RESTART AFTER INSTRUMENT POWER INTERRUPTION:

If the power to the instrument was interrupted but the white Heurikon DSP box in the computer room remained powered up and the computer was not rebooted:

• In the Instrument Control window, enter startwf following the interactive startup procedure, turning the instrument power ON when requested

  1.

  Press <return>

  2.

  Answer n to the DSP box power question

  3.

  Answer y to the instrument power question

  4.

  Turn on the instrument power now: first DCU, then ACU.

  5.

  Answer y to the instrument power being on

  6.

  Answer y to wanting windows

  7.

  Answer IRS (note it must be all caps) to the instrument selection

• Enter setup irs, answering 'y' to question about detector activation

• Enter the proper bias for the detector (nominal 0.55)

• Enter puse [parameter_file] to restore the parameter file active before the crash
• Verify ``pixel_dir'', ``header_dir'', and ``nextpic'' with plist or ped to make sure data will still be going to the desired location and will not overwrite existing data
• Reload any scripts with the source command

• Continue observing