Alcator C-Mod Weekly Highlights
			       December 1, 1997
 

	Last week was a maintenance week at Alcator C-Mod. Repair work on
the MIT Alternator continued.  Work on the DNB, RF, and power systems also
made progress.  We have begun to condition the machine for plasma operation
with ECDC and a low temperature bake which will continue for about 1 week.
ECDC experiments, some in support of ITER requests, will also be conducted
over the next few days.
	Reassembly of the alternator has been completed.  We are
re-installing instrumentation and control electronics and preparing to
bring the alternator back into operation later in the week.
	We continue to make progress on the DNB.  The beam profile monitoring
electronics are being assembled, hardware designs for installation of the
Mod/Reg crowbar electronics were completed, and modifications to the
accelerator power supply protection circuits were begun.
	All work on FMIT#1 and #2 is complete and these systems are ready
for plasma operation.  Work on the FMIT#3 and #4 control system continues.
	The power systems group is completing work on the new hi-yard
voltage and current measurements.  An alternator rotor ground fault
measurement is also being added to our CAMAC system before the next
run period.  New TF optical link and control boards have been tested
and burned-in in the shop and will soon be installed in the TF cabinet.
	Dave Johnson and Ben LeBlanc visited from PPPL last week to work
on the x-point Thomson scattering diagnostic.  Ben Welch was here from
U. of Maryland to work with his graduate student, Jim Weaver, on their
visible spectrometer.