Tilt Sensor Display Errors
Saturday, November 28, 2015 12:38 PM
Problem(s) Encountered:
In the evening we lost pointing and restored it using the tilt sensors, but the E/W sensor showed 0.00 with no change until we tapped the monitor, at which point it showed the correct value.
Solutions:
This may have been the source of a number of anomalous readings regarding the tilt sensors. I verified this afternoon that tapping on the E/W tilt display did indeed change the readout, sometimes somewhat drastically. I pulled the display out of the rack and checked connections and found the E/W connector to be somewhat loose. I reseated it and installed the display back in the rack. The readout remained constant when any further tapping was made. It will be good to watch this, but I think we may have solved the issue with wandering tilt readouts.