NIRSPEC Trouble Shooting

Software

• The Server (the background software that handles the keywords)
• XNIRSPEC (the three GUI panels on the left-hand monitor)
• QuickLook (the image display tools --- look HERE if your images are not displaying)
• Image Rotator
• SCAM Guiding Problems
• Swap Space Warnings
• No More Processes
• Rebooting waimea

Looks like Hardware.... really Software

• One quadrant appears dead

Hardware

• iBoots do not respond
• Slit Nodding Performance Poor
• Motors will not initialize or move
• Problems with Pointing or Slit Alignment After a Slew
• No Light from Cal Lamps and/or AO fiber
• Charge Persistence on the Detectors
• Bias Ramps on the SCAM Detector
• Pickup Noise (Horizontal Banding) on the SCAM detector
• New Features of the Aladdin-3 Detector
• Mechanism Never Stops Slewing
• PXL Camera Too Warm
• Weird looking spectra