I took yesterday morning off to relax a bit, do laundry, and work on the massive Tiny Tim posting from the day before. I came in with Tristan, and Danielle—who is here visiting for the weekend. We stopped at El Natural, a new-ish whole foods store where I found (and then had to buy) tons of great big cookies.
When I arrived at the highbay, Jamil had a team trying to figure out how to mount the upper solar panel holder, now that it’s populated. They spent a fair amount of time on it, and have a plan how to do it on the ice.
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- COOKIES! (And vegan smoothie)
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- Team Jamil lifts the panels with the crane
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- Guiding and planning. This is a non-trivial operation
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- Jamil and Nick await the panel’s arrival
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- They try to wrestle the pins in
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- The wiring on the back of the panels: sets of three in series, along each row
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- Attached panel (except support struts, which are also tricky)
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- The explosion-preventing safety valve is venting on the nitrogen dewar, Tristan doesn’t know why
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- Barth doesn’t know why either
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- Nick knows. He opens the valves that should have been open
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- Platey, the mount of the SBSC is attached to the pyramid
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- Meanwhile, Jamil continues to ponder the support strut issue
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- Nick, in his Solar Panel Atlas posture
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- A blue foam crash pad is rigged up, and a strut taped to the chin for support
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- Natalie has got the SBSC working again
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- Laura gives BLAST a big soaking wet hug. Awww
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- She was just out running in the pouring rain
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- Views of stuff from the tower: Volleyball court
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- The pad
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- The CSBF highbay, OCC
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- Tractors and chemicals
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- Tristan and a radio dish
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- Lorenzo tries to pass up to us
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- Some sort of mystery place behind the highbay. This bears further investigation
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