Cornell Cosmology Journal Club Meetings Thursday, February 27, 2014 * Papers to discuss (via VoxCharta) * Brian Koopman will talk about the latest data...
PA1 1 Second season aliasing versus detector bias TODs taken with the detectors at many different bias points superconducting, at a variety of different MUX ...
ACTPol PA1 Season 2 data (2014/5/10 2014/5/11) Took the following datasets; 1 1399767960_raw_rc1_col0_normalmux ... 1399768021_raw_rc4_col6_normalmux : 50 MH...
On 1/22/2014, Christine P. pointed me to up to date versions of the mce configuration files they use for testing at Princeton; * array_ACTPOL.cfg The array.c...
AdvACTPol MUX11d Test Board v1.10 Higher res pdf image of the boards Ultra_Hex_Interface_Board_v1pt10.pdf. Here is the complete pinout for the MUX11d test boar...
Useful information * FAS_MUX_test_protocol_ _schematic.pdf Tuning instructions for the flux activated switch MUXes from C. Reintsema @ NIST. * On 4/13/201...
To edit the group git repo you must be a member of group "cosmo." You can check what groups you're in on the terminal via swh76@lnx6225 ~ $ groups cosmo classeus...
DR Cooldown 2/18/2014 Cooldown Procedure * Refilled trap dewer with LN2 @ 5:00 PM EST 2/18/2014 * Started roughing on vacuum can @ 5:05 PM EST 2/18/2014. A...
Cooldown Procedure * Refilled trap dewer with LN2 @ 11:30 AM EST 3/7/2014 * Opened up DR @ 12:00 PM EST 3/7/2014 * Closed up DR @ 8:00 PM EST 3/7/2014 ...
Cooldown Procedure * Refilled trap dewer with LN2 @ 12ish pm on 3/13/2014 * Closed up DR @ 2:00 PM EST 3/14/2014 * Started roughing on vacuum can @ ~2:00...
Cooldown Procedure * Started roughing on the vacuum can @ 18:00 EST 3/27/2014 * Started turboing on the vacuum can @ ~18:20 EST 3/27/2014 * Turned P1 on ...
Record: 1) date compressor was turned on 2) photos of what's inside 3) a list of what's inside Cooldown Procedure * Started pre pumping on the vacuum can @ 12...
DR Cooldown 11/5/2013 Cooldown Procedure * Started roughing on the vacuum can @ 18:57 EST 11/5/2013 * Started turbo'ing on the vacuum can @ 19:32 EST 11/5...
DR Cooldown 11/10/2013 Cooldown Procedure * Started roughing on the vacuum can @ 17:00 EST 11/10/2013 * Started turbo'ing on the vacuum can @ ~18:00 EST 1...
DR Cooldown 12/13/2013 Cooldown Procedure * Started roughing on the vacuum can @ 18:40 EST 12/13/2013 * Started the script BlueFors/ControlScripts_v1.22/wi...
Above left, each point represents the average of the energy spectral density of raw mean subtracted TODs between 5 Hz and 10 Hz, reading out 33 rows on SH1B while...
Above, the results of the same study as above under 12/31/2013, except with 4 datasets with 5 min TODs instead of just 1, and with Al tape covering the port Azar ...
MUX11Cs Mrat is %$I_{fb}/I_{b}$%, where %$I_{fb}$% is the current in the inductor coupled to SQ1 from the feedback loop and %$I_{b}$% is the current in the indu...
110 mK at mixing chamber flange. Data in /data0/mce/20140117/. Tune is 1389917814. Taking data with everything except for the preamp off because I'm trying to fig...
Waving the beehive loop around stuff near the MCE On the evening of 1/22/2014, I waved the beehive loop antenna, connected to the signal analyzer RF port of the ...
1/21/2014 Through trial and error, I found that I was able to get sensible 50 MHz data with only the SAs on with the following set of MCE commands; #turn off sq1...
This is working through the Mrat steps I first went through in DRCoolDown12132013Mrat for the new MUXes. Also going to work out the SQ1FB to TES current conversio...
Cooldown Procedure * Started roughing on the vacuum can and turned P1 on circa 15:34 EST 2/2/2015 * Put trap on TURBO1 coolant line ~16:00 EST 2/2/2015. ...
