Thursday, April 14, 2016, 07:50: RGA on

Friday, April 15, 2016, 08:09 : Ratio between water and air is higher than normal (indicating possible air leak). See attachment. 3.5 more H2O than N2.  (Ratio in TM3 Nov 2015 was 82:1)

A leak was found on the o-ring between the module flange and TCS. This could be fixed by cleaning the o-ring and sealing surface. The Window line is not closed and was accidentally pressurized with He on April 25

Tuesday, April 26, 2016, 08:47: David started the water package.

Wednesday, April 27, 2016, 08:15: Switched off chiller / water cooling.

Wednesday, April 27, 2016, 14:41: Switched chiller / water cooling back on.

 Filled from 15 to 25 in

 Monday, May 16, 2016, 13:20: BIAS/EL/EE 30 / 15 / 1.5 kV

Monday, May 16, 2016, 13:20: Ramping TGHT / TBHT to 580 / 220 A at 2 A/min. IG2 1E-6 / 2E-6 T

Monday, May 16, 2016, 15:45: Paused ramping.

Monday, May 16, 2016, 15:00: Resumed ramping

Monday, May 16, 2016, 16:23: Stopped ramping for the day. TGHT / TBHT at 310 / 220 A. FC at 6.2E-7 A

Tuesday, May 17, 2016, 08:00: Continue ramping.

Wednesday, May 18, 2016, 09:40: BIAS / EL / EE to 35 / 17.5 1.7 kV

Thursday, May 19, 2016, 04:07: BIAS dropped to 0. Likely caused by a power bump.

Thursday, May 19, 2016, 08:05: BIAS returned to 35 kV. Increased EL to 22 kV to maximize FC current.

Thursday, May 19, 2016, 08:11: TBHT to 230 A

Thursday, May 19, 2016, 08:22: Ramping down TGHT / TBHT

Thursday, May 19, 2016, 10:41: BIAS / EL / EE off

Thursday, May 19, 2016, 14:00: TGHT / TBHT off

Friday, May 20, 2016, 14:39: RGA off.

 Wednesday, June 08, 2016, 08:15: RGA on

Thursday, June 09, 2016, 09:00: Water on by David. TK2 level dropped by about 1.5 in.

Thursday, June 09, 2016, 10:30: BIAS / EL / EE to 10 / 5 / 0.5 kV

Thursday, June 09, 2016, 10:44: Started heater ramp. TGHT / TBHT to 40 / 20 A at 1 / 0.5 A/min. IG2 vacuum limits 2E-6 / 3E-6 T

Thursday, June 09, 2016, 11:59: Continue ramping to 100 / 50 A.

Friday, June 10, 2016, 08:04: Continue ramping to 300 / 150 A IG2 vacuum limits 1.9E-6 / 2.3E-6 T

Friday, June 10, 2016, 21:32: Stopped ramping at 275 A /  138.5 A

Saturday, June 11, 2016, 11:40: Ramped to 281 A / 140 A

Sunday, June 12, 2016, 08:31: Ramped to 290 A / 145 A

Sunday, June 12, 2016, 08:49: Ramped to 300 A / 150 A

Monday, June 13, 2016, 08:06: Continue ramping to 400 / 200 A

Monday, June 13, 2016, 17:00: TGHT / TBHT at 390 A / 195 A.

Monday, June 13, 2016, 17:17: BIAS / EL / EE to 30 / 15 / 1.5 kV

Monday, June 13, 2016, 18:02: Ramping down TGHT / TBHT at 2 / 1 A/min

Monday, June 13, 2016, 21:39: Source off. Water, RGA, vacuum off.

 Wednesday, July 06, 2016, 15:23: RGA on. IGs on

Friday, July 08, 2016, 17:07: Stopped cooling system due to a problem with the chiller. Will continue with HV conditioning on Monday.

