PRECAUTIONS:

A) The control room audio system should be set to monitor noises in the dome created by the PFIP and cameras.

General Description:

This test will determine the operability of the PFIP and cameras for night operations.

Initial Conditions

A) PMC System (Jove) Startup has been completed.

1.1 On Jove use the right mouse button to click on the blue background.

1.2 Choose BAFFLE from the menu that appears.

1.3 A baffle shell will appear. Enter the password. To check the status of the slide, type the command ‘trans z’ at the prompt and press ‘enter’. The position of the slide and any pertinent remarks will be displayed. Example: If the slide is at the LRS position it will be at position 1, -80,000 plus or minus 300, and the remark will be ‘home switch is on cam’.

1.4 Next, the operation of the slide needs to be checked. Begin by homing the slide. To home the slide type ‘trans h’ at the prompt and press ‘enter’. Then reenter ‘trans z’. The slide should be at position 2, 0 plus or minus 300, and there should be no remarks.

1.5 Now move the slide to the LRS position. Type ‘trans @1’ and press ‘enter’, then type ‘trans z and press enter’. The software should respond with the slide being at position 1, -80,000, and should have the remark: home switch is on cam. The position of the slide at position 1 can be tested when the non-MPP (LRS guide) camera is brought up and an exposure taken. If on the resulting picture the light is passing through a round mask then the slide is at position 1. The round area of light is the pellicle.

2.1 On Jove use the right mouse button to click on the blue background and choose xterm from the menu.

2.2 At the jove prompt type ‘acqcam z’ and press enter. If all is okay with the communications the following response will be generated.

2.2.1 Jove% acqcam z

Motor 0 status

motor is off

motion complete is on

thermal cutoff is off

negative limit is off

positive limit is off

position is 10500 (this number can vary)

2.3 Repeat 2.2 for ‘lrscam z’. The same response as outline in 2.2.1 above should be generated except for ‘Motor 1 status’.

3.1 On Jove activate an Alice xterm window.

3.2 At the prompt type ‘lrs -tcs’ and press ‘enter’.

3.3 The graphical user interface for the cameras will appear.

3.4 Using the cursor, click and hold on the EXPOSE menu, move the cursor down to SET and set the expose time to 0.1 seconds.

3.5 Again click and hold on the EXPOSE menu; move the cursor to SINGLE and release the mouse button.

3.6 The camera’s shutter opening and closing can be heard through the audio system as it takes an exposure.

3.7 After a brief interval of time a picture will be displayed.

3.8 The test has been completed successfully. Close the interface by choosing QUIT from the FILE menu.

4.1 Go back to the Alice xterm window activated in 2.1 above.

4.2 At the prompt type ‘acq -tcs’ and press enter.

4.3 Repeat steps 2.3 – 2.8 as listed above.

5.1 To bring up the MARS program, place the cursor on the blue background on Jove, click and hold the right mouse button, then move the cursor down the menu to ‘MARS’ and release the mouse button on ‘START MARS SYSTEM’. The MARS interface will appear.

5.2 On the interface turn the wavescope if it is not already on, and turn the CCAS camera on. Now the sensys camera can be tested.

5.3 Go back to the already opened Alice xterm and at the prompt type ‘ccas –tcs’ and press ‘enter’.

5.4 After the camera’s interface has come up repeat steps 2.3 – 2.8 as listed above. This concludes the testing of the sensys camera.

Fault Conditions and Solutions: PFIP Slide

I. Remarks that indicate the slide is not in the correct position.

1.0 ‘Slide is not in détente’.

1.1 Even though the slide software may say it is in position 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 the slide is not actually in the correct position.

1.2 The remark can be cleared and the slide positioned corrected by re-homing the slide.

2.0 ‘Home switch is on cam’.

2.1 The only position where this remark is not an error is at position 1 (LRS). If the slide is at positions 2, 3, 4, or 5, re-home the slide.

II. The slide will not move.

1.0 The following procedure resets the slide’s PMAC.

1.1 Login to the baffle computer and enter the password.

1.2 At the prompt type ‘pe 1’ and press enter.

1.3 The prompt should now be ‘pe-pmac1>’; at this prompt type ‘$$$’ and press enter.

1.4 Once the pe… prompt comes back up do a ‘Ctrl C’ to get out of the pe program.

1.5 Now type ‘trans z’, press enter, and verify that there are no errors.

1.6 Verify correct operation of the slide.

Fault Conditions and Solutions: Guide Camera Focus System Communications

I. Error messages indicating blocked communications.

1.0 ‘acqcam: Tsp_Init returned FAILURE’.

1.1 Check the communications port by connecting to the terminal server. Using the same xterm, type ‘telnet hetts2’ at the prompt and press enter. The prompt ‘Hetts2_10>’ should be displayed. When prompted for a user name use any string.

