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If you are present at a power-failure, prepare the Emergency-Power-System (in D320 Mg-Lab next to the electronics/chemistry cabinet) and get gazoline (Super Benzin)

At (severe/long) power failure

  • Set up the emergency power system (EPS) on the balcony room - (Parameters to turn it on: Choke: Turn off, Gas: Turn on)
  • Disconnect the marked power-cord (next to “Notaus”) from the power-plug and put it into the EPS. Now, the turbo-pumps and IGP should be save
  • If the turbo-pumps fail: Close the big valve below the chamber-table for the big turbo pump and turn off the big turbo.

Things to do after power failure

There are two power-failure situations. One, where a fuse or the Notaus in the lab has triggered the power failure and then one, which happens for the whole IQ/UNI. The later one needs an additional treatment.

Whole IQ/UNI power failure

Most probably the ACs will fail after a power failure
  • Turn off every device (Oscilloscopes, commercial systems etc) and all the power supplys in the “Stromschrank” to avoid uneccesary heating of the lab
  • Check if the AC is working again (call 4440 to tell them or wait for the next day until it's fixed).<hi #ed1c24> Indication for a not working AC</hi>: The red light next to the WC/KRb Office is flashing (but musn't)
  • If ACs are working again, turn on every single device again.

Checklist of devices

Vacuum

  • Check if all pumps are running and all pressures are ok
  • If pressures and pumps are ok (especially pre-vacuum and turbos) open the pneumatic valves (Next to the Lab-Door, there is a orange interlock. Press the reset button. You will hear the valves)
  • Open, if it has been closed, the big valve below the table at the big turbopump

S-MOT Laser

  • Turn on the Toptica controler (green button)
  • Check the temperature controler of 285
  • If a PID does not seem to work (e.g. Offset cant be set): Unplug it from power and replug it.

Triplet Laser

  • Turn on the Thorlabs TECs for the Laserdiodes (they turn off on a power failure)
  • Turn down the current for every laser-diodes (even when the controlers are still off), turn the controlers off and set the short button to short
  • Reenable the powersupply for the LD (in the Stromschrank): Orange interlock (Press the reset button)
  • Turn on each laser controler. Then un-short the diodes. The ramp up the current
  • If a PID does not seem to work (e.g. Offset cant be set): Unplug it from power and replug it.

Wutz

  • Turn on the Toptica controler (green button) - If it does turn off itself: Wait 15 minutes for the TECs to settle and try aganin.
  • Turn on the EOM-Synthesizer (located on bottom of Dipole-Rack) and set it to the correct frequency (written on the device - Recall, 9, Enter)
  • Monitor for Wutz/Clock-Laser: In the menu, go down to PIP (Picture-in-picture) and press right: It should enable the Wutz cam on that monitor again

Lattice Laser

  • Check if the Meerstetter for the TiSa is working (green LEDs)
  • If a PID does not seem to work (e.g. Offset cant be set): Unplug it from power and replug it.