Xiao's April run
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April 19th - 25th
1. test and mount the new actuators for luminous stages test procedure:
a. connect all 18 actuators in serial, three power line input.
b. manually turn the knob to move each actuators at random position
c. open the fiberexplorer gui, and home all the actuators, the yellow light
turned on and off automatically, and the positions of all the actuators
return to zero on the gui.
d. repeat b and c several times, they work well each time.
2. field test of new MIRC hardware pieces.
PCs pieces are not in the right position, need to be moved forward, left and downwards. (see my notebook) MIRC pieces need to move down a few mm (3 mm?)
3. New MIRC control system.
a. upgrade devel account to sudoer list, copies files from /root/MIRC
b. run % sudo RTscheduler 60000
% spooler
These two procedures are actually under /usr/local/bin/ as we found out later, not the ones
inside the folder.
c. open IRCam gui, and follow the normal observation procedure: update DAQ parameters, config camera, ...
d. open fiberexplorer gui, and following the normal observation procedure: load camera conf, fiber mapping...
All the above steps are working well, I didn't spot any error.
Then I start to save some data, and find two errors. 1. Frame counterror: receive only XXX out of 1500 frames. 2. 4Header read error
For the first error, I think we have seen that before. But it is happening more frequently, I saved 64 files, and it happened 5 times. For the second error, I have never seen that before, is this the header problem you mentioned before? IT happened twice during saving 64 files.
I looked into the saved files. Because we are not on a real target, I am not sure if the header is right. But it looks normal, nothing wired.
