MDM Trouble Report for 2018 Feb 05

Telescope: 2.4m
Observer(s): Douglas, Weaver (Columbia)
Instrument: OSMOS/R

Problem(s) Encountered:
The remote connector for Workstation 1 appears to have died, or it's almost dead. 
Around UT 5:30, during an exposure, WS1 appeared to go dead - the monitors 
went into power save mode and it didn't (immediately) respond to mouse movement
or hitting arrow keys. After about a minute, everything came back up, we just had
to click  connect  on the remote connector screen. After that (and maybe before?) we
heard a low beeping sound periodically but couldn't find a visible cause. 

Around UT 10:30, WS1 appeared to go dead again and stayed that way for about 
20 minutes. We called Jules and determined that the issue was the connector,
not WS1 itself. Power-cycling the connector got it working again, although the
connector went on and off ~5 times in the next 3 minutes. It was enough to start
a new target, but then it went off and stopped responding to power-cycling. 

We borrowed the remote connector from WS2 to get our final primary target. We
continued hearing the same low beeping sounds from earlier (I think these are 
coming from the connector but it's not totally clear). We reconnected it to WS2 
and closed up around UT 12:00.

We also had to restart the MIS a couple of times, and the dome got stuck at 
Az~270 at the end of the night again. 


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Submitted on 2018 Feb 6 [5:24:39]