Quick VPT Test Rig meeting - minutes


Date of meeting: 29 September 2000

Venue: RAL

Present: PSF, BWK, ALL, MS, AMT, JHW


  1. Hardware: MS has removed secondary belt - row of 8 cans now installed as Row 1, driven directly from stepper motor.  Steel-reinforced belt replaced by nylon version - slippage is worse.  More work needed to overcome this - plenty of ideas to improve the design.  Modified base plate should be ready next week.  8-way RS232 fanout expected to arrive on 9 Oct.

Bruce Kennedy 09 February 2004