[evlatests] Weather Station

[Kevin Ryan]

The CMP would've been restarted after power was restored on 12/23.  

Needing a Modcomp attached is news to me.  I ran the CMP alone on the spare SLC for months during development both on a bench down in the basement of the AOC and at the site controlling the system and I don't recall this need.

Kevin


On Jan 10, 2012, at 1:20 PM, Ken Sowinski wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Jan 2012, Steven Durand wrote:
> 
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Weather Station
>> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:02:47 -0700
>> From: Wayne Koski <wkoski at aoc.nrao.edu>
>> Organization: NRAO
>> To: evlatests at nrao.edu
>> 
>> My conclusion is that the issue is either at the CMP or between the SLC 
>> and CMP.
>> 
>> At this point, I don't know what to look for in order to move forward.
>> 
>> Finally, I have a very vague recollection that we needed for the 
>> alternate Computer Port of the SLC to be plugged into the Modcomp (even 
>> powered down) for proper signal termination for the CMP to start 
>> operations or to maintain operations.  Remember this is vague and I 
>> could have it wrong, but if this was stripped out then maybe this is it.
> 
> Yes, this was certainly the case once.  I don't remember that
> we ever understood why it was necessary.  What worrys me about
> this explanation is that the CMP/SLC worked for a long time after
> the Modcomps were disconnected from the SLC and carted away.
> 
> Was the CMP restarted during your efforts at the VLA yesterday?
> 
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