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Figure 1 Cold box with plates inserted. The Wien box is designed to test up to 10 modules at operating temperatures (-20C). It is equipped with two thermoelectric elements with a combined cooling power of 700 Watts. The thermoelectric elements are cooled by a direct water bath. The water bath is circulated though a chiller which can extract 1500 Watts. The thermoelectric elements are powered by a two channel power supply that is rated for 14 amps at 25 volts. This power supply can be controlled by front panel controls or through a computer interface. The thermoelectric elements cool two slotted metal plates which hold up to 10 module carrier plates. Dry air is flowed through the slotted plates to each carrier plate to control humidity at low temperatures. The Wien box is equipped with humidity and temperature sensors which are readout through a computer interface to control the power supply for the thermoelectric elements. A hardware interlock interrupts the power to the thermoelectric element power supply when the slotted plates are over heated or over cooled. This could occur is the temperature control software fails or the chiller fails. Figure 2 Hardware interlock Figure 3 Cold box backplane with UTRI, PAACB and mulitplexer attached. The backplane of the box provides the connections needed to power the modules, bias the modules and readout the modules. The modules are controlled and readout though UTRI boards attached to the outside of the backplane. The low voltage and high voltage connections are made through PAACB attached to the outside of the backplane. On the inside of the box, the modules are connected to the backplane through adapter boards. The low voltage for the modules are provided by two power supplies connected to a distribution panel. This distribution panel allows the use of only two power supplies instead of 14 individual power supplies. The bias voltage is supplied by a CAEN SY127 HV crate with 3 A132 4 channel HV modules. Each HV channel is run through a HV crowbar which protects the modules from over voltage and current surges. Each HV channel is also connected through an electrometer for measuring the bias voltage leakage current. Figure 4 Cold box equipment rack. From top to bottom: Keithley power supplies, storage drawer, low voltage distribution panel, low voltage power supplies, thermoelectric element poewer supply, NIM crate with electrometers, 110V to 220V transformers, CAEN SY127 high voltage crate.