I thought it was high time I threw my thoughts in on this.
August is gooooood for me I dont tend to go away in the summer so I should be OK whatever weekend it was. I could do more than a day of course and I like the idea of one day being to look at software or whatever but though im interested in livepro and the rest of pango, and it will no doubt influence me in the future, there really is no current relevance to me, so I think we would be better to set up a number of 'workshops' where groups could talk and learn about their own software. I would be very happy to be instrumental in the Mamba black session. Also we could have alignment, tuning or safety workshops where any of us who know about a subject could show some of the noobs some basics. I could easily set up a hands on working alignment demo that people could actually use.
Any more thoughts would be good.
And one final point or rather piece of news I think I know what the prob with the SP168 has been...
On Sat while ripping the kit down in the garage I got some water in the main connector for the head - this is the last place you wanna get water
. So on Sat night after warming the external parts of the connector up with a blow torch to split it open (it was siezed solid - probly never been appart in 20 years), I blew it out with the air line dried it with paper towels etc. several times....However it would seem I was not thorough enough. The connector has black carbon marks in it where there has been some tracking the only cause of this can be the ingress of water and the fact that I can now see traces of damp in there says that this is the cause. I'm guessing that when I finally got the water flow sorted and the laser began to run for several mins - instead of seconds - this damp being warmed by the 25-30 of current passing through the cables decided to make the inside of the connector sweat. As soon as this occured and it shorted the breaker on the 265 flipped and following this the breaker on the distributon also tripped. As the breakers tripped quickly and there was no flash and a bang I am hopeful that there is little or no internal damage to the exciter. I will clean it all out tomorrow examine, and test electrically then test it hooked up to the head.
Top and bottom is it looks good that the big beast will make a return to leicester in working order for the next meet, not that I doubted this for one moment
- Andy better start working those muscles in preparation.
Rob