Intelligent power supply controller

A number of high-current high-precision magnet power supplies have been installed at the proton storage ring at the Los Alamos National Laboratory Accelerator Complex. The units replace existing supplies, powering large dipole magnets in the ring. These bending magnets require a high-current supply that is precise and stable. The control and interface design for these power supplies represents a departure from all others on-site. The supplies have sophisticated microprocessor control on-board and communicate with the accelerator control system via RS-422 (serial communications). The units, built by Alpha Scientific Electronics, Hayward, CA use a high-level ASCII control protocol. The low-level "front-end" software used by the accelerator control system has been written to accommodate these new devices. They communicate with the control system through a terminal server port connected to the sitewide ethemet backbone. Details of the software implementation for the analog and digital control of the supplies through the accelerator control system will be presented.

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Development of a new controller for precision power supplies

Rumrill¹,

Reinagel²

Conference Record of the 1991 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

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Intelligent power supply controller

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Testing and interfacing intelligent power supplies for the Los Alamos National Laboratory Accelerator Complex

Testing and interfacing intelligent power supplies for the Los Alamos National Laboratory Accelerator Complex

Accelerator-control-system interface for intelligent power supplies

Development of a new controller for precision power supplies

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