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== Final results from the oxygen studies ==
 
== Final results from the oxygen studies ==
  
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- One full production cell with Viton O-rings and Apiezon applied on one side showed 75ppm (after 5 days flushing with gas) at 220ccpm gas flow. Bill got information from Servomex, the oxygen sensor manufacturer, that the flow defines the reaction time but effect on the reading is very small. With the same configuration at 110ccpm we had 114ppm, and with a flow of 55ccpm - 195ppm. These numbers can be explained if assuming the gas has 35ppm and the chamber contributes 40ppm at 220ccpm, therefore 80ppm at 110ccpm (80+35=115ppm) and 160ppm at 55ccpm (160+35=195ppm).   
  
 
== Production ==
 
== Production ==
  
- Dave: Chris will put components on wire plane #24 tomorrow, #26 on the stringing table, three wire planes waiting for deadening. Working also on cathodes #45, 46 and 47. The end window with wavy Mylar was fixed: old foil removed and a new one tensioned.  
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- Dave: for package #3 still two wire planes remain to be deadened, will do it tomorrow. Package #4: working on different cathodes, stringing third wire frame. Starting from the next wire frame we will first coat the G10 groove with Hysol and then do the stringing. The last wire frame #18, that required additional machining of the holes will be back from machine shop tomorrow.
  
- First production cell with Viton and Apiezon on all the O-rings was assembled yesterday. The oxygen goes down with relatively high rate and one day after the installation is ~3,000ppm. However, as before with Viton O-rings, we found significant gas leak. Again as before, we reduced it by two orders of magnitude using C-clamps, but Bill is against this since we can deform the gusset rings. After the meeting Bill looked at it at Blue Crab. Most likely the leak is because the gusset ring is not flat at that place. Bill will try to shim that place after we finish the oxygen tests, but for the future he proposed using hard rubber between the gusset ring and the end window.  
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- Two more cells were added to package #3 without tightening the package and tomorrow we will add another one, will have four in total. Then we will start flushing with gas and testing all four together. Normally we do the installation/testing cell by cell, but we want to save time on the flushing (5 days) and minimize the disassembling of the top end window and type-3 cathode that we have to do before each new cell installation. Bill: we take some risk with this, at least we can test the gas tightness by putting Lexan sheet on the top (after each cell installation). We will decide about this based on the experience  with the first four cells.  
  
- Dave is working on new procedures to install O-rings. In addition now we have to coat with Hysol the top surfaces of the G10 frames, then after installing the O-ring, we apply Apiezon on the top of the O-ring. Coating is needed in case we want to remove the Apiezon.  
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- The first cell in package #3 was tested with a source. With a low oxygen, the chamber is much more quite, very low noise (3-5mV), signals are higher  and the working HV can be as low as 2050V where the chamber was stable for ~24 hours. Above that HV it was not possible to have it stable for a longe time, the adverse effect of the low oxygen which was helping before as a quencher.
  
 
== Engineering ==
 
== Engineering ==

Revision as of 18:25, 26 April 2012

April 26, 2012 FDC meeting

Agenda

  1. Final results from the oxygen studies (Lubomir)
  2. Production Construction Tracking (Dave)
    • Production status
    • Third package refurbishment status
    • Third package tests (Lubomir)
  3. Engineering update (Bill)
  4. Electronics update (Chris)
  5. Tests with first package at 126 (Beni)
    • Grounding
  6. Other