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- Dave: priority is to finish the two type-3 cathodes so that we can build three cells from package #2. The first type-3 will be ready on Monday, then we can start the package #2 installation. Working also on all the other cathodes for this package. Since Tina and Mike will start working also on BCAL we'll have to find a way to finish at least these cathodes, that has to be done by the end of January.  
 
- Dave: priority is to finish the two type-3 cathodes so that we can build three cells from package #2. The first type-3 will be ready on Monday, then we can start the package #2 installation. Working also on all the other cathodes for this package. Since Tina and Mike will start working also on BCAL we'll have to find a way to finish at least these cathodes, that has to be done by the end of January.  
  
- Package #4: the broken wire (top cell) was replaced and the package put together last Friday. This week the top cell was tested: all channels working fine, very low currents of 15/-4nA, oxygen after six days flushing ~160ppm. Will continue
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- Package #4: the broken wire (top cell) was replaced and the package put together last Friday. This week the top cell was tested: all channels working fine, very low currents of 15/-4nA, oxygen after six days flushing ~160ppm. The plan is to take the package from the installation table and start putting the other subsystems. The problem is that we still don't have the clips.
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- Package #3: as explained in entry #98, the package was connected to the Nitrogen dewar with a rotameter at 30sccpm, and there was an over-pressure over the last weekend. We measured the pressure at the output of the rotameter: 360Pa, so the pressure in the chamber must have been below that.
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== Electronics ===
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- Chris: delay with the clips due to lack of material. They made only 135 (out of 500) and Chris asked them to ship these; plus about 50 here could be enough for one package. Nick populated one more set of PCB and will do another (the last) one soon.
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== Cathode corrosion test ==
 
== Cathode corrosion test ==
  
- Vlad: test #3 (Ar/CO2 gas, at ~70degC). Two samples failed before Thanksgiving (14 days from the start of the tests): one EPDM and the other dummy, i.e. no O-ring on the sample, just a strip with two wires soldered to the ends. The second EPDM sample is OK already 23 days. We assume it was the solder that failed again; it failed before at 100degC in four days. From these results one estimates about 0.5eV activation energy, which means this type of soldering on 2 micron copper would fail after ~190 days at room temperature, good we don't solder on 2 micron copper! As for the Viton+Apiezon the highest estimate so far is that it will survive for at least ~1300 days.
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- Lubomir: test #3 (Ar/CO2 gas, at ~70degC). One more sample failed over the weekend: one of the two Viton samples, second Viton is OK.
  
 
== Engineering ==
 
== Engineering ==

Revision as of 17:07, 6 December 2012

December 6, 2012 FDC meeting

Agenda

  1. Production Construction Tracking
    • Production status (Dave)
    • Package testing (Lubomir)
  2. Corrosion tests (Lubomir)
  3. Engineering (Bill)
  4. Electronics (Chris, Nick)
  5. Tests at EEL126 FDC E-log
  6. Other