Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"James.OHea--- via Tech-talk" <[email protected]> · Wed, 11 Sep 2019 09:44:30 +0000

Hi Randall,

This is the PLC:

open plc 10
cmd "&1p q81=d0 q82=d1 q83=d2 q84=d3 q85=d4 q86=d5 q87=d6 q88=d7 q89=d8"
close

With the PowerPMAC, when you request coordinate system values with a &xp command they are auto-magically mapped to d-variables which can then be read into the q-variables used by EPICS.

Regarding the combined motions, SmarAct have already defined the virtual axes within their provided coordinate system (CS1).  So to make use of them you can point a dls_pmac_cs_asyn_motor record at the virtual axis numbers:

CS1, Axis 1 = Omega
CS1, Axis 2 = Phi
CS1, Axis 3 = Chi
CS1, Axis 7 = X
CS1, Axis 8 = Y
CS1, Axis 9 = Z

Hope that helps,

James

-----Original Message-----
From: Randall Cayford [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: 10 September 2019 16:25
To: O'Hea, James (DLSLtd,RAL,LSCI)
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Driver for Smargon gniometer

I’m not sure what your PLC is doing. I would love to see it.  

I’m unclear on how to define the IOC to do the combined motor movements rather than driving the individual motors with the Pmac driver.  The X axis in particular which is motors 3 and 4 that have to be moved synchronously. 

> On Sep 10, 2019, at 1:06 AM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Randall,
> 
> The SmarGon is controlled by a PowerPMAC so you can use the 'pmac' support module to control it.
> 
> At Diamond we used an additional PLC to get translate the SmarAct selected positional variables to ones we typically use for coordinate systems, but other than that, the pmac driver will allow you to drive the axes as any other motorised stage.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> James
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tech-talk [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Randall Cayford via Tech-talk
> Sent: 09 September 2019 20:24
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Driver for Smargon gniometer
> 
> We have a Smargon goniometer (from SmarAct) and we’re trying to run it using EPICS.  Is there a driver available for this?  I’ve searched but not found anything that seems appropriate.  Or do I need to use a non-specific pmac driver and customize it for the Smargon?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Randall
> 
> 
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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