Elmer Electro-Mechanics

Martín-Fleitas, J. M.; Maldonado, M.; García-Vargas, M. L.; Cavaller-Marqués, L.
Referencia bibliográfica

II International GTC Workshop: Science with GTC 1st-light Instruments and the LMT (Eds. A. M. Hidalgo-Gámez, J. J. González, J. M. Rodríguez Espinosa, and S. Torres-Peimbert) Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica (Serie de Conferencias) Vol. 24, pp. 260-261 (2005) (http://www.astroscu.unam.mx/~rmaa/)

Fecha de publicación:
12
2005
Número de autores
4
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0
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0
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Descripción
ELMER is a multi-purpose Camera&Spectrograph in the optical range for the GTC. ELMERs electro-mechanical design was based in well known, straightforward and reliable solutions, hence each mechanism is based in a wheel driven by a pre-loaded worm gear transmission, except focusing of the focal plane on the CCD which is based in a translation stage. All mechanisms are driven by the same stepper motor type with an incremental encoder, being commanded each one by a local control unit. After integration, an intensive campaign was carried out at factory for testing the functionality and performances of each mechanism. We present the electro-mechanical design of ELMER and the resulting performance after factory tests.