price@price-laptop:~/pfs/drp_instmodel (tickets/SIM2D-31 *$%=) $ git sub-patch
commit ce712b0cde22da128e6be9e8492e7da875017fb8 (HEAD -> tickets/SIM2D-31, origin/tickets/SIM2D-31)
Author: Paul Price <price@astro.princeton.edu>
Date:   Wed Sep 11 12:45:49 2019 -0400

    FlatSpectrum: set temperature to 5000 K
    
    as specfied by RHL.
    
    This requires a slight adjustment of the scaling as well to
    avoid saturating the detectors.

diff --git a/python/pfs/instmodel/spectrum.py b/python/pfs/instmodel/spectrum.py
index a190431..ffdabea 100644
--- a/python/pfs/instmodel/spectrum.py
+++ b/python/pfs/instmodel/spectrum.py
@@ -173,12 +173,12 @@ class FlatSpectrum(Spectrum):
     scale : `float`
         Scale to apply to spectrum.
     """
-    def __init__(self, scale=2.0e-19):  # Scale chosen manually to get reasonable counts in 30 sec
+    def __init__(self, scale=7.0e-20):  # Scale chosen manually to get reasonable counts in 30 sec
         self.scale = scale
 
     def interpolate(self, wavelength):
         """return a quartz lamp spectrum, as seen by our detector."""
-        return self.scale*blackbody(wavelength, 3800.0)
+        return self.scale*blackbody(wavelength, 5000.0)
 
 
 class LineSpectrum(Spectrum):