Guide Probe Motion Failure
Thursday, April 23, 2015 9:39 AM
Problem(s) Encountered:
The guide probe stopped responding and would not leave it''s current location.
I followed the instructions here and reset the system:
http://mdm.kpno.noao.edu/Manuals/guiderdoc/autoguiding.html
I did not get a chance to check if it solved the problem as high humidity
caused me to close up.
Solutions:
Tested out the guide probe this morning and still found it to not be functioning properly. Tried closing the GUI and power cycling the MIS. After this, I was able to move the guide probe again, but it would not travel all the way to the demanded values. Thankfully, OSMOS allows for access to the guide probe so I checked and found that the probe was in a very odd position. While the GUI registered that it was at the origin, it was actually so far north that I could not reach the motor mic. It was clearly lost. On the xmis2 GUI, I reset the MIS by 2.4m Setup>Reset MIS which drove the guide probe back to its home position. It now appears to function as expected.