MDM Trouble Report for 2010 Mar 16

Telescope: 2.4m
Observer(s): Halpern, Liu (Columbia U.)
Instrument: CCDS

Problem(s) Encountered:
While rotating the instrument, a white power strip cord got yanked 
out of its socket (the one with the tag  Do not tie up - rotator
cable ).  Even though it is plenty long enough, it seems to get 
hung up on a black power cord going into the IE electronics box.
That connection going to the IE is loose and needs to be taped 
up again.  However, this event seemed not to interrupt the
connection to the IE, and the CCDS is still working fine.

I bent the tines of the white power plug back into approximate
alignment by hand and plugged it back into the telescope. 
As far as I could figure out, this power strip goes only to 
retrocam.  So I restarted retrocam, reinitialized its functions 
(TCS, camera cooling, filter wheel) and took as few bias frames.

Everything seems to be working okay now, but I don't know if
the power interrupt affected anything else, since the thicket
of cords is pretty dense up there.

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Submitted on 2010 Mar 16 [22:02:26]