Monday, July 11, 2016, 08:08: Cooling system started. Operating CP1 manually to control temperature

Monday, July 11, 2016, 09:38: BIAS / EL / EE to 10 / 5 / 1 kV

Monday, July 11, 2016, 09:41: BIAS / EL / EE to 20 / 10 / 1.5 kV

Monday, July 11, 2016, 09:47: BIAS / EL / EE to 30 / 15 / 1.5 kV

Monday, July 11, 2016, 10:01: BIAS / EL / EE to 40 / 20 / 2.0 kV - one spark at 40 kV

Monday, July 11, 2016, 10:38: BIAS / EL / EE to 45 / 22.5 / 2.0 kV - conditioning from 40 kV

Monday, July 11, 2016, 10:40: BIAS / EL / EE to 45 / 22.5 / 2.3 kV

Monday, July 11, 2016, 12:21 : No sparks for the last 60 min.

Monday, July 11, 2016, 12:21: BIAS / EL / EE off to investigate TGHT / TBHT PS problem (power surge this morning)

Monday, July 11, 2016, 13:07: Power cycled TGHT / TBHT PS. Alarm cleared. Tested both to 10 A

Plant Services group (Tony) will contact a service tech on Monday.

Water system will be switched off over the weekend.

Anders Mjos wrote:

Plant Services group (Tony) will contact a service tech on Monday. Water system will be switched off over the weekend.

Thursday, July 14, 2016, 13:24: Claus from Daikin is on site to troubleshoot.

The VFD driven fan motor has failed. Temporarily blocked air-flow through failed fan to improve air-flow to radiator. A new motor will be ordered (Curtis).

Thursday, July 14, 2016, 15:39: Stopped cooling system for the day

Friday, July 15, 2016, 08:16: Cooling system started

Friday, July 15, 2016, 15:00; Cooling system stopped.

 Monday, July 25, 2016, 08:14: Enabled staging for chiller

Monday, July 25, 2016, 08:33: Disabled staging. Fault 2. Staging does not work at this point.

Monday, July 25, 2016, 08:34: Running CP1 manually to cool down water.

Monday, July 25, 2016, 09:15: Bias current limiting at 150 V. Investigating short.

Monday, July 25, 2016, 09:51: EE cable was shorting the BIAS on the TCS side.

Monday, July 25, 2016, 09:57: BIAS/ / EL at 20 / 10 kV

Monday, July 25, 2016, 10:08: Sparking at 24 kV. Lowered to 22 kV

Monday, July 25, 2016, 10:44: BIAS at 25 kV

 Monday, July 25, 2016, 11:00: Sparking at 25.5 kV. Lowered to 25 kV

Monday, July 25, 2016, 12:03: 25.5 kV. No sparking for 10 min. Lower to 20 kV for lunch break.

Monday, July 25, 2016, 12:51: 26 kV

Monday, July 25, 2016, 13:00: Sparking at 27.3 kV. Lowered to 27 kV. EL at 14 kV

Monday, July 25, 2016, 13:04: More sparking. Lowered to 25 kV

Monday, July 25, 2016, 13:39: 25 kV

Monday, July 25, 2016, 14:21: A spark tripped the PS on water resistivity

Monday, July 25, 2016, 14:31: 25 kV

Monday, July 25, 2016, 15:34: ~20 sparks for the last 60 min

Monday, July 25, 2016, 16:28: ~10 sparks for the last 60 min. BIAS an EL off

Monday, July 25, 2016, 16:36: Stopped water cooling system.

Tuesday, July 26, 2016, 08:20: Started water cooling system.

Tuesday, July 26, 2016, 08:24: Ran CP1 manually for 3 min. Enabled staging.

Tuesday, July 26, 2016, 08:31: BIAS / EL at 25 / 0 kV

Tuesday, July 26, 2016, 08:39: EL float to 300 V. Set to 500 V

Tuesday, July 26, 2016, 08:45: BIAS to 25.5 kV

Tuesday, July 26, 2016, 09:07: 26 kV

Tuesday, July 26, 2016, 09:12: Lost contact with EPICS. Scheduled maintenance

Tuesday, July 26, 2016, 10:26: 6 sparks for the last 60 min

Tuesday, July 26, 2016, 10:33: BIAS to 27 kV

Tuesday, July 26, 2016, 10:43: Sparking at 27.8 kV. Lowered to 23 kV

Tuesday, July 26, 2016, 10:51: BIAS back at 27 kV. A spark tripped the BIAS on water resistivity

