Test Setup 

We arrived in Berlin on Sunday, 18January after flying through the night as usual. Monday morning we began setup at 8:30am on the KMC beamline and finished at 10:30pm, leaving the test chamber to pumpdown over night. The two FPC's (fpc_x2 and fpc_hn) are mounted inside the test chamber on a Y-Z stage assembly. The portable gas system is supplying gas (P10) to the two FPC's at a pressure of 400 torr. Five of our test filters are mounted to a linear slide assembly in front of the test chamber. The PTB installed "getter" pump on our test chamber door did not improve overall pumping capacity because we could not get into the low 10-6 torr range where it starts working efficiently. Also, the "getter" pump proved too noisy for our detectors ... it will be removed for the next setup. A vacuum of 1x10-5 torr was reached and we were given approval to open our test chamber to the KMC beamline.

• Pic01. Guido and Heike removing their PKK (Photo Kathoden Kammer) test assembly from the KMC beamline.
• Pic02. Bill Brymer wheeling our test chamber assy to the KMC setup area.
• Pic03. Tim trying to put back some piece of someone elses beamline before they find out it's missing.
• Pic04. Positioning our test chamber onto the KMC beamline by crane.
• Pic05. Test chamber is all setup, closed, getter pump added, and gas system in place ... all ready for pumpdown.
• Pic06. A side view of the setup.
• Pic07. Brad working the computer side of things.
• Pic08. Brad and Tim sitting at the operations center.
• Pic09. Brad, Tim and Bill .... what's the next move?
• Pic10. Side view of the test chamber on the KMC line.
• Pic11. I think we're in trouble now ...
• Pic12. A close view of the aperture and filter crosses in front of the chamber.
• Pic13. Bill trying to decipher the voice message over the intercom ... what does "Achtung!" mean again?
• Pic14. Another view of the front of the chamber.
• Pic15. And, in case you missed it before, another side view of the chamber.
  

Test Setup 

We arrived at the PTB-BESSY facility early on Saturday morning to remove the test chamber from the KMC beamline and install it onto the white light beamline. All equipment was succesfully moved over and installed.  Ian Evans was picked up at the airport midday.  We started pumping on the chamber with our turbopump by 3:30pm.  The PTB turbopump failed and was replaced, then the new PTB gate valve installed on our test chamber door could not be operated because it required a 24 VDC power supply instead of the 220 VAC supply intended.  This would be rectified on Monday. Pump pressure looked good at 2x10-6 torr on Monday and would improve once the PTB pump was made operational.  Tuesday we started a low temperature bake of the test chamber to help outgas all the cables. We ran a complete system check on Tuesday with few difficulties (cable connections mostly and two chip replacements). Testing will start Wednesday evening at 10:00pm and continue for 48 straight hours.

• Pic01, Week II. Apertures installed into two slide assemblies which will be mounted in front of our test chamber.
• Pic02, Week II. Ian at the workstations setup. View of test chamber.
• Pic03, Week II. Test chamber under foil, being heated to drive off gases which will help acheive lower vacuum level.
• Pic04, Week II. Another view of the test chamber under foil.
• Pic05, Week II. Ian at the workstation again.
• Pic06, Week II. Gas system setup. Note the cabling piled everywhere ... there is simply very little room around the beamline for equipment.
• Pic07, Week II. Ian again at the workstation.  View of shipping containers stacked for storage behind the workstation.
• Pic08, Week II. Ian and Ed Kellogg reviewing test plans and operations.
• Pic09, WeekII. Ed reviewing test progress with Jutta.
• Pic10, Week II. Reiner checking out the aperture setup.
• Pic11, Week II. Guido having a look at his setup of the apertures.
• Pic12, Week II. The FPC's with the 1.5mm dia blocking plate.
• Pic13, Week II. A close look at one of the 1.5mm dia blocking plates.

• January 19-20 Field Report
• January 27 Field Report
• January 27-28 Field Report
• January 29 Field Report
• January 30 Field Report (final)

"After Dark03"

What we do when we aren't working ... it's amazing what you can do when you haven't got much time to do it in .....

This page last updated April 07, 2000