefore is not a
problem.
How are the HV alarms
defined ???
Each HV CAEN channel has an HV CHANNEL
alarms defined has the logical OR of two different alarms: the
Overcurrent alarm and the Status alarm.
- OverCurrent Alarm is yellow (warning) or red (high
alarm) when Imon is greater than Iord of a certain
amount;
- Status Alarm changes when the HV status is: rump-up
or rump-down;
- 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
chennels 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 rump (up/down)
automatically.
- A 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.
When do you have to MASK an HV channel
????
- 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.
IFR LV panel
Click on the LV button in the IFR main panel and you will get
the location and the status of all the LV power supplies of the IFR:
The LV are ok when the status shown is green .
If you have a LV alarm:
- If all the LV channel are RED check that the LV
are ON looking at the switch panel placed in electronic house;
- If the Voltage and the Current of one channel are
zero you can try to reset the LV crate switching it off/on
(switch panel);
- If the Current is zero but not the Voltage you can
try to reset the fuse switching off/on the LV crate
FEE DAQ crates panel
Click on the FEE crate button in the IFR main panel and you
will get the location and the status of all the Front End Electronics
crates:
The LV are ok when the status shown is green .
If you have a FEE
alarm:
- 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 section can
bus problem.
Below are the control panel from which you can
detailed check what is wrong with the crate
and the control button to switch the crate remotely on/off.
IFR MON crate panel
Click on the IFR-MON cr button in the IFR main panel and you
will get the following VME crate panel:
Everything is ok when the status shown is green
.
If you have a IFR-MON
alarm:
- 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;
IFR HV MON crate panel
Click on the IFR-HV cr button in the IFR main panel and you
will get a VME crate panel
similar to the IFR-MON crate
Everything is ok when the status shown is green
.
If you have a IFR-HV
MON alarm:
- 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;
Chillers panel
Click on the Chillers button in the IFR main panel:
Everything is ok when the status of all the parts shown is green .
If you have a chiller
alarm:
- 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.
If you have a chiller
alarm but all the lights are green except the fact that you cannot read temperatures values and valves positions:
- Click on the VSAM debug button.
- Click the button on the right of Scan Mode two times.
After this operation, that button goes back to "normal" and chillers readings are correctly recovered.
Chillers panel
Click on the Summary Info button in the IFR main panel:
In this panel you find all of informations concentrated in a single
spot.
CAN bus problems:
- 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.
After Power Outage
- 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
This page was created by Pigi Paolucci (paolucci@slac.stanford.edu),
Now it is mantained by
Maria Chiara Simani
Last updated: 7 Jan 2003
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