Metalica TestPulseoutput 12-20-07
I test the DC preamp + postamp output using a pulse generator to create a 40 mV levelpulse that was 10 ns wide in order to simulate a pulse from the drift chamber proto-type.
This time we used Metalica but the results are not so different.
The bottom line appears to be that we get a x4 attenuation and not a net amplification deispite our efforts the change the configuration for the better. We also note that channels 1-11 of the postamp proto type attenuate by a factor of four but channels 12-16 have a signal independent of the input.
Input pulse amlitude was changed and preamp voltage was set around 5.2 Voltes.
| Input pulse(mV) | |
| 40 | 
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| 70 | 
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| 160 | 
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The voltage was changed
PreAmp Voltage
We observed the ouput of a test pule injected into the preamp for several preamp voltage setting. The top (purple) trace is the injected pulse and the bottom (torquoise) trace is the output from the POSTamp.
| Preamp Voltage(Volts) | |
| 3.7 | 
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| 5 | 
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| 5.1 | 
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| 5.2 | 
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| 5.3 | 
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| 5.4 | 
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| 5.5 | 
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| 5.6 | 
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| 5.7 | 
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| 5.8 | 
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| 6 | 
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