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Procedure: ShARCS Apeture Wheel

  • 2018-07-05: If the power is cycled to the galil controlling the ShARCS Aperture Wheel, it is necessary to issue the following command:

    modify -s saomot ctrl3aux=‘KIE=8;KPE=300;KDE=600’

    These are new motor parameters that have not been put in software yet. They should be the default before the next (2018-07-20--2018-07-26) ShaneAO run.

  • Monitor the encoder counts for position of aperture wheel:

    user@shard.ucolick.org > gshow -s saomot -c DWAPERGTE

    For aperture wheel to be reproducibly positioned, encoder counts must be within ±4 counts of the target encoder value.

  • For Spectroscopy, slit must be combined with matching filter.

    For H-band spectroscopy: Filter#1 = H and Aperture = Slit-100um-H

    For K-band spectroscopy: Filter#2 = K and Aperture = Slit-100mm-K

    For Slit-100um-H, the target encoder value is: 0.




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