Controls Meeting 6-Feb-2014

Agenda

• Announcements
• Minutes from previous meeting Controls Meeting 23-Jan-2014
• Scope of these meetings (All)
• UPS requirements for controls in Hall D (Dave, Yi, Hovanes)
  • UPS for Motors and Network Switches in Hall D
• Status of interlocks for BCAL and FDC power supplies (Dave)
• GlueX collaboration meeting (Hovanes)

Time/Location

9:30AM Thurs 6-Feb-2014 CC A110

Minutes

Items from previous meetings

• Dave is pretty close to defining the UPS requirements for the PLC in Hall D.
• Dave still needs to get some information about the safe positions of valve in solenoid to define the solenoid UPS requirements.

Scope of the meetings

• Hovanes announced that the purpose of the slow control meetings is to coordinate the activities related to controls performed by people from multiple Hall D groups.
• Before working on an assignment from the meeting everyone needs to check with his/her supervisor before starting to work on those tasks.

UPS requirements for Motor and Network switches in Hall D

• According to Hovanes, the only motorized application in Hall D requiring functionality during power loss is the total absorption counter.
• Based on the information from Dave Butler on the location of the PLC hardware, Hovanes defined which network switches will need to be on UPS.

interlocks for BCAL and FDC

• Dave presented his plans for the BCAL and FDC interlocks and showed the status of the work.