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DSOS
System Diagram
System Diagram
| 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~ |