The Glory of TM2 continues 100V at a time. Today I brought the module to 46kV and left it there for 1 hour. During this time there was only 1 spark. I then continues at up to 53kV. At this voltage the canbus continues to be temperamental when the module sparks. The module is still conditioning and I will continue more tomorrow. Attached is the dumped data and a screen shot of the conditioning from 46kV to 53kV.

 I have tested all of the compressors for TCS. All are operational and cycled as they should. 

 HV conditioning of TM2 continued today. At ~53.5kV the module started to spark externally to the HV cover. This is the first time the cover has been tested to this high of a voltage due to the limitations of the modules. As such for the conditioning station to achieve 60kV while keeping the target hall open of personnel the cover and cage will need to be modified. To continue with HV testing of TM2 the cover was removed and the target hall locked out as per the procedure covered in Document 70039 "ISAC Conditioning Station: First Lock-Out and High-Voltage "ON". With the cover off the module was able to achieve ~56.7kV without the Einzel lens on. Eliminate the Einzel lens as a potential source of sparking it was brought to 25kV while the module continued conditioning. Maximum voltage achieve under this configuration was 57.1kV. Increments are now 50V steps. The Canbus continues to be very sensitive to any sparking and is slowing the process down considerably. It does however appear that the module is continuing to condition. I will continue tomorrow after the module moves to attempt to reach 60kV and hold it for 1 hour.

 HV testing without the cover continued today. With the EINZEL lens at 30kV the target module was able to achieve 58.7kV. At this voltage any spark was reeking havoc on the electronics of the TCS. Vacuum gauges signals were occasionally lost, the thermocouple reading would occasionally be lost, turbo pump would turn off. All of these events caused the interlocks to trip resulting in the power supplies to be turned off. As a result I bypassed majority of the interlocks to prevent this from happening. Ultimately as spark took out the CANBUS controller first for the EINZEL lens and then for the BIAS. David Morris has been contacted to have them replaced. The damage of the CANBUS controller for these power supplies is becoming a common problem and should be investigated for if there is a better solution. During testing I experimented with raising the BIAS to near its limit followed by the EINZEL lens and vise versa. From this it was determined that the EINZEL must be raised to high voltage before the BIAS otherwise sparking occurs. Even a step from 0 to 500 volts on the ENIZEL lens with the BIAS at 55kV caused sparking. There are a few combinations of testing along this line I would like to continue with but initially my though is that the BIAS and ENIZEL do not have sufficient clearance for the BIAS to operate above 55kV. Attached is a screen shot of the strip tool and the data. I have not heard from David yet but I do not expect the TCS to be operational today. 

 Travis and I completed an electrical check on the wiring harness for the devices on the ground plane. All lines passed 500V with the megger except for PNG and the BTM steerer. Those devices had a short to ground. of ~1.4ohm.

 Maico removed the containment box today allow Travis and I to further test the wiring harness. I disconnected the junction block and Travis and I repeated the test from yesterday. The all lines except the PNG tested OL. The module was then lowered and the twisted pair connected to the pin that corresponds to the steerer labeled BTM (it is likely this is not labeled correctly). This testing showed showed that the source of the short found yesterday is in the wiring harness or the source tray. The PNG gauge was then tested again. When beeping out the harness to find the location of the pin it was found that the short had gone away. This circuit was then tested with the megger at 500V and showed OL. Don Jackson has suggested looking at the SHV feed through. It is difficult to determine where the source of the problem is as it is intermittent. The source tray side wiring harness for the steerers was then disconnected from the steerers and tested to OL. Finally the connections on the source tray were tested. It was determined that the third socket down (see attached picture) has a short somewhere to ground. When Chad returns on Friday I will have him complete a visual inspection and if the source can be found we may be able to deflect the line. Failing that to repair this connection a new steerer cone assembly will need to be installed.

chad fisher wrote:

Using in cell camera and transit the suspect line on the steerers was inspected as best as possible. An existing photo of the complete steerers before installation was used for comparison. The wiring and beading inspected today showed no obvious problems, breaks or spots where there may be a short. In comparison to the photo from construction, what we could see of the steerers looked identical to the original installation.

 The test was repeated to confirm that there was a short.

