Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

[email protected] (Vladimir T. Romanovski) · Thu, 17 Apr 1997 16:29:25 +0200 (MET DST)

Salut,

Kathy McCormick wrote:
> > > 
> > > 	Hi.  I've created an MEDM gui to display the high voltage readout 
> > > from each channel of a LeCroy 1458 high voltage crate.  All of the 
> > > displays of the channels should be in decimal format, i.e. 1460 or -1460, 
> > > etc.  When I start MEDM it seems that channels are displayed in 
> > > exponential format at random.  For instance, if I look at the card in 
> > > slot 1, 50 of the channels will be displaying correctly, but the other 50 
> > > are in exponential format.  If I un-execute MEDM and restart it then 
> > > usually some different channels are being displayed in exponential 
> > > format.a The ones in exponential format are impossible to read, so I 
> > > would like to be able to solve this.  Has anyone seen this before?  
> > > 
> > 
> > Just recently, I noticed the same thing - but only when I bring up MEDM
> > on the cebafh cluster.  It doesn't happen on the development/operations
> > machines in the MCC.  (I'm working in both environments).  I checked
> > the screens/fields themselves, and they all claim to be displaying
> > the data in decimal format, but random fields will be displayed in
> > exponential format.  (No consistent pattern).  I would also appreciate
> > any perspective on this. 
> > 
> > 

Last half year we have been working on upgrading MEDM for our control 
system. Some results can be seen on http://www-kryo.desy.de/~romsky/ .

List of next step proposels coming soon..

SU,
Vladimir

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System