MDC Upgrade - the final phase

Meetings

The first meeting of this working period will take place on Monday, 4.1.2010 at 10 a.m. in the upper counting house.

Plans & Schedules

The main tasks

• Testing of all chambers
• Cabling of plane 1
• Install missing parts on all chambers (Cables, Optical Connectors, Low-Voltage)

Available people

• Monday and later: Christian, Jrn, Gosia, Kathrin, Jan
• Tuesday (about 2 or 3 days): Khaled, Erik, Paul
• Wednesday and later: Tobias
• Second Week: Torsten (wednesday), Erwin, Tingting

Timeschedule

Monday (4.1.) should be used to do as much planning as possible so that we can start "working" with all available people on tuesday.

• Find best positions for FanPW on plane 1
• Discuss the list of needed tests for each chamber. I prepared some tables in the wiki: TestLogBook
• Start testing

On Tuesday, Khaled, Erik and Paul will join us.

• Prepare all cables for plane 1
• mount optical connectors to all accessible sectors
• prepare one optical connector to simplify test setups

Other work

Other work that can be done by us with the help of the Werkstudenten if no MDC-work is available:

• place optical cables along mainframe
• finish cleaning up of piles of unsorted cables in the back part of the cave
• help Andreas building holding structures for TRB-stacks
• help Torsten laying LV-power cables

Testing chambers

• we have two MDC AddOns and three FanPW available. This is two complete test setups to test two chamber independently in parallel.
• two people should work together in testing one chamber
• Besides cabling of plane 1, in-depth testing of all chambers has priority!

Bookkeeping

These pages have to be maintained!

• InstallationTimeTable
• MDCUpgradeLogBook
• TestLogBook
• MDCUpgradeWorks2010

Boards availability

• OEP: Box with all tested OEP (around 430 boards in total) is available in the cave
• FanPW: Rest of 28 boards should arrive end of next week, then have to be tested and adjusted - available around middle of the month
• MDC AddOn: New MDC board design is on its ways - boards are most likely available end of March / start of April
• Hub2: (used to connect several MDC boards to CTS): Boards will be sent back to producer for some reworks to be done. Should be available in 2 weeks.
• CTS: Central trigger system - I didn't hear any news from Mareks design during the last month.

-- JanMichel - 01 Jan 2010