From d.shutt@jach.hawaii.edu Thu Mar 9 14:58:24 2000 Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 17:08:16 -1000 From: Dean Shutt To: jac_all Subject: STAFF: jac_all: Status of JCMT Heavy Engineering [ The following text is in the "iso-8859-1" character set. ] [ Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set. ] [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ] I am pleased to report that the carousel replacement work is progressing well. The project is currently on the nominal time line. This schedule returns the telescope to science operations on the night of Monday, March 20. It is interesting to note that the ETS staff is supporting the maintenance and/or repair of the entire suite of JCMT instruments during the heavy engineering period. We will also install an expansion to the telescope structural temperature monitoring system during the carousel work. Performance of this work in parallel is being done to minimize the impact of the required engineering on telescope observing time. I will have further updates for you as the heavy engineering progresses. Dean Shutt Chief Engineer Joint Astronomy Centre From d.shutt@jach.hawaii.edu Fri Mar 10 13:28:13 2000 Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 12:54:59 -1000 From: Dean Shutt To: jac_all Subject: STAFF: jac_all: Status of JCMT Heavy Engineering [ The following text is in the "iso-8859-1" character set. ] [ Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set. ] [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ] I am pleased to report that the first week of heavy engineering has gone quite well. The ETS team has finished the physical installation and wiring of the new carousel drive equipment. The power connections to the system will be completed today. The carousel drive replacement work is still on the nominal timeline. The new system will be powered up for the first time on Monday morning. Many of the secondary tasks scheduled to be completed during the engineering period have been completed ahead of schedule in the first week. On the nominal timeline, initial science testing of the new drive system is scheduled to begin Saturday evening March 18 with the telescope returned to normal science operations on Monday evening March 20. I will advise you next week on our further progress. Dean Shutt Chief Engineer Joint Astronomy Centre