 It was attempted to HV condition TM2 to 55kV and leave it operating there for an hour to demonstrate stability. Unfortunately at 52.65kV a spark destroyed the canbus controller. This controller had shown issues in the past but seemed to magically fixed itself. I will contact Hubert for another card. Attached  is is a screen shot of the stip tools. 

Today 55kV was applied to TM2 and held for over 1 hour with the EINZEL at 27.5kV. There were 2 sparks and the current was unstable at this voltage but this test should be considered a success. Once again while bringing the voltage up the canbus continued to be a problem. After successfully passing the test I continued to raise the BIAS and EINZEL. A spark at 57kV tripped a controller for the vacuum and the canbus. As stated before I believe the module will reach 60kV and that there is an interaction between the EINZEL and the BIAS. I am not certain if that interaction is internal or external to the module. Attached is a screen shot and the dumped data.

While under vacuum Travis and I completed diagnostics of the HV chase. Majority of the lines showed OL at 1kV but there were the following "failures"

A to P @ 250V 716kOhm
A to Q @ 1kV 25.18MOhm
B to C with ohm meter 8Mohm @250V 830kOhm
B to D @ 1kV 15.57MOhm
C to D @1kV 16.18 MOhm
P to Q @1kV 1.069 GOhm
G to J with ohm meter dead short.

Ideally all of these values would be OL and they may improve or get worse when the source tray is installed depending on where the electrical contact is. I need to discuss with Friedhelm but I believe that as these values the module can still operate. Without changing the HV chase there is very little chance of improving these values.

 TM4 with Ta#42 was HV conditioned to 35kV with the optics tray at 17.5kV. There was some vacuum response while ramping but well within normal. Attached is a screen shot and the associated data.

 The TiC#4 target that is on TM3 was conditioned to 25kV today with the EINZEL lens at 12.5kV. There was one spark shortly after reaching 25kV that reset the bias PS and another one  after the module sat at 25kV for ~30 minutes. Attached is the strip tool data and screen shot. Prior to starting the conditioning the power on the chiller needed to by cycled as the VFD on the fans had tripped due to a recurring inrush problem.

Today, the commissioning of the TCS went well. The water/vacuum interlocks were checked OK. Then, the TCS was HV conditioned up to 33kV.

Tomorrow, the heaters will be ramped up.

After few hickups the TCS was successfuly commissioned.

In the morning, in the middle of the heaters conditioning: 360A/250A for the TGHT/TBHT, the target heater PS tripped and it didn't recover immediately.  I cannot tell if the card is still OK. Before this even, there were few bias current sparks created when the ionized tube was raised above 250A; this also tripped the Einzel lens. Re-started the Heaters, and did the conditioning with the rest (HV, Optics) Off. After the heaters were at nominal values, raised the rest: HV to 30kV and the Optics. And everything held fine. The current on the FC was 3micro-Amperes. The water temperature levels stayed below 25 deg Celsius.

The problems that need to be fixed:

1. The biggest problem was created by the target power supply: the new card is not calibrated, the voltage is not regulating, but the main problem is the grounding of the output of power supply. Friedhelm measured 0.2V across the return and the cage (200mili-ohms resistance) .  This was probably overlooked.

2. The Auto-ramping routine didn't work. Controls would need to fix this.

3. The RGA didn't want to connect from the account Don created for me. So, we have only a RGA scan taken on Friday by Don, when the target was cold.

David Wang and I did the service cap inspection in target hall: see WP I2015-10-06-10.<br>

Signs of sparking were seen underneath 3 insulators: E ("Cavity"), A ("Oven+") and B ("Oven -") at the pair water lines coming out of the  feed-through and going to the HV chase. Specifically one water line of E is very close to the feed-through insulator (2-3mm gap) and here the sparking sings are more prominent: see picture.

David Wang wrote:

I did a 5KV mega test on TM3.  Only5Mohm @5kV between coli line PQ and chassis(ground). It confirmed the close gap between P,Q and GE. Other lines are ok. See attachment.

See attachment for sparking signs of the water lines mentioned  above (Coil and Ground Electrode lines) in TM3 Source Tray.

Aurelia Laxdal wrote:

David Wang wrote: I did a 5KV mega test on TM3.  Only5Mohm @5kV between coli line PQ and chassis(ground). It confirmed the close gap between P,Q and GE. Other lines are ok. See attachment. See attachment for sparking signs of the water lines mentioned  above (Coil and Ground Electrode lines) in TM3 Source Tray.

