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LCLS Lightpath Module
https://pcdshub.github.io/lightpath
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Ignore Button #57

Open ZLLentz opened 6 years ago

ZLLentz commented 6 years ago

Ability to disable a device in the lightpath, e.g. to check what would happen if we pretend that the device is removed. This would be useful for devices that randomly start behaving poorly in terms of states, etc.

Requested by Jason

teddyrendahl commented 6 years ago

I'm not sure on this. Seems like a hack to make up for inconsistent controls in EPICS controls.

ZLLentz commented 6 years ago

It's similar to an MPS override. "Suppose this device wasn't here: how far would the beam go?"

ZLLentz commented 6 years ago

e.g. for bad hardware