A new VME based high voltage power supply for large experiments

Author

Ahn, S.-C. ; Angstadt, R.D. ; Droege, T.F. ; Johnson, M. Eric ; MacKinnon, B.A. ; McNulty, S.E. ; Shea, M.F. ; Thompson, R.N. ; Watson, M.M. ; Franzini, P. ; Jones, A.A. ; Lopez, M.L. ; Wimpenny, S.J. ; Yang, M.-J.

Author_Institution

Fermi Nat. Accel. Lab., Batavia, IL, USA

fYear

1991

fDate

2-9 Nov. 1991

Firstpage

984

Abstract

A new VME-based high-voltage power supply has been developed for the D0 experiment at Fermilab. There are three types of supplies delivering up to +or-5.6 kV at 1.0 mA or +2.0 kV at 3.0 mA with a set accuracy of 1.5 V and extremely low voltage ripples. Complete computer control has allowed many special features to be developed for the supply, including user-defined control and monitor groups, variable ramp rates, and advanced histogram and graphic functions.<>

Keywords

computerised control; nuclear electronics; physical instrumentation control; physics computing; position sensitive particle detectors; power supplies to apparatus; -5.6 to 5.6 kV; 1 mA; 2 kV; 3 mA; D0 experiment; Fermilab; VME based high voltage power supply; advanced histogram; computer control; graphic functions; large experiments; low voltage ripples; monitor groups; user-defined control; variable ramp rates; Computerized monitoring; Frequency; Histograms; Laboratories; Low voltage; Potentiometers; Power supplies; Pulse generation; Pulse width modulation; Voltage control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 1991., Conference Record of the 1991 IEEE

Conference_Location

Santa Fe, NM, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0513-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.1991.259068

Filename

259068