Apparatus Experience

Assorted Technical Expertise owns some electronic instrumentation, including the following somewhat unusual pieces used to measure extreme electrical phenomena:

• General Radio 1863 Megohm Meter
• Keithley 610B Electrometer

Other unusual equipment for a consultant:

• Hirsch/Polywell and Farnsworth "Fusor" hot fusion reactors
• Hitachi Cutivac dual-stage rotary vane forepump
• FLIR i7 Thermal Imager
• Milwaukee M-Spector "snake" Inspection Camera
• UEILogger 600 Data Acquisition Chassis
•      DNA-AI-207 16 Channel 18-bit A/D Card
•      DNA-STP-37 Terminal Block with ice-point circuit added
• Edmund Scientific 10-30x binocular microscope with camera mount
• Bosch and Lomb 1000x biological microscope
• Four Analog Devices 2B31J strain gage conditioner/amplifers

ATE has experience in using the following specific pieces of equipment:

• Leybold TMP-1000 Turbomolecular Pump
• Perkin Elmer/Ultec Ion Pump
• Welch rotary vane vacuum pumps, various models
• Ocean Optics S2000 Spectrometer
• SRS RGA-100 Residual Gas Analyzer
• Consolidated Vacuum Helium Leak Checker
• MTS 810 Servohydraulic Test Machine
• Atlas Weatherometer
• Q-Panel QUV Weathering Tester
• Thermotron S1.2 and S8 Temperature Chambers
• Ideal Aerosmith 1- and 2-axis Rate Turntables
• MEDA 2-meter 3-axis Helmholtz Coils
• GE/Druck Air Data Calibrators
• Satec Reciprocating Mass Fatigue Machine
• Instron 1603 Fatigue Machine
• Instron Screw-Driven Universal Test Machines
• Tinius Olsen Super L Universal Test Machine
• Satec/Baldwin Universal Test Machine
• Cambridge Stereoscan Electron Microscope with EDS
• Grand Ultraview Pro Scan Converter with Genlock Adapter
• Universal Voltronics High Voltage Power Supplies
• Glassman High Voltage Power Supplies
• Large Lead-Acid Battery Banks
• Siemans 600-series magnetic-blowout contactors
• Loader/Backhoe
• Cessna 152
• Cessna 172
• Diamond Katana
• Onan Generators, 7.5JB and 5CCK models

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