[evlatests] Ant 16 A and C T304 issue

Walter Brisken wbrisken at aoc.nrao.edu
Mon Feb 13 11:27:10 EST 2006


There is something odd about the A and C T304s in antenna 16.  From a 
telnet window if I manually set the RF or CH1 attenuator, the monitor 
value doesn't change (see below).  IFs B and D seem to be fine.  Maybe 
this explains the following:

At 11:33 AM 2/12/2006, Ken Sowinski wrote:
> Vivek supplied a file to exercise the antennas during
> Rick's time this morning and I used the beginning to
> be sure that all still worked.  16AC was dead at C band,
> the L302 was in standby and rebooting fixed it.  Moments
> later when Vivek's file started it was again in standby.
> It complains that the main loop does not lock.


SHELL:\>get t304.rf_attenuator

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<EVLAMessage location='Antenna 16' timestamp='53779.6836455' >
   <device name='T304'>
     <monitor name='RF_ATTENUATOR' type='analog' value='31.000000' 
alert='0' />
   </device>
</EVLAMessage>
SHELL:\>set t304.rf_attenuator_cmd=17

SHELL:\>get t304.rf_attenuator

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<EVLAMessage location='Antenna 16' timestamp='53779.6837995' >
   <device name='T304'>
     <monitor name='RF_ATTENUATOR' type='analog' value='31.000000' 
alert='0' />
   </device>
</EVLAMessage>
SHELL:\>get t304.rf_attenuator_cmd

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<EVLAMessage location='Antenna 16' timestamp='53779.6838887' >
   <device name='T304'>
     <control name='RF_ATTENUATOR_CMD' type='analog' value='17.000000' />
   </device>
</EVLAMessage>





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