PLEASE NOTE: the resistance values for A and B on David's attachment are not correct since these measurements were done after Chad removed the target and the heat-shield bracket was moved, so consequently the water lines were not at their nominal locations. Once they were back in plac,e David took another measurement and the resistance values for A and B showed also 3,000 MOhm (as it was for most of the lines). The only lines that still showed a low resistance were the Coil lines. 

David Wang wrote:

Last Friday July-15, TM3 was leak checked at TCS. All air to vacuum seals on service cap are good.  Helium pressure test on  TM3 water lines(except GE, HS, and Window) were done. Leak detector has no response at 0.0xE-9 atm.cc/sec. They are leak free.

Friday July 15: did HV tests (with no target installed and with the anode wire removed ). <br>

TM3 went up to 22.5kV. At this voltage it started sparking. The EL was kept at 1/2 with respect to the HV BIAS. <br>

Also HV tests were done while the EL was kept at zero V. In this case, the EL voltage was once in a while spiking  up (up to 4kV). <br>

During sparking we saw responses in the vacuum. Checked the Service Cap (with the HV Cover) in the Target Hall: we couldn't hear/see sparks there.  <br>

The HV was turned off in the same day, after 5:30pm.

David Wang wrote:

All water circuits are by passed on the top of TM3. Water pumps and vacuum turbo- pumps are started. Everything is ready for TM3 camera sparking check.

 Wednesday November 30st: <br>

- 3 cameras (1 UV and 2 regular cameras)  were installed in the Service cap and the module was pumped down.  1 UV and 1 regular were placed on the East side of the module, aiming to water lines entering the Service Tray; 1 regular camera was placed on the South side of the module, aiming at the bottom of the blue insulators.

- started pumping down. <br>

Thursday, December 1st: <br>

- 1st HV test done. TM3 started sparking above 20kV. The cameras responses were consistent with the sparks. However, the screens were flickering and it was not clear if the responses were due to electromagnetic interferences; or due to cameras' gain change caused by high intensity light due to sparking.<br>

- added helium using the regulating valve. same results were found; <br>

Friday, December 2nd: <br>

- vented the module. <br>

- shielded the cameras' cables with aluminum tape. <br>

- removed 2 blue insulator (EE and HS) and shortened them by 1". They were found too long: HS blue insulator touching the horizontal HV water line; and the EE blue insulator at 2-3mm far from the HV water line; re-installed both shortened blue insulators.<br>

- changes the location of the cameras: 1 regular camera taped to the UV camera were placed South, aiming at the bottom of the blue insulators; 1 regular camera was kept on the East side of the module, also aiming at the bottom of the blue insulators. <br>

- started pumping down. <br>

Saturday, December 3rd: <br>

- 2nd HV test was done, with cameras' installed as mentioned above. results were consistent with the first test results. <br>

- added helium. results were the same. <br>

- vented and changed the location of the cameras: 1 regular camera taped to the UV camera were placed at the top of the Service Tray (South-West corner) aiming down the Service Tray; 1 regular camera was kept (its setup was not touched at all) on the East side of the module, aiming at the bottom of the blue insulators. <br>

- attempted to pump down, but the module was leaking. reopened the flanges, cleaned them, attempted again to pump down, but it showed a bigger leak. <br>

Sunday, December 4th: <br>

- the third attempt to pump down was successful (without reopening the module!). <br>

Monday, December 5th: <br>

- did the 3rd HV test with the cameras installed as described on December 3rd. same results as before were seen. <br>

- again helium was added and same results were noticed. <br>

- stopped pumps and prepared for venting to relocate the cameras lower in the Service Tray.

