The last couple days were spent with a lot of the team working together on a last-minute overhaul of our power system. The previous system, where all the solar panels charged all the batteries, which powered all the things, has been split in two. By separating our sensitive electronics, we’ve reduced noise and increased performance.
These are the photos I collected while being busy not working, in between stints of being busy working.
Mark's favourite job
Dealing with the batteries is scary
Barth supervises tests
Barth supervises more officially
With clipboard and hard hat
Elio in the crawlspace between the mirror and readout electoronics
You can see that it's not a happy place to be
Cookie Monster
Just in case you forgot
Receiver electronics power supply
A well made and busy box. We didn't want to touch it. So we didn't
Relay box
Big power connectors
Relay box innards
Big relay
Mylar Natalie
Tristan doing real work
This is even rarer than me doing real work, as opposed to sitting in front of a computer
Inner frame break out box
Where all the messiness of the inner frame wiring is confined
Routing cables
Tristan makes a lewd joke
He does this. Often
Natalie installs spikes
To impale the hands of people that try to grab the sun sensor mount
Heat sinks should all be bunnies
They need not all look slighlty evil
Both charge controllers
Not-bunny and bunny
Batteries
With left and right sides now separated
Two power supplies
Stairs
All buildings have a rope to help find your way in terrible weather
Hammock in the lab
Tyr's stroke of genius
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