[evla-sw-discuss] Feed heaters
Rich Moeser
rmoeser at nrao.edu
Wed Dec 20 15:07:12 EST 2006
The control for turning the feed heaters on and off is on the f320 and
m303 screens.
--Rich
Bryan Butler wrote:
> i thought at one point that rich was going to put this control onto the F317
> operator's screen (the equivalent of 1 + 2 below)?
>
> rich can correct me if wrong, but my recollection is of seeing a diagram that
> bob hayward gave rich, which had the feed heater info (and ability to control)
> on it.
>
> -bryan
>
>
> On 12/20/06 10:02, Barry Clark wrote:
>
>> Jim Ruff was just in my office asking about automated control of the
>> feed heaters. They should be turned on/off by the dewpoint depression
>> below ambient, as found from the weather station. Implementation should
>> wait for the installation of the M303, where the control will eventually
>> be moved.
>>
>> Three possible places to put this code:
>> 1. Operator's screen. Approach would be same as for VLA - if software
>> believes heaters are in wrong state, tell operators, who then have a
>> way to send command to all known MIBs.
>> 2. M302 screen. (along with other M302/3 functions like E-stop etc.).
>> Again would take the "recommend to operator" approach.
>> 3. AntennaPhysical. Easy to implement an automated function. However,
>> one would like to have an operator override capability. Adding a 'rest'
>> or 'mib' interface would be a possible way to implement this. Not quite
>> sure what screen would talk to it, though.
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