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Date |
Author |
Type |
Category |
Subject |
Text |
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Fri May 9 20:06:27 2025 |
Luke | Summary | Cleanroom | Cleanroom cleaning | [Luke, Mohak, Luis]
We were also able to remove the residue
that has built up on the soft walls by donning |
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609
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Mon Jul 14 20:45:20 2025 |
Luke | Summary | Cleanroom | HEPA filter performance metrics | [Luke, Luis]
We’ve been looking into methods
for evaluating the performance of the HEPA |
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23
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Tue Feb 7 17:27:30 2023 |
Aiden | Physics | ELOG | Clean and Bake Batch #1 | Cleaned SS parts with liquinox for 20 min.
Then put in oven for 5 steps;
1. Ramp, 100
degC, 15 min
2. Const, 100 degC, 30 min
3. |
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70
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Wed Apr 12 16:13:19 2023 |
Cao | Physics | VAC | Vacuum prep and installation | Aiden, Pamella, Peter, Shane, Cao
Today
we started vacuum chamber assembly work
10:16 am: Particle count measurement of clean |
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81
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Thu Apr 27 16:23:44 2023 |
Cao, Pamella and Julian | Physics | VAC | Installing vacuum system (cont.) |
[Pamella, Cao and Julian, Shane]
Particles account
10:37 am: Starting the particles account |
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82
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Thu Apr 27 21:43:07 2023 |
Jon | Physics | VAC | Grounding vacuum system | This afternoon I made up a green 10 AWG
grounding cable and connected it to the vacuum
system. |
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84
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Fri Apr 28 18:16:57 2023 |
Cao | Physics | VAC | Grounding vacuum system |
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85
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Fri Apr 28 19:00:13 2023 |
Cao | Physics | VAC | Tighten CF ports on vacuum chamber | [Cao]
After Jon's comment yesterday
that some of the connection did not seem
to have good metal-metal contact, in particular |
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87
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Mon May 1 17:10:25 2023 |
Julian, Cao | Physics | VAC | Installing Pirani gauge and RGA probe onto to vacuum chamber | [Julian, Cao]
03:00 pm: Particle
count
: Zone 3
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90
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Tue May 2 17:03:14 2023 |
Jon, Cao | Physics | VAC | First pump-down test of vacuum chamber | [Jon, Cao]
1. Re-routing of cables
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91
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Wed May 3 19:03:47 2023 |
Julian,Pamella and Cao | Physics | VAC | Modify vacuum asssembly and install RGA | [Pamella, Julian, Cao]
Today we
started re-configuring the vacuum chamber
components.
Particle count |
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97
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Fri May 12 20:28:34 2023 |
Aiden, Cao | Physics | VAC | Vacuum chamber Helium leak test | [Aiden, Cao]
1. Helium leak test
2:00 pm: Uninstall regulator from nitrogen |
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537
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Mon Mar 10 21:32:29 2025 |
Nathan | Physics | Electronics | Beam Profiling and PBS Measurements | Beam wasn't diverging, however maybe was about
to diverge when measurements stopped? Will
discuss the PBS measurements and how the |
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7
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Mon Jul 11 14:29:45 2022 |
Jon | Omnistructure | General | HEPA filter installed | Today I unpacked and installed the new HEPA
filter for the lab. It is an Omni CleanAir
OCA1210 capable of 1200 CFM. This flow rate |
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13
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Wed Dec 14 17:35:41 2022 |
Jon | Infrastructure | Computers | Windows Laptop | I set up the new Windows 10 laptop (pictured
below), which arrived yesterday. This laptop
is intended to be used for running lightweight |
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24
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Tue Feb 7 17:44:17 2023 |
Jon | Infrastructure | Computers | Workstation 1 (ws1) set up | The Linux workstation (ws1) that used to sit
on the old workbench has been mounted on
the new electronics bench and is now ready |
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26
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Fri Feb 10 16:34:45 2023 |
Huy Tuong Cao | Infrastructure | Clean & Bake | Nitrogen gas tank ready to use | Cao,
Today I fixed the final bit related
to the nitrogen gas tank, which is to apply
sealing tape to M-NPT connector of the hose |
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39
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Wed Mar 1 21:27:20 2023 |
Jon | Infrastructure | Cleanroom | Over-table shelf height raised | Jon, Cao
Today we raised the height of the
shelf overhanging the cleanroom laser table |
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40
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Wed Mar 1 21:50:46 2023 |
Jon | Infrastructure | Computers | Workstation 2 (ws2) mounted on cleanroom cart | The Linux workstation (ws2) that used to
sit on the blue workbench (now inside the
cleanroom) has been mounted on a mobile cart, |
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44
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Mon Mar 6 15:32:58 2023 |
Jon | Infrastructure | General | Cabinet installation completed | Jon, Cao, Peter
This morning Facilities delivered
and installed two new cabinets with sliding |
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53
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Wed Mar 22 12:16:20 2023 |
Jon | Infrastructure | Cleanroom | Experimenting with HEPA fan speeds | Jon, Cao
In effort to try to reduce the noise
level inside the cleanroom, we have dialed |
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56
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Fri Mar 24 07:14:38 2023 |
Jon | Infrastructure | Computers | Workstation 2 (ws2) mounted on cleanroom cart | The ws2 cart has been thoroughly wiped down
with IPA wipes and moved inside the cleanroom.
