MDM Trouble Report for 2013 Sep 04

Telescope: 2.4m
Observer(s): R. Mark Wagner (OSU)
Instrument: CCDS

Problem(s) Encountered:
I experienced problems with the CCDS acquisition camera and control
system.  Everything worked fine at the start of the night.  However, after moving 
from a target in the east to a target 1h17m west at +5 deg communication
with the camera was lost.  Rebooting the computer and restarting the software failed 
to solve the problem. I slewed to zenith so I could safely reach the camera.
After several restarts of the computer it failed to come back.  I then cycled the 
power to the camera on the instrument and restarted again.  THis time it came back 
and initialized.  I then slewed back to the west target and it failed again.  Comm link error.
Went back to zenith and checked all the connections.  Restarted and it appeared to 
work but after one exposure iteration I got a  shutter error  and it stopped.  Restarting 
the software did not help.  Talked to Eric.  Recycled power to the camera yet 
again, rebooted, ran the software, and then operation resumed.  No problems the rest of
the night.


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Submitted on 2013 Sep 5 [5:46:28]