Friday
Still no oven. GC care package did not arrive at CERES.
Adama made the PRC standard today, but Anna, Marie, and Vieux were present. We were experiencing power outages all day long, but mostly for only a minute or two at a time. We were going to check the standard on the GC to verify it, but during the run the power went out for good. Needless to say the battery back-up and it's capacitors only held up for about 35 minutes. I would add that the capacity of the back-up was probably compromised due to the frequent losses of power earlier in the day. This failure of the back-up occurred around 1:45 PM during the middle of a GC run. The CERES staff and I had already agreed to come in on Saturday to make LFT, but since we could not confirm the PRC standard we'll see what tomorrow holds. We still have part of the day on Tuesday to finish LFT if need be.
Saturday
We made open-ended LFT today for the upcoming deployment. This means we essentially made the LFT with one looped end and with one open end so that it can be easily fortified with the PRC solution at a later date.
Since we had to wait on the GC before we could proceed, we spent the rest of our afternoon cleaning the cages with Alconox and water and gathering materials need for the deployment next week.
I spent much of the morning bringing the GC back online after the power failure on Friday. It had lost power just after an injection so it took a while for the compounds to come off the column and by the time we left for the day the baseline was still not that low. I will wait to see what the PRC solution looks like on the GC on Monday.
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