Tag: safety
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The Great High Voltage Test Station Upgrade of 2017
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 soup cans have NONE…
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Surprise, Surprise!
We use several compressed gas bottles in Spinlab. Each of these bottles is secured to a wall when in use and transported on a tiltable cart with four wheels. Of course, when the bottles are being transported, we make sure that the gas bottle cap is securely screwed onto the…
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Safety Interlock for HV Supply
This week is all about our electrode test station. We’ve made significant safety improvements and improvements in the sensitivity of our high voltage measurements. The first is the installation of our fancy new Interlock Chassis, which allows us to remotely shut down the power supply. It also automatically cuts power to the high voltage power supply…
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