DRAGON meeting minutes
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Nov. 4, 2008, MOB board room, 14:00

Present: DO, DH, CD, LB, PM, PB, UH, GR (recorder), CR

1. Hardware
    Ion Chamber:
         0.9 um foil mounted but will be replaced by 0.5 um before the run.
    MCP (CR, UH):
         Mounting the foils turned out to be extremely difficult, the success
         rate is only about 30%. Most of the failure comes from the drying,
         probably when the foil is not homogeneously wet.
         A rotator might help here.
         It is also in question if such big apertures are needed.
         Maybe they are also aging and a better storage helps.
         For the run, we have
         - 1 with a small aperture, perfectly made by Ulrike.
         - 2 with a big aperture with some holes.

         One more small one will be produced.

    Ion pump:
         Pumping speed is comparable to the turbo pump.
         The ion pump can be used as a "holiday pump", comes up from alone
         after power outage.

    ED:
         Conditioning starts on Thu or Wed, when they finished the EPICS
         tests and rebooted it. Vacuum  and optics will on separate
         channels, and the Mitutoyo readout + attenuator will be added.

    Remark by Peter: Be careful when wenting from a bottle, the convectron
         gauges read only to 1 atm (they actually can higher but EPICS is
         stupid)

    DH tested the Germanium + DAQ, 50k/s rate not a problem.
    Filling the Dewar twice a week should be fine.
    CR checked the DAQ, Carpere (also used by 8pi now!) works fine

2. Other run preparations (CR):
    20 people are taking shifts
    Colin Mortin wants a meeting before run
    Everything prepared, only waiting for EPICS.

Meeting ends at 14:45