Tuesday, July 26, 2016, 11:08: BIAS at 27 kV

Tuesday, July 26, 2016, 11:22: BIAS at 28 kV

Tuesday, July 26, 2016, 11:42: BIAS at 27 kV after trip due to water resistivity (spark)

Tuesday, July 26, 2016, 12:00: BIAS / EL off for lunch break

Tuesday, July 26, 2016, 14:10: EL to 10 kV

Tuesday, July 26, 2016, 14:14: El to 20 kV

Tuesday, July 26, 2016, 14:20: EL to 25 kV

Tuesday, July 26, 2016, 14:27: First spark at 27.6 kV

Tuesday, July 26, 2016, 14:29: EL to 28 kV (BIAS at 0 kV)

Tuesday, July 26, 2016, 14:43: RGA on

Tuesday, July 26, 2016, 14:49: No sparking for 20 min

Tuesday, July 26, 2016, 16:02: No sparks for 90 min.

Tuesday, July 26, 2016, 16:06: PS and water off.

Wednesday, July 27, 2016, 09:14: BIAS at 24 kV

Wednesday, July 27, 2016, 09:19: Lowered to 20 kV due to sparking

Wednesday, July 27, 2016, 09:28: BIAS at 22 kV

Wednesday, July 27, 2016, 15:30: BIAS and water off

Thursday, July 28, 2016, 08:43: RGA off

Wednesday, August 03, 2016, 08:08: RGA on

Wednesday, August 03, 2016, 11:25: Configured EE to be connected to EE PS (not grounded)

Wednesday, August 03, 2016, 11:25: PS on

Wednesday, August 03, 2016, 11:32: BIAS / EL / EE to 20 / 10 / 1 kV

Ramping set to 40 / 20 A at 1 / 0.5 A/min. Good / bad vacuum at 2.0 / 2.2 E-6 T (IG2). Vacuum too high.

Wednesday, August 03, 2016, 13:02: BIAS / EL / EE to 30 / 15 / 1.5 kV

Wednesday, August 03, 2016, 15:59: BIAS / EL / EE to 35 / 17.5 / 1.5 kV. Some conditioning from 30 kV

Chiller staging stopped working around midnight. TGHT and TBHT ramped down by ISAC operators.

Thursday, August 04, 2016, 08:14: Ramping target to 50 / 25 A

Thursday, August 04, 2016, 08:22: Cycled power on chiller to reset alarm. Repeated again 5 min later

Thursday, August 04, 2016, 08:37: BIAS / EL / EE to 30 / 15 / 1.5 kV

Thursday, August 04, 2016, 09:36: Continue ramping to 100 / 50 A

Thursday, August 04, 2016, 11:32: Continue ramping to 120 / 60 A

Thursday, August 04, 2016, 14:50: ramping down

Friday, August 05, 2016, 07:09: Started cooling system

Friday, August 05, 2016, 07:56: Started ramping to 100 / 50 A

Friday, August 05, 2016, 14:27: TGHT / TBHT at 253 / 126 A.

Friday, August 05, 2016, 14:30: Ramping down at 2 / 1 A/min

Friday, August 05, 2016, 15:27: BIAS / EL / EE off

Monday, August 08, 2016, 08:15: Continue ramping. : BIAS / EL / EE to 30 / 15 / 1.5 kV

Monday, August 08, 2016, 14:36 TGHT / TBHT at 260 / 130 A. Ramping down at 2 / 1 A/min

Monday, August 08, 2016, 15:30: BIAS / EL off. EE remains at 1 kV.

Monday, August 08, 2016, 22:56: RGA off. Water system fault. Running CP1 manually

Monday, August 08, 2016, 22:57: EE off.

Monday, August 08, 2016, 22:58: Vacuum off

 The locations (ports) for the RGA and CG1S was swapped today by Anders and Isaac to provide clearance for the North Hot Cell ventilation. Attached photos show old and new locations.

