ASM functionality check – part II

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 🙂 !

Povilas clipping the fiber

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…

Armando shows proudly the connector now harmless

We were so happy that Alfio and I decided to celebrate with the new garlic sauce never tasted by anyone…

never tasted sauce

 

Alfio and the sauce...
...the sauce and me...

After to be garlic powered, we tested all the stuff and…

ASM test good! (so far ... 🙂

oh yeah!  this evening we can say, it works! … (so far… of course! :))