Morning
Now that the bombardment works, the trigger boards need to be tuned for trip settings and limitations. Tony and I were working on that when Rich came by to check on the progress. We had it working so well that we actually started pulling a beam. Rich warmed it up, then started to put down a stripe. It was a really focused, nice looking weld. Unfortunately, we also popped the DC trip board upstairs. The CT's that are on the bombardment side are too big, so we weren't getting the voltage signal that we needed. We stole a few from Tobin's old test bench across the street but those still don't work.
Afternoon
Without the right sized CT's in there, we couldn't do much. Tony found that an arestor in the high voltage cage had actually snapped in two, but NWL said that it wasn't necessary to the function of the supply. We cooled things down a little and started looking for some CT's. LEM has a model that we are getting a quote on. I found another company, AcuAmp, that makes something that might work. We will have to wait and see.
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