Cooldown Procedure * Refilled trap dewer with LN2 @ 17:21 EST 7/17/2014 * Started roughing on the vacuum can @ 23:38 EST 7/18/2014 * Turned P1 on @ 23:51...
Cooldown Procedure * Set still output to 0.000% @ 13:56 EST 08/14/201 * Started roughing on the vacuum can @ 15:02 EST 8/14/2014 * Started turboing on th...
Cooldown Procedure * Started roughing on the vacuum can circa 18:02 EST 10/8/2014. * Turned P1 on @ 18:15 EST 10/8/2014 * Started turboing on the vacuum ...
Cooldown Procedure * Refilled trap dewer with LN2 @ 14:51 EST 10/24/2014 * Started roughing on the vacuum can circa 13:09 EST 10/24/2014 * Turned P1 on @...
Mission * Measure AlMn TES Tcs, Ics, Rnormals. Cooldown Procedure * Started roughing on the vacuum can circa 17:00 EST 11/21/2014 * Refilled trap dewer wi...
Mission * Measure resistance of PA3 shunt chips to check for a possible issue that would explain weird results from the first PA3 cooldown at Princeton. Cooldow...
DR Logging Here's revision history for the DR logging code (everything in the /home/act/bkoop/lakeshore_setup/ git repo) v0.1 first version v1.0 daemoni...
Pre change Bluefors sent a pdf with details on the turbo replacement: Agilent turbo replacement.pdf. Anssi sent these photos (sent on 2/2/15) of how the t damper ...
Pressure Increase Rates From 23:25:44 9/17/13 to 7:36:13 9/18/13, with V17, V11, V13, V7, V8, and V9 open, P6 rose from 6.8e 4 mbar to 6.86e 2 mbar, a rate of inc...
I asked Alex (Alexander Young alyoung@sas.upenn.edu ); Thanks very much for agreeing to let me bug you with questions. I have one very silly first question; I'm...
act@penzias:~/umux$ python Python 2.7.3 (default, Sep 26 2013, 20:03:06) GCC 4.6.3 on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more informat...
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Installing moby2, an ongoing saga... (Updated 1/2019 CJD) Warning: Installing moby2 will very likely make you question your own sanity and your understanding of c...
Useful links materials for getting an academic job (in part. prof) * Cornell University Center for Teaching Excellence (CU CTE) a whole bunch of useful mat...
Lab Computers A list of all the computers in the lab. Several of the computers are either private, or on our instrumentation subnet, probably good to add a column...
Record of when gas bottles are changed on the gas manifolds in PSB 30061 (back hallway) as well as any other notable events involving the manifold. Nitrogen man...
With an LO of 5.430000000 GHz, these are tones as seen on the DAC output of the ADC/DAC board. Tones defined in /data/raw/default_freqs.txt were loaded onto the R...
Seeing what the current TOD readout configuration of the MCE is I'm sure there's a better way to do this but this seems to work for now mce@mcc04:/data0/mce/20131...
Old fan The MCE fan (that came with the MCE) is a NMB MAT4710KL 04W B40Minebea Co., Ltd.12V, 0.5A the 4 mount holes of the fan are 0.169" diameter, on a 4.13" pit...
The masks live here (MAS_CONFIG=/data/mas/config as of this writing) $MAS_CONFIG/dead_lists in order for the mask to be used to disable the PID for detectors, the...
First MCE power on When the MCE was first connected to the mce computer (mce@mce01 p24) through fiber and powered on, the lights on both the control computer and ...
Power According to MCE Power Requirements (the "Power Requirements" section) we need the following voltages to power our MCE48 and its cards (if the power require...
Mandana Amiri (mandana #64;phas.ubc.ca) says: As confusing as this will sound, the signals you are interested in are actually DET_BIAS_00 and DET_BIAS_08 and thes...
Updating BC firmware permanenty to 0x5030005 on 1/9/2015. 1) Went here http://e mode.phas.ubc.ca/mcefcp/ 2) Username/password are cosmo/********* ask Shawn for...
