{"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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Turn off the card rack power before proceeding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>SCA HV connector-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All SCA HV pins should be open to ground<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":false,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[164],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-optics-and-vacuum"],"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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rbdinstruments.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rbdinstruments.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rbdinstruments.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rbdinstruments.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rbdinstruments.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rbdinstruments.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4207,"href":"https:\/\/www.rbdinstruments.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206\/revisions\/4207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rbdinstruments.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rbdinstruments.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rbdinstruments.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}