Oh Man! Armando and I waked up having in mind to put the hands into the ASM…. what a mess!!! So GO! light breakfast with only one egg , yogurt, cheese, ham and orange juice (for me) and double ham and cheese sandwich with tea (for armando) in order to be reactive to the ASM trickery.
After a quick meeting (2h!!!), Povilas and Dave and Jared gave us a hope: using a LEGO strategy, we would be avoiding to open the ASM on the telescope. The LEGO strategy essentially was the in-place replacement of the fiber connector. Oh yes… a bit a bet that the connector was the only source of the problem but we verified that in the mean of the replacement procedure so, all good 🙂 !
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Our friends needed a bit of training but after a couple of attempts they made a great job and the electronics could communicate again with the ASM!
Armando was showing proudly the source of the issue, now harmless…
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We were so happy that Alfio and I decided to celebrate with the new garlic sauce never tasted by anyone…
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After to be garlic powered, we tested all the stuff and…
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oh yeah! this evening we can say, it works! … (so far… of course! :))