Intro:

     Azimuth encoder 1 (dome side) is used to position the azimuth arm. Azimuth encoder 2 (ch side) is used to measure the bending of the azimuth arm  (enc1-enc2)

History:

• 12aug19:  azimuth encoder 1 jumped by 1 tooth (.02 deg)  (more info).
• 11sep19 : azimuth encoder 1 put back to the correct position.
• 16oct19 : 8:30 am. azimuth arm stops moving with azimuth banding error
• (this occurs when the az encoder difference is greater than about .98 degrees.

Azimuth motions on day of bending failure (16oct19)

The plot shows the azimuth arm motions on the morning of 16oct19 (prior to the bending failure) (.ps) (.pdf)

• Top: azimuth position vs hour of day
• the telescope was mainly sitting at za=15deg (p1693) or sitting at za=10 (x111).
• The red * show when the azimuth bending occurred.
• middle: azimuth encoder difference vs hour of day
• bottom: azimuth encoder difference vs azimuth position
• The green lines are +/- .01 degrees about the average value of the azencdif 17-31oct19 (after we fixed the jumps)
• You can see that the the difference is about  .04 degrees below the normal value.when things occurred.

When did the jumps occur

    When an azimuth encoder jumps a tooth (.02 deg), the azimuth encoder difference will also jump.
The daily average of the azimuth encoder difference (computed every 1 deg in azimuth) can show the days when things jumped
(since after the jump, the next daily average will still show the step).

• Each page over plots the encoder difference daily average (avged to 1 deg in az).
• The top frame is   in degrees, the bottom frame is in encoder counts.
• The red lines are +/=- .01 degrees about the 16-31oct19 average values
• values at difference=0 are normally because the azimuth did not arrive at that azimuth during the day (eg world day with azimuth sitting).
  
• Page 1: 01-31 oct19
• There are  2 separate sets of data
• Page 2: 01-09oct19 first set of october data with no jumps
• Page 3: 10-15 oct19. this data is after a  jump
• Page 4: 16-31oct19 - this is after the encoder was corrected on 16oct19.
• Page 5: 01-07nov19.. no further jumps occurred 

The following plots show days when jumps occurred.

   az encoder 2 jumps on 09oct19 (.ps)  (.pdf)

• Top: az encoder difference around 21.076 hours
• The green line shows where the azimuth encoder difference jumped
• middle: azimuth position during the jump
• The black line is az encoder 1 (dome side)
• The red line is az encoder 2 (ch side)
• The jump occurred at a dome azimuth of 313.75 degrees.
• bottom: linear fit to the azimuth positions during the jump
• The azimuth was moving at a constant velocity.
• Subtracting a linear fit to the position allows us to see the jump
• The black line is enc1, the red line is enc2.
• The red line jumped, so the problem was with enc2 (ch side).

• Top: enc dif vs hour.
  
• The jump occurred around 2.84 hours
• Middle: az position vs hr
• the jump occurred at 313.84 degrees (this is the same position as the 09oct19 jump location)
• bottom: azimuth position - linear fit.
• enc2 jumped (ch side)

Correcting the jumps

    Willie and Osvaldo went to check the encoders after the azimuth bending stopped the motion on 16oct19 around 08:30

• They moved the azimuth to 270 degrees to see if the azimuth pointer was still aligned with the index line.
• They had to unplug the ch encoder to get rid of the bending error (only present when both encoders work).
• They found that the azimuth pointer was off by one tooth.
• The moved the telescope so the pointer aligned with the scribe mark and then reset then encoder to 270 deg
• After moving enc1 by 1 tooth, the azimuth bending limit was still very large.
• They then turned encoder 2 (ch side) 4 teeth so the bending error was close to 0.

• az encoder 1 after correcting 1 tooth jump
• az at 270 deg (.jpg)
  
• az at 270 deg (.jpg)   closer view
  
• az at 630 deg  (.jpg)

After correcting the encoders a CW and CCW spin was done to measure the azimuth encoder difference. (.ps) (.pdf)

The pointing errors.

• 12-13oct19 pointing errors (.ps) (.pdf)
• There is no obvious az pointing error ramp vs za
• 16oct-07nov19 - the calibration runs after the encoder  1 jump was corrected.
• If  we incorrectly turned the encoder then we should see a linear za ramp in az error.
• not obvious. the pink B2209+080 error at high za is probably lost tension in the tiedowns.

We corrected an enc1 jump on 16oct19, but we did not see any trace of this in the x102 data.

• If the error occurred between 13-16oct19 then we wouldn't see it in the x102 data (since no runs during this time).

Summary:

• An azimuth bending error stopped the az telescope motion at 8:30 am 16oct19
• We found that az enc1 (dome side) had jumped 1 tooth.
• We had to turn the az enc2 (ch side) 4 turns to get back to a usable azimuth encoder difference.
• Looking at the azimuth encoder differences  1-16oct19
• Enc2 jumped a tooth on 9oct19 and 10oct19
• Both of these jumps occurred when the dome azimuth read 313 degrees (we should recheck the ch encoder on the rack gear when the azimuth reads313).
• The azimuth encoder now varies -.045 deg to +.02 degrees  in CW and CCW azimuth spins.
• We did not see the encoder 1 jump in the x102 pointing runs or in the az encoder differences
• If the jump occurred after 13oct19 then we had no x102 data.
• It is possible we missed an encoder jump on the morning of 16jun19 (especially when the moved to 270 after the bending error since az enc2 was unplugged.

processing: x101/191016/azencdifavg_oct_nov19.pro,azjump_09.pro, azjump_10.pro,azdata_16.pro,azpnterr.pro

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