Taipan

Taipan (thermal three-axis spectrometer)

Taipan sample table

Currently, Taipan is being wired: motors and encoders in monochromator drum, sample and analyser stages (see photo). Even as the wiring proceeds, motion control is being installed and tested on those axes which have been completed. The elements of safety interlock system are installed. We are about to install the input-optics assembly, consisting of the virtual source, a secondary shutter, a sapphire filter and primary collimators. Implementation of instrument-control software will follow.