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I have a set up where I can test boards and am slowly moving all the boards
through it. At the moment the good pile is larger than the bad pile. But
the untested (recently - all have been tested once) pile is the largest.
Once one has a good set of boards and a definition of what is good
everything goes a lot faster. I think there is nothing left that I want to
change.
This is a good sign. I am close to sending a board set to Chris. I just
have to get a few boards of each type in the good stack so I can send Chris
one of each.
It has been a long struggle. There are still a few things that I don't
like. The Declination drive is not as sturdy as I would like. The cable
between the camera and the memory board is fussy. I know how to make a
good cable, but the good cable is too stiff to bring out through the
motion. The flexible commercial cable has too much cross talk and I get
errors. So I will have to use just a plain flat cable. This is OK for
cross talk, but not so good for shielding. I am not worried about pickup,
that seldom happens. I am worried about a nearby lightning strike blowing
out stuff. I think I have the cameras protected (now) but one might lose
some cable driver chips. These are (now) mostly in sockets so they will be
easy to change.
More good data last night. The moon is getting to be in range, so this is
about the end of the data for this lunation. I think this is about the
last data I will try to take. I have enough to keep someone busy, and
there is plenty of science to be extracted from the present stack of good
data. So far no one has stepped forward to reduce the data.
The builder is here, and I think this fix will finally stop the roof from
leaking. We are about to have a fight over how he plans to secure the
porch railing. I just pulled over one of his posts. ;^) Not strong
enough for me. We are both stubborn dutch, so if you hear that I have been
killed it will be over the porch railing.
Tom Droege