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H2 TCS
eleanor.king@LIGO.ORG - posted 15:03, Thursday 12 July 2012 - last comment - 19:39, Thursday 12 July 2012(3422)
Ring heater test

The ring heater was turned on today to check whether running the ring heater had an effect on the vacuum pressure.   15W of power was put through each segment of the ring heater at 19:07:30 UTC until 19:37:08 UTC (by adding an offset of 25,000 counts to H2TCSETMY _EMTY_RING_HTR_SEG1_DC_I_SET and H2TCSETMY_ETMY_RING_HTR_SEG2_DC_I_SET), which is close to the maximum ouput of the ring heater.  The vacuum in BSC6 was not affected by running the ring heater, which is good.

 

I added in gains to the ring heater input and readout channels so that the we can input the current in amps and readout the voltage and ring current on volts and amps instead of counts (reffering to D1002529 for  the required conversion factors).

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thomas.vo@LIGO.ORG - 19:39, Thursday 12 July 2012 (3429)
Just a note, the temperature sensors are in fact broken on these ring heater segments, the attached image shows the signals railed for the sensors.
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