Hi all,
Anyone have experience managing a minor flood on the magnet floor?
Yesterday and earlier today we had standing, clean groundwater
between .25" and 1.5" deep in our pit, which supports our Inova's 600
MHz magnet , "magnet leg" assembly, our cold probe's closed cycle
chiller, and the cold probe's turbo pump. The cables on the ground
were immersed, and our "high-sensitivity" VT cable, with a cold
junction compensator in the middle, shorted out. I'll make this short
and just say I shut off the spectrometer, put all moveable objects up
on styrofoam coolers, and shut down the cold probe normally - all
looked basically fine. We've identified the source of the problem
(don't ask), and it's unlikely to occur again in the long term.
I'd like help figuring out what, if anything, to do now that the
water's been shop-vacced away. We have to replace our VT cable,
certainly, but I'm concerned about our CCC unit. Before I unplugged
it, it was "off" but the water level was about 1/8" over the top of
metal slab the equipment is bolted to. The pit is tiled, so there's
no carpet to rip out.
Any tips on what to do?
Thanks.
- Josh
Josh Kurutz, Ph.D.
Technical Director, Biomolecular NMR Facility
University of Chicago
Gordon Center for Integrative Science, room W123C
929 E. 57th St.
Chicago, IL 60637
Office: (773) 834-9805
Spectrometer Room: (773) 702-4052
Cell: (773) 315-5732
Fax: (208) 978-2599
nmr.bsd.uchicago.edu
homepage.mac.com/jkurutz
Received on Tue Sep 09 2008 - 09:03:35 MST