Agenda

Announcements
- CNU summer students
Minutes from previous meeting 3-May-2012
Barcode scanner - Elliott, Hovanes
- wireless? USB? base station?
- how many? how and where used?
- Motorolla DS4208
FCC Class B UPS's - Hovanes, Elliott
- Grainger 5 kVA, Grainger 8 kVA
- how much power is needed? power factor?
EPICS - Hovanes, Vanik
- alarm system, goniometer, UConn boards, other power supplies, etc.
Counting house installation - Hovanes, Mark
Solenoid_Controls_Redesign - Mark, Josh, Scot, Yi, Elliott
- FMEA
- UPS power to Danfysik, SOE, QD, overcurrent protection, ground fault detector, etc.
JInventory database - Elliott
Test stand - Hovanes, Josh
PLC programming and PXI system - Josh
Elogs and databases - Elliott
- Midas elog
- Operator elog
Mantis task tracker
Experiment Control Supervisor - Elliott

Time/Location

9:30 AM Thurs 17-May-2012 CC L207

9:30am 31-May-2012 CC L207

Present: Elliott W, Hovanes E, Vanik K, Mark S.

JInventory system and barcode scanner

Hovanes suggested adding two new fields, MAC_Address and IPName. Elliott will do this. The Telecom field will stay.
Wired barcodes scanners around $300, full-function wireless around $1600 or more.
Elliott will find out about Bluetooth versions.
Consensus is that we need at least two, one wired, one wireless.
Will purchase wired model now, not sure whether to buy wireless model now or later.
Consensus to enter slots as full items in the JInventory system.
Elliott will create scripts to automate creation of slot entries for crates.

Small UPS's

Still not clear how much power needed. We know what out equipment needs, not sure about other systems (e.g. SiPM cooling).
Hovanes found high-capacity expensive FCC Class B UPS's at Grainger. Low-capacity ones are easy to find.
Elliott asked Paul Powers to look into filtering Class A power down to Class B specs.
We believe our power factors are typically near one, maybe 0.9.

EPICS

Vanik continues to make progress on the stepper motor controller. He got the optical counter feature to work.
Will likely need optical limit switches since "home" feature not working well. Unfortunately they are easily radiation damaged.
UConn boards may be redesigned.
We're hoping Accelerator will take over four of our five power supplies (not the Solenoid supply).

Counting House