1.2 Now check the status of port 3 by entering the command ‘show port 3’ at the Hetts2 prompt; ‘Hetts2_10>show port 3.

1.3 The response should look like the following:

Port 3 : Username: Guide Focus Physical Port 3 (Idle)

Char Size/Stop Bits: 8/1 Input Speed: 9600

Flow Ctrl: Xon/Xoff Output Speed: 9600

Parity: None Modem Control: None

Access: Remote Local Switch: None

Backward: None Port Name: Guide Focus

Break Ctrl: Local Session Limit: 4

Forward: None Terminal Type: Soft ()

Preferred Services: (Lat)

(Telnet)

Authorized Groups : 0

(Current) Groups : 0

Characteristics: Autoprompt Broadcast Loss Notify Verify

   Remote Conf Telnet Pad

1.4 The ‘physical port 3’ line to the upper right, should read ‘Idle’ if the port is not in use. If the port was not properly shut down the line will read ‘Job Service’ instead of ‘Idle’. If ‘Job Service’ is indicated then the port will have to be cleared.

1.5 First, take administrator privileges by typing ‘set priv’ at the prompt and press enter. The return prompt should be ‘Hetts2_10>>’. (Note the double greater than characters.)

1.6 Second, clear the port by typing ‘logout port 3’ at the prompt and press enter.

1.7 Check the status of the port by entering the command ‘show port 3’ as in step 1.2 above. The port should now be idle. If it is not, try to logout the port again (step 1.6).

1.8 If the logout procedure fails again contact BL or JRF.

1.9 Logout of the terminal server by entering the command ‘logout’ and pressing ‘enter’.

1.10 Retest the camera communications as outlined in step 2.2 above.

1.11 If communications still fail, contact JRF.

Fault Conditions and Solutions: LRS (non-MPP) and ACQ (MPP) PXL cameras

I. Errors that can occur when starting the camera software.

1.0 ‘Can not open PXL camera, this driver has already been opened’.

1.1 Exit the camera software.

1.2 Turn off the tracker laser link. The laser link is located in the upper electrical room near the front bottom of the electronics rack and is labeled “tracker”.

1.3 Go to the smoke on jove and at the prompt type ‘pxlpwr toggle’ all in small case.

1.4 Allow 45 seconds for the cameras to initialize. If at least 45 seconds is not allowed for the cameras to initialize the process will not work.

1.5 Turn the laser link back on.

1.6 Test the cameras.

2.0 ‘Can not open PXL camera, two devices are using the same interrupt’.

2.1 Do a modreload as outlined below under CCAS Sensys camera faults and solutions.

2.2 If the modreload does not work do steps 1.1 – 1.6.

2.3 If power cycling the laserlink does not work reboot Alice. At the prompt on the main Alice computer screen type ‘root’, press ‘enter’, and then type ‘reboot’ and ‘enter’.

3.0 ‘Can not open PXL camera, 2 open cameras are using the same interrupt ID’.

3.1 Repeat steps 2.1 – 2.3.

4.0 ‘Can not open PXL camera, no driver found with the specified name’.

4.1 There may be another instance of the camera software (hgdr) running. Exit the software that was running when the error was received.

4.2 To look for another copy of the camera software running go to the Alice shell and at the prompt type ‘ps –ef | grep hgdr’ and press ‘enter’.

4.3 If a hgdr process is listed it needs to be “killed”. Example: guider 365 250 12 18:07:34 pts/2 0:05 hgdr –camnum 1 –tcs.

4.4 To kill this process, at the prompt on Alice type ‘kill -9 365’ and press ‘enter’.

4.5 Repeat step 4.2 to confirm that the process has “died”.

4.6 Test the camera. If it still does not work or a process was not found to be running as outlined above then do steps 1.1 – 1.6 and retest the camera.

II. Errors that occur during read out of the data after the camera has been started and an exposure has been taken.

1.0 ‘CCD Exposure / Readout Failure, finished data transfer, some data was missing’.

1.1 Do steps I.1.1 – 1.6 as listed above.

2.0 ‘CCD Exposure / Readout Failure, finished data transfer, but extra data exists’.

2.1 This is a new error and there is no common fix for it. If this error occurs call JRF or BL.

3.0 ‘… Unable to complete transfer’.

3.1 Do steps I.1.1 – 1.6 as listed above.

Fault Conditions and Solutions: CCAS Sensys camera, all errors

I. There are three methods for correcting errors.

1.0 Do a modreload.

1.1 Exit the camera software.

1.2 At the prompt on the Alice shell type ‘su –‘ and press ‘enter’.

1.3 Enter the password when prompted.

1.4 At the # prompt, type ‘~pso/modreload’ and press enter’.

1.5 Exit the program and retest the camera.

2.0 Power cycle the camera.

2.1 Exit all MARS software. By exiting the software the sensys camera is powered off.

2.2 Go back to jove and bring up the MARS interface.

2.3 Select the button to turn the CCAS sensys camera back on and then retest the camera.

3.0 Reboot Alice.

3.1 At the prompt on the Alice computer screen type ‘root’ and press enter. Enter the password then press enter.

3.2 Type ‘reboot’ then press enter.

3.3 After Alice has rebooted retest the sensys camera.

Fault Conditions and Solutions: All Cameras

I. Camera interface will not allow the setting of exposure time or allow a single exposure.

1.0 Press the ‘num lock’ key once and retry.