[Halld-pid] [New Logentry] TOF PMT TDC response

[Beni Zihlmann]

When the DAQ starts the discriminator values are set according to the 
values in the
configuration file. Currently for the TOF the threshold for the 
discriminators in
the configuration file are set to 30 and 50 for the TDC and Trigger 
outputs respectively.

The only time you have to worry is when the DAQ is not running, then 
anything can happen.

cheers,
Beni
> OK. Except that the epics scaler program was (re)started couple of hours
> after crate reboot, resetting thresholds from DAQ-configured 30
> back to 100 and leading to sudden change in rates which I began to monitor
> since reboot. I'm worried that this can happen again, only in the middle of
> the data run this time (DAQ sets thresholds to 30). Somehow, the threshold
> setting of DAQ and epics scalers should be in better sync with each other
> to avoid making mess of thresholds and rate monitoring (or one
> of them shouldn't reinitialize discriminators at all).
>
> Sasha
>
> On Friday, March 06, 2015, Beni Zihlmann wrote:
>> Hi Sasha,
>>
>> every time the crate gets rebooted the discriminator thresholds are set
>> to a default value of 100 by the scaler program that is started after
>> the boot
>> by the cron job.
>>
>> if you want to change the threshold you have to do that yourself using a
>> program.
>> If you do not have such a program I can provide you one.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Beni
>>
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