Computer Carts Holding Telescope Control Computers
The south side of the control room has the carts holding the computers that control the telescopes and the observatory. All cables from the telescopes, their instruments, weather instruments, GPS receivers, etc. terminate here.
Electronics Workbench
This electronics workbench was donated to Winer by Teclab, the leading vendor of such items. This particular bench appeared in a television hospital emergency room series ("Chicago Hope"). Having been loaned by the manufacturer, it was used and no longer in a condition to be sold as new equipment, yet it was in like-new condition. It is a full electrostatic discharge bench, with an ESD work top, sockets to plug in two grounding wrist straps, an ESD mat that is wired into the grounding backplane, and an ESD stool with a grounding chain that drags on the grounding mat. All grounds go to a common grounding point on the back of the bench, which is then tied to a grounding rod driven through the slab 8 feet into the ground.