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EG&G / Instruments SA Inc. Spectrographs

I just acquired three spectrographs off Epay, and got them.  I originally thought they had the 1x1024 or 1x256 EG&G sensors internally, but now am seeing that they have a much more sensitive system with cooling provisions, probably with TE cooling from the looks of them.  I am not going to tear them up any further until I can research them further to see if I can get them working.

The have the following info on the Spectrograph body

Serv P/N 603461 Rev A
MFG P/N 604538

Ser# 106479
Instruments SA, Inc.

The EG&G sensor has the following
SC0564NNN-911
S/N R984042A

ABD MFG P/N 4306153 Rev A

Here is the original auction listing text:

It came out of a DNA Genome Mapping Machine, they used Air cooled Argon lasers and Hene lasers to cover a wide spectrum of the Human Gene ohm. It came with a bunch of Argon lasers we bought 5 years ago from the Silicon Valley Scrappers. I can’t use them they have a thermal chilled CCD in heavy gold plate housing. Also, there is a very fine line grating in the rear of the housing as seen in the picture of one that I took apart

Here are some photos:

 

 Above is a diagram of the spectrograph

 The grating.  It is about 3 1/2" or 4" in diameter.  Probably not ruled, but replica. 

 Sensor is in gold box.  Probably vacuum charged from the looks.  Also will guess quartz window. 

 Another shot of the image sensor.  If you look there are gold on ceramic traces internally.  I looked at an angle off to one side and there are gold pads on the back below the sensor.  Probably insulated feedthrus from the back for the signals.

 Another angle on the sensor

 The signals come out on a DB37 and thru the ribbon cable on the left.  It will be nice if I can find anything out about these.

 The cooling array on the rear.  The image sensor is on the right at an angle

 Profile view of the optical system.    Hole in the upper right allows the diversion mirror to be adjusted from outside the system.  I assume it would be tweaked until the best beam is on the image sensor

 This is the collimation system.  Slit is at the right, then probably a couple of choke lenses in the drift tube. 

 The plate visible to the upper left is a block that goes between the optics and the image sensor module.  The image sensor is probably bought out as a unit from EG&G and has nothing to do with the optics the vendor attached it to.  The plate has a peep site that allows one to view the image sensor illuminated by the spectrum, which is pretty cool.  It is a small hole covered with a plastic cover.  The angular hole at the right side of the plate is the aperture which has a view of the image sensor.  there is an eyepiece lens and mirror in this block of aluminum.

Pick UP Board

Will be posting details of a Pick UP board.  Actually a 68000 coprocessor board which runs Pick when hosted on a PC.

Hope to copy the media and post it somewhere.

Verlort Manual set

have purchased what appears to be the Carnarvon set of manuals for the radar.  I have looked them over briefly and hope to figure out what to do with them soon.  They are bound so I could disassemble and scan them, and may do so for the 8 1/2 x 11's.  I would need to borrow something for the large volume.

There is a note about servicing a unit (Maybe Carnarvon's) at Wallop's Island.  It may only be that the manuals were forwarded there.

This is the radar used to track Mercury, and i would assume other flights at long range.

The other bit from the manuals was a list of custom drawings for several sites.

Bermuda
Carnarvon
Kauai Island
Guaymas
Corpus Cristi
Grand Canary Island.

Below are some informative web pages about the radar.

http://www.infoage.org/html/anderson-ken-verlort-2007.html
http://www.carnarvonspace.com/wiki/index.php?title=VERLORT_Radar
http://wikimapia.org/6876128/VERLORT-Radar
http://crotrak.com/Next_page.htm

another page about Woomera Radars by Ken Anderson (author  of first page)

http://www.honeysucklecreek.net/other_stations/carnarvon/carnarvon.html

Cirrus Arm EDB9315a

I just got a variety of old development systems.  One is an Cirrus Arm EDB9315a shown here:

http://www.cirrus.com/en/pubs/manual/EDB9315A_Tech_Ref_Manual.pdf

PBY

various PBY and PBM resources
Air America:  http://www.utdallas.edu/library/collections/speccoll/Leeker/pby.pdf
PBY display aircraft:  http://www.fighterfactory.com/airworthy-aircraft/catalina-airplane.php

Video playback capability on LCD TV's DLNA

Here are some random notes on the subject.

Playback:
DLNA:  http://www.reghardware.com/2010/10/18/wtf_is_dlna/

Other collections and info

Various resources
http://192.197.62.35/staff/mcsele/computer.htm

Photos of Xerox Alto:
http://vintagecomputer.net/vcfmw-ECCC_2010/Xerox_Alto-II-XM/

Emulators

One thing to play with rather than old hardware is software emulating old hardware.  Much more fun, less hassle, and less smoke.

Here are some emulators:

Xerox Alto:  http://altogether.brouhaha.com/

Verlort Tracking Radar

Just sent for the tracking manuals for the Verlort Tracking radar for Project Mercury.  23# of stuff.

I'm not too sure what is on the way, since the photos didn't look like the manuals were that big.

Here are some links to the technology:
http://www.infoage.org/html/anderson-ken-verlort-2007.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/FPS-16
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