Roughing started at 12:06. It was believed there was a problem with the compressed air but there was none, TM1 doesn't leak and so you cannot hear that the connection is made.

Bevan Moss wrote:

Roughing started at 12:06. It was believed there was a problem with the compressed air but there was none, TM1 doesn't leak and so you cannot hear that the connection is made.

 Roughing stopped as the module and cover requires modifications that require the vacuum to be opened.

 TM1 started venting at 4:15 pm with Argon. I will leave the valve open over night.

 Both Turbo pumps on TM3 have failed. They were both attempted to start in soft mode. TP2 could only achieve ~19kpm and TP1 ~10kpm. I have turned off the scroll pump and vented through the turbo pumps.

 Turbo Pump 2 has been replaced on TM3. I got a count of 350 on the sleeve of my tank suit.

 Turbo Pump 2 has been replaced on TM3. I got a count of 350 on the sleeve of my tank suit.

With the Turbo pump replaced I have started roughing at 10:48

 Both Turbo Pumps are now operational.

Bevan Moss wrote:

Both Turbo Pumps are now operational.

 Turbo pumps 1 and 2 both found randomly off, have been restarted

 Cooling Package was started at 9:25 this morning inlet conductivity is 0.08 Mohm at 22.9C. Resistance reached 5.33 Mohm by 11:30

 The flow meter on the primary side (TCS:DIF2) of the conditioning station is broken. I investigated and there is flow, the gauge is not fouled, and the PLC does read back when current supplied. The gauge is also reciving 24V but the output is 0V and 0mA. I will contact ESC and the supplier.

 A HV test was conducted yesterday on TM3. There was no target and all items were tied to common or ground. The conductivity of the water ranged from 7.1 to 7.5 Mohm. 40kV @ ~600uA without continuous sparking was achieved. The Strip tool was run but something went wrong with the export and the vacuum gauge data is missing. I have attached the file for reference and the pulled data from the achiver (only logs every 300 seconds). RGA scans were taken periodically during the test nothing unexpected was measured but we also do not know what normal looks like. The RGA application is available at http://www.thinksrs.com/downloads/soft.htm. Other items of note include significant sparks disrupts the communication between the computer and the RGA, the PNG1 gauge and its controller, and TP2 local readout screen. 

This morning the Einzel Lens was tested on TM3 as the intention is to reuse this piece of equipment. The EL was able to achieve 39.9kV at ~1.35mA before a major spark happened and the power supply turned off. Also during testing the penning gauge suddenly shot up after a spark, it did not recover and had been acting strange in previous test, it was decided to ignore its value and continue testing but it should be replaced in the future. When I went to save the strip tool data I tried to save it as SDDS binary data out of curiosity and the tool crashed, it turns out this is on old feature and doesn't work anymore. A file was created but I cannot recover any of the data. If I do manage to do so I will will attach it later. Attached is the RGA and Archiver data. 

Other items of note:

Voltage was increased in 1000V increments until ~32kV when it started to have sparks. Increases were then reduced to 500V until 38kV when it sparked and further reduced to 100V increments where it worked until 39.9kV

There is a inline and ballast resistor on the EL circuit values of each respectively are 145Kohm and 200 Mohm

The rga application is available at
http://www.thinksrs.com/downloads/soft.htm

 Further HV testing was completed today from ~2:00 until 3:00. The resistivity of the water was 11.7 - 12.7 Mohm. The EE was turned on to 1500 V and had a leakage current of 1.465 mA with a inline and ballast resister of 20 kohm and 1 Mohm respectively. In addition to this all of the CB were turned on to 500V. The voltage on the source tray with all bias items tied together and the voltage was then raised to 30kV in 5kV steps. It was then raised until 37kV in 1kV step at which point the first spark was detected. Steps were then reduced to 500V until 39.5kV was achieved. Sparking was noticed when stepping up from one voltage to the next and steps were reduced to 100V. At 39.7 kV there were several sparks and the voltage was held for 8 minutes until there had been at least 4 minutes since the last spark. Voltage was increased to 41.2 kV at 292.97 uA when a spark caused the HVCLTBHT paddle wheel flow sensor to trip. Flow was affected but the interlock was tripped due to noise and as a result the BIAS and EE voltage dropped to zero. At this point the required data had been collected and it was decided to shut the station down. RGA scans were taken during the test and are attached. The edited data with graphs is attached in the excel folder. PNG1 was not monitored as it has failed.

The rga application is available at
http://www.thinksrs.com/downloads/soft.htm

 Both the Cooling Package and Vacuum have been turned off in preparation for the module move tomorrow

 During Testing it was noticed that Fault 2 was indicated and one of the compressors would not run. Fault 2 does not indicate what the issue was and during inspection nothing could be detected. It had something to do with TCS:CHILCP3 and possibly CP2. CP1 could still be operated and was controlled manually to keep the temperature in the correct range. This was not required but it does affect the conductivity. The main power switch on the chiller unit was turned on and off and the fault was cleared. As far as I know this indicated either a freeze protect, flow, or refrigerant pressure fault. I will ask for TCS:TS6 and TCS:DIF2 to be added to the archiver so this can be further investigated in the future.

 Controls has created a new user group that can operate the conditioning station but cannot use any of the bypasses or forces. The cooling package will be used to test this new profile. The main loop bypass has been opened to allow this testing to happen without the risk of over pressure.

Chad removed the source tray from TM3  today, see attached picture (video was also taken). There was some interference between the window cooling lines and the frame work as well as the clamps for the ground electrode and the water block alignment jig. There was also interference between the optics alignment post (specifically the mushroom top) and the water block alignment jig. Investigation into these inferences needs to be completed as they could cause trouble for the insertion of the new source tray and alignment of the copper lines. During removal it was easy to bend copper tubes out of the way but this clearly would not work during installation.

Travis and I removed the 55 pin connector from the service cap today. The feed through was left in place as a new design for the replacement has yet to be designed. It was not possible to test if the cables could be pulled easily as I believe there is still 1 cable tie in the containment box. The wires were cut flush with the top of the copper tube in case Chad cannot remove them via the hot cell. Other items removed include several cable ties and a clamp used to hold a cable tie. The side panels on the service cap we difficult to remove so copper never sieze was added when they were re-installed.  I have attached some pictures from before and after a complete record can be found in the TM3 docushare folder.

 Roughing on TM3 was started at 11:26am today