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Warm Shutdown / Jan 27, 2018 / P Gabor ✔✘
Control roomTurn on dome floodlight (left of the SW balcony door)
Control roomTurn off the main dome fan (red button on a strip to the right of the SW balcony door)
Control roomTCSglue main window: STOW; watch telescope move
Control roomMOUNT CONTROL tab: Disable drives (listen for air being released from brake)
Control roomMOUNT CONTROL tab: Close mirror cover (listen for sound of proper operation)
Control roomMOUNT CONTROL tab: Close dome shutter (slit) (listen for sound of proper operation)
Control roomTSCglue main window: stop dome tracking (toggling the button)
Control roomXEPHEM: SKY VIEW WINDOW:  “Telescope” menu: “Configure” window: Radio button: Telecscope “running”: toggle off with mouse click
Control roomXEPHEM: Load data memory window: KILL (“X” out)
Control roomQuit Xephem (or exit)
Control roomWarning box/button: dismiss
Control roomVATT Guider APP: “Camera” tab: stop
Control roomKill VATT Guider APP
Control roomNew Secondary GUI: copy values to trouble report, turn off autocollimation, shut down connection and GUI
Control roomTHERMAL tab: radio button “OFF”
Silo 2nd lvlNESLAB: Simultaneously: toggle fron panel ON/OFF switch to “OFF” & slowly lower manual valve lever (to minimize vibration)
Control roomMOUNT CONTROL tab: Turn cell fans “OFF”
TCS roomToggle power switches “OFF”: AZ, EL, DEROTATOR & DOME amplifiers
TCS roomM2 PI Controller: turn off
BasementTurn off building & pier fans
BasementSTEP TWO (labeled as such): Rotate pumps switch counterclockwise to “OFF”
BasementSTEP ONE (labeled as such): Push in red switch, upper left corner of control box
DomeEngage stow pins
DomeConnect camera ground wire
DomePlace camera fill dewar under telescope, connect hose and charge dewar with LN2
DomeFill out camera LN2 log sheet
DomePower “OFF” SBIG guider camera power supply (on guider arm mount)
DomeClose finder telescope objective cover
DomeTurn off power supply of finder telescope camera (on top of box on South side of East fork)
DomeDome vent registers: leave OPEN if weather is expected to stay good, otherwise CLOSE
DomeUnplug power to dome shutter
DomeDome short can stay “OUT” if weather is expected to remain good, otherwise “IN”
DomeDewar can stay in place during the day
Control roomTurn OFF remaining TV feed monitors
Control roomComplete and submit Trouble Report
Control roomPower down Xterm monitors (they do not sleep automatically)
vatt/vatt_warm_shutdown_checklist_pg.txt · Last modified: 2018/02/03 22:31 by paul