Minutes of feedthrough meeting of 19 February, 2001.
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Present: PB, Pof, GV, AD, FH, MLenc, MGF, RKK

*) Milestones

	- During the February LARG week, Paul B. and Roy
	  were given the go ahead for feedthrough welding
	  by Alberto Desirelli et. al. of TIS; they now
	  understand and are satisfied with all welds to
	  be done on the UVIC feedthroughs, although no written 
	  document to that effect will be provided to us.

*) Other news from LARG week provided by Paul B:

	- The official date for the endcap C cryostat is
	  now August 2001, however rumours are that Christmas
	  2001 might be more realistic.  There was no mention
	  of the schedule for endcap A.

	- Pierre Imbert is now the person responsible (and
	  our new contact) for the cabling from the feedthroughs
	  to slow controls.  BNL, however, remain the ones
	  to decide on the connector types for the heater
	  power and temperature probes.  PB reported that
	  the bundles of wires for the heater power and the
	  temperature probes are to exit the pedestal through
	  a hole, rather than using some sort of bulkhead mounted
	  feedthrough.  It is unclear (at least to me...) how such 
	  an arrangment could remain RF tight.  In a discussion
	  with Pierre Imbert, PB suggested that the power and
	  instrumentation wire bundles should be kept separate.

	- PB learned from Pierre Pailler that CERN will provide
	  both the leak checker and also a turbo pump (backed
	  by a rotary vane roughing pump) for our leak tests
	  at CERN.

	- B180 now has a `feedthroughs' room, complete with
	  walls, and floor space measuring approximately
	  8 meters by 4 meters.  This room will presumably
	  be used by both the endcap and barrel feedthrough
	  groups.  There appears to be space just outside
	  of the feedthroughs room (but still inside B180)
	  for feedthrough storage.

	- Pierre Pailler would like the feedthrough funnels
	  to be leak checked at CERN along with the bellows.
	  PB will incorporate this change into his leak test
	  manifold to be used at CERN.

*) Mark L. will check with BNL and slow controls to determine
   whether or not the 75 Ohm resistors are compatable with the
   power supply characteristics before we proceed with the
   full resistor order.

*) Paul B., Mark, Pof, will arrange for a visit to BNL at 
   the earliest convenient time for a site tour and to discuss
   a number of outstanding issues, such as pincarrier delivery,
   ambient flange heaters, and ideas for shipping crates.

*) Pof received an email from Bob Evans at FCI stating that
   all future FCI correspondence should be directed to
   Bonnie Wheeler at FCI Connectors In., 50-10 Grumbacher Rd.,
   York, PA 17402, fax 717-767-8004.  Bob will not be involved 
   in the project anymore, however he promised to still try to
   get me a `legible' copy of the Hi-pot test report from MFG.

Agenda for next week:
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- Milestones
- report from GV on VI for flange heater
- plans for BNL visit
- ski report from the Rockies...
- AOB