CAMAC Progress Report

                    Week Ending: September 07, 2001
                               Week: 32


Tom Folkers:
     1. Spent week at SMTO site replacing UPS batteries.
     2. Checking out the various connectors take go from the Krupp 
        rack to the Ant. create.
     3. With the help of Robert, was able to locate an extra bundle of 
        coax cable in which to route the azimuth encoder signals 
        through the cable wrap to the new control computer.

Tom Sargent:
     1. Compiled and tested the new error message logic which servo 
        uses to report on a few dozen different error conditions that 
        are sensed from the parallel input ports. 
     2. Altered the Makefile in the tracker directory so that it now 
        compiles the servo.c program. Servo has, up to this point, had 
        it's own makefile. 
     3. Manually Checked all the parallel port inputs for elevation to 
        make sure that those status bits which indicate conditions 
        that require stopping the telescope are sensed correctly. 
     4. Manually checked over the encoder reset logic. It hasn't 
        actually been tested in the lab because the test set-up makes 
        it hard to simulate this.  I added more status print outs to 
        the state driven logic in these routines so that when we test 
        it at the telescope, it will be easier to figure out what 
        state it is in. Also added a "reset-encoder-abort" command to 
        allow aborting the reset-encoder process.
     5. Wrote more documentation for both servo.c and the DSP 
        software. 

Pete Hubbard:
     1. Making cables for SMT tracker interface to Krupp rack 
        electronics.
     2. Installed  Krupp rack simulator for testing software.
     3. Finished updating documentation and drawings of Tracker 
        chassis and DBE chassis.
     4. Collecting connectors, wire and MPI 6000 amplifier boards for 
        trip to the SMT.

Dave Ashby:
     1. No Report.