Berkeley Lab finished winding more than 2000 kilometers of superconducting wire into cables for new magnets that will help upgrades
Each wire contains niobium and tin, separated by copper. When heat-treated, the superconducting niobium-tin is formed. Image courtesy ofNot far from the cabling machine are stacks of pizza boxes with barcodes. Each one holds a sample from a cable — a record of what has been produced and one of the many elements of quality control. The Berkeley Lab team used a combination of cameras, microscopes, and electrical and mechanical tests to ensure the cables met their exacting specifications.
“We wanted all the excitement during the pre-checks and outside of the cable runs,” said Andy Lin, a scientific engineering associate in ATAP who leads the cabling technical operation for the project and has operated the machine since 2015. “During production, we could make micro-adjustments, like moving the machine head a thousandth of an inch — but any action we take during the run is a risk, so we tried not to unless we had to.
Over the life of the project, researchers learned more and more about the cabling machine, and how small changes could make subtle differences in the final cable. Something as simple as where lubrication was applied to the wires or whether an office fan was aimed at the machine could influence the end product. They also made improvements, such as speeding up the code that analyzes the images to operate nearly in real-time.
To form the cables, the twist of wire is shaped into a flat “Rutherford-style” cable, deforming the wire at the edges. To ensure the arrangement and integrity of the wires, researchers carefully cut off a section from the end of each cable for inspection and testing, including measurements at extremely cold temperatures. Each sample was then archived in its pizza box, and the full spool of cable was safely packed and transported to the next stage.
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