1. PCS Navigation D. Mueller January 26-28, 2010 Culham Sci Ctr U St. Andrews York U Chubu U Fukui U Hiroshima U Hyogo U Kyoto U Kyushu U Kyushu Tokai U NIFS Niigata U U Tokyo JAEA Hebrew U Ioffe Inst RRC Kurchatov Inst TRINITI KBSI KAIST POSTECH ASIPP ENEA, Frascati CEA, Cadarache IPP, Jülich IPP, Garching ASCR, Czech Rep U Quebec College W&M Colorado Sch Mines Columbia U Comp-X General Atomics INL Johns Hopkins U LANL LLNL Lodestar MIT Nova Photonics New York U Old Dominion U ORNL PPPL PSI Princeton U Purdue U SNL Think Tank, Inc. UC Davis UC Irvine UCLA UCSD U Colorado U Maryland U Rochester U Washington U Wisconsin NSTX Supported by 1

2. NSTX Physics Operations Course Navigation (Mueller)Jan 26-28, 2010 Plasma Control System 2 The following slides illustrate how to get into the PCS, find control items and edit parameters If you signed up to the course, your login has been changed to load modules needed to run the PCS user interface to operate of a future shot file You have not been added to the group which would allow you to edit the NEXT shot or to stop and start the PCS The PCS system can be reached only from 3 terminals in the control room and from PCS developers stations which have the proper firewall permissions

3. NSTX Physics Operations Course Navigation (Mueller)Jan 26-28, 2010 Course Outline 3 Log into Mac as yourself Ssh to pcs-srv-2 ssh –Y –l yourusername pcs-srv-2 Get gup back Type “uif”

4. NSTX Physics Operations Course Navigation (Mueller)Jan 26-28, 2010 Start editing future shot file (next shot is really the file for the next shot) 4 Select future shot Enter name for file apply

5. NSTX Physics Operations Course Navigation (Mueller)Jan 26-28, 2010 5 Startup view Category: Discharge shape Phase: Shot start

6. NSTX Physics Operations Course Navigation (Mueller)Jan 26-28, 2010 6 Restore from MDSplus archine Enter shot number Load all categories will setup everything like this shot (well almost everything) RF power and timing, CS gas pressure must be requested NBI setup does not exist for most past shots and must be dealt with

7. NSTX Physics Operations Course Navigation (Mueller)Jan 26-28, 2010 Warnings appear upon the restore just dismiss 7

8. NSTX Physics Operations Course Navigation (Mueller)Jan 26-28, 2010 Basically redundant information just dismiss, everything else will be like restored shot 8

9. NSTX Physics Operations Course Navigation (Mueller)Jan 26-28, 2010 9 What you get from select data to load

10. NSTX Physics Operations Course Navigation (Mueller)Jan 26-28, 2010 10 Category:Discharge Shape, Phase: Control Sub gives this list Selecting Coil currents gives next page

11. NSTX Physics Operations Course Navigation (Mueller)Jan 26-28, 2010 11

12. NSTX Physics Operations Course Navigation (Mueller)Jan 26-28, 2010 12 Selecting a coil displays that coil programming kA/I p (MA) Red cross hairs can be used with left mouse button to expand display like so…

13. NSTX Physics Operations Course Navigation (Mueller)Jan 26-28, 2010 13

14. NSTX Physics Operations Course Navigation (Mueller)Jan 26-28, 2010 14 You can edit single points by typing, selecting and replacing, or deleting and adding After editing you must apply to make the changes take effect New point Deleted point Select add-drag and use the middle mouse button

15. NSTX Physics Operations Course Navigation (Mueller)Jan 26-28, 2010 15 Clicking on select allows multiple points to be selected with left mouse button Click Edit gets a drop-down menu for standard cut and paste to clipboard Selecting adjust vertices opens box After making changes you must either cancel or apply them before

16. NSTX Physics Operations Course Navigation (Mueller)Jan 26-28, 2010 16 The switch from the discharge shape category to isoflux is controlled by the system category separately for each PF coil The handoff is made smoothly by ramping the isoflux output request up while ramping the discharge shape output request down V out =S*V iso +(1-S)*V ds Ramp time ~30 ms

17. NSTX Physics Operations Course Navigation (Mueller)Jan 26-28, 2010 17 The equilibrium category must start calculating before the isoflux feedback is turned on Waveform steps to new value at time entered

18. NSTX Physics Operations Course Navigation (Mueller)Jan 26-28, 2010 18 To select which signals are used in the rtEFIT analysis

19. NSTX Physics Operations Course Navigation (Mueller)Jan 26-28, 2010 19 Primary sequence in isoflux category Note, since sys waveforms are 0 until 70 ms, the innerwall phase is not actually used

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21. NSTX Physics Operations Course Navigation (Mueller)Jan 26-28, 2010 21 Target shape at.07s

22. NSTX Physics Operations Course Navigation (Mueller)Jan 26-28, 2010 22 This is under subset Discharge Shape Edit Rp using adjust vertices Rp is offset from basis shape rather than Rp value

23. NSTX Physics Operations Course Navigation (Mueller)Jan 26-28, 2010 23 Saves shape to plot later (1 deep) in red Turning this on displays committed shape in red Update Targets applies the discharge shape and displays the new shape in black

24. NSTX Physics Operations Course Navigation (Mueller)Jan 26-28, 2010 Use this as a guide 24 You can log into pcs-srv-2 from one of 3 control room Macs NSTXMAC16 NSTXMAC15 NSTXMAC28 Start the user interface gui (uif) Make future shot with any name you like Restore a shot setup from MDSplus (or a future shot you made) Navigate through the categories, sequences, phases, and subsets to see what is available Practice using editing features