Description The interlock panel handles two independent interlock loops. One loop opens or closes the laser head internal safety shutters. This laser interlock lo...
Description The servo switches are intended to choose, if the piezos are operated in open (off) or closed loop (on). Upper switch: X axis Lower switch:Y axis Doc...
Description This device monitors the temperature and humidity values of the LaserSystem. Documentation * User manual: http://abell.as.arizona.edu/~hill/xlbt...
Documentation attach and describe datasheets and documents Installation and maintenance describe what is needed to put a new device of this kind into operation s...
Documentation attach and describe datasheets and documents Installation and maintenance describe what is needed to put a new device of this kind into operation s...
Description The ARGOS vibration control system is designed to detect vibrations on the instrument optical path at a level sufficient to calculate and mitigate the...
Description The pneumatic dust shutter controller is a remote controlled device, which operates the dust shutter pneumatic cylinders. Known history When Wher...
Description There are 2 electronic racks is installed on the Laser Launch Platform. They contains power distribution, cooling and other LAS devices. They contain ...
Description There are 2 electronic racks is installed on the Laser Supply Platform. They contains power distribution, cooling and other LAS devices. They are atta...
Description There are 2 C ring electronic racks is installed on the LBT C ring extension. They contains shared devices between the whole ARGOS system. Since they ...
Description The LGSW electronic rack is installed on the LUCI platform. It contains all the devices to control the LgswUnit and the LgswDichroic. It needs 110VAC ...
Description The 3 acquisition units in each LgswUnit are based on AVT GC1350 cameras. The 12V power supply is installed in the MoCon. The ethernet cable is connec...
Description The term "LGSW System" refer to all the HW and SW related to the ARGOS laser guide star wavefront sensor on a single LBT eye. An LGSW system is compos...
Definition It is a cooling circuit in which the cooling fluid temperature never goes below 6°C and follows the ambient temperature when it is warmer than 6°C. The...
How to deploy dichroic from ARGOS control software 1. See FullARGOSStartUpProcedure for prerequisites: chiller, main power, login into workstation 1. Start ...
This procedure brings up the LGSW system until the WFS is ready for on sky operation i. See FullARGOSStartUpProcedure for prerequisites: chiller, main power, l...
This procedure brings up the LAS system until lasers are ready to be propagated on sky i. See FullARGOSStartUpProcedure for prerequisites: chiller, main power,...
The ARGOS main power switches are located in the SX LaserSupplyRack on the LaserSupplyPlatform. They should be on all the time. If they are not on enable them i...
A session on this topic has already been created in the Device List pages of the NSA12 stepper motors: * Symptom * Possible cause * Procedure to recover ...
Symptom When the motor is homed the step counter starts to decrease until but never stops. The full stroke of the motor is about 1500 steps; so no matter what the...
LgswUnitDx operation 8:00: we start opertations at horizon to fix the CalUnitSystem DiodeSource problem. It seems related to the low temperature in the C ring rac...
LM1 calibration DX Measuring the LM1 limit switch position as well as the optical and mechanical zero position. Lower limit AbsEnc IncEnc SW setting 1913 51...
Night Time 20140322 6:00 II test of new collimation tables. JH wants to check the preset acquire accuracy with and without the dichroic in. Telescope pointed to...
See e mail from Michael L.: Dear Friends of ARGOS, Yesterday (2/18/15) and today (2/19/15), ARGOS activities included the following: Installation and test of the ...
See e mail from Gustavo: All, Work has continued on the DX LM1 actuators by M, M and F. Julian Z. arrived yesterday, and he has been working on the alarm system a...
See e mail from Gustavo: The February 2015 ARGOS campaign started yesterday. Matthias, Mathias and Franz from MPE are on site. The first two days of the campaign...
Pockels Cells Transmission test Sweep between 0.5 and 2.0us with 4 steps with Internal Sources. Then between 0.1 and 2.0 in 11 steps. The system configuration is ...
The following instructions apply if you are connecting from outside the telescope network. If you are at the telescope just follow HowToLogInAndConnectToVNC Logi...
How to create an LBT star catalog file If you want to point and guide on a star it is mandatory to have a catalog file installed in the LBT TCS. Catalog file form...
The list of targets and LUCI images is here: raw_20141129.txt 21:00: we start the telescope collimation and we resume the tubone. PatCam X Y Blue 172 ...
PBL in the ASM IDL code: if the loadDisturbance command fails, to recall it you have to send first slopes w/o disturb and gain 0 to reset the ASM disturbance bit....
18:00: PCT with IS Since bad weather we work on SW development. 20:00: we attempt a laser propagation but the clouds are too thick. TN Notes 20141202_0414...
We connect the BCU power supply line to the Agilent oscilloscope. 18:00: we start operation swith calibration unit monitoring the BCU voltage. 20:00: after repea...