CAEN High-Voltage Crate Satellite

Satellite controlling a CAEN high-voltage crate such as the SY5527 and its modules

Description

This Satellite allows to control CAEN high-voltage crates such as the SY5527 and the inserted modules.

For communication, the CAEN communication library, CAENHVWrapper as well as the Python bindings provided by pycaenhv need to be installed.

Parameters

The following parameters need to be specified in the configuration file. System and connection parameters are required.

Parameter	Description	Type	Default Value
system	The type of crate connected, e.g. "SY5527"	String	-
link	The type of connection, e.g. "TCPIP" or "USB"	String	-
link_argument	Additional information for the connection, e.g. the ip address "192.168.8.2"	String	-
user	The user name to connect with	String	-
password	The password to connect with	String	-
board[BNUM]_ch[CHNUM]_[PARNAME]	Parameters for individual channels where [BNUM]is the board number, [CHNUM] the channel number and [PARNAME]the parameter to be configured.	-	-

The available parameter names for board[BNUM]_ch[CHNUM]_[PARNAME] depend on the model of the board in use. For the A7435SN, this would be V0Set, I0Set, V1Set, I1Set, RUp, RDWn, Trip, SVMax, VMon, IMon, Status, Pw, POn, PDwn, ImRange, TripInt, TripExt, ZCDetect, and ZCAdjust

Usage

A minimal configuration would be:

[satellites.caenhvsatellite.sy5527]
# Device-specific system settings for the SY5527-controlling Satellite
system="SY5527"
link="TCPIP"
link_argument="192.168.8.2"
username="myuser"
password="mypassword!"

board1_ch1_V0Set = 1
board1_ch1_pw = "on"

To start the Satellite, run

SatelliteCaenHv

or

SatelliteCaenHv --help

to get a list of the available command-line arguments.