Re: robot for circuit boards

[Paul Smith <ptsmith@indiana.edu>]

Hall D Electronics:

Hi Elke,

Alex was going to talk with someone at DOE (Brad Tippens?) about the  
possibility of JLab donating the machine to IU.  It is worth less  
than $10K after depreciation.  In some instances there is a tax write  
off for donating old equipment to a university, but I'm not sure if  
this applies to JLab.  If this donation happens IU will negotiate  
with BeamWorks for continued maintenance.  My understanding from the  
May discussions is that JLab/GlueX cannot afford to move the machine  
and train someone to use it, has no suitable place to put it, and  
will no longer pay for maintenance in any case.  I am happy to use  
the robot to do GlueX (or ATLAS) related jobs for Mitch or anyone  
else in the collaborations when the machine is appropriate for the  
task, and assuming we can keep it running, and subject to  
availability of my time since currently no one else at IU has been  
trained to program it for new boards.  I do have a technician who  
understands how to run the robot once it is programmed.

regards,

Paul


On Sep 7, 2007, at 7:13 PM, Elke-Caroline Aschenauer wrote:

>
> Dear Paul,
>
> I wanted to check base, in May we had some discussion on the robot for
> circuit boards. FY07 is over soon and in the last email you send me  
> you
> said you might want to find some solution for the robot.
> http://www.jlab.org/ccc/mail_archives/HALLD/halld-electronics/ 
> msg00057.html
>
> I was just wondering were we are with this. Did you maybe contact  
> Mitch
> Newcomer to see he would be able to use the robot.
>
> Thanks elke
>
>
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