Minutes for the meeting Tuesday 3 August, 1999.

Present RL/TH/RM/AD/GV/PP/ML

1. Aaron gave a status report on porting the feedthrough
production timeline to MicroSoft Project.  He has 
encountered a few technical difficulties concerning the
apparent inability of MicroSoft Project to deal with
repeated tasks in a nice way.  Aaron will check the
bookstore for better documentation, and possibly also
look into other software options, including a newer
version of MicroSoft Project.

2. Roy gave a status report on the Drawings.  All detailed
drawings are finished, as are the two flange / pincarrier
subassemblies (warm and cold).  

All completed drawings will be plotted and made available
to PB, AD, and GV for their perusal. 

Two more drawings remain:

  warm flange / bellows / vacuum cables / cold flange

and

  warm flange / vacuum cables / bellows / cold flange
              / pigtails / funnel
 
Mark expects to be free from TRIUMF commitments by the
end of this week to pursue the final two drawings.
He expects a maximum of two weeks will be required to
finish the task, thus allowing one or two weeks for
internal perusal by the group before release to CERN.

3. The contract has now gone out for the seal ring and 
the cuff ring, so we are still on schedule to receive
the five completed bellows assemblies by 7 October.

4. Rob gave a summary of the status of LabView VI's
he has written over the summer:

  a) Various oscilloscope drivers for the Tektronics 2440
     digital scope.

  b) A VI for the UBC scanner.  This is still in a very
     preliminary state, since we are still awaiting the
     UBC fanout device.

  c) The VI for the micro-ohmmeter measuring device (PHRED
     and the Keithley 580 micro-ohmmeter) is completed.

  d) Some basic drivers for the network analyser.  These
     will need to be completed once the RF switching
     hardware is decided upon and in place.

  e) One generic and several specific camac interfaces:

       i) KS 3989 crate controller 
          (various function-specific VI's)

      ii) KS 3461 manual input register

     iii) CES 1320 output register

      iv) Lecroy 2249W ADC   

       v) Lecroy 2301 QVT CAMAC interface

Rob will perform a `VI knowledge dump' to Pof and Mike 
before he leaves at mid month.

5. George Stenning at purchasing services has approached
the provincial government about waiving the PST for items
to be exported.  It appears (but not confirmed yet) that
the PST *will* be waived.  

George has also approached the federal government
about waiving the full GST on items to be exported (we 
currently get all but 3% back).  These discussions are
still ongoing.

6. Roy's interface drawings, which include enlargements 
of the weld details, have been placed on the CERN CAD 
site.  Terry has sent an email to Alberto Desirelli
and Andrea Catinaccio at TIS to let them know where to
find the drawings, and requesting comments on the
acceptability of the welds and also on test procedures.

The next feedthrough meeting will take place on monday,
9 August at 10:00.  The proposed agenda is:

1) (Aaron) Update on feedthrough production timeline.

2) (Aaron and Greg) Status of testing jigs.

3) (Roy and Mark) Drawings update.

4) AOB. 

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