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Need a hand with something Gav?

Possibly... [Twisting the tool in his hand a quarter inch to the right, he glanced back up at the R2 unit that fit snugly behind the cockpit.] Try that again. Run the test along with the same parameters of the last light fight we were in.

[The little droid gave a long almost bleep of a whine causing Gavin just to shake his head.] Targeting system has been acting up. It's taking it .45 seconds to long acquiring a target and causing a small power flux... any ideas?

Hmmm.

[Tycho ducked down to peer at what Gavin was fiddling with.]

Have you tested the sensors themselves? If there's a short in the line between the sensor package and the targeting computer, that might explain the power flux as well as the delay ...

I've had the droid run a few scenarios on it based on previous encounters the squadron has had when there wasn't a delay noted in the system. When the canons are switched from the torpedoes, there is a slight power increase that last less than a nanosecond. [Gavin switched the datapad around for Tycho to look at and pull the schematics up if he wanted to take a peek himself.]

The only bad thing is that depending on the speed of the switch or even the pull that the ship does the flux spikes enough that it could fry the system or quite possibly make me lose shields. Or.. something else. It's really just random depending on the position of the craft.

Hmmmmm. That doesn't sound good. [Tycho takes the datapad, scrolling through Gavin's numbers]

Sounds like a fault in the wiring somewhere, which means we may have to strip this whole thing out, which ... could take a while. But given that it's position dependent, I'm guessing inertia is causing some faulty wiring to shift slightly enough it's making contact with something else and causing the spike and the lag. ... course, there's probably a thousand meters of wiring in an x-wing, but we'll start with what's directly connected to the targeting computer and the weapons systems, yeah?

[With a rueful smile, Tycho picks up a hydrospanner and starts working off one of the side panels]

Don't worry Gav, we'll get it figured out, just ... we might have to get some food down here if we're at it long enough.

Need a hand with something Gav?

Possibly... [Twisting the tool in his hand a quarter inch to the right, he glanced back up at the R2 unit that fit snugly behind the cockpit.] Try that again. Run the test along with the same parameters of the last light fight we were in.

[The little droid gave a long almost bleep of a whine causing Gavin just to shake his head.] Targeting system has been acting up. It's taking it .45 seconds to long acquiring a target and causing a small power flux... any ideas?

Hmmm.

[Tycho ducked down to peer at what Gavin was fiddling with.]

Have you tested the sensors themselves? If there's a short in the line between the sensor package and the targeting computer, that might explain the power flux as well as the delay ...

I've had the droid run a few scenarios on it based on previous encounters the squadron has had when there wasn't a delay noted in the system. When the canons are switched from the torpedoes, there is a slight power increase that last less than a nanosecond. [Gavin switched the datapad around for Tycho to look at and pull the schematics up if he wanted to take a peek himself.]

The only bad thing is that depending on the speed of the switch or even the pull that the ship does the flux spikes enough that it could fry the system or quite possibly make me lose shields. Or.. something else. It's really just random depending on the position of the craft.

Hmmmmm. That doesn't sound good. [Tycho takes the datapad, scrolling through Gavin's numbers]

Sounds like a fault in the wiring somewhere, which means we may have to strip this whole thing out, which ... could take a while. But given that it's position dependent, I'm guessing inertia is causing some faulty wiring to shift slightly enough it's making contact with something else and causing the spike and the lag. ... course, there's probably a thousand meters of wiring in an x-wing, but we'll start with what's directly connected to the targeting computer and the weapons systems, yeah?

[With a rueful smile, Tycho picks up a hydrospanner and starts working off one of the side panels]

Don't worry Gav, we'll get it figured out, just ... we might have to get some food down here if we're at it long enough.