Automated Magnet Testing Facility

The automated Magnet Testing Facility (MTF) is a computer controlled, 60 kJ, parallel capacitor bank that was constructed to pulse test solenoidal magnets. Coil sets from different vendors were evaluated on two criteria: uniformity of field and coil reliability. The first criterion, uniformity of field, is evaluated by installing a pair of coils into stainless steel housings and pulse mapping the fields at a low energy level. Forty field-strength samples were easily collected with the one button operation of the MTF. Two thousand high field pulse tests, at a 20 kG level, is the second criterion for magnet acceptance. In a manually operated system a single operator can achieve this goal in six months. In a continuous operating mode, MTF can achieve the same goal in 42 days. See also ADM002371. 2013 IEEE Pulsed Power Conference, Digest of Technical Papers 1976-2013, and Abstracts of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science. Held in San Francisco, CA on 16-21 June 2013. U.S. Government or Federal Purpose Rights License.