Barrel Stage Wiring
The barrel stage wiring section of this manual contains descriptions of the individual stage wiring for the barrel portion of the DEIMOS Spectrograph. It corresponds to the Barrel Stage Wiring tab in the electronics schematics binder.
Slitmask Push Button Station,
EL-3072
Schematic: schematics/SLITMASKPB.sch.pdf
Page last updated: January 24, 2003
Simplified Drawing
The Slitmask Pushbutton Station is used to manually move the slitmask cassette
stage into the slitmask load position. The station consists of controls to
move or stop the stage movement. In the middle of the gray box is the Station
Enable switch. This switch is a DPDT limit switch that is actuated
by opening the slitmask access door. Once actuated, +5V is applied to and
turns on the yellow ENABLED LED. At the same time, the controller
software will signal the control computer that the stage is under manual control.
The red STAGE IS MOVING and green IN POSITION
can then be turned on by the controller software to indicate the status of
the stage. If no button has been pushed, the green LED should be on indicating
that the stage is in an ordinal position. At this point the software polls
the UNLOAD SLITMASK pushbutton via the *SLITMASK
UNLOAD REQ signal. If the pushbutton is pressed the controller will move the
cassette into it's unload position. Note: during these manual moves all
limits are still in effect. If the operator detects a problem while the stage
is moving they can press the STOP button to signal the controller to terminate
the movement. The operator should be aware that this is a software controlled
move and if the controller or some link in the signal chain fails that the
proper response is to allow the stage to move into it's secondary limit. The
hope is to maintain the safety of the operator. When the stage hits the secondary
limit the power will be removed from the stage motor.
Under software control the red STAGE IS MOVING LED will be
turned on until the stage comes to a complete stop and the green IN
POSITION LED will turn on. Once the slitmasks have been loaded, closing
the access door will notify the controller software that the stage control
is ready to be released back to the control computer
Simplified Drawing
Sheet 2 shows the wiring, connector, and bit assignments for the slitmask pushbutton station.