Baking NOTCam at IJAF


The vessel is opened, and some parts are put on the cold table. In this case, the stepper motors and the focus unit.


Heating of the outer surfaces id done by three heating band, 200W each. These are kept in close contact with the surface by a clever(?) arrangement. The tube to the lower left leads to the vacuum pump.


At the bottom, the device for heating the cold table is seen. Air is blown into one of the two liquid Nitrogen filling tubes. The air is heated by a 200W element just outside the inlet. The vacuum pump can be seen in the background.


Insulation is put on top of the vessel, making outer surface temperatures of at least 80C possible. At the bottom are the controller boxes, from which pressure and four temperature sensors are read and transmitted to a computer for logging.


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Last updated April 14, 1999 by norup@astro.ku.dk