Michael, Krishna

Yesterday, we tested some soft rubber-like pad under the turn-table to reduce the impact of the vibrations in the BRS-1 damper (as discussed here). This was unsuccessful and today we went back to the previous configuration with some thin sheets of closed-cell foam. The arrangement works for now but will likely not be permanent.

BRS-2's vacuum can was completely closed yesterday and we hooked up the portable pumping station to it but couldn't figure out how to enable the safety interlock to start pumping. We will start pumping on Monday after talking to the vacuum experts. We also connected the Satellite box to the Beckhoff computer and the 24V DC power supply. No issues there.