We wanted to re-activate the Heater for the reference cavity today to use it as a testbed for PID autotuning and the new heater driver circuit that Andrew is working on for the coating thermal noise experiment.
Unfortunately, it seems that the large power supply which is used for the heater is dead. Or maybe I don't remember how to use it?
The AC power cord was plugged in to a power strip which seems to work for IO chassis. We also tried swapping power strip ports.
We checked the front panel fuses. The power one was 3 Ohms and the 'bias' one was 55 Ohms. We also checked that the EPICS slider did, in fact, make voltage changes at the bias control input.
Non of the front panel lights come on , but I also don't remember if that is normal.
Have those lights been dead a long time? We also reconnected the heater cable at the reference cavity side. |