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Timing Link Glitches

LCLS1

Timing Missing

Matt writes that he logs in lcls-srv01 (see below) and launches "lclshome" to see that the LCLS1 timing is down.  If you see an "xcb" error it means X-forwarding is broken, perhaps because of a bad key in .ssh/known_hosts.

Matt says to look at the "Event" row:

Timing Not Down-Sampled Correctly

Debugging with Matt on March 12, 2024

Here's a screen shot from LCLS home that shows it.  I'm just looking at it for the first time.  Where it says 8.53 MHz should be 71 kHz.

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My first clue was in xpmpva at the very bottom of this tab where it says Fiducial Err

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That's a check to make sure that the LCLS1 fiducials are arriving on boundaries of 71kHz (any multiple of 1666 - 119 MHz clocks).

LCLS2

This does not apply to LCLS1 timing, I believe.

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