<html><body><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Hi Brian,<br></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>We will have time this week to reboot the PXI (Just not today).<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Hovanes and Beni, do you think we should implement the fix this week?<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div data-marker="__SIG_PRE__">Tim Whitlatch<br>Hall D Engineer<br>Jefferson Lab<br>600 KELVIN DR STE 5<br>Newport News, VA 23606-4468 <br>757-269-5087</div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><b>From: </b>"Brian Eng" <beng@jlab.org><br><b>To: </b>"Hall D Controls" <halld-controls@jlab.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, August 30, 2018 1:46:47 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>[Halld-controls] PXI Time Stamps<br></div><div><br></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__">We recently discovered that the time used by the PLCs has a offset to it which causes them to use/provide an incorrect time.<br><br>It manifests itself in 2 ways:<br>1) If the CC server is the master the PLC will be 34 seconds fast<br>2) if the PLC is the master any devices on the same subnet will be 34 seconds fast<br><br>That 34 seconds is hard-coded in the PLC ethernet module and only changed by upgrading the firmware (but it still won't be user adjustable). It comes from the offset between UTC & TAI time when the module was purchased.<br><br>Currently we're operating in the second configuration.<br><br>There is an option to correct this offset with Linux based NI devices, but I haven't yet tested it with the other OSes (namely the PXI which uses Phar Lap).<br><br>Unfortunately even if I can remove this offset it will require rebooting the PXI, so my question is should I try pursuing fixing this or is knowing that there is a fixed & constant offset good enough for now?<br><br><br><br><br>P.S. This isn't like the earlier time problems we had where the time would slowly wander off, this is a fixed value with only the error of PTP coming into play which should be at the sub-ms level.<br>_______________________________________________<br>Halld-controls mailing list<br>Halld-controls@jlab.org<br>https://mailman.jlab.org/mailman/listinfo/halld-controls<br></div></div></body></html>