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Subject: RE: Thales RF transmitter controls
From: "Gurd, Pamela A." <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 10:50:59 -0500
Here at the SNS we have some Thales transmitters interfaced via
Allen-Bradley PLCs using Kay Kasemir's EtherIP driver.

      Pam Gurd.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elder Matias [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 9:13 AM
> To: Chris Timossi
> Cc: [email protected]; Glen Wright; Robby Tanner
> Subject: RE:Thales RF transmitter controls
> 
> Chris,
> 
> At CLS we have a Thales system.  In our design we had Thales use a
> Siemens S7/400 PLC.  This was because we were integrating this into an
> RF system with a supper conducting RF cavity where the process control
> on the cavity and the low level RF was being done using Siemens PLC
> hardware and there was a need for some data sharing between the three
> systems.   Profibus is used as the data network between the PLCs.
> 
> At the time we had the choice of using the design Thales had done with
> the SLS using a VME/PowerPC based IOC instead of the PLC.  For us with
> the type of cavity and low level RF design we were planning the PLC
> option was the best fit.  If you are using a room temperature cavity
and
> have PowerPC based IOCs the SLS system may be a better fit for you.
> 
> We used a DIN rail mounted PC from Kontron (formally Pep Modular) that
> contains a Profibus card (PC/104 form factor) to do the interface
> between EPICS and the RF system.
> 
> If you would like additional information, Glen Wright wrote the
Profibus
> driver and Robby Tanner has done the PLC programming.
> 
> Elder Matias
> Canadian Light Source Inc.
> 
> 
> --------------------------
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Thales RF transmitter controls
> From: Chris Timossi <[email protected]>
> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 09:15:37 -0800
> Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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> 
> Has anyone had experience controlling a Thales transmitter for their
RF
> systems with EPICS? I understand that they can be ordered with emedded
> PLCs that may have an Ethernet interface.
> 
> 
> Chris Timossi
> Advanced Light Source,
> Berkeley, CA, USA
> 



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