Big Dewar Day – 22 outgoing dewars

Here it is at beamline 5.0.2, unpacked from the wooden crate, but not unpacked from its case yet. Install and commissioning in the beamline will begin in just a few weeks!

The next test is to run the 501 and 502 Pilatus detectors simultaneously off the same PPU.

The new Pilatus3 6M detector has arrived and is on the optical bench at 5.0.2, ready for testing tomorrow when we get light!

Marc collected a lysozyme dataset with the new Pilatus 6M detector. All modules are good.

ALS is down for the month of July and the first week or so of August. We are taking the opportunity to do a bunch of preventative maintenance on our beamlines. Some of the items include: – cleaning the Be window on 502 (may help to decrease scatter in images) – replacing air lines –…