AMC July 29 - August 2
Monday, July 29: Worked with Ben to show him how to edit the Wiki. He's put pictures of painted fibers on the wiki, along with some tips for painting fibers. Worked on getting the NetBooters working with LabVIEW. At the moment, I am able to access the webpage for each of the NetBooters, the serial port (in Hyper Terminal) works perfectly with each of them, but when I send code through LabVIEW and the serial port I am only able to communicate with the old NetBooter and neither of the new ones. I've written to Synaccess and gotten very little help back (wasn't expecting much) but the man I spoke with did suggest that I send an initialization command. I thought that LabVIEW did that on its own with the sub vi that I'm using, but maybe that was a bad assumption. I will keep reading the NetBooter manual and slinking through LabVIEW to see if I can find answers.
Tuesday, July 30: Today involved a lot of cleaning and putting things away. Liana helped me tidy up 402 and 405. I showed Liana how I wanted the fibers (from all of our old tests) stored. I talked with Jim a lot about our goals for this coming week. I ordered electronics parts for the pulse generator with Alex and Dr. Jones. I taped up the parts of the dark box that I don't want to get paint on, and painted the thing after Erin left @ 4:30 so as not to "smoke" her out of the room. I spoke with John Bartolotta about the GPU/CPU cooling system. It would seem that the heat exchanger that we have may be too good at removing heat from our system. We would ideally like a turbulent flow through the heat exchanger, but I think that would call for something like 17gpm to run through it. That's way more flow than we need to cool the GPUs and CPUs. John sent me an email with these concerns and I am forwarding it to Jim. I am also still trying to figure out the NetBooter/LabVIEW situation but that has really been on the back-burner for most of today.
Wednesday, July 31: Wednesday was pretty much a wash for me. I was able to give the student workers help with jobs but the stuff I wanted to work on didn't happen because my car was broken down and I had to coordinate the towing and care of my car.
Thursday, August 1: Tested the pvc pipe, heater and pump together. The temperature in the pvc increased by about 30 C in 1 - 1.5 hours. Went to the machine shop on the depot campus, spoke with them about the popsicle sticks.
Friday, August 2: