The Bottom of the Barrel

[Tom Droege <droege@wwa.com>]

I am slowly running out of things to fix.  Sigh!  It has been a long 
year.  I guess the big fix was the lenses.  Two different spacers had to be 
made, and a lens turned around.  There were lots of little electronic 
fixes.  A capacitor here and there etc..   I still have to burn some new 
proms to give Arne the dark pixel format he wants.  But this can be 
postponed until I have ARNE running.

Today I fixed the problem that prevented operation with long cables between 
the camera and the memory board in the computer.  I am now (barely) running 
with a 100' standard DB shielded cable of the kind that I can buy in any 
computer store.  Previously I could only stand a 10' cable of this type.  A 
big improvement since this cable needs to be shielded for lightning 
protection.  It was just a question of putting a scope probe on the right 
signal and looking with the right trigger.

This seems to be almost the last thing in my "fixit" barrel.

Meanwhile the builders are here and have completed the room for the 
dome.  Tuesday is the likely day for lifting the dome to the top of the 
house.  I will take pictures.

Tom Droege