Ferdi Franceschini 2008-08-29 16:47 For instrument scientists only At the command line of your ics (instrument control server) computer type runsics stop This stop SICS, in preparation to make configuration changes. configsics This launches an application that will modify the SICS configuration for sample environment. Follow the instructions at the top of the screen Select [x] mercury_scipi: w to write and exit configsics runsics start This will restart SICS with the new sample environment configuration. No commands at this time from sct_oxford_mercury.tcl /sample/oxford_mercury/Level This is the root node for the cryogen levels Under the Level node are the following commands HeliumLevel of liquid helium (%) NitrogenLevel of liquid nitrogen (%) /sample/oxford_mercury/device_state This provides the state of the device /sample/oxford_mercury/Loop1This is the root node for each Loop. There are 4 loops for the Mercury: Loop1 Loop2 Loop3 Loop4 Under each Loop node are the following commands e.g. /sample/oxford_mercury/Loop1/setpoint setpointSetpoint temperature (K) sensorsensor reading in K powerHeater power (W) nickwhat the loop is labelled on screen (e.g. sampletop) tempUnder construction. May be deprecated. TEMP structure loop Under construction. May be deprecated. LOOP structure heaterUnder construction. May be deprecated. HTR structure No additional descriptions available at this time. Alerts the user to known operational problems Check that the Mercury has been set into remote mode using the SCPI protocol. If it still doesn’t talk then the line terminator is probably wrong. Call a SICS developer or try to fix it through trial and error by changing the line terminator in the /usr/local/sics/sics_config.ini file