Re: Running

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Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:58:32 -0500
From: Doug Welch <welch@physics.mcmaster.ca>
To: Tass Mailing List <tass@mail.alembic.net>
Subject: Re: Running


Hi Tom,

That is great news (except for tom3). I am surprised how much data is
still being acquired in late November!

Cheers,
Doug

Tass Mailing List wrote:
> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 18:06:34 -0600
> From: Thomas F. Droege <droege@fastmail.fm>
> To: tass@tass-survey.org
> Subject: Running
>
> tom3 died in the middle of the night last night.  This has happened
> several times before.  Dan noticed that one of the control cables could
> brush up against the motor board and short out the +5.  There is always
> something new to find. At the moment the mystery is why tom1 goes out of
> focus.  Current theory is the acme nut on the tom1 focus motor.
> Possibly it is slipping??
>
> Meanwhile, the data keeps coming.  tom2 always takes the best data and
> averages about a million lines a night.  tom1 and tom3 are looking at
> gunk when they don't have something broken and so get a few hundred
> thousand measurements.  Still, data keeps coming.
>
> Tom Droege
>