Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Davis, Mark via Tech-talk" <[email protected]> · Tue, 18 Jun 2019 17:57:35 +0000

Hi Kevin,

Thank you (and everyone else) for all the info.

Not sure when I can get my hands on the actual motor again, but I will 
be giving this a try as soon as I can.  At the very least I should be 
able to get an IOC to spit requests out a serial port on a Moxa.

Mark

Mark Davis NSCL/FRIB Control Systems Software Engineer [email protected]
On 6/18/2019 12:36 PM, Peterson, Kevin M. wrote:
> On 6/18/19 10:29 AM, Davis, Mark via Tech-talk wrote:
>> Let me back up a little and give some more specifics that might help
>> clarify things:
>>
>> Here is what we are using:
>>      * An Animatics SmartMotor model SM3416D-PLS (a combination
>> motor+controller).  The interface to the controller is a serial RS-232
>> connection.
>>      * A single port Moxa Serial/Ethernet convertor connected to the
>> serial port on the motor/controller.
>>      * Version 6.9 of the motor module
>>      * The driver in the SmartMotorSrc subdirectory of the motor module
>>
>> <snip> >
>> As near as I can tell so far my example is correct.  I just don't know
>> what the driver is expecting for the contents of the OUT field in the
>> motor record.
>>
> Mark Rivers already provided the correct OUT field in the message he
> forwarded to this thread.  I would just like to add the following info.
>
> Now that the motor module has been split into multiple repositories, the
> SmartMotor module contains an example IOC:
>
>   
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_epics-2Dmotor_motorSmartMotor_tree_master_iocs_smartMotorIOC&d=DwIGaQ&c=nE__W8dFE-shTxStwXtp0A&r=D7ZiziuMQuq40HlGYOZPBg&m=PLRQs337cbj5iYY7P6hTIwSKR143RRyl2pxLgFfSH8I&s=R5g8lDMJhzOn5c3YycvXcweBysIumYlxb8ey5qtt6Bc&e=
>
> Controllers with model-1 drivers, like the SmartMotor controller,
> usually load motor.db:
>
>   
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_epics-2Dmotor_motorSmartMotor_blob_ee30ba9cc44761a0cd28e22c9b48903368417096_iocs_smartMotorIOC_iocBoot_iocSmartMotor_SmartMotor.substitutions-23L1&d=DwIGaQ&c=nE__W8dFE-shTxStwXtp0A&r=D7ZiziuMQuq40HlGYOZPBg&m=PLRQs337cbj5iYY7P6hTIwSKR143RRyl2pxLgFfSH8I&s=8TxvBFqxZ8QSxiCnD32Nejopq506GOXC6CZz-ZN6kcU&e=
>
> Which requires C and S macros for the OUT field:
>
>   
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_epics-2Dmodules_motor_blob_4aa7d84d8a63afb500f05c72e98aa6335cda93b9_motorApp_Db_motor.db-23L16&d=DwIGaQ&c=nE__W8dFE-shTxStwXtp0A&r=D7ZiziuMQuq40HlGYOZPBg&m=PLRQs337cbj5iYY7P6hTIwSKR143RRyl2pxLgFfSH8I&s=SQmvQqMZfkM-dB3HmScM4unHf2XlqYCetwPsiITwe1A&e=
>
> Kevin
>

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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