Yesterday continued the saga of woes over detector noise and other funny behaviour. The point has been reached at which interesting tests start to be tried, like hitting things with hammers, isolating the gondola from the crane, etc. That and more of the things we’ve found useful before: reducing the number of cards in use, and really making sure grounding is done properly.
In other news, Natalie was doing some arts and crafts to finish up the SBSC. Juan helped. Matt and I mostly just watched (and took pictures, lots and lots of picutres).
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- Joseph opens up his SIP for some tinkering
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- Juan finishes up his arts and crafts, has a great McMurdo-themed shirt
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- Natalie is baffling. (That is, she’s doing arts and crafts on her baffle)
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- The Noise Zone, in front of the display computers. Home base of Team Noise
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- Tristan visits me upstairs. I shove a camera in his face
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- He retaliates with tongue
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- Stop! Hammer Time!
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- Mark tries hammering everything detector-related
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- “What else can I hammer?”
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- Juan and Natalie work on making the baffle good and light tight (and pretty)
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- Matt watches. So do I
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- Matt is funny. He probably told a star-camera-related joke here
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- Juan applies the finishing touches
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- Natalie takes a break. Box Head shows up to watch
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- Oh no! Box Head was Natalie all along, and now she’s getting away with the camera!
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- Vic introduces a strap for electrical isolation between the crane and gondola
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- Luke shows up to monitor ladder safety
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- The box has taken control of Natalie. Now she must kill all humans
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- SBSC with foam box. Eventually this whole thing will be taped up
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- Enzo has the DAS and Bias Box open while debugging grounding
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- Inside the bias box, DAC cards, wires, kevlar string
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- Natalie and Matt try to decipher directions for ethernet connectors that we csometimes use
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- Cryptic directions. CLIC! CLIC!
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- Sad Matt. He got happier when the connector was figured out
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- Elio works in the crawlspace behind the receiver crate
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- Then spies on me while climbing out
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- Sign that you’ve been working: foam in hair
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- Loitering against the Warm Wall (nice and hot from the sun)
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- Heavy truck stuck in the snow (finding soft spots is what it’s for)
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- Red October recruits Trixie for more power
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- Then the area is resurfaced
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- Lorenzo at work
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- Barth fixes up some serial connectors, in front of the shield
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- Enzo’s turn in the crawlspace
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