The weekly win is installation of the long-awaited soup cans. The significance of them might be lost on those who have not had to install HV cables with the clamshells. The short of it was that installing the cables with the plastic clamshells was torturous.
- The stupid little interlock switches were always sliding off the 2.75″ CF flange contact or breaking.
- The clamshell was breaking. We had to reglue clamshell bits a lot
- You had to snake a long ground braid through a Teflon tunnel to secure them to the HV chamber.
- You had to break vacuum to secure the braid to the HV chamber.
- You had to balance the clamshell’s 2 open pieces while installing the cable to the feedthru.
The soup cans have NONE of those issues. Some of the cooler features:
- CPC interlock connectors
- short ground termination
- attachs to outer 6″ CF flange, does not require breaking vacuum
- gas inlet for pumping dry air through to increase the voltage breakdown threshold
From an operational standpoint, they may also solve the issue of the feedthru sparking since the soup cans are metal and have a larger diameter. Adam can finally put his phobia to rest! -RR
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