A project to obtain Deep Depletion CCDs from the University of Hawaii consortium. Should improve the red sensitivity of the ISIS spectrograph by a factor of 2-3 whilst eliminating fringing.

A project to improve the readout speed of our large format science detectors using SDSU controllers. The speed improvements have been considerable : a TEK1024 CCD can now be read out in 22s with 6e noise, an EEV4280 in 37s with 4 e noise. This conversion is now largely complete.

A project to improve the characterisation of the ING science detectors through the use of automatic scripts. A light source for more accurate linearity measurement has been constructed and commissioned as has a multi-spectral source for Quantum Efficiency measurement.

Methods for improving the throughput of the NAOMI WFS are been investigated.

Experiments are being done to assess the feasibility of converting autoguiders to SDSU/uDAS operation.