Water cooling is performed manually with CP1. RGA is ON since yesterday. EE is not connected and in conditioning mode.

Friday, August 12, 2016, 10:43: BIAS at 10 kV, EL at 0.5 kV. IG1 at 1.8E-6 T

 Friday, August 12, 2016, 11:04: BIAS at 20 kV

Friday, August 12, 2016, 11:10: Sparking at 21 kV

Friday, August 12, 2016, 11:29: BIAS at 22 kV. Many small sparks/current excursions.

Friday, August 12, 2016, 11:32 : BIAS at 23 kV

Friday, August 12, 2016, 11:37: BIAS at 24 kV

Friday, August 12, 2016, 11:43: BIAS at 25 kV. Heavy sparking. Lowered to 24 kV to reduce spark rate.

Friday, August 12, 2016, 11:52: Increased sparking rate. Lowered to 23 kV.

Friday, August 12, 2016, 12:05: Lowered to 20 kV

Friday, August 12, 2016, 12:21: Back to 23 kV

Friday, August 12, 2016, 12:28: Heavy sparking between 23 and 24 kV. Lowered to 22 kV

Friday, August 12, 2016, 12:29: More sparking. Lowered to 21 kV.

Friday, August 12, 2016, 13:02: Increased back up to ~25 kV while Aurelia was listening for sparks in the Target Hall.

Friday, August 12, 2016, 13:03: EL to 10 kV

Friday, August 12, 2016, 13:06: BIAS / EL to 23 / 12.5 kV

Friday, August 12, 2016, 13:34: Repeated sparking at 24.5 kV. Ramping down

Friday, August 12, 2016, 15:33: Stopped water package. RGA off

Anders Mjos wrote:

Anders Mjos wrote: Plant Services group (Tony) will contact a service tech on Monday. Water system will be switched off over the weekend. Thursday, July 14, 2016, 13:24: Claus from Daikin is on site to troubleshoot. The VFD driven fan motor has failed. Temporarily blocked air-flow through failed fan to improve air-flow to radiator. A new motor will be ordered (Curtis). Thursday, July 14, 2016, 15:39: Stopped cooling system for the day Friday, July 15, 2016, 08:16: Cooling system started Friday, July 15, 2016, 15:00; Cooling system stopped.

 Thursday, August 18, 2016, 10:34: The motor was replaced today by Claus from Daikin. System is running normally again.

 The target was inspected by Anders and Chad. The target was in good condition as can be seen on the photos on DocuShare. Only minor accumulation of material on the EE.

Wednesday, August 24, 2016, 14:42: RGA on

Wednesday, August 24, 2016, 20:27: IG2 and IG1S on. Checked on water system.

Conditioning by ISAC operations. Water flow tripped power supplies after a few hours of conditioning at 580 / 230 A and 30 kV. See operations e-log for details.

Tuesday, September 12, 2016, 10:00: RGA on

Tuesday, September 13, 2016, 13:52: Source on

Tuesday, September 13, 2016, 13:55: BIAS / EL at 10 / 5 kV

Tuesday, September 13, 2016, 13:59: BIAS / EL at 18 / 9 kV

Tuesday, September 13, 2016, 14:06: BIAS / EL at 20 / 10 kV. Minor sparking

Tuesday, September 13, 2016, 14:25: Sparking at about 1 spark/min for the last 10 min

Tuesday, September 13, 2016, 15:38: ~10 sparks for the last 60 min.

Tuesday, September 13, 2016, 15:41: BIAS / EL 22 / 11 kV

Tuesday, September 13, 2016, 15:57: Heavy sparking at 24 kV. Lowered to 21 kV. EL at 12.5 kV

Tuesday, September 13, 2016, 16:00: BIAS / EL at 22 / 12.5 kV

Tuesday, September 13, 2016, 16:05: Trip on resistivity caused by spark

Tuesday, September 13, 2016, 16:07: BIAS / EL at 10 / 5 kV

Tuesday, September 13, 2016, 16:14: BIAS / EL at 20 / 10 kV

Tuesday, September 13, 2016, 16:25: BIAS / EL at 22 / 11 kV

Tuesday, September 13, 2016, 17:00: Sparking at about 1 spark/min for the last 30 min

Tuesday, September 13, 2016, 17:02: Source off.

