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    User name stevensm

    Log entry time 17:49:32 on August 09, 2006

    Entry number 178724

    keyword=left spectrometer bogie erratic motion

    We observed the erratic operation of the left bogie system during an access to the hall this morning. It appears to be the result of one or more motor encoders failing from radiation damage. It was not immediately apparent which one was causing the erratic motion, so we changed the most likely encoder on the middle bogie motor number one. We then tested the system briefly, as we moved the spectrometer back into position, and it seemed that the erratic motion was still there. Jack Segal is working on possibly adding some test points to the motors to look at the raw pulse trains to detect intermittant failures.

    A copy of this log entry has been emailed to: spiegel@jlab.org