Minutes of feedthrough meeting of 17 April, 2001.
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Present: PB, Pof, AD, GV, FH, ML, RKK, MGF

*) Milestones

	- four 8-row pincarriers arrived 11 April, four
	  7-row pincarriers arrived today (17 April).  
	  Shipping time for each of these was eight days.

	- ft03 was welded shut and cold-tested last week;
	  no problems found.

*) The construction of the metal brackets for the shipping
   crates needs to be farmed out.  PB and AD will check if
   Dave Smith can do the job.

*) Pof is awaiting instructions from Kathy Pommes on how to
   place our QA/QC document on EDMS.  Following the example
   set by the `Hadronic End Cap General' documents, our document
   would be placed under 
     Atlas Detector -> LArg Calorimeter -> End Cap 
                    -> Feedthroughs -> Quality Control
   The `Quality Control' folder does not exist (nor can it be
   created by mere mortals) so further input from Kathy has
   been requested.  If no reply is received soon, we'll just put
   the document in 
     Atlas Detector -> LArg Calorimeter -> End Cap -> Feedthroughs

*) Another eight pincarriers (four of each type) were shipped to
   us by Glasseal on April 19th.  Peter Tardiff of Glasseal provided
   us with the invoice and tracking numbers, which have been passed
   on to King Bothers (our customs brokers) with the hopes that the
   advance notice might expedite their trip through the border.

*) Pof and PB will provide Margret with slides to be presented at
   next week's LARG week.  These will include an update on the
   parts inventory (especially pincarriers...), number of feedthroughs
   built, and a summary of the ambient flange heater resistor tests.

*) Pof did some cross talk tests using the pigtail jumper on loan to
   us from BNL.  Unfortunately, the crosstalk from these jumpers is
   much higher (and not reproducibly in a predictable way) presumably
   due to the unshielded wires.  This makes them unsuitable for our
   crosstalk tests, since the enhanced crosstalk signal from a broken
   ground trace is not reliably separable from the crosstalk of the 
   jumper itself.  The pigtail jumper has been returned to BNL.

*) Margret will check with Pierre Imbert while at CERN if ORSAY 
   can provide us with any AXON pigtail jumpers (fat chance...).  
   Unless ORSAY can provide us with AXON pigtail jumpers in the
   near future, we will place an order for enough additional AXON 
   pigtail jumpers that we have two full sets (15 + 15) plus a
   sufficient number of spares (note that we presently have twelve
   25 Ohm + twelve 50 Ohm pigtail jumpers).  If the lead time for 
   obtaining the additional AXON pigtail jumpers is too long, we will 
   order about ten BNL-type pigtail jumpers which could be used for 
   conducting CIRRIS tests while the feedthrough is in the assembly 
   jig; those BNL-type pigtail jumpers would then be replaced with 
   AXON pigtail jumpers before the feedthrough is installed in the 
   cold station.  The one or two additional 1.2 meter (or perhaps 
   longer?) test leads also need to be ordered from AXON.

Agenda for next week:
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- Milestones
- Progress on ft03
- Plans for ft04
- AOB