[evlatests] Rising Tsys on ea18 at Ku-band
Ken Sowinski
ksowinsk at nrao.edu
Tue Dec 6 16:21:56 EST 2011
On Tue, 6 Dec 2011, Rick Perley wrote:
> Ken ran some 3-bit tests at Ku band this morning. Results will be
> distributed shortly.
>
> However, I notice that ea18 had a high and rapidly rising system
> temperature during the test -- starting at 80K at 9AM, and rising to
> 120K by the time the test ended at 11AM.
>
> Anybody know what's going on here?
The cold last night triggered many cryo compressor problems.
this was probably one example. During the last of our 3-bit
observations, antennas 10, 14 and 23 were stowed to remedy
this problem.
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