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<p>Friends,</p>
<p>Please find the notes below and at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki-private/index.php/Hall_D_Staff_Meeting,_October_31,_2016">https://halldweb.jlab.org/wiki-private/index.php/Hall_D_Staff_Meeting,_October_31,_2016</a>
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<p> -- Mark</p>
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<p>Present: Alexander Austregesilo, Thomas Britton, Eugene
Chudakov, Mark Dalton, Hovanes Egiyan, Mark Ito, David
Lawrence, Paul Mattione, Patrizia Rossi, Elton Smith, Sascha
Somov, Simon Taylor, Tim Whitlatch, Beni Zihlmann
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Announcements.2C_Eugene">Announcements,
Eugene</span></h2>
<ul>
<li> Staff position decision made, names to HR</li>
<li> Patrizia: we have money for period up to Dec. 9</li>
</ul>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Engineering.2C_Tim">Engineering,
Tim</span></h2>
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<li> goni is here
<ul>
<li> install by this week, will be under vacuum</li>
<li> according to manufacturer: problems when operated
in a small range, need to move over full range
occasionally</li>
<li> need to re-lube once per year</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> target still retracted, but ready to put back in</li>
<li> comp cal had to be resurveyed, mistake in y, 1.7 mm</li>
</ul>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="DAQ.2C_Sascha">DAQ, Sascha</span></h2>
<ul>
<li> feature: F125 threshold, fixed by Cody, caused mismatch
with config file</li>
<li> new firmware installed for FDC</li>
<li> new discriminator firmware, allow bi-polar thresholds
<ul>
<li> backward compatible, old software will work</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> tagger trigger: bit assignments correct, no more VXS
backplane problem</li>
<li> firmware upgraded, link, flash CTP,...
<ul>
<li> Hai and Ben working problem</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> global processing firmware for flash
<ul>
<li> trigger energy flow</li>
<li> stable right now</li>
<li> minor feature, wrong computation</li>
<li> working on correcting feature</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> after discriminators, will start cosmic run</li>
<li> FADC in reasonably good shape</li>
<li> high lum., 1 TDC, new firmware
<ul>
<li> Eugene: Sergey Furletov tested with fast link on a
crate</li>
<li> F1 TDC not at high rate yet</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> Comp cal, Chris connect power supply
<ul>
<li> problems with batteries</li>
<li> look with scope, new PS installed</li>
<li> will check all channels and booster supplies</li>
<li> read of FADCs</li>
<li> next week cosmics</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Production.2C_Alexander">Production,
Alexander</span></h2>
<ul>
<li> 2 monitoring launches
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<li> for time calibration</li>
<li> checks</li>
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<ul>
<li> Mike Staib found discrepancies in geometry</li>
<li> Simon: further correction needed in x, some undoing
in y</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> waiting on geometry for reconstruction launch
<ul>
<li> timing calibration fixed</li>
<li> hopefully this week</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li> many new farm nodes at CentOS7
<ul>
<li> started testing over weekend, many failures</li>
<li> good availability though</li>
</ul>
</li>
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