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.
	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.
	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.
	The different colored lines indicate the different quadrants.  I split the dish into 4 quadrants for Driver and heat exchange purposes.
	Wiring and plumbing were routed to distribute the weight of the material as evenly as possible on the backing structure.
	The blue and red dots indicate the inputs and outputs, respectively, of the coolant loops.
	~Melanie Leong~