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Introduction. An instability of the current generated by the HV boards (A3512N) has been observed during the first runs of the MTCC The Imon of all the boards showed a drift of about 1-2 m A in 4-5 days - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Introduction• An instability of the current generated by the HV
boards (A3512N) has been observed during the first runs of the MTCC
• The Imon of all the boards showed a drift of about 1-2 A in 4-5 days
• The offset of every channel changed after any hardware reset/power cycle of the system but not after any software power cycle.
• The instability was in the generated current or in the monitoring current ?
• The effect was due to the chambers ? To the HV cable or connectors ? To the grounding ? Or the the boards (more realistic solution)
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Imon History plot during MTCC
POWER CYCLE
What we have seen during the MTCC
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B1
B2
B3
B4
A1676
FAN
FAN
A1676
HARDWARE SETUP AT BLG 904
VENTILATED
RACK1
NOT VENTILATED
RACK0SY1527
resistors
resistors
4 boards corresponding to 10 HV channelsHave been tested with a resistive chargefor more then 10 days
We decided to make test (without chamber) in order to understand whereThe problem or the problems are.
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31 c 31 c
31 c
20 c
20 c20 c
WITH FAN UNIT
WITHOUT FAN UNIT
A3512N Stability Test
Imon History plot with resistive charge
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POWER CYCLE TEST
BOARD 1 CH0/1 BOARD 1 CH2
BOARD 2 CH0/1 BOARD 3 CH0/1
BOARD 3 CH2 BOARD 4 CH0/1
NO FAN-31C NO FAN-31C
NO FAN-31C FAN-20C
FAN-20CFAN-20C
POWER CYCLE
B2 CHO/1
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RESET SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE
SW
HW
As you can see from the history plot the Imon does not change at all when we madea software power cycle but change dramatically with an hardware reset
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Imon distrib (B1-CH0 without fan)
0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
1400
9,3 9,5 9,7 9,9 10,1
sigma = 0.37 microAmps
Imon distrib (B3-CH0 with fan)
0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
1400
1600
7,8 8 8,2 8,4 8,6 8,8
microA
#
sigma = 0.19 microA
Imon distribution for board with and without fan
As you can see from the distribution the of theventilated channel is less than0.2 microA as we required inthe technical specification
In total we have tested 10 channels for about 5 days andsimilar results has beenfound on the other channels
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Conclusions1. We were able to reproduce the instability effect at BLG 904 using
resistive charge problem is not related to the detector/cable2. Measuring independently the current on the ground wire we
understood the instability was on the monitored current (Imon) and not on the generated current.
3. An increasing current has been seen in every tested channel after about 36 hours. The effect continues for days.
4. The increase let us suspect to a thermal drift of some components and so we begin to use the CAEN fan unit to ventilate the boards.
5. Using the fans the board temperature went down from 31oC to 20oC and after 4 days Imon was very stable.
6. The of the Imon distribution of the ventilated boards is 0.2 A and it was twice without fan.
7. Software power cycle do not affect the Imon (offset is constant)8. Hardware power cycle of any board present in the EASY crate
affect the offset of all the boards in the crate.9. CAEN got all the results and is now trying to reproduce them in
their lab and to find solution. We will meet CAEN engineering in two week.