MDM Trouble Report for 2013 Aug 29

Telescope: 2.4m
Observer(s): Halpern, et al. (Columbia)
Instrument: Modspec

Problem(s) Encountered:
In the early evening it was discovered that the power strip 
that brings power from the telescope to everything on the 
instrument rotator had become unplugged (the white cord with
a tag on it that says DO NOT UNPLUG, followed by a fat
exclamation point).  It's hard to imagine how this happened
because we have never even moved the telescope, and were not
in the dome today, as far as I know, except to fill the dewar.
Anyway, we plugged it in, and then spent some time restoring
the functions of all of the instrumentation.  The MIS would
not initialize until I toggled the power on its controller
box.  It was necessary to close all of the OWL related windows,
including its ds9, before it would restart.  Finger Lakes
and Andor cameras are okay.  Everything tests out okay to the
extent that can be determined without observing.  No time
was lost because we are closed due to weather.

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Submitted on 2013 Aug 29 [23:04:49]