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2015/10/25 (Sunday)

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1055 DAQ had stopped taking data at ~5am this morning. LabVIEW had thrown a Disk Full error. Matt had remoted in earlier and deleted some old files, so click “Continue”, and LabVIEW proceeded to flash the detectors. Since the “flash time” allotted by DAQDAQ (~3 minutes after the end of the 30 data series) had already passed by at 530am, the “Stop Flashing” command never got sent to the DCRCs, so they continued to flash until I manually stopped them.
1101 LabVIEW crashed completely for some reason. Restart LabVIEW and check detector settings in DetectorControl VI to make sure everthing's kosher.
1103 Fill LN2 cold trap full.
1110 Commence LHe transfer (11.0%)
1145 Couldn't get Vuk-01 to correctly map Chokula directory, so I changed MultiDAQ (and MultiDAQEventBuilder) to write the metadata.txt file locally instead of to Z:\raw\byseries\. This will have to be changed back once the copying works, but since we have to manually copy everything over anyway, it should be fine that the metadata file is written locally.
1200 End LHe transfer (90.8%).
1201 Start data, but one port was still connected to DCRC55, so we threw a connection error. Stop data immediately. Send QUIT 1 to DCRC55 to disconnect the remaining port 1 connection.
1202 Start 20 cycles of 30min series of background data at +/-2V, FG=5/2/5, OG=3, with 1000 initial randoms, 2000 events/file, 30s flash and 25min cooldown after. Use Wednesday's phonon thresholds.
1205 Notice that the event rate is super low, it looks like the trigger thresholds might be set too low. Checking trigger thresholds, see that, because of LabVIEW crash, trigger values had been reset to default levels of 3 ADC bins. Set phonon thresholds to the Wednesday values. Everything's good in the neighborhood.

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