Pods #94 and #71 were experiencing the problems laid out in alogs 2308 and 2321. So today I de-podded both of them. During the de-podding I noticed no issues with the feet or any other kinematic devices.
I did find a broken flexure on #71, however (pictures attached). Which is odd since the GS-13 tested fine on arrival. Somewhere in between its arrival and testing it completely failed. It's possible it was severally fatigued during shipping and only recently failed.
Pod #94 has had its brains swapped with another failed GS-13 (mechanical issues) and will hopefully be tested sometime tomorrow to see if that solves the gain issues. If not that should point us toward some mechanical problem that I haven't seen before.
Both of these pods will become test pods (if their issues can be fixed) until they can be sent to LLO for retesting.
A Huddle test was performed earlier this week in order to evaluate the effect of the reparations.
- Pod #94 does not feature a gain of 1/2 anymore. It confirms that its pre-amp was initially malfunctionning.
- Pod #71 does not output signal. It did output signal before having its flexure replaced. It is possible that an electronic mis-connection was caused during de-poding/repoding process.
Results and pictures of the test are attached.
