SHOCnWonder
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Introduction
This page has addional inforamtion for the "new SHOC" aka "shocnwonder" that is now permantky mounted on the 74-inch as a secondary instrument via the 74-inch "Instrument Selector" so user should first familiarsie themselves with the "Instrument Selector" wiki: wiki-link. All the hardware is new but the underlying control softawre, GUI and data-folder structure etc. are indetical to the old SHOC systems so user should first familarise themsefs with is essentially a new fold mirror that has been installed in the acquisition boxes of both SpUpNIC and HiPPO[1] that allows the observer to switch between two instruments: a "primary" and a "secondary" instrument where the primary instru- ↑ 22 Feb 2024: the implementation of the fold mirror in HiPPo's acquisition box has not been completed at time of writing
