Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 09:43:02 -0600
From: Dan Long
Subject: Re: 2.5m obslog 20100929 (MJD 55469)
Hi David,
    It is the first case you mention.  There are 5 individual short
fibers out of the roughly 1000 fibers in all the cartridges which are
confirmed dead.  The long fibers are all good.
				Cheers,
				  Dan
>>   More than two thirds of the fibers on the list of suspect fibers
>>for this run check out okay.  It was confirmed today that there are
>>5 dead fibers across all cartridges and pointings (with the
>>exception of one fiber each on cartridge 6 and  8 which have yet to
>>be checked).  We will be repairing them as time allows.
>>
>>				Cheers,
>>
>>				  Dan
>
>Thanks, Dan.  Does the above mean that there are a total of 5 dead
>(short) fibers among all the cartridges, or does it mean that every
>cartridge is showing 5 dead fibers (in which case they would
>presumably have to be long fibers to show up consistently)?
>
>David