[Halld-controls] Hall D controls meeting on Thursday, Septmeber 29, 2022

[Brian Eng]

Regarding the pricing of a PXI Controller. The current spare is a PXIe-8840 Quad-Core, which is no longer recommended for new designs. The replacement is a PXIe-8861 RT.

Just for reference here is the pricing of those controllers:

PXIe-8840 Quad-Core RT = $ 10,420.00
PXIe-8861 RT = $ 8,390.00

The 8861 has a newer generation CPU with more performance over the 8840. Along with the lower pricing I don't see any reason not to purchase that instead as we've never used the ExpressCard slot for anything and that's really the only functional difference.

Currently the lead time is 80-85 days.

> On Sep 28, 2022, at 9:43 PM, Hovanes Egiyan <hovanes at jlab.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> Let's have a Hall D controls meeting on Thursday, September 29 at 10:00am to touch base, we have not have one of these for a couple of months. This will make up for the meeting we missed last week during the GlueX collaboration meeting.
> I posted the preliminary agenda on the wiki page:
>  https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/Controls_Meeting_29-Sep-2022
>  
> Feel free to add more discussion topics to the agenda.
> You will need to use Zoom for Government app to join the meeting. The meeting information is given below. The important numbers there are the Meeting ID and the Passcode.
> Best,
>     Hovanes