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=== HOW TO MANUALLY RE-START 26M DRIVES === | === HOW TO MANUALLY RE-START 26M DRIVES === | ||
- | If the antenna stows for any reason - wind, source=stow, storm etc, the drives MUST BE RESTARTED at Mt Pleasant MANUALLY. This means driving out to Mt Pleasant Instructions for how to do this are at Mt Pleasant on the side of the drive-control box (pictured below) | + | If the antenna's drives get stuck, then the drives may need to manually restarted up at Mt P. |
* TURN KEY CLOCKWISE TO ‘JOYSTICK’ | * TURN KEY CLOCKWISE TO ‘JOYSTICK’ | ||
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* **IF THESE 4 LIGHTS ARE NOT ON, TRY ANOTHER 'drvon', OR REPEAT FROM (#). DO NOT TRY AND SLEW THE TELESCOPE UNTIL THESE LIGHTS ARE ON OTHERWISE YOU WILL NEED TO RESTART. ** | * **IF THESE 4 LIGHTS ARE NOT ON, TRY ANOTHER 'drvon', OR REPEAT FROM (#). DO NOT TRY AND SLEW THE TELESCOPE UNTIL THESE LIGHTS ARE ON OTHERWISE YOU WILL NEED TO RESTART. ** | ||
+ | * TRY A SLEW COMMAND IN NEWSMERD (like 'southpole'). IF IT DOES NOT WORK REPEAT. | ||
+ | * IF YOU GET ANY LIGHTS OR ALARMS DURING, you can silence them bu hitting the little button below the red light on the drive control. The alarms can be turned off in a newsmerd terminal by typing 'alarmoff'. | ||
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