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Mar 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001msngr.103....7h&link_type=abstract

The Messenger, vol. 103, p. 7-9

Computer Science

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At the time this is being written, the NTT is running very nicely. While this is how the NTT is supposed to behave, it has not been the case during the last month. Indeed, on January 16, it was detected that one of the 4 main azimuth motors had died. The team immediately started to reconfigure the drive system to operate without that motor (in case of emergency, we can run on 2 motors only). During that process, a second motor died! We decided to stop the operation and shut down the telescope to investigate; indeed, while we can survive with 2 motors, we cannot afford to kill one per day. The two faulty motors have been removed, our (single) spare installed, and the electronics started to perform a complete check of all the system driving the motors. In that process, it was discovered that a third motor presented some minor signs of damages.

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