ITE and TM3 Turbo pumps have been started successfully yesterday. The vacuum reading on all ITE high vacuum gauges are at low E-6 range after one night pumping down which are good so far. There is no any sign of leak on BL2A window and the flange seal on ITE side. Yesterday afternoon, Ron , Edi ,and I did a leak check on the ITE BL2A window flange(2aTunnel side). The leak detector was hooked onto BL2A in tunnel. Ron and I supplied helium from TH to the helium test line(located in ITE pit) which we have on ITE BL2A window flange. The helium test line end nozzle is just located under the bottom of the 2A window flange. Edi was in BL2A tunnel checking the leak detector. We supplies 10- 15 psi helium 3 times to the test line. Each time for 10 seconds. The helium flow was checked twice and they were good. The LD base LR was 2.2xE-5 atm.cc/sec, After 70 seconds , The leak rate on LD was increased to 5.3 xE-5 atm.cc/sec. The leak rate reading recovered after 20seconds. There is no obviously conclusion where the leak is. At that moment, Ron said, he and Edi would like to do some further leak check in 2A tunnel,and I went back to my job. |