by charleswenzel » Thu Jun 02, 2011 6:23 pm
My curves have been pretty quiet lately, and the sun has been pretty inactive. Maybe I have to wait until our solar system drifts through some more wrinkles in space-time. : ) My experiment is far from perfect; I basically attacked problems serially, a bit like "Whack a Mole." I'm always afraid to take it off line, because that will cause the "big one" to occur. If I had a hobby lab assistant, I'd build another one!
I do wonder if I'm looking at tea leaves.
I installed a window air conditioning unit right next to the experiment that's been turned on just about every day for an hour or two, but I see no signs of it on the recent plots. I think I have the pressure licked, too. The power supplies are all stable now, and the experiment is in a remote corner. The plots were noticeably more disturbed a few weeks back and the sun was more active. So, it will be interesting to see if the plots get noisy about a day before the sun becomes active again.