The twin I Q transmit DACs are DAC5681 16 Bit, 1.0 GSPS Digital To Analog Converters; based on the datasheet (in particular, Figure 33), it looks like the peak t...
Assembling the first Cornell MUX Module Solder paste was placed in the duroid board slots with a toothpick and on the underside of the duroid boards (all gold). T...
Kristine's NIST Tower Card Breakout PCB v1 The purpose of this board, designed in ~April 2016 by Kristine Lister, is to breakout signal lines from the NIST tower...
We got this microscope off of Ebay. When Shawn first opened it, a chunk of glass fell out of the trinocular tube. We think the chunk of glass is probably a prism ...
Mission * Measure base temperature with a thermometer on Cu plate and two temp stage shells. Cooldown Procedure Cooling down... * Started roughing on vacuu...
Mission * Get cold (not coldest, no pressure:D ) * Test if running filter_wheel.py rotates the filter wheel, i.e., power is drawn from the source. Room temper...
Mission * Get cold * Test if running filter_wheel.py rotates the filter wheel, i.e., power is drawn from the source. Room temperature rotatable? Yes Cooldown ...
Mission * Get cold * run cool down with Pedro * test filter wheel rotation at room temp; double check rotation at cold temp as well * play with temp scr...
Mission * Verify new PT works (first use!) * Measure base temperature with only a thermometer and Cu plate. Cooldown Procedure Cooling down... * Turn on...
Mission * Make observations about PT upward temperature drift with the reassembled PTTD Cooldown Procedure Cooling down... * Started roughing on vacuum can...
Mission * Verify new PT works (first use!) * Measure base temperature with only a thermometer and Cu plate. Cooldown Procedure Cooling down... * Started...
Mission * Verify new PT works (first use!) * Measure base temperature with only a thermometer and Cu plate. Cooldown Procedure Cooling down... * Started...
Mission * First time with PT Test Dewar cold and FTS combo! * Cooling down Bugao's samples for use with the FTS. Filter wheel contents: * 1: clear with ...
Setup The PTG 361 pressure controller we have is connected via ethernet. Our computing people gave it an IP; here's the information Selden gave me ( the MAC addre...
Powerin up the Hemt at room temperature The following parameters are needed Vd = 1.25 V Id = 4.5V Vg = 0.095V A typical VNA screenshot looks like the following On...
For power, ROACH needs ATX Power standard on its J18 input we have a picoPSU 80, 80W output, 12V input DC DC power supply Useful Links * https://casper.berk...
Selden sent me the following to help setup the ROACH; Shawn, Please use the address 192.168.24.21 (roach01 p24.lns.cornell.edu) I've updated the LEPP nameservic...
On booting on 1/14/2014, the ROACH didn't configure its network properly (solution below). Here's what a boot up looked like over minicom on penzias with a seria...
Summary of useful SH9A datasets taken at Cornell for PA3 a) IV suite at different bath temperatures, generally every 5mK or so product: Psat at ACTPol base temp...
from pg. 52 of Manual_LD400_v1.4.0.pdf 1 Close manual tank valve. 1 Expand mixture into the still line (also the volume behind the IDP 3Compressor) Â Scrol...
The hardware Model of dry box : 3950 18ANP 95447 121613 Model of nitroplex modules (one in each cabinet of the dry box) : 1911 31C Operational issues * on 5/...
Things we should keep careful track of These are all in the Niemack lab right now, somewhere... Thing Info Pictures Status Screened MUX15Bs for single...
If we only use SS cables in the DR for the microwave multiplexing setup Cable Length from to expected signal attenuation based on insertion loss* expe...
SWH went to UPenn btw 3/28/2016 and 3/30/2016 to see MUSTANG2 before their 2nd Greenbank deployment. Here's notes and pictures from that. In email from 4/1/2016 f...
Converting from SAFB DAC counts to physical current For our 72HP MCE as of 3/23/2016, the SAFB lines are fed by 16 bit, 2.5V DACs (the DAC is a MAX5443AEUA) on MC...
Todd suggested these filters in an email to SWH on 11/9/15 titled "RE: Plumbing coolant water into PT compressor #2." Here's replacement part info; * Filter ho...