Tracker Status
August 13, 2004
Tower-A
- Thermal-vacuum tests over the weekend demonstrated that the new bias circuit bonding process, with the bead-blasting surface preparation, was not successful.
- Also, bias short circuits developed in trays in which bubbles in the bias circuit had been lanced.
- A “Tiger Team” is being formed to investigate the bias circuit bonding issue and make recommendations on how to proceed.
- Discussions are underway as to whether to continue to assemble Tower A with the known bad trays, in order to make a pass through the remaining procedures and tests to uncover other possible issues.
MCMs
- 242 MCMs have been delivered to SLAC, 14 of which were manufactured with 75-ohm termination resistors.
- 162 have been reworked with 75-ohm termination resistors, and that effort continues.
- The Novacap capacitor issue is still a big cloud hanging over the MCM production.
Sidewall Assembly,
- The Tower-A sidewalls have been fabricated.