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Subject: RE: Motor model 3 support for OMS MAXv-8000?
From: [email protected]
To: "Fong, Nia W." <[email protected]>
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 11:19:09 +0200
Hi Nia,

yes, I will send you all I have in a separate mail.

Jens

> Hi Jens,  Do you have a model 3 driver for the OMS MAXv that we can
> try out at SLAC?
>
> Thanks Mark!
>
> Nia
> ________________________________________
> From: Mark Rivers [[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 12:42 PM
> To: Fong, Nia W.; '[email protected]'; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: Motor model 3 support for OMS MAXv-8000?
>
> Hi Nia,
>
> The current EPICS driver version is model 1, not model 2.
>
> Jens Eden told me in Nov. 2010 that he had a model 3 driver for the
> MAX family working.
>
> This is from his message:
>
> #########################################
> Yes, I have a (beta) asyn driver version for the MAX family (MAXv
> and MAXnet so far),
> which I recently sent to Austen and Ron. I didn't announce it on
> tech-talk, since I didn't
> had a chance to do some testing yet, but if anyone is interested,
> tell me and I will send you
> what I have.
>
> Using Mark Rivers ' asynMotorDriver base C++ class is very straight
> forward and has
> several advantages.
> - os-independent (we use it with RTEMS)
> - easy to have derived classes for the other MAX-family members
> (they all use the same command set)
>    (writing a MAXp Linux driver using Michael's devLib2 is on my list)
> - the asynOctet layer which Dirk requested comes for free
>     (use a stringout or waveform to send ASCII commands to the Controller)
>
> With this driver version you may use the auxiliary encoders or use
> encoders independent from their
> motor axis (which is actually the reason why I wrote this, because
> we want to use 2 encoders for
> a single axis).
> If this functionality is too specific, I could possibly remove it
> and put it into a ptb-specific derived class.
> I didn't care for OMS58 yet.
> #########################################
>
> If Jens is willing I could take this driver and add the new
> coordinated motion API to it, and put into the standard EPICS motor
> distribution.  Tim Mooney has already done EPICS support for coordinated
> motion, but it is an SNL program (like the old XPS trajectory
> scanning), not using the Model 3 API.  So I would just port his code
> to the model 3 driver.
>
> I was actually talking to Pro-Dex about this today, because they
> have developed a product that is a 10-axis MAXNet controller that
> plugs into the left-hand slot of an ACS Step-Pak.  This allows
> Step-Pak systems to be VME-independent, and with a new driver they
> could also do coordinated motion.  With the new Step-Paks they can
> also drive servo motors.
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]
> ] On Behalf Of Fong, Nia W.
> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 1:29 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Motor model 3 support for OMS MAXv-8000?
>
> Hi,
>
> Has anyone written a model 3 based motor driver for the OMS MAXv
> VME-based board?
> We just ordered a MAXv-8000 Motion Controller VME board.
>
> Is the current driver in the motor-R6-7 model 2?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Nia
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