Spike noise on channels T1-T9

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System
detector channels T1-T9
Symptoms
spike noise was observed on channells T1, ..., T9 on the sparo data taker system's monitor (except in T3 that is not working!). The spike lasts about 1 pixel noise and is almost saturating the plot windows with attenuation is set to 8.
No noise was observed on channells R1-R9. See Fig. 1
Observed time
2000hrs - Tue 05/27/03
Solution

The problem has been fixed swapping batteries D1/P2 with batteries D2/P1.

Fixing time
0300hrs - Wed 05/28/03
Notes
The old batteries (D1/P2) have been installed, fully charged, at 1538 on Sun 05/25/03

The voltage measuered on the old batteries immediately after swapping were:

D2: digital +6.03 V, analog 6.14, -8.13 V
P1: analog 12.38 V, digital -12.40 V

Possible cause
Faulty batteries or, more likely, faulty connector - to be investigated
Fig 1. - Spike noise on channell T1-T9. Attenuation is set to 8 on both channells. The chopper is stopped
Fig. 2. - channell noise after swapping the batteries. The attenuation is the same as in Fig. 1. The chopper is now operating
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