This Bomem DA-3 Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer is epic, but man is it a battle sometimes. This episode is a bit of a weird one because I’m wading deep into the unfamiliar in an attempt to get everything perfectly aligned.
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Chapters
0:00 Welcome to the DA3
3:14 What’s broken?
6:43 Trying to get it to misbehave
9:04 It fixed itself?
10:27 Aligning the detector
12:38 It broke again! That means I can troubleshoot it now
15:18 The problem here is the idiot driving this thing
16:44 The pre-amplifier
20:29 I think we’re fully aligned
22:08 Thanks for the biscuits Sue!