Wednesday, September 14, 2016, 08:22: BIAS / EL at 20 / 10 kV

Wednesday, September 14, 2016, 08:33: BIAS / EL at 22 / 11 kV

Wednesday, September 14, 2016, 08:35: Trip on resistivity caused by spark

Wednesday, September 14, 2016, 08:38: BIAS / EL at 20 / 10 kV

Wednesday, September 14, 2016, 08:41: BIAS / EL at 21.5 / 11 kV

Wednesday, September 14, 2016, 08:45: BIAS / EL at 22 / 11 kV

Wednesday, September 14, 2016, 09:06: Sparking at about 1 spark/min for the last 20 min

Wednesday, September 14, 2016, 10:17: Sparking rate somewhat reduced. BIAS / EL at 23 / 11 kV

Wednesday, September 14, 2016, 10:23: BIAS / EL at 24 / 12 kV

Wednesday, September 14, 2016, 10:31: BIAS / EL at 25 / 12 kV.

Wednesday, September 14, 2016, 10:32: Trip on resistivity caused by spark

Wednesday, September 14, 2016, 10:36: BIAS / EL at 20 / 10 kV

Wednesday, September 14, 2016, 10:40: BIAS / EL at 23 / 12 kV

Wednesday, September 14, 2016, 10:51: BIAS / EL at 24 / 12 kV

Wednesday, September 14, 2016, 10:57: BIAS / EL at 25 / 12 kV

Wednesday, September 14, 2016, 11:01: Heavy sparking at 25 kV (>15 /min). Trip on resistivity caused by spark

Wednesday, September 14, 2016, 11:10: RGA off.

Conditioning by ISAC operations

Saturday, September 24, 2016, 11:15: RGA on for heater conditioning. (kept off during HV conditioning)

Sunday, September 25, 2016, 07:44: TGHT and TBHT voltage jumps during heater ramping. Likely contact between target and heat shield. Contacted ISAC operations and asked to abort ramping at current values. TGHT/TBHT 500 /270 A

Monday, September 26, 2016, 08:22: ISAC operations resuming ramping to 550 A. Corrected TGHT voltage at ISAC TS was ~6.2 V at 580 A. Expected voltage at TCS would then be 6.2 + (3.4+2.9)E-3*580 = 9.9 V. Limit set at 9.5 V.

Monday, September 26, 2016, 09:09: Increased TGHT voltage limit to 9.6 V to allow it to reach 550 A.

Monday, September 26, 2016, 10:17: Voltage limit increased to 10.2 V which allowed the current to go to 575 A

Tuesday, September 27, 2016, 08:08: Conditioning complete. Ran at 575 / 270 A and 47 kV for about 1 hour. Conditioned cold to 49 kV.

 The HV enclosure and module connections were inspected by David and Anders on Wednesday 19th in an attempt to find any HV problems causing the high leakage current. One cable was cable tied to a copper conductor in the chase. Some small pieces of loose material were removed. No obvious problems could be detected.

During target removal on Wednesday October 12th, the left target heater conductor bolt (ITD0058) could not be removed. The bolt was found to be stuck in the threads (keensert) of the TGHT conductor block (ITA0583). In the process of attempting to remove the bolt, the conductor insulator (ITD0054) cracked (ref assy ITD0052). To allow increased torque to be applied and support the conductor block, a clamping jig (ITD0612) was designed and fabricated. The jig was assembled and it's function tested on the ISAC Test Stand on Friday 14th. On Monday 17th the bolt could be removed using the clamping jig and a socket wrench with an extended handle.

The threads on the removed bolt was damaged. A new set of bolts were therefore prepared and a tap was run through the keensert to restore the threads. The threads in the conductor block was tested and found to be OK using a new bolt.

The spent target could now be removed. Unfortunately the right manipulator failed during installation of a new conductor insulator, which forced the repair of the insulator and installation of the new target (SiC#35) to be postponed until the manipulator can be repaired.

