Palomar 200" PFIRCAM detailed Setup for TARDIS and PFIRCAM-PC

Contacts:

Tom Jarrett (o: 818-397-9538; h: 818-309-1220)

jarrett@ipac.caltech.edu

Chas Beichman (o: 818-397-9500/9502)

chas@ipac.caltech.edu

Nick Gautier (o: 818-354-7204)
Carl Bruce (o: 818-354-5480)

Equipment:

Sparc 20 Workstation "Tardis"
monitor, "pizza box" main cpu, 2Gb external hard disk, external exabyte drive, keyboard, mouse, ethernet cable and transceiver unit, serial A/B cable, various power cables and connection cables

PC Computer Gateway P-120 "PFIRCAM"
monitor, keyboard, serial mouse main cpu chassie, cables etc

PC Extender
transmitter box, receiver box, 500 foot cable, AC adaptor

1. connect ethernet line to PC: cass 9 break out, line #3 to PC with terminator
2. connect PFIRCAM HSDT unit and RAPAX electronix to PC:
PFC 3 breakout to rapax #2 cable (white) connected to PC
line #1 connect to #11 (clock)
2 to 9 (data)
3 to 15 (read)
4 to + (HDST box)
5 to - (HDST box)


HSDT box to PC (grey cable from hsdt box to rapax board in PC)

3. connect PC Extender transmitter unit to PC (video, keyboard & com 1 mouse)

1. connect video, keyboard and mouse to PC Extender receiver box; connect ac adapter to PC Extender box.
2. connect keyboard, mouse, external hard disk and exabyte drive to TARDIS "pizza box".
3. connect ethernet line to TARDIS
DRM 9 breakout, line #3 to transceiver & terminator T-connection to TARDIS
4. connect filter wheel serial line to TARDIS
breakout DRM 34 to 25 pin connection to serial line A of TARDIS
5. connect telescope control computer (PDP 11) to TARDIS
TCP breakout (Port C) to 25 pin connection to serial line B of TARDIS

Note regarding special cables:

34 pin (breakout) to 25 pin
5 wires:
B _ C
_D_
f _ H

Data Room: female 34 pin connector
PF Cage: male 34 pin connector

These special cables were constructed originally for the Spectrocam10 instrument; the cables are labeled Spectrocam 10

serial /dev/ttya controls filter wheels


/dev/ttyb controls TCP

Add. Notes:

No "null modem" is required to operate the serial connections

IP address of "pfircam" : 192.107.167.101
default gate: 192.107.167.100

Prime Focus Cage Setup

Stepper Motors

PFC 34 breakout (34 pin to 25 pin) connection to 25 pin to 9 pin jumper to stepper motors

HSDT and Rapax Electronics

PFC-3 breakout (female 7 pin) to male-male extender to female bnc lines
#1 == clock
#2 == data
#3 == read
#4 == + HSDT
#5 == - HSDT

The following text contains old notes regarding data reduction. Some of this stuff is still relevant, so it may be helpful to the user (or just the opposite, oh well).

Data Transfer: Camera to Fits Images

** TRANSFER PFIRCAM IMAGES TO Sun-SPARC NORRIS; CONVERT TO FITS IMAGES

The camera images are stored on the vax computer SAM and must be transferred to the Sparcstation Norris via UNIX ftp shell script "getircam" which resides on Norris in the directory: /home/visitor/pfircam/data. The contents of the script are as follows:

Shell script "getircam"

# # getircam
# usage example: getircam 001
# gets files w0001*
#
ftp -v -i -n sam << eot
user ircam ircamircam
binary
mget w0$1*
eot

Note that the login user name on SAM is "ircam" and the password is "ircamircam". The password is frequently changed, so you must update "getircam" with the latest information.

Now the files reside on Norris. The next step is to convert the files to fits images. This step is accomplished with the PFIRCAM routine "ir2fits".