ESI Troubleshooting
The CCD and CCD Crate
Rebooting the CCD crate.
Cycling power to the CCD controller.
E-mail regarding "unable to read status from ESI CCD controller crate"
No CCD temperature control.
Images display but contain all zeros.
Images display with noise, but CCD is insensitive to light.
Images show halos around bright lines, or broad plateaus or depressions near the center of the CCD.
Computers
Death of koki's motherboard
Software
Problem bringing up GUI
Malacq.tcl hangs and does not restore observer's settings
Observer hits the PANIC! button
The ESI Dispatchers and Galil Controllers
Missing FITS header info
Multiple entries in GUI droplists
The Guider
PXL troubleshooting (internal only)
The Galil Controllers and Lantronix
The ESI Dispatchers and Galil Controllers
Resetting a Galil controller
Resetting the Lantronix terminal server
Some Galil commands (incomplete)
Galil 0 axes
Mechanical Problems/Notes
Motors not moving-GUI says "HALTED"
Slit wheel move fails.
Rotator initializes fine, but goes into "Maytag" mode.
Stuck hatch.
Shutter malfunction.
Triple wheel malfunction.
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