Minutes 8-30-2006

FDC Weekly Meeting

Date: August 30, 2006

Participants: Daniel, Brian

Next Meeting: Wednesday, September 6, 2006 @ 1:30 p.m.

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1). Simon has checked the cosmic chamber signals now that alcohol

   has been added.  Things look much better now.  Several chambers
   are being read out and a crude calibration is in place.  More
   work will be done when Simon gets back from vacation.

2). Comparison of chamber resolution with stretched cathodes shows now

   change from before (i.e. compared to the old wrinkled planes).

3). Brian showed his first mechanical drawing. Not much to talk about

   as drawing was 0th order.  Brian will continue to work on this.

4). Brian suggested that we discuss the FDC budget for next year at

   our next FDC meeting.  We can then decide what we want to purchase.
  - DSC will send Brian the R&D budget numbers after the meeting.

5). DSC reviewed with Brian details from the meeting on 8/28/06

   with Chris Cuevas and Elton regarding who will work on the FDC
   circuit board design.

6). We agreed that it is time to start to perform the load calculations

   for the frames supporting the wires.

Minutes prepared by Daniel. Send any comments or corrections along.