------ In this document I detail the slow controls (SC) interface to the TOF systems. The TOF systems consist of three major subsystems: TOFp, TOFr and pVPD. Until now, only the pVPD and the HV for the TOFp have been in SC. The pVPD is both monitored and controlled (through the TRIGGER tree), the TOFp only feeds its HV values to SC for storage in its dbase. For this year, the SC interface to TOF will be centralized through the TOF tree. It will have three subtrees TOFp, TOFr and pVPD. TOF |_pVPD | |_TOFp | |_ High Voltage | |_ comm | |_ HV monitoring | |_TOFr |_ High Voltage | |_ comm | |_ HV monitoring |_ Gas |_ comm |_ HV monitoring * pVPD This interface will remain exactly the same as it has been. The GUI interface will be relocated to the TOF tree. * TOFp The TOFp hvmon program on tofpdaq.starp writes out hvmon.evt files on the SC disk. So far, this data has been recorded for dbase purposes only. From now on the HV settings can be monitored from SC interface. We will have a "comm" alarm which indicates whether the event file didn't get updated in 20minutes (yellow) or 1hour (red). A "G" box will explain to the shift crew what to do next: essentially referring to the online procedure for TOFp HV. The monitoring part shows the timestamp, the 4 branch HV values and the the 41 cells. Each cell has 3 numbers associated w/ it: cell-id, HVread and HVset. The format of the hvmon.evt file is as follows unix_timestamp HV_br0 HV_br1 HV_br2 HV_br3 br cellid HVread HVset errorflag (example see below) The monitoring should not sound any alarms (yet) if possible it should change the color of that cell when the read-back and set value are more than 80V apart. This value might change. Also, we would like to have the capability of a "kill" file in which we can disable this behavior for some cells (some notorious cells can show fluctuations >100V w/o performances problems) * TOFr ** The TOFr gas system is the most important component to SC as it is a requirement for running isobutane and possibly SF6. The gas monitoring software on gasmon.starp writes out an event file called tofrgas.evt. The file consists of a single line of numbers: unix_timestamp freonflow isobutaneflow sf6flow isbutaneratio sf6ratio (example see below) -Like TOFp the Gas-comm alarm should ring in case of communication problems: yellow when not updated in 4minutes, red when not updated in 15 minutes. (These numbers might change) -The monitoring parts has alarms for the two ratios: if any ratio >1.2 yellow alarm if any ratio >1.6 red alarm Typical actions for the shift crew for yellow alarm: 1. check all TOFr gasflows, pressures and the bubbler in the gasmixing room 2. contact TOF detector expert Typical actions for the shift crew for red alarm: 1. stop all gasflow to the TOFr tray by switching off all switches on the gasflow monitor in the gasmixing room 2. contact TOF expert. -The monitoring part has only one gasflow alarm on it: if the freon flow drops below 55ccm: yellow if the freon flow drops below 10ccm: red Typical actions for the shift crew for Yellow alarm are 1. check all TOFr gasflows, pressures and the bubbler in the gasmixing room 2. contact TOF detector expert Typical actions for the shift crew for Red alarm are 1. switch OFF the TOFr HV 2. perform actions 1+2 for yellow alarm. ** The TOFr HV system will be writing out an event file too. It will have a timestamp and the set and read back values on the 4 HV channels. I'll update you on this one later ... -----hvmon.evt example: 991870154 200.6 3 3 3 0 2 1605.12 1601 699 0 0 6 1504.8 1533 663 0 0 7 1610.4 1610 700 0 0 8 1436.16 1421 632 0 0 9 1547.04 1578 675 0 0 11 1441.44 1466 632 0 0 12 1338.48 1353 598 0 0 13 1420.32 1439 627 0 0 14 1602.48 1624 695 0 0 15 1518 1529 667 0 0 16 1330.56 1321 590 0 0 17 1549.68 1565 671 0 0 18 1760.88 1732 749 0 0 20 1188 1421 524 0 0 25 1475.76 1506 647 0 0 26 1520.64 1515 666 0 0 27 1459.92 1493 642 0 0 28 1520.64 1511 658 0 0 30 1531.2 1556 670 0 0 31 1584 1592 693 0 0 32 1457.28 1457 644 0 0 33 1430.88 1466 633 0 0 34 1322.64 1321 596 0 0 36 1486.32 1497 655 0 0 38 1338.48 1375 600 0 0 39 1541.76 1520 667 0 0 40 1459.92 1457 643 0 0 41 1573.44 1615 691 0 0 42 1639.44 1642 716 0 0 43 1702.8 1736 735 0 0 44 1536.48 1547 673 0 0 45 1708.08 1736 739 0 0 46 1333.2 1339 589 0 0 47 1584 1592 691 0 0 48 1473.12 1439 639 0 0 49 1444.08 1479 638 0 0 50 1618.32 1610 704 0 0 52 1214.4 1457 542 0 0 53 1523.28 1538 667 0 0 54 1425.6 1443 628 0 0 56 1473.12 1452 643 0 ----- -----tofrgas.evt 1045076101 61.9 0.15 0.15 0.04 0.04