Power Outage Procedures

last updated 01 Feb 2019

For a planned power outage of more than ~20 minutes duration with expected generator operation, or an unplanned outage where the generator operates correctly.

• open UER and LER doors to allow air circulation,
• in LER, shutdown dSpace, servo cabinets, and the two computers (these are not on generator power),
• save locations of Mars stage controllers (they are not on generator power),
• if the outage will affect the DIMM Telescope, shutdown the DIMM computer and electronics,
• ... something else I forgot.

To restart things after the outage.

• in LER, power on servo cabinets, dSpace, trkengtwo and trkdisplay computer,
• restart control desk,
• close doors to LER and UER,
• restart Mars equipment,
• you will have to home the Mars stage motors and return them to their original position,
• restart the DIMM computer and electronics,
• Virus spectrographs may be warm as the enclosure cooling in not on generator power,
• connect to Hetsky as CTI to restart the cloud sensor,
• ...more stuff I forgot.