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To archive a signal that ranges over many decades, separate the mantissa and exponent into two separate values, each to be logged.

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  Beam line Controls and Data Acquisition
  Advanced Photon Source,   Argonne National Laboratory
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Sent: Monday, November 18, 2019 8:51 AM
To: EPICS tech-talk; Bo Jakobsen
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] ai records with data covering many decades

Hi:

> ..PV for a pressure gauge which by nature covers many decades of values.
> I wanted to set up MEDM and ADEL values before starting to log the values to our archiver.
> Output is in exponential format, and i would like to monitor on e.g. 1 decimal independent of the exponent, it this possible.

I'm not aware of a good solution for efficiently displaying or archiving log-scale-type-PVs via MDEL respectively ADEL.
As you say, end users would like to see updates based on for example changes of "0.1", no matter if that's "0.1E-3" or "0.1E-5" on a log scale plot of vacuum pressure readings.
Sometimes the MDEL/ADEL is set to say "0.1E-5" because the reading happened to be in the E-5 range at the time, and then the vacuum improves to the E-6 range and MDEL/ADEL suppresses all updates.
So the only practical solution for archiving is to set ADEL=0, and store the value every few seconds to limit the amount of data. That's OK for the longer-term histor, but with vacuum readings you tend to care about some detail in vacuum excursions which start as a sharp spike, followed by exponential decay. With just a value every few seconds, you miss the initial spike detail.

Thanks,
Kay

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