This page last changed on Jun 17, 2010 by jbirch.

Present:  Chris P., Doug, Brent, Jim, Scott, Cheri, Julie, Sara, Sunni, Wayne

Absent: Chris S., Roman

 Issues:

1.  NONE!

Methane cruise

ISMS

1.  Wayne and Sunni have wrestled the beast into submission these past 2 days, and are waiting on new o-rings to seal up the instrument.  They will Can, Test, replace membrane, and be ready to go.  Doug will take housing early next week for elevator build.

2.  Slight issue with getting turbo pumps up to speed, but Sunni says this is normal--keep sending them 'go' commands and they eventually get going.

3.  We will turn ISMS on once it reaches the bottom, and not turn it off until it a.)runs out of battery, or b.)mission ends.

DWM

1.  Replaced IEP pump with the smaller one and now it (inexplicably) is working.

2.  Plan is to exercise the sampling today, and sometime this weekend run a full day phase at temperature and pressure.  Sunday will turn off the van and allow a slow warm-up.  Will cut-out and SPE parts of the phase to spare the column of potential inhibitory effects of rust.  Doug will then get it Monday to begin the elevator build.  Scott and Jim to get more foam from Castroville this PM.

3.  Logisitics:
Advance team will be Doug P., Brent, and Chris P., who will fly to LA on July 20, meet van, and fire off deck phase. They will spend evening in hotel arranged by Theresa C.
Rest of team arrives July 21; shove off July 22.

Scott is travel contact person week of June 21.  DougP. contact person week of June 28.  Jim takes back over week of July 5.

M0 Flip

1. Lowering bubble-point pressure to 60PSI has worked and Moe has now made it through 4(!) WCR's.  Brent thought issue to look at was the raw counts of the pressure gauge while  puck is in clamp and there was no pressure and while it was holding pressure.  This would tell us if sensor is reaching it's limit due to wrong gains/offsets.  Julie going to look at gathering that data.

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