[dsg-svt] SVT outinhibit

Yuri Gotra gotra at jlab.org
Tue Oct 17 09:00:34 EDT 2017


Thank you Peter,

I will follow your advice.


On 10/17/17 7:44 AM, Peter Bonneau wrote:
>
> The Hardware Interlock trip latch is only reporting the low coolant 
> flow event at 20:27 and therefore should not have disabled the Mpod 
> crate controller before this event.
>
> To check the Mpod crate controller and the interlock disable signal:
>
> 1) To check the hardware interlock Mpod logic, you can try disabling 
> the inlet and outlet coolant flow interlock enables. After disabling 
> and at the next trip event, take screen captures of the "Interlock 
> Status and signal monitoring" and the "Raw data monitoring" tabs of 
> the Hardware Interlock Monitoring System user interface.
>
> 2) To check the Mpod crate controller input inhibit signal, you can 
> try turning on the Mpod interlock system override key switch on the 
> cRio crate. This effectively shorts all the Mpod crate enables to the 
> +5V supply.
>
> The crate enable signals share the +5V supply with the humidity 
> sensors. To check the stability of this supply at the time of the last 
> trip, I looked at the humidity signals shown in the attached EPICS Mya 
> archive chart. If the +5V was unstable at the time of the trip event, 
> there would be a large fluctuation in the humidity measurements. No 
> fluctuations were seen at the time of the trip.
>
>
>
> On 10/16/2017 2:05 PM, Yuri Gotra wrote:
>>
>> Thank you Peter,
>>
>> I still see the same picture as it was last week, see the attached 
>> picture: HV R1:outinhibit was first (20:04), then fast powering off 
>> HV and LV, then (because the heat source, LV, was removed) 
>> temperature gradually decreased till (as designed) the ambient 
>> temperature soft interlock stopped the chiller (20:27).
>>
>> The question is why R1 HV outinhibit was issued. Please let me know 
>> your suggestions on further debugging. Thank you
>>
>>
>> On 10/16/17 11:21 AM, Peter Bonneau wrote:
>>> We had another trip of the SVT on 10/15/2017 at 20:27.
>>>
>>> Analysis of the trip for the Hardware Interlock System showed that 
>>> low coolant flow was detected followed by the shutdown of all low 
>>> and high voltage. This is the correct response for the interlock 
>>> system. The interlock system can not stop coolant flow.
>>>
>>> As shown in the attached EPICS Mya archive chart, a slow rise in 
>>> coolant temperature occurred after the trip.
>>>
>>>
>>> Peter
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> *From: *"Peter Bonneau" <bonneau at jlab.org>
>>> *To: *"Yuri Gotra" <gotra at jlab.org>, dsg-svt at jlab.org
>>> *Sent: *Friday, October 13, 2017 7:38:36 AM
>>> *Subject: *Re: SVT outinhibit
>>>
>>> Yuri:
>>>
>>> I checked on the hardware interlock system system this morning and it's
>>> running normally (no trips overnight).
>>>
>>> After a system trip and before resetting, we need screen captures of 
>>> the
>>> "Interlock Status and signal monitoring" and the "Raw data monitoring"
>>> tabs of the Hardware Interlock Monitoring System user interface for
>>> troubleshooting. We need to know which signal is causing the tripping.
>>>
>>> The last time we had an issue like this (1/31/2017) ,  the problem was
>>> caused by a loose connection to the  external coolant system monitoring
>>> electronics  (Proteus Industries sensor and Florite 990x Controller.)
>>>
>>> As mentioned back in January, we don't have spares for the external
>>> coolant monitoring electronics. I recommend we purchase spares for this
>>> system.
>>>
>>> Peter
>>>
>>> On 10/12/2017 8:31 PM, Yuri Gotra wrote:
>>> > Dear Peter,
>>> >
>>> > We had another crate inhibit issue this evening. Software interlocks
>>> > were ok, chiller running.
>>> >
>>> > HV inhibit was red and all HV channel inhibits had errors. HV and LV
>>> > ramped down.
>>> >
>>> > On the screenshot you could see B_SVT_HV_R1:outinhibit major
>>> > HIHI_alarm at 20:06.
>>> >
>>> > Please let us know your suggestions on debugging this issue. Thank you
>>> >
>>
>

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