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I don’t have any inside knowledge to answer your question directly, but I suspect efforts are currently focused on setting up, calibrating and reducing the noise on all the diagnostics. Its pointless trying to tweak anything else to improve the performance until you have good measurments of, for example, ion temperature.
Also I gather there is also a lot of work going into getting ready to reconfigure the device to work with decaborane, and all the headaches that go with that.
