DO+Jan.+28,+08

January 28, 08__** Today at the Quarknet Center, JK and I began fiddling around with our new DAQ board that we received but also didn't know how to run since the settings needed to be different from the old board. At first, we uninstalled the the connection to the computer, thinking that there was just a mishap when we installed it, but after we reinstalled it and still had that same problems, we tried a different way to fix it. Our problem was that we couldn't type any commands onto our DAQ board so Dr. L gave us advice to try out all of the possible setting configurations for the board to see which one worked. After go down the list systematically we came across the right setting and wrote it down so we wouldn't forget it. Even after this success we came across another problem. Our DAQ board was not counting time intervals. So, we e-mailed Dr. L and will wait for his answer tomorrow.
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__**January 29, 08**__ Dr. L e-mailed us back today and said that our board was not counting because he turned the voltages down, but had turned them back up so it started counting again, but with our streak of bad luck, he also said that for some reason he couldn't figure out, our GPS wasn't working. Well, luckily the problem was not to serious and it turned out we just needed to plug it in to a different outlet. WE got it running again and then saved a chunk of data from the detectors and called it a day.

__**January 30, 08**__ Snow Day!!!! Did nothing today......except read __Subatomic Particle Zoo.__ Thrilling!

JK and I went to the Quarknet Center today and saved some more data from the detectors, but we can't upload any of the data yet that Dr. L wants us to do since we haven't registered our detectors yet, and to do that we need his help because he has administrative rights on the Cosmic Ray E-lab and we don't.
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__**February 1, 08**__ Yes! Another snow day and terrific reading!