LED connections

We use LEDs to indicate whether our power boards work. For one power board, we need two LEDs, one for the positive and one for the negative voltage. For boxes that contain more than one power board, we will still use onlyy one pair of LEDs, since we only care to test whether our power supply works. We have six LEDs and we will use 2 for the HE sensors board, 2 for the coil-actuation box and 2 for the strain gauge box. Today, we made the connections for our LEDs; on our power boards, there are two letters: A and K. A is for the signal wires (positive/red or negative/black) and K is for the ground wires.

Power Boards

The missing components for our power boards have arrived, so we finished our power board circuits, drilled the holes on the box panels and screwed the power boards. We also created more power lines, such that we have enough for the 7 coil-actuator and 3 DC offset boards, as well as the HE sensor boards. We prepared power lines for all HE sensor boards and 6 coil-actuator ones, but ran out of components; we still need to create power lines for one coil-actuator board and 3 DC offset ones.

DC magnetic field offset

For the boards that will provide tuning of the magnetic field, we only use a current booster circuit (configuration with a current buffer in a feedback loop with a low-noise op-amp). We built all three boards.