PPPL-3894 is available in <a href="PPPL-3894.pdf">pdf</a> format (752 KB).

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<b>Control System for the NSTX Lithium Pellet Injector</b>
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<b>Authors:</b> P. Sichta, J. Dong, R. Gernhardt, G. Gettelfinger, and H. Kugel
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<b>Date of PPPL Report:</b> October 2003
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<b>Presented at:</b> the 20th IEEE/NPSS Symposium on Fusion Engineering (SOFE2003), 14-17 October 2003, San Diego, California. Proceedings to be published by IEEE.
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The Lithium Pellet Injector (LPI) is being developed for the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX). The LPI will inject 'pellets' of various composition into the plasma in order to study wall conditioning, edge impurity transport, liquid limiter simulations, and other areas of research. The control system for the NSTX LPI has incorporated widely used advanced technologies, such as LabVIEW<sup>TM</sup> and PCI bus I/O boards, to create a low-cost control system which is fully integrated into the NSTX computing environment. This paper will present the hardware and software design of the computer control system for the LPI.




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