Photos are available on DocuShare

Thursday, November 24, 2016, 09:33: Water package on

Thursday, November 24, 2016, 09:43: TCS:WPV1 shows only 12% open. A visual inspection confirms the valve is fully opened. Controls will be contacted to troubleshoot

 Wednesday, March 29, 2017, 11:37: RGA on

Wednesday, March 29, 2017, 13:51: Water package on

Thursday, March 30, 2017, 08:50: Restarted chiller. OP3 fault on both VFDs.

Thursday, March 30, 2017, 10:18: Roughing

Thursday, March 30, 2017, 16:02: Configured EE to conditioning mode. All power supplies for SIS operation was checked to be working earlier.

Thursday, March 30, 2017, 16:06: BIAS / EL 10 / 5 kV and 0.02 / 0.04 mA

Thursday, March 30, 2017, 16:10: BIAS / EL210 / 10 kV and 0.03 / 0.06 mA

Thursday, March 30, 2017, 16:11: IG1 at 7.8E-7 T, IG2 at 2.3E-6 T

Thursday, March 30, 2017, 16:21: No sparking. Ramping down for the day

Friday, March 31, 2017, 08:32: BIAS / EL 20 / 10 kV and 0.03 / 0.06 mA

Friday, March 31, 2017, 08:32: IG1 at 4.2E-7 T, IG2 at 1.4E-6 T

Friday, March 31, 2017, 08:45: BIAS / EL 25 / 12.5 kV and 0.04 / 0.08 mA. Some minor vacuum responses around 24 kV

Friday, March 31, 2017, 10:03: BIAS current was limiting at 26 kV after EPICS restart. Updated limit

Friday, March 31, 2017, 10:10: BIAS / EL 30 / 15 kV and 0.04 / 0.09 mA. Vacuum and current responses when increasing BIAS.

Friday, March 31, 2017, 10:54: BIAS / EL 35 / 17.5 kV and 0.05 / 0.10 mA.

Friday, March 31, 2017, 11:24: BIAS / EL 40/ 20 kV and 0.05 / 0.11 mA.

Friday, March 31, 2017, 11:43: BIAS / EL 45/ 22.5 kV and 0.06 / 0.13 mA.

 Friday, March 31, 2017, 13:47: No sparks for ~90 min. Ramping down HV

Friday, March 31, 2017, 13:58: Starting auto-ramping heaters to 100 / 100 A at 1 A/min. Good/bad vacuum at 3E-6 and 5E-6 T on IG2. EE to 1500 V

Friday, March 31, 2017, 14:03: BIAS / EL / EE at 30 / 15 / 1.5 kV and 0.04 / 0.09 / 1.5 mA

Saturday, April 01, 2017, 10:58: Continue auto-ramping to 440 A / 200 A.

Saturday, April 01, 2017, 17:17: IG1 / IG2 to 1.7E-6 and 3.6E-6 T at 440 A. Reduced manually to 430 A to limit outgassing.

Saturday, April 01, 2017, 18:03: Discovered TP2 had tripped off. Likely causing "increased outgassing" above.

Saturday, April 01, 2017, 18:12: TP2 back at speed.

Saturday, April 01, 2017, 23:25 : TP2 fault from spark. Restarting. Ramping down heaters.

Sunday, April 02, 2017, 06:45: Found source to be tripped on water flow TGHT at around 1:15 am. Vacuum and water flow otherwise ok. Set source to 0. To be investigated Monday. 

Monday, April 03, 2017, 11:05: The paddle wheel on the TGHT line was not turning this morning. After running water through a bypass an reconnecting to the module, flow was restored, but it appeared to be at a relatively low rate.

Monday, April 03, 2017, 12:00: BIAS / EL / EE at 30 / 15 / 1.5 kV and 0.03 / 0.09 / 1.5 mA

Monday, April 03, 2017, 12:18: Tested TGHT / TBHT to 20 / 10 A.

Monday, April 03, 2017, 12:18: Increased EE to 2 kV and 2.0 mA