Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Steve Hunt <[email protected]> · Fri, 22 Dec 2000 18:45:00 +0100

Hi all,

Commissioning of the SLS storage ring started ahead of schedule (was
planed for Jan 2001) on Dec 11, when the booster to storage ring
transfer line was brought into operation.

On Dec. 13  first turn in the ring was achieved, and on Dec. 15 a stored
beam of  2.7 mAmp and  8.5 min lifetime was reached. Have a look at the
picture at www.sls.psi.ch/general/stored2.gif which was read via a VME
frame grabber and the Epics image record.  On Dec 19th a 8 hour
lifetime (with relaxed optics) was achieved.

All major systems (RF, magnet power supplies, diagnostics, and vacuum)
are directly controlled by Epics, and worked without problems. The
machine control system consists of 104 iocs with a total of 82000 PVs.
Thanks to everyone in the Epics community who has supported the controls
team at here in making the SLS control system a success. Our work will
now shift to the SLS beam line controls, for which we also use Epics.

Steve Hunt

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System