I have reconnected it to power and Ethernet |
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67
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Tue Apr 11 13:15:40 2023 |
Cao | Infrastructure | Clean & Bake | Nitrogen gas tank replaced | The nitrogen gas tank has been replaced with
a new unit. The new tank is ultra pure nitrogen
(>99.9% nitrogen).
The new tank has been |
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94
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Tue May 9 15:49:20 2023 |
Jon | Infrastructure | VAC | Permanent cable routing | Today I brought in a fresh supply of zip
ties (we now have 1500 in the tool chest)
and used them to permanentize the cable routing |
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95
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Tue May 9 20:55:12 2023 |
Jon | Infrastructure | VAC | Calibrated Ar leak rate | For future reference, the calibrated Argon
source has a leak rate of 7.55E-8
atm cc/s, or equivalently |
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98
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Sun May 14 15:50:48 2023 |
Cao | Infrastructure | Computers | High resolution display of logrus machine | [Cao]
The display resolution of the
logrus has been 1064x768 and has been the
only option, which is not great. While remote |
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122
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Tue Jun 13 21:08:46 2023 |
Pamella | Infrastructure | VAC | Heater system - Installation | [Pamella, Cao and Jon]
Heating system
installation
Today we
started installing the equipments for the |
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129
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Tue Jun 20 22:14:24 2023 |
Pamella, Cao | Infrastructure | VAC | Short term testing of vacuum heater controller units | [Pamella, Cao]
Fuse replacement
Replace blown 10A fuse
in ucontroller outside cleanroom
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130
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Wed Jun 21 20:25:05 2023 |
Cao | Infrastructure | VAC | Vacuum chamber bake attempt 1 | TL;DR:
We are not yet able to
bake the chamber at 150 deg C due to some
current limit, most likely caused power supply |
6x |
136
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Tue Jun 27 21:47:56 2023 |
Jon | Infrastructure | VAC | Vacuum chamber bake attempt 1 | The electrical overload problem encountered
in ELOG 130
has been resolved. The two heater controllers, |
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137
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Wed Jun 28 15:58:56 2023 |
Shane, Cao | Infrastructure | VAC | Power trip problem remains, source of smoke is insulation | [Shane, Cao]
With the new change
in wiring configuration described in elog
136, |
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138
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Thu Jun 29 18:27:26 2023 |
Jon, Cao | Infrastructure | VAC | Vacuum bake attempt 3: success! | [Jon, Cao]
Summary : We resolved
problems with heaters tripping power and
were able to proceed with chamber baking
|
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141
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Mon Jul 3 14:32:24 2023 |
Cao | Infrastructure | VAC | Cooling down vacuum chamber | [Cao]
After leaving the the chamber
to bake at 120 deg C from Thursday 3:41 pm.
