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Subject: Newport 8742 motor controller driver
From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 17:12:52 +0000

Hi,

 

Does anyone have an EPICS motor record driver for the Newport 8742 picomotor controllers?

 

We were going to be using the trusty Newport NewFocus 8752 controllers for our project, which we’d got working nicely with the existing PMNC87xx driver, but sadly when we came to order more of them from Newport we were informed they’ve just been discontinued and are no longer manufactured.

 

The 8742 replacement uses a more recent command set and so doesn’t work with the 87xx driver.  If nobody’s already done it, we will probably have a go a modifying the existing 87xx driver, although I note this seems to use the older “model 1 “ asyn approach so I wonder if we’d be better off starting something like the Newport SMC100 “Model 3” driver instead? (We’ve never developed an EPICS asyn driver before so not too sure what the best approach would be).

 

Cheers

 

Tim Hayton

Central Laser Facility

Rutherford Appleton Lab

 


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