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Hutch python's conda environment was updated to pcds-5.3.1 near the start of April
You can read the full release notes here: PCDS Conda Release Notes: pcds-5.3.1
Robert S. Tang-Kong Zachary L Lentz
Dual acting valves are now integrated into pcdswidgets with a nice looking icon to represent the functionality of the valve.
Extensive documentation on the process of making a new pcdswidget was provided as well as scripts for testing widgets in development.
Robert S. Tang-Kong Zachary L Lentz
The Spectrometer Arm has been installed and checked out. The spectrometer arm has a total of 27 axes installed with coupled and coordinated motion with strict EPS requirements. The acceptance test went very well with Toyama and even were complete ahead of schedule.
The QRIX vacuum PLC code has been merged with that of the spectrometer arm. The vacuum controls integration is complete for all the installed devices.
Cables were successfully pulled in the FEE for patch panels for both K and L lines.
First deployment of VAT590 variable valve in LAMP. Jing Yin Govednik, Janez Maarten Thomas-Bosum
This was used with the Magnetic Bottle (MBES) iteration of the LAMP endstation.
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Documentation page: LAMP MBES Variable Leak Valve Commissioning 3/22
Cynthia Melendrez Tyler Johnson
We began taking initial Radiation measurements in the FEE! From four different locations we gained 2 sensor readouts each. Here we see Hard Xray beam energy mapped against dose rates.
A shift was made to bring the rest of the sensors online. Looking forward to collecting more data this month!
MR1L3, MR2L3, and MR1L4 XRT HOMS Mirrors
MR1K4 FEE TMO Mirror
MR3K4, MR4K3, MR2L1, and MR3L1 TXI Mirror
MR4K4, MR5K4 TMO DREAM Mirror
MR2K4, MR3K4 TMO LAMP Mirror
Based on popular demand, the Experiment State Tracker has been integrated with the eloggrubber and the possible state list has been extended (with much more detail for 'instrument down' in particular.)
The eloggrubbers JIRA implementation has changed to allow automatic assignment to the instruments as well as posting of the attachments Murali Shankar
Grafana has also been extended to allow the creation of piechart data from the archived Experiment State Tracker output.
The smaller jungfrau detectors which use a Rohde-Schwartz power supply now have an IOC (ioc/common/roving_jf) to make the process of turning them on/off consistent with the various epix-detectors. This IOC will trip the detector should a problem with the chiller flow or power supply is detected.
This year Diling Zhu has sponsored the collaboration project (many thanks Diling!), which is to develop a prototype system for determining interaction point alignment using machine vision. In early March, the CSU Chico Engineering Capstone Collaboration project team visited XPP to do some final fit measurements around the interaction point for installation of their project later this year.
For the past five years LCLS departments (SED and ME) have sponsored projects with the Mechanical/Mechatronic Engineering departments of CSU Chico for their engineering degree capstone. Each year the collaboration project offers a chance for LCLS to develop prototype concepts, or even to offload a manageable portion of work to a team of 4-5 students and a faculty advisor (for a nominal fee + M&S). More importantly these projects offer us a chance to discover talented candidates that we can hire. If you have an idea for a project, please contact Alex Wallace for details. On a final note, this year we are excited to announce that we hired another student from the collaboration project, Mitchell Cabral. He will join ECS as a control system integrator in June.
Spencer, Aalayah I Omar Quijano