Dead Power Supply

[droege@snapmail.us]

Yesterday I started smelling a smell with which I am very familiar.  I
sniffed around everywhere but could not find the source.  I have been
around electronics long enough that I can smell the degree of sickness of
electronics.

Today purdy, the computer that processes the TOM3 late night data died. 
Looks like a failed power suppy fan.  At least it was hard to turn with a
screwdriver blade.  I did not test it further.  Into the trash can.  In my
youth when I was really poor, I took such things apart to salvage the
wire.  One reason to work hard and save money.  I rember crawing under my
51 Chevvy to fix the muffler and swearing that I would work hard and save
money so someone else would fix my muffler when it was needed.

Looks like purdy is now running OK with it's new red super low noise
PowerMax power supply.

So I am running about 10 hours late on last night's data reduction.

All this to let you know that running a project is not all pure thoutht
and love.  With this much stuff something is always sick or dead. Now to
get back to what I really wanted to do today.  That is to implement
Grzegorz Pojmanski's data smoothing scheme.  It will take a month or so as
I am slow at code writing.

Tom Droege

Tom Droege