OWL Readout Failure

Thursday, May 24, 2018 9:07 AM

Problem(s) Encountered:

OWL was not able to readout and save image.


Solutions:

Tried correcting the issue remotely to no avail.  See the two images below.  It seems to be having issues reading out the chip format.  At least that is what has caused similar issues in the past as far as I recall.  I can intermittently get things to read out if in setup, I set rows=columns=800, but even that seems to fail after a few exposures.  Nothing I tried corrected the issue.  The next day on the mountain, things appeared to be much more stable.  I did get a similar failure, but only once out of many dozens of test integrations.  Since then, the issue has not occurred again.  Perhaps thermal-induced?  Perhaps a hiccup in the control software?