July 29-August 2

July 30 and 31 - After finishing a pipe model which results in an appropriate flow rate for the system, I decided to instead create a model which inputs flow rate, and results in the temperatures of the CPU and GPU. I believe this is a better method, since the heat exchanger operates at higher flow rates than were necessary, and there is no problem with cooling the CPU And GPU too much. I also didn’t take the amount of piping we are using into account, so there is a higher pressure drop across the pump than I had previously determined.

August 1 – Today I gave my write up to Jim and Ann Marie for revising before the meeting. I then spent time reading up on files from the wiki that regarded the active collimator. I initially tried hooking up the collimator to an oscilloscope to no avail.