Minutes-11-11-2010

November 11, 2010 FDC meeting

Tentative Agenda

1. Production (David)
   • Blue Crab status sketch
   • Frame lamination
   • Production plan
2. Electronics (Fernando, Chris, Roger)
   • Update on PCB inspection
   • Other
   • Cathode foil production
   • Rigid-flex procurement
3. Engineering (Bill, David, Beni)
   • Wire stringing status model ; stepper motor controller.
   • Other
4. Full-scale prototype tests
   • timing with fADC125 (Beni)
   • cathode resolution studies (Simon and Lubomir) FDC Log Book, pages 537-538
5. Other

Minutes

Participants: Eugene, Fernando, Bill, Casey, Mark, Chris, Roger, Simon, Beni, and Lubomir.

Production

- They are going to install phones and work on the Internet today at Blue Crab. We can now use heaters at low temperatures; must be above 60degF for gluing.

- By next Wednesday expect to have all the wire frames laminated. 18 frames came back from Vision machine after fly cut. They started there also the cathode frame production.

- Dave made the next version of the production plan. We start production in March 2011, the first package will be ready by September 2011 and then every ~4 months we plan to have a new package. According to the plan we will produce chamber by chamber serially, so that we can test them at the same time. Fernando discussed the issue with the company and we will ship all the PCBs back for cleaning. In addition Chris found some other problems that are not crucial (Fernando). Find many pictures from the PCB inspection at M:\halld-electronics\Documents\FDC\Populated FDC First Articles on Windows, or at the /group/halld-electronics/Documents/FDC/Populated FDC First Articles on linux.