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The CSO
consists in part of a 10.4 meter primary mirror designed by Robert
Leighton. The dish has 84
hexagonal panels made of aluminum epoxied onto a honeycomb backing that is
mounted on a steel backing structure.
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This is an
attempt to display the engineering challenges put forth by the sheer area
and numbers of this system.
There are 99 standoff assemblies consisting of a bracket, thermistor,
Peltier device, and heat exchanger.
Along with that comes (198) thermistor wires, (198) Peltier device
wires, and heat exchanger coolant lines. All routed on the backing structure
of the dish.
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The electronics
are housed in 3 racks seen on the right. The shorter center rack houses the 99 Channel DSOS
Controller. The 2 taller racks
house the Driver units. Each
Driver rack contains 2 Driver units along with their power supplies.
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The different
colored lines indicate the different quadrants. I split the dish into 4 quadrants for Driver and heat
exchange purposes.
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Wiring and
plumbing were routed to distribute the weight of the material as evenly as
possible on the backing structure.
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The blue and
red dots indicate the inputs and outputs, respectively, of the coolant
loops.
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~Melanie Leong~
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