The HV test completed on Monday was repeated today over a much longer time period. By taking longer there was slightly less sparking but once again a maximum voltage of ~44kV was achieved. The  resistivity of the water was much higher during this run so the leakage current was less but still in the >100 uA range. The spark that occurred during the ramp up to the maximum voltage caused the "water resistivity" limit to trip. This was a feed back through the control not the actual water changing as it recovered instantaneously. 

 A special thanks to Kazuya, Jane and Ray who jumped on this issue right away! The limit of the BIAS PS was set as 20000uA when in reality it is 4000uA. The issue has now been corrected. Please remember to divide the current by 5 for any elogs older than this one.

 Scott Adair from Riada sales came to site to complete diagnostics on the ONICON flow meter. He could not determine the problem and believes that there was a short in the head. He has taken the flow meter for what should be warranty repair. The flow meter is for diagnostics only, the conditioning station can still operate without it.

I have been getting a fault on the roof top chiller for the 2 tandem 7.5 ton chillers. I have checked and we have water flow and the temperatures are nowhere near freezing. I believe they are over heating as the fans on that side are not coming on. The blades are free to turn by hand but the VFD controller keeps saying off. I have tried turning it on and off and that also did nothing. I have contacted ESC for further advice.

 Testing on TM3 without a source tray was completed on 13/05.2013. All items were tied to common and the water blocks were left open at the bottom of the module. They were left with the quick connections at the top. The vacuum was in the low 10^-6T range so this was deemed acceptable. The cooling lines withing the cage in the target hall were shorted so flow could continue. As you will see from the results a maximum of 44kV was achieved before a major spark turned the power supply off. I will be compiling all the the data so it can be compared. Also attached is the archiver data, strip tool data, and RGA data.

HS had been purged. The ITE is under venting. The TM4 will be moved to SH on next Tuesday which is May 21th.

Bevan Moss wrote:

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.

 Data has been put into and excel spread sheet

Bevan Moss wrote:

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

 The lost Binary file. Binary files are no longer used and cause the the tool to crash. The option has not been removed from the strip tool users are just supposed to know not to use it.

The turbo pumps are on. TP1 and TP2 once again timed out and had to be restarted before they would stay on.

 Roughing on TM3 was started at 11:26am today

TM#3 electrical check with no target and no source tray, see pdf.

TM#3 with no target and no source tray has been moved from the south hot cell to the conditioning station.

the containment box has been reinstalled onto TM3. After electrical checks it is ready to move to the conditioning station...for electrical tests.

The source tray side of the water block jig has been removed in preparation for moving the module to the  conditioning station for electrical tests.

The source tray for the mock-up has been setup for waterline bending and soldering/brazing.

Thanks to Travis for finding the photos for the TM3 rebuild that took place in the anteroom in 09' and Maico and Dan for the support in ironing the issues with the source tray side soldering issues.

Checks of the wiring for the IMG are complete and have passed.

The 9 pin wiring has successfully been removed from TM3.

Water interlock check  on ITW is done. All water signals are strong on EL panel.  ITW is configured to take proton beam.

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.

With the aid of nic new manipulator snap fingers made by Maico the peek cable ties restraining the 9 pin connector wiring to the gas lines have been cut.