Today I started to cool the chamber down |
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142
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Mon Jul 3 16:26:21 2023 |
Cao | Infrastructure | DAQ | Access and control Red Pitaya remotely and run it on local machine | [Cao]
To access and control the Red
Pitaya using Python locally on a machine
within the local network, one should follow |
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145
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Wed Jul 5 15:46:47 2023 |
Aiden, Cao | Infrastructure | VAC | Vacuum Chamber Baking Update |
Cao and Aiden put the RGA back on to
the chamber and measured the outgassing rate
after the chamber has cooled down from its |
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198
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Wed Aug 9 11:32:56 2023 |
Jon | Infrastructure | General | New power cables | I delivered new NEMA 5-15 (120V / 15 A)
power cables to the lab for the following
items: |
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294
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Sun Dec 17 21:04:15 2023 |
Jon | Infrastructure | Clean & Bake | Clean and bake lab migrated to 1129 | [Jon, Tyler, Aiden, Luke]
On Friday we completed assembly of
the new stainless steel-topped benches in |
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297
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Wed Dec 20 10:33:34 2023 |
Jon | Infrastructure | Clean & Bake | Clean and bake lab migrated to 1129 | Update: I
have completed permanent routing of the electrical
cables. I also ran the ultrasonic washer's |
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303
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Mon Jan 15 22:29:34 2024 |
Jon | Infrastructure | General | Cabinet installation & lab clean-up completed | [Jon, Tyler, Aiden, Shane, Pooyan, Michael,
Cynthia, Luke]
On Wednesday, we completed long list |
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330
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Tue Feb 20 08:01:30 2024 |
Jon | Infrastructure | General | Power and network equipment installed in 1129 rack | [Jon, Tyler, Pooyan, Luis, Luke, Peter]
On
Thursday we installed the power conditioning/distribution
equipment and networking equipment in the |
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339
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Sat Feb 24 08:53:38 2024 |
Jon | Infrastructure | Computers | Matlab upgraded to 2023b on Chimay | I upgraded Matlab on chimay to the latest
stable release, 2023b. From some quick tests,
it appears to be in working order. Let me |
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377
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Mon Jun 17 11:47:46 2024 |
Liu | Infrastructure | General | Temporary cooling units for the labs | Below are the temporary cooling units installed
last week in labs 1119 and 1129. They are
the temp. replacement for the building AC |
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379
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Thu Jun 20 18:01:11 2024 |
Jon | Infrastructure | Computers | New workstation ws3 in 1129 | I have repurposed a spare Intel NUC to serve
as the first of two planned workstations
in 1129. Today I set it up with a fresh installation |
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382
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Mon Jun 24 21:38:25 2024 |
Pooyan | Infrastructure | Computers | Computer server changes in 1119 and 1129 | [Jon, Pooyan, Tyler]
A few computer machine changes have |
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385
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Wed Jun 26 15:33:41 2024 |
Jon | Infrastructure | Computers | New workstation ws3 in 1129 |
Set-up of the first CDS workstation for
1129, ws3, is complete and the machine is
ready for use. The login credentials are |
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402
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Thu Jul 11 21:01:37 2024 |
Jon | Infrastructure | General | Cable tray installed in 1129 | Today I installed a 10' cable tray in 1129,
for permanently routing Ethernet lines to
the workstations. It is securely bolted to |
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412
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Fri Jul 26 17:25:42 2024 |
Jon | Infrastructure | Computers | New workstation ws4 installed in 1129 | Today I installed the second desktop workstation
in 1129. The new machine is an Intel NUC13ANHi5,
with a 12-Core Intel i5-1340P CPU, 32GB DDR4 |
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418
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Tue Jul 30 07:42:47 2024 |
Jon | Infrastructure | General | Cable tray installed in 1119 | Yesterday I installed another 5' cable tray
in 1119, for permanently routing Ethernet
lines to the L-bench. It is securely bolted |
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437
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Mon Sep 9 14:27:36 2024 |
Pooyan | Infrastructure | Computers | Chimay backup attempt | One ongoing work is to make all lab machines
automatically backed-up on Scribe on a daily
basis. The updates should be boatable and |
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578
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Thu May 15 12:03:41 2025 |
Xuesi Ma | Infrastructure | Electronics | Notice | All Sorensen power supplies are turned
off. The Cymac system is down (All Chassis
are down) |
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