Aurelia Laxdal wrote:

David Wang wrote: All water circuits are by passed on the top of TM3. Water pumps and vacuum turbo- pumps are started. Everything is ready for TM3 camera sparking check.  Wednesday November 30st: <br> - 3 cameras (1 UV and 2 regular cameras)  were installed in the Service cap and the module was pumped down.  1 UV and 1 regular were placed on the East side of the module, aiming to water lines entering the Service Tray; 1 regular camera was placed on the South side of the module, aiming at the bottom of the blue insulators. - started pumping down. <br> Thursday, December 1st: <br> - 1st HV test done. TM3 started sparking above 20kV. The cameras responses were consistent with the sparks. However, the screens were flickering and it was not clear if the responses were due to electromagnetic interferences; or due to cameras' gain change caused by high intensity light due to sparking.<br> - added helium using the regulating valve. same results were found; <br> Friday, December 2nd: <br> - vented the module. <br> - shielded the cameras' cables with aluminum tape. <br> - removed 2 blue insulator (EE and HS) and shortened them by 1". They were found too long: HS blue insulator touching the horizontal HV water line; and the EE blue insulator at 2-3mm far from the HV water line; re-installed both shortened blue insulators.<br> - changes the location of the cameras: 1 regular camera taped to the UV camera were placed South, aiming at the bottom of the blue insulators; 1 regular camera was kept on the East side of the module, also aiming at the bottom of the blue insulators. <br> - started pumping down. <br> Saturday, December 3rd: <br> - 2nd HV test was done, with cameras' installed as mentioned above. results were consistent with the first test results. <br> - added helium. results were the same. <br> - vented and changed the location of the cameras: 1 regular camera taped to the UV camera were placed at the top of the Service Tray (South-West corner) aiming down the Service Tray; 1 regular camera was kept (its setup was not touched at all) on the East side of the module, aiming at the bottom of the blue insulators. <br> - attempted to pump down, but the module was leaking. reopened the flanges, cleaned them, attempted again to pump down, but it showed a bigger leak. <br> Sunday, December 4th: <br> - the third attempt to pump down was successful (without reopening the module!). <br> Monday, December 5th: <br> - did the 3rd HV test with the cameras installed as described on December 3rd. same results as before were seen. <br> - again helium was added and same results were noticed. <br> - stopped pumps and prepared for venting to relocate the cameras lower in the Service Tray.

 Monday, December 5th (Con't): <br>

- vented and changed the location of the cameras;<br>

- the UV camera was placed (tapped on an aluminum spacer and on the grounded water lines) at the middle of the Service Tray (right below the first Mykroy insulator-plate) aiming down the Service Tray (at the second Mykroy insulator-plate and water lines) ; <br>

- 1 regular camera was placed right below the UV camera, also using a spacer (taped with the camera on grounded water lines) and also aiming down the Service Tray (at the second Mykroy insulator-plate and water lines);  The spacer for this camera had 300counts on it after it was removed from TM3, after the test;<br>

- NOTE: when installing the 1st regular camera: dropped a small allen key in the Service Tray. It landed on last insulator with the epoxi and water lines, between the first HV line and the wall of the grounded Service Tray.  This insulator is down below in the Service tray. Used a magnet stick to recuperate the allen key. <br>

- the 2nd regular camera was placed at the top of the Service Tray (tapped on the grounded water lines) looking down at the first Mykroy insulator-plate and water lines. NOTE: this camera had a filter applied to its lens. <br>

- pumped down <br>

Tuesday, December 6th:<br>

- did the 4th HV test with the cameras installed as described on December 5rd Tuesday morning very early . Same results as before were seen, except that the top camera (2nd regular camera) with the filter applied to its lens was flickering less than the other 2 cameras, and for small sparks this camera was not reacting at all. <br>

- vented shortly after the 4th test and relocated the cameras for the 5th HV test (last test); <br>

- placed only 2 regular cameras in the Service Tray;<br>

- 1 regular camera was placed right below the 2nd Mykroy insulator-plate, aiming down the Service Tray at the last insulator with the epoxi and water lines (this insulator is down below in the Service tray); <br>

- the 1st regular camera was placed a level up in the Service Tray, right below the 1st Mykroy insulator-plate, aiming down the Service Tray at the 2nd Mykroy insulator-plate; <br>

- NOTE: no spacers were used<br>

- pumped down and did the 5th HV test with the cameras installed as described above in the evening; <br>

- again same results as before were seen: the camera with the filter applied to its lens was flickering less than the other camera, and for small sparks this camera was not reacting at all. <br>

- NOTE: for this last test heard sparks outside (at atmosphere) when the HV was pushed at 26kV; <br>

Wednesday, December 7th:<br>

- vented and removed the cameras from TM3. No contamination was found on the cameras and wires. <br>

- TM3 was moved to the silo.<br>