From jprovine at stanford.edu Wed May 9 10:22:01 2012 From: jprovine at stanford.edu (J Provine) Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 10:22:01 -0700 Subject: to not mess with the laptop cables or move the control laptops around on the fijis Message-ID: hi users, please do not move the laptops and their usb cables. there is never a reason to do this. the reason not to do it is clear...if the computer is disconnected from the machine the software shuts down. every trained user should know how to restart the software so if you happen to mess with the computer and shut the software down (pop-up error says "USB interruption" and some other things), then restart the program, turn on the heaters, start the standby recipe, and alert the enabled user (if someone is enabled). if you do not know how to restart the software, please just let me know and we'll review that part of your training. j -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jprovine at stanford.edu Fri May 25 01:53:51 2012 From: jprovine at stanford.edu (J Provine) Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 01:53:51 -0700 Subject: fiji systems back online Message-ID: ald enthusiasts, fiji1 and fiji2 are back online for us (although i'm running on fiji1 now). both transfer arms were disassembled, reassembled, cleaned, reset, coaxed, encouraged, mollified, and finally convinced to behave once again. fiji2 is not as "sticky" or rough in action as before, but still isn't perfectly smooth. fiji1's substrate transfer is fine. in both cases, definite care should be taken to make sure you properly transfer the substrate holder. very little force is needed at any time and there should never be sudden movements with the transfer arm. if you are in doubt at all or concerned please call me at 650-644-9403 at any time. i will be in the snf quite a bit in the coming 4 days so i should be able to look in or help as you load/unload. finally, special thanks to max shulaker, hai wei, and fabian purkl for their assistance today in the repairs or freeing up time for me to work on the systems. also noted thanks to kaveh and joe m for being willing to help as well. j -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: