Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Amien Crombie [TLABS]" <[email protected]> · Thu, 26 Mar 2015 16:27:34 +0200

Matthew it works....thanks a million.
Thanks to others but I needed this done today and this was easy to add.

Regards
Amien

On 2015-Mar-26 15:51, Pearson, Matthew R. wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> You could use a stringout record forward linked from each calcrange record, like:
> 
> record(acalcout, "$(dev):calcrange1")
> {
>     
>      field(FLNK, "$(dev):calcrange1_EGU")
> }
> 
> record(stringout, "$(dev):calcrange1_EGU")
> {
>     field(VAL, "mA")
>     field(OUT, "$(dev):trueval.EGU PP")
> }
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Matt
> 
> 
> On Mar 26, 2015, at 8:34 AM, Amien Crombie [TLABS] <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hi
>>
>> Below I have a few records and would like to know how I can set value for "$(dev):trueval"'s EGU.
>> This text changes according to what the range is at the moment.
>> So for example, if I call "calcrange2" , I need to set "$(dev):trueval.EGU" to "mA" or
>> "calcrange4" , I need to set "$(dev):trueval.EGU" to "uA"  etc....
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>>     record   (dfanout, "$(dev):checkrange")  
>>     {
>>       field(OUTA,    "$(dev):calcrange1 PP")
>>       field(OUTB,    "$(dev):calcrange2 PP")
>>       field(OUTC,    "$(dev):calcrange3 PP")
>>       field(OUTD,    "$(dev):calcrange4 PP")
>>       field(OUTE,    "$(dev):calcrange5 PP")
>>       field(OUTF,    "$(dev):calcrange6 PP")
>>       field(OUTG,    "$(dev):calcrange7 PP")
>>       field(OUTH,    "$(dev):calcrange8 PP")
>>       field(SELL,    "$(dev):range")
>>       field(SELM,    "Specified")
>>     }
>>     record(acalcout, "$(dev):calcrange1")  
>>     {
>>           field(DTYP,  "Soft Channel")
>>           field(INPA,  "$(dev):rawval")
>>           field(INPB,  "$(dev):range")
>>           field(INPC,  "$(dev):offsetR1")
>>           field(INPD,  "10.0")
>>           field(OOPT,  "Every Time")
>>           field(DOPT,  "Use CALC")
>>           field(CALC,  "B==1?((A-C)/32767.2) * D:A")
>>           field(OUT,   "$(dev):trueval PP")
>>    }
>>
>>    record(acalcout, "$(dev):calcrange2")  
>>    {
>>           field(DTYP,  "Soft Channel")
>>           field(INPA,  "$(dev):rawval")
>>           field(INPB,  "$(dev):range")
>>           field(INPC,  "$(dev):offsetR1")
>>           field(INPD,  "10.0")
>>           field(OOPT,  "Every Time")
>>           field(DOPT,  "Use CALC")
>>           field(CALC,  "B==2?((A-C)/32767.2) * D:A")
>>           field(OUT,   "$(dev):trueval PP")
>>    }
>>    record(ai,         "$(dev):trueval")          
>>    {
>>           field(DTYP,   "Soft Channel")
>>           field(EGU,    " mA")
>>    }
>>
>> Thanks
>> Amien
>> Cape Town
> 

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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