There are a total of 9 panels associated with the fast feedback system. For ease of operation some buttons appear on several panels. In general if two buttons have the same label then they do exactly the same thing. Short descriptions of the panels follow.
The FEEDBACK SELECT PANEL allows you to select a feedback loop, turn it on and off, change the gain, and look at a few predefined plots and summary displays.
The CANNED PLOT PANEL allows you to look at many predefined (in the data base) plots to check the performance of fast feedback.
The STATE PANEL allows you to change the setpoint and tolerances for the states (e.g. position, angle and energy) controlled by a loop. The setpoints can be assigned to knobs). It allows history buffer displays.
The GOLD ORBIT PANEL allows you to save a gold orbit to disk in a configuration file and to load a gold orbit from disk for feedback to use.
The MAGNET PANELS PANEL just gives quick access to the regular magnet panels that have magnets used by fast feedback. For example you can get to the NRTL corrector panel from there.
The CUSTOM PLOT PANEL allows one to plot anything versus anything by typing in the desired variables for each axis. Hopefully plots which are needed frequently will be available on the CANNED PLOT PANEL so this panel will not be used much.
The following panels will not be used as frequently and are not directly accessible from this main fast feedback panel. They can be reached from the STATE PANEL among others.
The CASCADE + CALIB PANEL allows one to adjust parameters used for adaptive cascade and to do a CALIBRATION which varies an actuator and measures how the states change.
The DIAG + CALIB PANEL allows one to run feedback in various diagnostic modes using fake data for instance.
The ACTUATOR PANEL allows one to change tolerances and limits for the actuators (e.g. the maximum magnetic field that is allowed for a corrector magnet).
The MEASUREMENT PANEL allows one to change tolerances and limits for the measurement devices (e.g. the limits for which a BPM reading will be considered nonsense and hence not used).