First week of work

Well, my first "week" of work is over and all seems well. wouldn't really count it as a week since it was really short. Monday was a holiday and tuesday was orientation day, so not much working there. I spent most of the week setting up an experiment for a friday test. Had to machine a bunch of parts and stuff, pretty fun, like being in shop class again, but getting paid to do it. Probably can't talk much about the experiment (confidentiality agreement and all that), but the testing on friday was sweet. In theory, arc is pass through a tube from 1 electrode to another, and so measurements need to be made. The arc is about 21 KA and maybe 20KV or something. We'll, it didn't really work as planned. We got to watch the experiment, was sweet, had these huge ear muffs on to protect our ears and 2 welding mask glass to protect our eyes. Just see a big flash and pretty loud pop. We'll, we went to check out the results but didn't quite work out as planned. The arc didn't go through the tube but travelled through the metal frame instead. We indirectly made a rail gun as the arc vaporized part of a screw, hollowed out the inside and shot the top part 2 stories up to the roof. Was sweet, here's so of hte screw that we found.



So i guess we gotta make some changes and try again this week.

Today we had a job applicant do a presentation and i guess it's an ABB tradition for applicants to pay for everyone's lunch (glad i'm just an intern). Free lunch always tastes better :D. Well, that's all for now.