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Simons Observatory specific OCS agents.
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Modification the max current setting of the kikusui agent (wire grid) #683

Closed hnakata-JP closed 1 month ago

hnakata-JP commented 1 month ago

Description

In this pull request, I changed the max current setting about the wire grid kikusui agent. It was changed from 3.0 A to 4.5 A. The kikusui power supply itself supports 18 V-5 A max in its specification. And this change will increase the motor's max torque, so the wire grid can rotate under lower temperatures.

Motivation and Context

Now the wire grid used for SAT-MF2 has an issue in that it cannot rotate under low ambient temperature, even though the grease in its bearing has temperature resistance. When I checked the rotation directly, the rotator can move with a small additional torque support by hand. Then, to make the rotation robust, we want to change the max current setting to 4.5 A.

How Has This Been Tested?

At the site, I changed the settings of the kikusui power supply manually, and confirmed the grid can rotate at 4.5 A max. Further, the over current protection in the hardware is now set at 4.9 A. So this change makes the rotation easy for the OCS operation as well.

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hnakata-JP commented 1 month ago

12 V is the value determined by the company. It should be enough for the motor.