Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Joe Sullivan <[email protected]> · Wed, 14 Jul 2004 09:06:35 -0500

All,
The link to the APS Hardware Catalog was only meant for the local APS
Beamline Controls mailing list. But since it is out on tech-talk now I
need to clarify it's purpose.
The APS Hardware Catalog is meant to be a reference source for
APS EPICS beamline developers. It reflects the hardware that the APS
Controls groups (ASD/Controls & AOD/BCDA) fully support and
would recommend on a APS EPICS beamline.
The APS Hardware Catalog is not meant to be a comprehensive list of all
EPICS supported hardware. Andrew's IOC Support Modules page serves that
purpose well.
     http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/modules/index.php

Thanks.
Joe

Joe Sullivan wrote:

Pete,
I linked to the top of our hardware page because John wrote
a introduction to the Hardware Catalog there. My intent was that
everyone would be directed to the Hardware Catalog page...
http://www.aps.anl.gov/aod/bcda/hardware/catalog/index.php
Please use the 'Beamline Interest' search field to find
the currently recommended beamline hardware. This database
is a work-in-progress.
Thanks.
Joe

Pete R Jemian wrote:

Anybody care to weigh in on item [2] below?
(IP Octal 485 does not work with EPICS)

Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 11:02:36 -0500
To: Joe Sullivan <[email protected]>
From: Pete R Jemian <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: APS Hardware Catalog - beta version
At 09:51 AM 7/13/2004 -0500, Joe Sullivan wrote:
The follwing page contains a quick intro and access to a
beamline centric web interface to the APS Hardware Catalog.
Please try it out. Feedback is appreciated.
<http://www.aps.anl.gov/aod/bcda/hardware/index.php>

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Joseph Sullivan
[email protected] <> 630-252-8657
Advanced Photon Source
APS Operations Division
Beamline Controls & Data Acquisition Group

Joe:
I am very happy to see this update.
Good to have many of the manuals available.
Comments:
...
[2] IP octal 485 ($345)
        Do not recommend that anyone purchase this module.
        You might check with Mohan to verify this but to my knowledge
        (last checked last summer) no one has ever gotten the
        IP octal 485 to work with EPICS.  Is anyone _using_ this now?
        If I'm wrong, please describe how to get this to work.
        I've got about a dozen of these and they have not been useful.
...
Regards,
   Pete

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