Flasher Board Current Pulse 01/05/04

(Xu Zhai and Mark Krasberg)


Click here for a scope shot of the flasher board current pulse using the 'standard' flasher board settings we used over Christmas




Click here to see what happened after the mux output resistors were changed.





The scope probe has been attached to the flasher board at the connector J1 which goes to the mainboard (to connector J20) - they are small SMB-style connectors. The square wave pulse is about 70 ns wide. The flasher board LED settings have been set to their maxima (brightness and width both set to 127).

Now for the corresponding ATWD current pulse: (approx 3.5ns per bin - time flows backwards)

The current pulse almost reaches zero (but doesn't) in the initial downward spike. There is some 'inverse saturation' during the ringing later on (where the ATWD values are zero). (the 'pedestal' current position can be adjusted to avoid saturation at either end (max or min) - this particular position (around 750 counts) seems to work the best).