{"id":4206,"date":"2025-08-06T15:37:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T22:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rbdinstruments.com\/blog\/?p=4206"},"modified":"2025-08-06T15:37:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T22:37:44","slug":"10-360-sca-resistance-and-capacitance-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbdinstruments.com\/blog\/10-360-sca-resistance-and-capacitance-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"10-360 SCA resistance and capacitance tests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Turn off the card rack power before proceeding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>SCA HV connector-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remove the large SCA filter box (that has the big black cable going into it) and check for the following resistances \u2013<br>Pin 1 to 3 = 7.4 Meg ohms<br>Pin 1 to 2 = 4.5 Meg ohms<br>Pin 2 to 3 = 2.9 Meg ohms<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All SCA HV pins should be open to ground<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remove the POS and NEG filter boxes.<br>POS to NEG on the SCA should be about 15 meg ohms.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Capacitance tests &#8211;<br>POS to chamber should be about 850 pF (.850 nF)<br>NEG to chamber should be about 200 pF (.200 nF)<br>MCD connector<br>All pins should be about 300 pF (.300 nF) from the pins to the chamber, except for the 4 center pins which should be about 100 pF (.100 nF).<br>All MCD pins should be open to the chamber<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turn off the card rack power before proceeding. SCA HV connector- Remove the large SCA filter box (that has the big black cable going into it) and check for the following resistances \u2013Pin 1 to 3 = 7.4 Meg ohmsPin &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rbdinstruments.com\/blog\/10-360-sca-resistance-and-capacitance-tests\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":false,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[164],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2DEXo-15Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":300,"url":"https:\/\/www.rbdinstruments.com\/blog\/phi-optics-repair-guidelines-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":4206,"position":0},"title":"PHI Optics Repair Guidelines","author":"Randy","date":"January 17, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"This document contains information about optics repair methods, procedures and tricks that are useful when working on older PHI optics units such as cylindrical mirror analyzers, x-ray photoelectron spectrometers and sputter ion sources. 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