Detectors

An agreement was signed with the NBI director on June 16 2015. This included a planning for the installation of the new FIES and ALFOSC detectors in September. However, there has been a large delay due to, principally, two reasons. The first was an unexpected reminiscence problem on the detectors. The second is the work on the video card, which was planned to only require some minor debugging, but it turned out that as the present design is around 10 years old, and some components were becoming obsolete. Furthermore, the planned parallel work of revising the other boards could not be done in parallel, but had to be done after the work on the video board. All this have added an extra 5.5 months of calendar time to the project as the situation is now.

The last received planning foresees the installation of the new FIES and ALFOSC CCDs in February 2016.