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Subject: Re: EPICS alarming on VAL != X
From: Jameson Graef Rollins <[email protected]>
To: EPICS tech-talk <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 10:29:57 -0700
On Fri, Jul 18 2014, Jameson Graef Rollins <[email protected]> wrote:
> I guess the problem is that the alarms activate on equality (VAL == LOW,
> VAL == HIGH).  If instead the alarm conditions were:
>
>   VAL == LOW
>   VAL >= HIGH

Sorry, I totally misstated this.  Currently the alarms are:

   VAL <= LOW
   VAL >= HIGH

If they were instead:

   VAL <= LOW
   VAL >  HIGH

then equality alarms could easily be achieved by setting LOW == HIGH.

jamie.

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