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Thermal telemetry occasionally gets channels wrong #162

Open chazshapiro opened 1 month ago

chazshapiro commented 1 month ago
Screenshot 2024-10-19 at 11 29 03 AM Screenshot 2024-10-19 at 11 29 18 AM

This happens from time to time, where the channels are getting mixed up. Here, the dewar T is temporarily being swapped with the heater power on I channel. Also the CCD T channel is either being dropped or swapped with something that's 0.

I think this is a race condition where there are multiple requests to the same Lakeshore in quick succession.

Not a huge issue, but it will interfere with alerts once those are set up.

astronomerdave commented 1 month ago

With what regularity does this occur?

chazshapiro commented 1 month ago

Scanning through the plots...

10/18 10/15-10/16 Then looks OK going back to 9/17, and then there's a long non-logging period before that.

Anecdotally, I have noticed it in the past, so it's not new.