Advice from Dan Damiani on running the Newton Camera:
- Do not set the exposure time to 5 ms: 2ms is the max exposure time for 120 hz, it takes 5+ ms for the readout so you are dropping every other event (with autocorrect at 120Hz). A too-large setting will be seen in the main IOC panel with the "sync status" oscillating between locked/unlocked.
- Also they have the evr delay set to zero, but with a large enough window that might be okay
- Looks like the last time they ran the VLS at SXR the evr delay was 0.00085 s and the width was 1e-5 seconds
- The IOC shutter settings do not matter: they are only to control an external shutter (which we don't have in TMO)
- you can also try to experiment with toggling TMO:VLS:CAM:01:AndorKeepClean between Enabled/Disabled to see what effect that has. use the pvget/pvput commands.
- use the "python viewer" at the top of the IOC screen to view images. the edm viewer is broken.
- run Dan's IOC panels on tmo-console using this command: /cds/group/pcds/epics-dev/ddamiani/ioc/common/andorCam/children/build/iocBoot/ioc-tmo-andor1/edm-ioc-tmo-andor1.cmd
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