JK's+Logbook+Week+of+Jan.+28th

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//1-28-08//__ - Today at the Quarknet Center DO and I worked with the new DAQ board we recently acquired and tried to get it fully functional. First we tried reinstalling the new software for the board, but this seemed to have no effect. Then, following Dr. Loughran's advice, we started testing every possible configuration with the new board and finally we found one where we could actually input data commands so that was a start. In all of the other outcomes we were unable to type in commands at all. We are now faced with another problem and that is our new board is not counting anything so we cannot yet view data. Tomorrow we hope to fix this and start viewing data through our new DAQ board.

__//1-29-08//__ - Dr. Loughran informed us that it was the voltage of our power distributor box that was awry, but he turned the voltages back up and now our board is counting again. Our next problem was the new GPS device. For some reason it was not working and our data wouldn't pick it up. David rerouted the wire to the other port on the DAQ board and it started working fine. We then copied some of the data we were receiving to show Dr. Loughran later.

__//1-30-08//__ - Snow Day! But seriously...All I did today was read some more of the Subatomic Zoo book.

__//1-31-08//__ - Today DO and I went to the lab to try to record and upload some of the data we've been receiving over the past couple days. We did save some of it, but in order to upload data to the internet we need to register our detectors and in order to do that we need an administrator's help. Therefore, we have to wait for Dr. Loughran's assistance. Otherwise, our detector is fully functional and we're getting some good results from the new DAQ board.

//__2-1-08__// - Another snow day...