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WILLIAM HERSCHEL TELESCOPE

Technical manual [1]     4MS Software Documentation

1. 4MS Reference Manual
• Overview
• Hardware
• System Configuration
• Software...Introduction to RGO 4ms.Forth
• Appendices A - J Asssociated Literature
2. 4MS Source Listing of The ROM-BASED Basic 8K

Technical manual [2]     Forth Listings

1. ISIS Application Forth Listing
2. AGCA Application Forth Listing
3. Engineering Mimic Application Forth Listing

Technical manual [3]     Instrumentation Specials Vol 1

1. AGCA Box Comparsion Lamp Supply System
2. Compensating Rotary Encoder Eurocard Power System (CREEPS)
3. ISIS and AGCA Box Switch Mode Power Supply manual
4. Ferranti 35HA optical Absolute Encoder (Gratings) manual
5. Data Sheets
• TRIVOLT PK55
• MONOVOLT PK60
• GESMEM-3A Memory

Technical manual [4]     Instrumentation Specials Vol 2

1. Barcode Reader Module
2. EPIM...Encoder Power, Interlock and Motormic Board
3. Stepper Motor Drive Module User Manual
4. Stepper Motor Drive Module Glossary
5. Shutter Control Module Users Manual
6. Hartmann Shutter Module Users Manual
7. Hartmann Shutter Application Listing

Technical manual [5]     ASL 9000 Transducer System

1. M9000 Operator's Handbook
• Introduction
• Specifications
• Operation
• Communications: Command Set
• RS232C Interface
• IEEE-488 Interface Option
• Error Messages
• Maintenance
2. M9000 FAULT FINDING GUIDE
• Dual Signal Conditioner card
• Eight Input A/D Converter card
• Processor card
3. Circuit Diagrams
• A/D converter
• Micro card
• Signal Conditioning

Technical manual [12]     AGCA Box circuit diagrams

Technical manual [13]     ISIS circuit diagrams

Technical manual [14]     VME Modules Documentation

1. Overview description, board strappings for all WHT VME Systems
2. User Manuals
• Serial/parallel I/O module (Autoguider) MOTOROLA MVME335
• 16MByte RAM board MM6220D
• Dynamic RAM memory board 32 bit add PME 512EP 2EP-2
• DR11-W Emulator IKON 10089
• System Controller IRONICS IV3273
3. VME Devices Data Sheets

Technical manual [15]     Detector Memory System

1. Functional and Hardware Specification for the Kernel System
2. Overview description, board strapping for all WHT VME Systems
3. VME Users Manuals
• System Controller IRONICS IV3273
• bit CPU board DUAL VMPU-32
• Hard Disk Controller DUAL VSMD-32
• 16MByte RAM board MMI MM6220D
• DR11-W Emulator IKON 10089
• Dual IPCS CCD Interface RGO DICI
• IPCS Data Interface RGO DIDI
• CCD-IPCS Command Interface RGO CI

Technical manual [16]     4MS Users Modules manuals

1. SYN MP09                 6809 Processor module
2. RGO BBI                    Bus Buffer Interface module
3. SYN ACM3                3 Channel Asynchronous Communications module
4. SYN I488                    IEEE Interface module
5. SYN MEM1/PRM1    Static Memory module
6. SYN TIO1                  Timer I/O module
7. SYN ADC4                A/D Converter module

Technical manual [17]     4MS Users Modules manuals

1. Second Copy

Technical manual [18]     Miscellaneous ISIS and A&G box

1. Lemo connectors catalogue
2. Connector information
3. Using the 4MS screen editor with terminals
4. Connector lists
5. Parts lists
6. Switch mode power supply chassis wiring details
7. Cubicle positioning at Cassegrain

Technical manual [19]     Stepper Motor Drive Modules

1. Introduction to SMDM's
2. Firmware Glossary of FORTH commands
3. Stepper Motor Power Driver Card
4. Stepper Motor Multiplexor Card
5. Extracts from the JKT SMDM Users Manual
6. Calibration Procedure
7. Glossary FORTH commands
8. Stepper Motor Drive Module Application Listing
9. Description of 6303 Processor Card
10. Circuit Diagrams

