The vertical Van de Graaff telemetry system
Jeff Gray · University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas) · 1990
With the push on to take the machine to higher and higher potentials, it quickly became apparent that the existing telemetry system was simply not acceptable. Therefore, in 1988 a new multichannel telemetry system was specified for bid. The new system was to provide a control interface for the operator in the control room connected via fiber optic cables to three remote I/O devices located on two different (electrically isolated) decks on the ion terminal. The system was received in early 1989 and is based on the General Electric FANUC Division's Series One Plus programmable controller (GE FANUC was recently bought out by Texas Instruments who now offer the Series 305 programmable controller which is the same as GE's Series One Plus). This paper describes this system and its implementations.