\contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {1}Introduction}{8} \contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {2}Overview of Control Functions}{10} \contentsline {section}{\numberline {2.1}Temperature Measurement}{10} \contentsline {paragraph}{New:}{11} \contentsline {section}{\numberline {2.2}Pressure Measurement}{11} \contentsline {section}{\numberline {2.3}Valve Status}{11} \contentsline {section}{\numberline {2.4}Target Loop Heaters}{13} \contentsline {section}{\numberline {2.5}Target Loop Pump}{13} \contentsline {section}{\numberline {2.6}Target Vacuum}{14} \contentsline {section}{\numberline {2.7}Target Position}{14} \contentsline {section}{\numberline {2.8}Coolant Measurement and Control}{19} \contentsline {section}{\numberline {2.9}Hazardous Gas detectors}{20} \contentsline {section}{\numberline {2.10}Alarms}{20} \contentsline {section}{\numberline {2.11}Fast Shutdown}{21} \contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {3}Starting the User Interfaces}{22} \contentsline {section}{\numberline {3.1}Starting the MEDM Software}{22} \contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {3.1.1}Description of the main MEDM GUI}{24} \contentsline {section}{\numberline {3.2}Starting the EPICS Alarm Handler}{26} \contentsline {section}{\numberline {3.3}MEDM Software on {\bf hallc1}}{27} \contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {4}General Software Operations}{28} \contentsline {section}{\numberline {4.1}Graphing Data}{28} \contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.1.1}MEDM Graphs}{28} \contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.1.2}StripTool}{29} \contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.1.3}Vapor Pressure Graph}{29} \contentsline {section}{\numberline {4.2}Low Power Heater/ITC502 Temperature Controller}{29} \contentsline {section}{\numberline {4.3}High Power Heater}{30} \contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.3.1}Manual and Auto Control}{31} \contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.3.2}PID control}{32} \contentsline {section}{\numberline {4.4}Gas Panel}{35} \contentsline {section}{\numberline {4.5}Pump Issues}{35} \contentsline {section}{\numberline {4.6}Target Coolant}{35} \contentsline {section}{\numberline {4.7}Adjusting the Target Position}{36} \contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.7.1}Target Position Alarms}{38} \contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.7.2}Target Position FSD}{39} \contentsline {section}{\numberline {4.8}Inserting and removing the flyswatter target}{39} \contentsline {section}{\numberline {4.9}Viewing the Raw VME data}{40} \contentsline {section}{\numberline {4.10}Data Archiver}{42} \contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.10.1}Plotting archived data with PHYSICA/ROOT}{44} \contentsline {section}{\numberline {4.11}Channel Access Security}{44} \contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {5}EPICS Alarm Handler}{46} \contentsline {section}{\numberline {5.1}Alarm Configuration Tree Structure Display}{47} \contentsline {section}{\numberline {5.2}Alarm Acknowledgement}{49} \contentsline {section}{\numberline {5.3}Alarm Set Points}{49} \contentsline {section}{\numberline {5.4}Alarm Logging}{50} \contentsline {section}{\numberline {5.5}More comments on the alarm handler}{50} \contentsline {section}{\numberline {5.6}Alarm limits set}{50} \contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {6}IOC problems}{51} \contentsline {section}{\numberline {6.1}Rebooting the IOC}{51} \contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {6.1.1}From target controls MEDM}{51} \contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {6.1.2}From {\it cdaqs1}}{52} \contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {6.1.3}Reboot remotely via a Web interface}{52} \contentsline {section}{\numberline {6.2}Computer Failure and Subsystems Issues}{53} \contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {7}Manual control features from Hall-C Counting House}{54} \contentsline {section}{\numberline {7.1}HPH control}{54} \contentsline {section}{\numberline {7.2}Pump speed control}{56} \contentsline {section}{\numberline {7.3}Target Motion}{57} \contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {A}Working with MEDM}{59} \contentsline {section}{\numberline {A.1}To print a screen}{59} \contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {B}VME hardware components}{60} \contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {C}Temperature Sensors}{63} \contentsline {section}{\numberline {C.1}Calibration Curves}{63} \contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {C.1.1}How to Add Calibration Curves}{63} \contentsline {chapter}{\numberline {D}Analog Input Channel Calibration Constants}{67}