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Subject: Help-areaDetector used for Pilatus
From: "GONG Yu" <[email protected]>
To: EPICS_tech_talk <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 10:49:39 +0800 (GMT+08:00)
Hello everyone,
  Recently I use areaDetector to control pilatus3 detector, but I am not sure if the parameters in st.cmd were set correctly. In st.cmd scripts,
**question1:  epicsEnvSet("QSIZE",  "20")
  what does QSIZE mean? What number should I set to it or just using default 20?
**question2:  epicsEnvSet("NCHANS", "2048")
  what does NCHANS mean? What number should I set to it or just using default 2048?

  in areaDetector.adl main screen, I also have a problem:
**question3: when I exposure single image, namely the parameters [# Images] 1, [Auto increment] Yes, I press [sta  rt] the [Next file #] (shown in blue color beside the box) is auto incremented which is as I expected; But if I  set [#Images] 10 and [Auto increment] Yes to exposure multy images, after I press [start], the numbers followed  the file name in name of image files are correct (such as from 000 to 009), but the [Next file#] (shown in blue  color beside the box) is auto incremented only once (such as from 000 to 001, but not incremented anymore). Is   this situation abnormal ? 
**Some parameters related to Pilatus3 is as below
  number of modules                 3x8=24
  pixel size                        172x172   μm^2
  format                            1475x1679=2476525  pixels
  Dynamic range                     20        Bits (0: 1048573)
  Counter overflow state            1048573
  readout time                      0.95      ms
  Framming rate                     250       Hz
  (camserver is in a computer with IP 10.10.10.100, areaDetector is in another computer with IP 10.10.10.10.)

**The contents in st.cmd are listed below
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< envPaths
errlogInit(20000)

dbLoadDatabase("$(TOP)/dbd/pilatusDetectorApp.dbd")
pilatusDetectorApp_registerRecordDeviceDriver(pdbbase) 

epicsEnvSet("PREFIX", "13PIL1:")
epicsEnvSet("PORT",   "PIL")
epicsEnvSet("QSIZE",  "20")
epicsEnvSet("XSIZE",  "1475")
epicsEnvSet("YSIZE",  "1679")
epicsEnvSet("NCHANS", "2048")

###
# Create the asyn port to talk to the Pilatus on port 41234.
drvAsynIPPortConfigure("camserver","10.10.10.100:41234")
# Set the input and output terminators.
asynOctetSetInputEos("camserver", 0, "\030")
asynOctetSetOutputEos("camserver", 0, "\n")

pilatusDetectorConfig("$(PORT)", "camserver", $(XSIZE), $(YSIZE), 0, 0)
dbLoadRecords("$(ADCORE)/db/ADBase.template", "P=$(PREFIX),R=cam1:,PORT=$(PORT),ADDR=0,TIMEOUT=1")
dbLoadRecords("$(ADCORE)/db/NDFile.template", "P=$(PREFIX),R=cam1:,PORT=$(PORT),ADDR=0,TIMEOUT=1")
dbLoadRecords("$(ADPILATUS)/db/pilatus.template","P=$(PREFIX),R=cam1:,PORT=$(PORT),ADDR=0,TIMEOUT=1,CAMSERVER_PORT=camserver")

# Create a standard arrays plugin
NDStdArraysConfigure("Image1", 5, 0, "$(PORT)", 0, 0)
dbLoadRecords("$(ADCORE)/db/NDPluginBase.template","P=$(PREFIX),R=image1:,PORT=Image1,ADDR=0,TIMEOUT=1,NDARRAY_PORT=$(PORT),NDARRAY_ADDR=0")
dbLoadRecords("$(ADCORE)/db/NDStdArrays.template", "P=$(PREFIX),R=image1:,PORT=Image1,ADDR=0,TIMEOUT=1,TYPE=Int32,FTVL=LONG,NELEMENTS=2476525")

# Load all other plugins using commonPlugins.cmd
< $(ADCORE)/iocBoot/commonPlugins.cmd
set_requestfile_path("$(ADPILATUS)/pilatusApp/Db")

#asynSetTraceMask("$(PORT)",0,255)
#asynSetTraceMask("$(PORT)",0,3)


iocInit()

# save things every thirty seconds
create_monitor_set("auto_settings.req", 30,"P=$(PREFIX)")
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I hope someone could help me. Thank you!


GongYu


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