As currently implemented, the joey board has six 3x7 heating zones, with upper and lower zones on the left, in the middle, and the right, but there are only three heaters, with each heater controlling one upper/lower zone pair. This also appears to be how Aaron Bowdle has configured his Wallaby implementation of Glider.
According to @cumbiem, that's not actually correct. Rather, there are two sets of heaters:
On the Joey board proper, there are those six zones, but they're each independent.
On Bilby, there are three heater paddles, but they cover the entire 3x19 area. (That is, there is no non-heated zone in the middle.)
According to @ViktorShkolnikov, the two kinds of heaters would have different heating and cooling rates. (He also said that we should be able to control the heating rate (on both kinds?) so that's another thing to add to the heater attributes.) However, he also said that only one kind of heater would be used by a given protocol, so it seems reasonable for now to make the choice something selected by command-line argument (or config param with #123), so we can hold onto the assumption that a pad has at most one associated heater for now.
Migrated from internal repository. Originally created by @EvanKirshenbaum on Jun 03, 2022 at 3:53 PM PDT.
As currently implemented, the
joey
board has six 3x7 heating zones, with upper and lower zones on the left, in the middle, and the right, but there are only three heaters, with each heater controlling one upper/lower zone pair. This also appears to be how Aaron Bowdle has configured his Wallaby implementation of Glider.According to @cumbiem, that's not actually correct. Rather, there are two sets of heaters:
According to @ViktorShkolnikov, the two kinds of heaters would have different heating and cooling rates. (He also said that we should be able to control the heating rate (on both kinds?) so that's another thing to add to the heater attributes.) However, he also said that only one kind of heater would be used by a given protocol, so it seems reasonable for now to make the choice something selected by command-line argument (or config param with #123), so we can hold onto the assumption that a pad has at most one associated heater for now.
Migrated from internal repository. Originally created by @EvanKirshenbaum on Jun 03, 2022 at 3:53 PM PDT.