10 May
2006
10 May
'06
12:16 a.m.
Jay West wrote:
Jay,
this looks like it is similar to a system we scrapped at UMR that was a
ground test set for the Gemini telemetry downlink. The cabinets are full
of microwave plumbing, and there are what may be PCM decommutators
in one rack, and about a zilliion amps of DC in one.
The system we bid on and got from McD in St. Louis put out all the
decommutated data on displays that showed analog, digital, and test binary
out of every 8 bit field in a 1100 bit PCM stream.
I would imagine all that is what the DG system is doing in the middle
of the pile.
The nice thing we had though was the PCM test set to generate a
stream to run the decommutator, and make lots of lights blink.
This is 7 - 10 bays total. The one we got was about 80 or 90
6' nasa barfo light blue cabinets.
sure brings back memories.
The other place you can see the same stuff right now is in the recreated
firing room displays, and the space station displays at the KSC vistors
Saturn center.
Jim