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== Minutes ==
 
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Participants: Curtis, Naomi, Eugene, Beni, Simon, and Lubomir.
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=== FDC Update ===
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==== Production ====
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Cathode foil contract awarded and we are expecting the first article in a month. Wire frame lamination with Rohacell rings is going well: 15 frames done. The next step in the production is fly cutting the Rohacell, to be done at the Vision machine shop. First article populated PCBs
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received. At the beginning, they couldn't hold voltage above 1500V because of residual flux under the HV capacitors. Problem fixed after cleaning.
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==== Full-scale prototype tests ====
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=== CDC Update ===
  
=== CDC Update===
 
 
==== CDC Construction ====
 
==== CDC Construction ====
 
The CDC review last week went well. <br>  
 
The CDC review last week went well. <br>  

Revision as of 15:47, 27 October 2010

Meeting Time and Place

Wednesday Ocyober 27, 2010 at 11:00am At Jefferson Lab, the meeting will be held in ARC 428

Connections

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Agenda

  1. Announcements
  2. FDC Update logbook
  3. CDC Update [1]
    1. CDC Flow rate
    2. CDC heated gas measurements Heated_gas_measurements


Minutes

Minutes

Participants: Curtis, Naomi, Eugene, Beni, Simon, and Lubomir.

FDC Update

Production

Cathode foil contract awarded and we are expecting the first article in a month. Wire frame lamination with Rohacell rings is going well: 15 frames done. The next step in the production is fly cutting the Rohacell, to be done at the Vision machine shop. First article populated PCBs received. At the beginning, they couldn't hold voltage above 1500V because of residual flux under the HV capacitors. Problem fixed after cleaning.

Full-scale prototype tests

CDC Update

CDC Construction

The CDC review last week went well.
We have a few straws dry-fitted into the CDC and the technicians have been practising stringing and crimping with these straws, they have come up with some improvements to the stringing procedure (using a magnetic probe for needle reception).
We still need the crimper drawings from Steve Cristo - Beni will check with Tim - and some new wire.

ADC125

The new fADC is installed and apparently working through CODA but the readout needs some more software work. Naomi will talk to Beni about this. It also needs some hardware ingenuity to make up a trigger for Fe55 measurements.

Flow rate

The measurements on Flow rate were discussed, in particular what causes the highest amplitude peak at 2050V and above, and why the flow rate affects the pulse amplitude.
Naomi will:
remove the small flowmeter between the gas mixer and the CDC prototype;
uncollimate the Fe55 source (to get a higher rate, presently 27 counts/sec);
put premixed gas through one channel of the mixer;
add event pictures to the wiki.

CDC heated gas measurements

Brent Driscol's results from heating the CDC prototype were presented Heated_gas_measurements