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From: Eric Norum <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2019 5:26 PM
To: Evans, Richard K. (GRC-H000) <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Scanivalve DTS units

On May 22, 2019, at 2:15 PM, Evans, Richard K. (GRC-H000) via Tech-talk <[email protected]> wrote:

 

Hello, 

 

I have twenty-two (x22) 64-Channel thermocouple measurement systems made by a company called Scanivalve Corp [0]. Specifically, each unit is a Scanivalve model DTS-4050-TX-64 [1,2]. These units provide the front-end signal conditioning for 64 thermocouples (of all types) and produce the fully processed temperatures of each channel as engineering unit data via a TCP/IP connection [3]. I would like to develop an EPICS control system for these units to initiate the start and stop of the units and to record their digital output over a tcp/ip channel. 

 

My question is - Is there anyone in the EPICs community who can give me some basic pointers about  how to develop the needed EPICs module(s) assuming I understand the TPC/IP commands required and how the data returned is encoded? I would be very grateful for some help getting started.

 

Thank you, 

/Rich

 

[0] http://scanivalve.com/

[1] http://scanivalve.com/products/temperature-measurement/dts4050-64-channel-thermocouple-scanner/

[2] http://scanivalve.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/DTS4050-Thermocouple-Scanner.pdf

[3] http://scanivalve.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DTS4050_V115.pdf

 

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