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Burned a wire in the Control Cell

Written by Ryan Hunt on .

Last week a software glitch during a firmware update caused the power supply to fry the Celani wire in the B cell.  Ironically, we had just finished the 9 day calibration run when it happened.  After much deliberating, we decided to install a 360 layer wire that we had around.  Now we are running the calibration again.  Our plan is to compare the first few cycles with the previous ones and see if they fall in line well, or not.  We would have done that today except Malachi was out ill. 

 

The picture below shows the wire burned out right near the end.  The wire got heated and over currented, so it can't just be unwrapped one turn and re-fastened to the terminal a little shorter.

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Mathieu's pair of cells are also going through calibration, still.  We are in a hurry to get this run done with before ICCF.  Hope it works.

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