Technical manual [20]     Data Sheets

1. Absolute Rotary Encoders ROC 717 operating instructions
2. ROC 717 current technical data
3. Lamp Exchange for ROC 717 encoders
4. GESADC-2 I/F 16 channels, 12 bits data acquisition module
5. NCR 5380 SCSI Interface chip design manual
• SCN68230 Parallel Interface/Timer (PI/T)
• SCN68681 Dual Asynchronous Rx/Tx (DUART)
• SCB68430 Direct Memory Access Interface (DMAI)
• SCB68154 Interrupt Generator
• Intersil ICM7170 micro-compatible Real-Time clock
6. Ethernet related controllers
• EDLC Ethernet Data Link Controller
• MCC Manchester Code Converter
• EDLC Ethernet Data Link Controller
7. Ferranti Multilin Hybrid Microcircuits
8. FSS 129 A.C. to D.C. amplifier

Technical manual [21]     Faint Object Spectrograph

1. Faint Object Spectrograph User Manual
• Introduction
• Control system
• Overview of the instrument
• Setting up and Observing procedures
• 4MS
• Data reduction system
2. FOS 2 Technical manual
• To remove FOS camera from ISIS
• To disassemble the FOS camera body
• To assemble the FOS camera body
• Camera Components
• Alignment Procedures
• Multislit arrangement
• Focus and image quality
• Known faults and problems
3. Application Software Documentation
• Introduction
• Program Description
• Command Format
• Data Structure
• Structure Diagrams 4MS

Technical manual [22]     Faint Object Spectrograph

1. Optical Specification drawings
2. Mechnical Structure Drawings

Technical manual [23]     Charge Coupled Device CCD

1. Technical Description of the Dutch Multichip Camera Controller
• Introduction
• System Functionality
• System Performance
• System Design Concepts
• Signal, Power and grounding relationships
• Crates Modules
• Processor Bus Modules
• Distribution Bus Modules
• Head Modules
• Service Handling
• Software NFRA version
• System Configuration Examples
• References
• Circuit Diagram of the VME/CCD Interface module
• Application Forth Listing

Technical manual [24]     Charge Coupled Device CCD

1. Integrated Multichip CCD Camera Controller Vol 2
• Functional diagrams
• Block diagrams
• Schematics
• Tables
• Timing diagrams
• Components lists
• Print layout
• Wiring and connection tables
2. EPLD programming

Technical manual [25]     Charge Coupled Device CCD

1. Ctronix HC series modular boards
• General Information
• HCbug Installation
• HCbug Commands
• Trap 15 User I/O Subroutines
• HCbus
• HC 120 CPU Card
• HC 125 Memory Card
• DMA Disc Controller
• HC 140 Colour Video Card
• Hardware Watch-dog under Forth
• Appendices, Tables and Figures

Technical manual [26]     Charge Coupled Device CCD

1. CCD Peripheral Controller Card (CP2C) (Shutter Control)
2. Multichip Camera Controller Functional Diagrams

Technical manual [27]     CCD Autoguider

1. Overview of the Autoguider Operation
• Autoguider features
• Description of the Autoguider System
• Autoguider Messages over the Network
2. Wiring Details
• Wiring details within the Head
• Wiring details from Head to the CCD Controller
• Wiring details for Nitrogen and Temperature Control
• Circuit Diagrams
3. Autoguider CCD Controller Utility Network Interface
• Introduction
• General response to Utility Network Traffic
• CCD Controller Messages

Technical manual [28]     Utility Network

1. Engineering facilities for testing the Utility Network
2. Record of Sension 2334 NIU hardware
3. Protocol Architecture
4. Instrumentation Control Recommendations
5. Network Interface Unit User Guide
6. Definitions of NIU statistics
7. Sension Communications Monitor (software Monitor)
8. Sension "Razor" crib sheet
9. Ethernet Quad Serial Interface Controller 2334
10. Hardware Document
11. Circuit Diagrams

Technical manual [29]     Utility Network

1. 4MS Network Layer Software for Ethernet Applications
2. IEEE project 802 Local area network standards
3. Sension Communications Product list
4. Ethernet designers guide
5. Communications Notes
6. Manchester Encoding and decoding
7. Interfacing the 8001/8003 EDLC
8. DMA interconnection to the 8003
9. low cost CSMA/CD using FIFO/8001

Technical manual [30]     VME Modules Documentation

1. VME-OPAL Graphics Controller OPAL 2025
2. OPAL-CONFIG Manual
3. OPAL-USER Manual
4. OPAL-AG Manual

Technical manual [31]     Fibre Network

1. CCD Fibre Optics Data Transmission System
2. The Fibre Optic Multiplexor (FOX)
3. Data Sheets for Processor Family
4. Circuit Diagrams
5. Report on the Installation of Fibre Optics

