RE: Alarm Limits

["Owens, PH \(Peter\)" <peter.owens@stfc.ac.uk>]

Pierrick,

Yes it is possible.

You need to spcify the OUT fields of the calcout records.

You cannot set the HIHI HIGH LOLO LOW fields to links.

Pete


> -----Original Message-----
> From: tech-talk-bounces@aps.anl.gov
> [mailto:tech-talk-bounces@aps.anl.gov]On Behalf Of Pierrick Hanlet
> Sent: 19 March 2009 11:10
> To: tech-talk@aps.anl.gov
> Subject: Alarm Limits
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> Can one use the output of a calc or a calcout routine to set 
> values for HIHI, HIGH,
> LOW, and LOLO?  When I load my database, I always get errors 
> in these lines.  Is
> there some sort of special incantation that I must do?
> 
> Here's what I have.  I've used camonitor to check that all of 
> the records leading
> up to and including the calc records work as expected.  For 
> the calcout routines,
> I have a value between 0<= VAL <=1 for ILimMajor and 
> ILimMinor.  The calcout
> records appear to do what I want them to do:
> 
> ======================================
> record(calcout, "$(user):calcQ1I_HiHi") {
> 	field(DESC, "Q1 I Max Major limit")
> 	field(PREC, "3")
> 	field(INPA, "$(user):Q1SetCurrent.VAL  NPP NMS")
> 	field(INPB, "$(user):ILimMajor.VAL  NPP NMS")
> 	field(CALC, "A+(A*B)")
> }
> record(calcout, "$(user):calcQ1I_High") {
> 	field(DESC, "Q1 I Max Minor limit")
> 	field(PREC, "3")
> 	field(INPA, "$(user):Q1SetCurrent.VAL  NPP NMS")
> 	field(INPB, "$(user):ILimMinor.VAL  NPP NMS")
> 	field(CALC, "A+A*B")
> }
> record(calcout, "$(user):calcQ1I_Low") {
> 	field(DESC, "Q1 I Min Minor limit")
> 	field(PREC, "3")
> 	field(INPA, "$(user):Q1SetCurrent.VAL  NPP NMS")
> 	field(INPB, "$(user):ILimMinor.VAL  NPP NMS")
> 	field(CALC, "A-A*B")
> }
> record(calcout, "$(user):calcQ1I_LoLo") {
> 	field(DESC, "Q1 I Min Major limit")
> 	field(PREC, "3")
> 	field(INPA, "$(user):Q1SetCurrent.VAL  NPP NMS")
> 	field(INPB, "$(user):ILimMajor.VAL  NPP NMS")
> 	field(CALC, "A-A*B")
> }
> record(ai, "$(user):Q1ReadCurrent") {
> 	field(DESC, "Q1 Magnet Readback Current")
> 	field(PREC, "3")
> 	field(INP,  "$(user):rampQ1Current.VAL NPP NMS")
> 	field(EGUF, "10")
> 	field(EGU,  "A")
> 	field(HOPR, "2000")
> 	field(LOPR, "0")
> 	field(HIHI, "$(user):calcQ1I_HiHi.VAL")
> 	field(HIGH, "$(user):calcQ1I_High.VAL")
> 	field(LOW,  "$(user):calcQ1I_Low.VAL")
> 	field(LOLO, "$(user):calcQ1I_LoLo.VAL")
> 	field(HHSV, "MAJOR")
> 	field(HSV,  "MINOR")
> 	field(LSV,  "MINOR")
> 	field(LLSV, "MAJOR")
> 	field(FLNK, "$(user):Q1RampCurrent.PROC")
> }
> ======================================
> Thanks,
> Pierrick
> 
> 
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