-[[!meta title="Grr Multimodes"]]
+[[!meta title="Grr MultiModes"]]
[[!meta date="2008-07-07 18:54:09"]]
-There was some trouble with tapping-mode imaging this morning, and with Prof.
-Yang's help things seem to be straightened out now. I tried both Nanoscopes
-with both Multimodes (we have two *nominally* identical systems), but had not
-bothered to swap heads. As it turned out, we had been using the infrared head
-(we have three heads), which wasn't working. Not that that was the only
-problem. As it turned out, tapping seems to be working with the combination
-<pre>
- Nanoscope 2 -- Multimode 1 -- Head 1 or 2
-</pre>
-As far as I can tell, the problem is generating the voltage for the piezo that
-vibrates the cantilever, which seems to take place
-[on the Multimode main board](http://www.physics.drexel.edu/~wking/rsrch/multimode/internals.shtml). Unless
-something is seriously wrong with the Nanoscope, it shouldn't matter which
-Nanoscope we use. I suppose I should trace the Nanoscope-Multimode
+There was some trouble with tapping-mode imaging this morning, and
+with Prof. Yang's help things seem to be straightened out now. I
+tried both NanoScopes with both [[MultiModes|MultiMode]] (we have two
+*nominally* identical systems), but had not bothered to swap heads.
+As it turned out, we had been using the infrared head (we have three
+heads), which wasn't working. Not that that was the only problem. As
+it turned out, tapping seems to be working with the combination
+
+ NanoScope 2 -- MultiMode 1 -- Head 1 or 2
+
+As far as I can tell, the problem is generating the voltage for the
+piezo that vibrates the cantilever, which seems to take place on the
+[[MultiMode main board|MultiMode/internals]]. Unless something is
+seriously wrong with the NanoScope, it shouldn't matter which
+NanoScope we use. I suppose I should trace the NanoScope-MultiMode
communication in both cases and look for something different.
-I've no idea how generating a tunable sine wave can be so complicated. The
-simple solution is to stick to *modular* equipment with open-standard,
-easily-accessible communication between them, but I don't have time to develop
-a system like that. Some day I will give up on Nanoscope troubleshooting and
-build a [GXSM system](http://gxsm.sourceforge.net/).
+I've no idea how generating a tunable sine wave can be so complicated.
+The simple solution is to stick to *modular* equipment with
+open-standard, easily-accessible communication between them, but I
+don't have time to develop a system like that. Some day I will give
+up on NanoScope troubleshooting and build a [GXSM
+system](http://gxsm.sourceforge.net/).
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