> 
> And I think I know what caused the original problem in IRIS experiment, I think the list of EPICS variables got truncated from 30 to 20 and EPICS 
> values 29 and 30 used in the alarm conditions have become lost.
> 
> So the next step is to fix feepics to not truncate the list of variables (right now it is hardwired to 20 variables) and restore
> the lost variable definition from a saved odb dump.

for the record, I restored the old ODB settings from feepics, my EPICS variables now have the correct size and the alarm now works correctly.

I also updated the example feepics to read the number of EPICS variables from ODB instead of always truncating them to 20 (IRIS MIDAS had a local change 
setting number of variables to 40).

I think I will make no more changes to the alarms, leave well enough alone.

K.O.