[roc-chat] Re: Separate LPR area at ROCtober
- From: Michael Klett <xsive.guy@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: roc-chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:05:23 -0700
How about copying what Starbucks does to make sure that old coffee is
not served...
Set up a board with the pads and put a timer on the board for each
bank. As soon as the first rocket goes on a pad on the bank the timer
is started. When the bank is launched the timer is cleared. The Pad
Manager / LCO always choose the bank with the oldest time on it. And
if there is more than one bank with say 15 minutes (or some other
arbitrary time) showing then it's a signal that they need to speed
things up.
Perhaps another addition to that idea is that when a bank has hit 5
minutes on the timer the Pad Manager can't put any more rockets on it
and has to start loading the next bank so that it can be cycled.
Of course, these times are pulled out of the air and probably would
need to be tuned but think about the concept. Of course, for safety
reasons, distances would need to be considered so that any bank not
being launched could be open for loading. If that's not the case then
the algorithm probably wouldn't work.
Thanks,
Mike
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 9:49 AM, David Erbas-White
<derbas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 6/26/2012 9:23 AM, Richard Dierking wrote:
>
> NO!
>
> There are plenty of times when even six pads aren't enough. The problem
> isn't that there are too many pads waiting to be filled, it's a management
> issue (time/pad management). It's the problem of not cycling pads, even if
> a bank only has one rocket.
>
> I had proposed some kind of chart last year, with a pointer, that could
> simply have the hand rotated or some such to show which banks were coming up
> next, but it was noted as 'too much additional work' to try and show pad
> order.
>
> I don't have the ultimate solution, but the BASELINE PROBLEM is that any
> bank with a rocket on it should be fired in rotation with all other banks.
>
> Here's one other possible solution/proposal -- have a little box attached to
> the controller that would track which banks haven't been flown (this would
> be 'reset' or 'changed' by detecting the arming switch for the bank being
> thrown). It could then show something like the order of the next upcoming
> three banks, thus 'reminding' the LCO what's up next.
>
> I'm sure that others have simple, non-intrusive methods that we can come up
> with -- but the bottom line issue is that the first person to put a rocket
> on a bank should NOT have to be waiting half-an-hour for their rocket to
> launch.
>
> David Erbas-White
>
>
>> Just a thought; do you think setting up 4 pads per bank instead of the
>> normal 6 would help?
>> Richard Dierking
>>
>
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