Technical manual [32]     TV System

1. Imageforth Listings version 3.1
2. TV system Application software
3. TV error Logging

Technical manual [33]     TV Acquisition System

1. An introduction to the WHT TV system
2. Low Light Level Integrating Television System For La Palma
3. Westinghouse ETV-1625 TV camera Operating and Service Manual

Technical manual [34]     Telescope Miscellaneous

1. Nasmyth Turntable Servo Drives
• System Description
• Documentation
• Setting to Work
• Records
2. Two zone Zeroset module Description Manual
• General
• Setting
• Maintenance
3. Balzers CCD Turbo-molecular Pump
• Operators Maintenance Manual
• Rotary Vane Pump
• Turbo-Molecular Pump
• Seperators
• Pumping Units
• Valve Control Unit
• Vent Valve

Technical manual [35]     Taurus Documentation

1. Electronics Description
2. Electronic Circuit Diagrams

Technical manual [36]     Taurus Documentation

1. Taurus Cabling Details

Technical manual [37]     Taurus Documentation

1. Electronic Photographs
2. Instrument Photographs

Technical manual [38]     Taurus Documentation

1. Taurus Application Software

• Forth Reference Manual
• Introduction
• Vector Arithmetric
• Setting of paper,pen,colours
• Drawing and plotting lines and points
• Pre-defined figures
• Irregular shape drawing
• Filling of regions
• Screen dump to FX-80 printer
• Modules

Technical manual [39]     Taurus Documentation

1. Taurus User Manual

 
• Software set-up
• Screen lay-out
• Data and Status
• Taurus Input
• Taurus Words
• Error Messages
• Memory Map
• Hardware Addresses
• Software System
• 4ms monitor loop
• Tasks
• VAX Communication
• IPCS Communication
• Bits.Bytes.Constants and Variables
2. CS100 Stabilization System Instruction Manual

 
• Introduction
• Specification
• Principles of Operation
• Using the CS100 System
• Circuit Diagrams

Technical manual [40]     Forth Ref 4MS Graphics

1. Forth Reference Manual
• Introduction
• Vector Arithmetric
• Setting of paper,pen,colours
• Drawing and plotting lines and points
• Pre-defined figures
• Irregular shape drawing
• Filling of regions
• Screen dump to FX-80 printer
• Modules
2. Graphics for the 4MS
• Introduction
• Basic Forth Vocabulary
• Logic Control Words
• Systems Functions
• Multiprogrammed Task Definition and Control
• Utility Function
• The Assembler
• The Target Complier-Introduction

Technical manual [41]     Low Dispersion Survey Spectrograph LDSS

1. Technical Specification

Technical manual [42]     Transducer Systems

1. Transducer system for the WHT
• Allocation
• Calibration
• Interface to the control computer system
• The Sangamo Unit and Hardware
2. Sangamo Transducers
3. Hardware
4. Mercer Gauges
• General Description
• Calibration and Setting Instructions
• Probe Information
• Accessories

Technical manual [43]     Grubb Parsons Telescope Handbook Vol 1

1. Description of the WHT Telescope
• Introduction
• Particular descriptions

Technical manual [44]     Grubb Parsons Telescope Handbook Vol 2

1. Description ot the WHT Telescope
• Particular descriptions continued
• Adjustments and maintenance
• Cable identifications
• Assembly procedures

Technical manual [45]     Marconi Electronics Servo Handbook

1. Main Drive Gearboxes and Encoder Units
• Section 1    Technical Description Altitude/Azimuth Encoders
• Section 2    Unit Removal and Re-assembly Procedure
• Section 3    Unit Dismantling and Re-assembly
• Section 4    Maintenance
• Section 5    Test Specification
• Section 6    Cabling and Electrical Wiring
• Section 7    Parts List
• Section 8    Related Documents

Technical manual [46]     Marconi Electronics Servo Handbook

1. Servo Control Equipment
• Introduction
• Control Cabinet
• Camac Unit
• Servo Rack
• Power supply unit
• Instrument Power Amplifiers
• Power Amplifiers
• Power supply unit
• Encoder Box
• Test Unit
• Drawing Lists

Technical manual [47]     Imaging Technology Manual

1. Imaging technology series 150 Reference manual
2. Circuit Diagrams

Technical manual [48]     Polyforth manual

1. CPU Supplement
• Overview of the Motorola 68000
• Assembler
• Multiprogrammed Tasks
• Interrupt Handling
• Device Control
• Disk Organization
• Recompilation of Polyforth
2. PolyFORTH 11 Reference manual
• Introduction
• Forth Language
• System Functions
• Multiprogrammer
• Utilities
• Assembler
• Target Compiler
• Data Base Support
• Index