T963 DAQ MANUAL:
T963 MTD (MRPC) DAQ Instruction
1) If "XXUSBWin" is not running
already, (otherwise, skip to 6).
check if it runs at the background by "Ctrl+Alt+Delete"
and Look at Task Manager.
If "XXUSBWin" is in task Manager but
doesn't have an open window, Select it and "End
Task" .
Click on icon:
XXUSBWin at Desktop to start
DAQ.
XXUSBWin will popup then.
2) Goto "Stack Builder", In
"Special Commands" Click on
"C", "Z"
and "Clear Inhibit",
then click on "File" at the top left
corner Select "T963ADC48TDC40SC16.stp"
Click on "Read" at the bottom right
corner, Readback on the right should show a list of
hex starting with
0071
.
3) Goto "LED/NIM Multiplexers"
panel, and Select "Acquire" and
"Inv" in
BOTH
"O1 NIM" and
"O2 NIM" .
4) Goto "DAQ" and in
"Global Options", Fill
"Wdg Timeout" with
"F".
Fill "Watchdog Timer"
with "5"
click on "Set Option" .
5) In "Data Acquisition" panel
at the bottom "Output File Format"
select "Dec"
Replace "Default"
next to "USBRes" with whatever
comments
appropriate for this run.
6) To Start a run, click on "Start"
at the "Data Acquisition" panel in
"DAQ",
a window will popup, asking for file name of the output data
file, write
"T963AAABBBBBBrunCC"
Where "AAA" is
the physics of the run (e.g. "test", "HVSCAN", "XSCAN", "YSCAN", "ped",
"E8GeV")
"BBBBBB" is the date
(e.g. 050407)
"CC" is the run number
(e.g. 01,02, 30)
Please make sure your run number is in synch with
Erik's DAQ
e.g. in C:\Documents and Settings\muon\Desktop\T963\
If you click "start" and find something is wrong,
DON'T
click cancel, you may overwrite the datafile from previous run.
You SHOULD input
the datafile you want, and select "Open". Then "STOP" DAQ for any
changes you need, then re-"start" the run again with the same new file
name you just opened.
7) Make sure the other DAQs are ready.
"TRACKING" (Erik's computer on your left side), GEM far left
side
TRACKING DAQ
is /fnal/ups/prd/mtest/v2_2/mtest
type "y" then return, and
put in comments in next line.
Push the
"start"
button in the NIM crate
in top-left
front of you, do it when we are off a spill.
You have 55 seconds to do it. Don't rush.
8) "Stop" run every
hour.
Stop MTD DAQ first, then
TRACKING, then
GEM
TRACKING: Ctrl+c , put in end of run comments
Write down
#events in
DAQs and scaler.
If you find that #events in Erik's DAQ is different from
Visual Scaler, stop the run and restart a new run.
Repeat from 6) to 8)
When in doubt, call Zhangbu@ 631 487 6621
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