Maintenance

[Tom Droege <tdroege2@earthlink.net>]

TOM1 died over the last several days.  Finally it showed streaky images. 
 After taking a number of test images I looked at the voltages measured 
by the built in test system.  There was something wrong with the clock 
driver voltages.  The clock that was supposed to be at -3 volts was at 
+3 and the clock that was supposed to be at +6 was near +3.  So a 
probable short somewhere.  Some spider or wasp at work?  Sigh!  Of 
course Dan is off on some foolishness - I think his honymoon, so he was 
not here to help.  So it was up and down the spiral stair many times. 
 Such work goes fastest with a person at each end.  Sigh!  These old 
bones are not good for many trips up and down the stairs, but I held out 
just long enough.  Eventually I found a bad camera cable.  It looks like 
it got some water in it and just corroded away.  A little water and a 
little voltage will do that over time.  I have great hope that it is fixed.

Meanwhile last night June data was ftp'ed to Michael S.  Lots of new 
data which is beginning to be enough to spot new variables.  

Tom Droege