That is not true. If you simply comment out the SmartStageName lines in the stages.ini file then the controller works fine with any motor disconnected.
Mark
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> On Jul 10, 2015, at 3:10 PM, Kevin Peterson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> One disadvantage of the Newport XPS controller is that the controller
> requires its configuration to match the stages that are physically
> connected. If one stage is disconnected from the controller, none of
> the other axes will be usable until the unused axis is reconfigured to
> be a dummy axis. For stable setups this isn't an issue. For
> frequently-changing setups this can be quite annoying.
>
> Kevin
>
>> On 7/10/15 9:58 AM, Mark Rivers wrote:
>> We have 11 Newport XPS controllers on our beam lines. In my
>> experience they are much easier to configure than the Delta Tau
>> units. They have a user-friendly Web interface, all parameters are in
>> engineering units, etc. There is an EPICS interface to complex
>> multi-axis coordinated motion with detector triggering, and lots of
>> other auxiliary I/O.
>>
>> Mark
>>
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