Melanie Leong
CSO Technical Brief, 2007
5
DSOS
System Diagram
System Diagram
| This is a system
diagram of the DSOS. |
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| The CSO consists
in part of a 10.4 meter primary mirror.
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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| Simply by using
the properties of the in-place steel rod standoff itself, the DSOS expands
and contracts, without mechanical gears. The system does no harm to the
original mechanical tune of the primary. Turn the DSOS off and the dish goes back to it s original
state. |
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| There are 99
standoff assemblies which I will show in the next slides. Wiring and plumbing
were routed to distribute the weight of the material as evenly as possible on
the backing structure. |
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| I split the dish
into 4 quadrants. The different colored lines indicate the different
quadrants. |
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| The electronics
are housed in 3 racks seen on the right. |
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| The refrigerated
baths, pumps, manifolds, and coolant lines, are shown here on both sides of
the dish. |
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| ~Melanie Leong~ |