MDM Trouble Report for 2007 Jul 16

Telescope: 2.4m
Observer(s): John Thorstensen (Dartmouth)
Instrument: modspec + echelle CCD

Problem(s) Encountered:
My first exposure after opening had no light, so I suspected the 
shutter didn't open.  I wrote a little script to open and close
the shutter every 3 sec for a few cycles, went into the dome, and
sure enough, I couldn't hear the shutter.  I cycled the power on
the Uniblitz controller, and manually moved the shutter with the
switch on that box -- I could hear it moving, so that was 
encouraging.  Tried the script again and CCDCOM was indeed moving
the shutter, so I proceeded and it worked for the rest of the 
night.  This may have had something to do with the lightning 
shutdown (which went smoothly).
Can't think of a fix except to add an end-to-end test suggestion
to the lightning shutdown procedure.

Another minor issue - when I restarted xmis after the shutdown,
and hit INITIALIZE, the retrocam prism went to the OUT position
and then proceeded to make quite a racket, louder than I can
remember it being.  I cured this by moving the prism IN -- the
noise stopped immediately when I issued the command -- and then
back OUT -- and the noise didnt't recur.  I had down the 
shutdown with the retrocam prism in the OUT position.

A completely different issue -- at one point during the night
I hastily flushed the urinal, and the handle did not return to its
central position.  The thing ran for about half an hour before
I noticed it -- ouch!! -- and some water seems to have leaked
from the handle onto the floor.  

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Submitted on 2007 Jul 17 [4:37:35]