The last week we have were really cranking. Lots of little things that really add up. Here’s the list:
We’re finally getting a handle on the range issue for the telemetry system. We got a clean doubling of the range last Saturday.
New insulated housing for the main controller, the sensor controller and addition camera controller were made.
We’re 80% complete on the new sensor controller.
Two sensor daughter boards are complete except for waiting for an IC from digikey and two 680k resistors I need to pick up today.
We built a second antenna stand for our second 900mhz dish antenna.
The new camera controller is complete. We also converted another fuji camera over to computer control. Last night we tested the camera system. All is good. This week we’ll be conducting the full duration test.
Bob was VERY excited about the new mission control logging form for the experiments Away 35 will carry, (note heavy sarcasm).
We reset the transmission rate on the backup GPS telemetry system to every 15 seconds. The new transmitter uses less power and it transmits at higher power. I love high performance gear. The system was transmitting every 30 seconds.
We found a broken trace on a sensor board on Tandem and repaired it.
Two older systems got broken down for parts, we use all of the buffalo.
Plus some mundane tasks that keep it all going; The filters is the dust removal systems were cleaned, a big rack was cleaned out and the far corner of the shop was rearranged to make more room.
And lastly the Bellavia was taken off the woobley wheels she was on and placed on proper stands.