Tough crowd!
No one is saying that we should delay getting things in motion
(at least *I* didn't intend to). But if the addition of a couple
cables now is going to make our lives easier in the long run I vote
for the couple of cables.
> Just to put in my own two cents, I would _really_ like to fix this
> without adding a new layer to the onion. Do we have enough hard data on
> the direct overshoot fix to insure that it won't work well enough?
>
As Erik said in one of his emails, PMT afterpulsing from a
high energy event can be enough to fill up the maximum 160usec memory
of a WFD channel. This is independent of the overshoot problems.
-Chris
Assistant Professor Nat Longley
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Swarthmore College
Swarthmore, PA 19081-1397
nlongle1@swarthmore.edu
(610) 328-8249 fax: (610) 328-7895