On Monday, March 11 the containment box was removed from TM4 and a vacuum leak check preformed in an attempt to locate the leak in the ground electrode circuit.

Following Pierre's work plain helium was sprayed was the highest joint accessible towards the lowest.

A two second spray of helium was applied to the first joint (the reducer from the service tray to the line that goes to the service tray side of the water block connection), no response from the leak detector after 1 minute.

 two second spray of helium was applied to the braze joint of the servive tray side of the waterblock connection; almost immediate response from the leak detector (see David Wand for actual values for leak rate).

The inital joint at the reducer was rechecked to insure the response was not just a risidual slow response from the reducer joint and confirmed by no response after 2 miniutes that it was not.

The braze joint at the service tray block was then tested again with a two second spray and again almost an imediated response.

A meeting was conveined and decided to pressurize this circuit with air and apply snoop solution to the suspect area to try to identify wether the leak is in the braze joint or possibly c-seal...This will take place on Tuesday, March 12th.

 Today David and I moved the module from ITE to the SHC. Move went very smoothly, David operated the cameras and has had basic training in how to manually lock out the controls.

ITW EX1 have been moved back to the west target station from the south hot cell.

ITW EX1 has been moved from the west target station to the south hot cell for the seal replacement on the west station.

Bevan and I replaced TM4 TP1 today at conditioning station .The pump will be started this week when I do ITE and TM4 leak check .

TM#4 with CS Test Target #1 (dummy target) moved from the conditioning station to the east target station. Move went well.

TM1 moved from the west station to the southwest silo. Move went well.

 Today while putting the cover on the cord that goes to the controller was bumped. This bent the connector down and caused a vacuum leak. I tried to tighten the bolts in the hope the leak would go away but it did not and I sheared one of the bolts off. David is inquiring with Edi if the pump can be repaired or if it needs to be replaced. The good news is that the interlocks work exactly as planned. Upon detecting a leak they shut the turbos down and closed all of the valves they even beat the turbo controllers for overload.

David believes we can rotate the pump slightly to avoid this problem in the future. Hopefully repairs can start on Monday. 

The conditioning station will be shut down for the weekend.

 Hello Ray and Yi

Completed a HV test with the water flowing today.

8.96 Mohm

56.4 PSI across the load

16.5 GPM through the loads

some sparking occurred see attached file.

module was biased with all items tied to common to 40kV. Leakage current was less than 100uA.

This was a very successful test.

Disconnected EXIT1 in ITW. All cables , wires and air lines are label marked.

Edi and I replaced the broken ITH MP1 in target hall with a new pump. The old pump was leak on oil. There were no oil had been left in the old pump by checking the sight glass.Thats the reason of  the pump  failure.The tray which the old pump sat on was full of leaking oil ( highly contaminated ). The old pump was bagged in 3 thick plastic bags ,and the tray was cleaned before the new pump was installed. The working area had been cleaned up and surveyed couple of times after the job. Everything is good. The new pump had been tested after the installation. It works fine.

See attached TAPC 477 documentation.

 Today the module was biased to 40kV in the conditioning station. The current draw was 0uA. Sparking started at 27 kV. I have attached the recording from the strip tool of the vacuum while we were testing. After consulting Pierre if we should take the module to a higher voltage it was decided not to. The purpose of this test we to check the interaction between the module, cover, new cooling line, EE and EINZEL cables. This test was considered a success and although there are no anticipated problems care should be taken when taking the module past 40kV for the first time.

the switches and the solenoid are all wire up to 24VDC, when you open either of the little doors the solenoid switches this is also true if there is a power loss. currently the solenoid is powered.

2013 winter shut down ITW-TM1 primary vacuum vessel, secondary vacuum vessel, and water lines leak check: connected leak detector to TP2(primary and water lines) and TP4S (secondary). base leak rate 0.0xE-9atm.cc/sec,base pressure 0.0XE-4torr. Sprayed helium to all primary vacuum seal and there is no response on leak detector. Helium pressurized all water lines(except HS) at 70psi ,3mins.Tube heat(+) no response, tube heater(-)1.6xe-9atm.cc/sec, target oven(-)5.8xe-9atm.cc/sec, target oven (+) 6.9xe-9atm.cc/sec, EE 5.7xe-9atm.cc/sec, MSP no response, window 7.5 xe-9atm.cc/sec.All water lines are water leak free.  Two leaks had been found on secondary vacuum vessel. One is on exit 1 to tank o-ring (east side, E-N corner). The leak detector got   responses from 1.4 to1.7 xe-7 atm.cc/sec scale . The test  hadbeen repeated 4-5 times and   confirmed the location   . The second one is a small leak which  is on exit 2 to tank o-ring(east side, close to E-N corner). The leak detector got  responses from 1.4 to 1.8xe-8atm.cc/sec scale. The test had been repeated 3 times and confirmed the location. As the present plan. we will replace the exit1 to tank o-ring during this year shut down time.

Attached are some photos of TM4 in the Conditioning Station after the no-module HV test completion.  Only vacuum services are connected.

Bevan attempted to start pumping down on TM4 today remotely but there was an issue.  He will report on Monday.

I went into the Target Hall this afternoon while on the phone with Bevan and performed the following:

- Checked the knurled vent valves on the side of each turbo, both were found to be in the tightened position (all the way clockwise)

- Closed the VAT valve between the scroll pump and the nuclear ventilation

Chad and i did a leak check on TM4 heat shield circuit with installed dummy target at SHC today. The leak detector is pumped to 0.0xE-9atm.cc/sec.Chad sprayed helium twice on each  VCR joints .There is no any response had been found on the leak detector during each 45 seconds waiting time. The TM4 heat shield circuit with dummy  target is leak tight so far.