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WFCAM engineering history

WFCAM engineering history

Filters history


Semester Dates Filters installed
05A Mar - May 05 Z Y J H K H2 Bg
05B Sep 05 - Jan 06 Z Y J H K H2 Bg
06A May - Jul 06 Z Y J H K H2 Bg
06B Nov 06 - Dec 06 Z Y J H K H2 Bg
07A Jan 07 - May 07 Z Y J H K H2 Bg
07B Aug 07 - Nov 07 Z Y J H K H2 nbJ
08A Feb - Jun 08 Z Y J H K H2 Bg
08B Sep - Nov 08 Z Y J H K H2 nbH


Controllers/Electronics history

Fully described here.

Software/Waveforms history

September 10, 2009.
New gui allows remote start and stop of the four gaia windows running on wfdisp. Complete details can be found here. By J. Kemp.

Cooling/Warming history

Description Dates Reason
Cooldown 2006 04 10
Cooldown 2007 02 26 Power outage
Warm-up 2007 08 28 Cold head replacement
Warm-up 2009 07 25 Power outage on MK. Arrays reached 130K

Field lens cleaning history

November 17, 2008. Primary CO2 cleaning.
November 19, 2008. Field lens CO2 cleaning.
December 9, 2008. Primary and Field Lens CO2 cleaning.
January 8, 2009. Primary and Field Lens CO2 cleaning.
January 28, 2009. Primary CO2 cleaning and Liquinox field lens wash.
February 17, 2009. Primary and Field Lens CO2 cleaning.
March 3, 2009. Primary and Field Lens CO2 cleaning.
March 25, 2009. Primary and Field Lens CO2 cleaning.
April 8, 2009. Primary and Field Lens CO2 cleaning.
May 6, 2009. Primary and Field Lens CO2 cleaning.
May 21, 2009. Primary and Field Lens CO2 cleaning.
June 3, 2009. Primary and Field Lens CO2 cleaning.
June 18, 2009. Primary and Field Lens CO2 cleaning.
July 27, 2009. Primary and Field Lens CO2 cleaning.
August 13, 2009. Primary and Field Lens CO2 cleaning.
November 2, 2009. Primary and Field Lens CO2 cleaning.



Current (30 days old) WFCAM faults
Contact: Luca Rizzi. Updated: Mon Nov 2 15:21:43 HST 2009

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