Month: January 2017

HVPlotter in Python

Over the last week, I have developed a program in Python for quickly plotting data made from the exported data from the jhv4 labview program. The program has the user select which file they want to make plots from, and then opens the attached window. The user will then select the x-variable and y-variable they ...

Conditioning of HV Electrodes

This week we successfully approached the point of electrode conditioning with our high voltage system. In previous attempts, we were forced to stop short of reaching a high enough voltage due to cable failure–22 kV was the highest we could get. On Tuesday, we were able to reach 27.9 kV on our 30 kV power supply when our picoammeter ...