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Entry  Wednesday, September 13, 2017, 16:13, David Wang, Conditioning Station, Repair, TM3, , TCS turbo pumps are started.  

TCS and TM3 all vacuum pumps are started. Everything is fine.

Entry  Friday, September 15, 2017, 14:12, Travis Cave, Conditioning Station, Standard Operation, TM3, no target, Module move 

 TM#3 has been moved back to the silo from the conditioning station.

Entry  Wednesday, September 27, 2017, 09:02, Travis Cave, Conditioning Station, Standard Operation, TM2, Ta#54, Module move 

 TM#2 with Ta#54 has been moved from the south hot cell to the conditioning station.

Entry  Thursday, September 28, 2017, 10:50, David Wang, Conditioning Station, Standard Operation, TM2, , Helium pressure test on TM2 window and HS water lines at TCS. 

  I did helium pressure test on TM2 containment box window and HS line at TCS. @ 70psi helium  for 3 minutes, HS:2.2XE-7 atm.cc/sec., Window:1.2XE-7 atm.cc/sec. There is no change on HS. But LR on window is bigger than before that was in E -9atm.cc/sec range.  

Entry  Thursday, September 28, 2017, 15:34, Anders Mjos, Conditioning Station, Development, TM2, , Changes to MP3 startup 

 Due to problems with the regulating valve WPV1, the VFD (Variable Frequency Drive) for the pump has been programmed to do a slow (2 min) ramp up. WPV1 has been bypassed and left fully opened. Work was done by Dave Morris

Entry  Thursday, September 28, 2017, 17:44, Anders Mjos, Conditioning Station, Standard Operation, TM2, Ta#54, Conditioning Ta#54 Ta#54.docxTa#54_BIAS_current_vs_voltage.xlsx

Thursday, September 28, 2017

Cooling water not yet connected to TM.

High leakage current still observed. 200 uA at 22 kV. Did not go past 25 kV. 


Friday, September 29, 2017, 14:05: Started heater ramping to 580 / 200 A at 1 A/min

Friday, September 29, 2017, 14:09: BIAS / EZL / EE at 20 / 10 / 1.5 kV. BIAS current at 90 uA


Monday, October 02, 2017, 10:29: Accidentally set BIAS current limit to 0 A (step size too large) at 28 kV. This also caused the TGHT to got to 0 A. Recovered to 580 A in 10 - 15 s.

Monday, October 02, 2017, 12:07: Ramping down heaters at 2 A / min

Entry  Friday, October 06, 2017, 13:25, Anders Mjos, Conditioning Station, Repair, , , HV Test 2017-10-06_HV_Water_Line_Test.xlsx

 HV was brought up to 70 kV for 1 h without sparks to test the new water installation.

Entry  Tuesday, October 10, 2017, 10:45, David Wang, Conditioning Station, Repair, , , Re-route TCS water lines. 8x

TCS  cooling polyurethane lines have been re-routed to solve to HV sparking issue on old configuration between lines and bais plate.  New re-routed system is tested to 70KV without spark. No leak has been found on new lines after the test.

ECO 4369, drawings and models IRH1715, IRH1716 have been issued and released for this job. Drawings and Models are located in PDM-ISAC1 -TCS polyurethane water lines re-route folder.

Entry  Wednesday, October 18, 2017, 10:46, Travis Cave, Conditioning Station, Standard Operation, TM4, SiC#37, Module move 

 TM#4 with SiC#37 has been moved from the south hot cell to the conditioning station.

Entry  Thursday, October 19, 2017, 10:11, David Wang, Conditioning Station, Standard Operation, TM4, , Leak check on TM4 HS line at SHC and TCS. 

Chad and I leak checked TM4 HS line after new target is installed yesterday. No leak has been found. Also, I helium pressurized the HS line at TCS this morning. TM4 HS line is good on this test. The TM4 gas line configuration on TM4 top is leak check as well. No problem.

Entry  Thursday, October 19, 2017, 14:20, Anders Mjos, Conditioning Station, Standard Operation, TM4, SiC#37, SiC#37 Conditioning SiC#37_BIAS_current_vs_voltage.xlsxSiC#37.docx

Thursday, October 19, 2017, 14:20: EE configured for conditioning. HV cage locked up

Thursday, October 19, 2017, 16:46: BIAS / EL / EE at 45 / 22.5 / 0 kV

Thursday, October 19, 2017, 17:16: 30 min without sparking. Lowering to 0. Continue conditioning tomorrow.


Friday, October 20, 2017, 08:22: Resuming HV conditioning

Friday, October 20, 2017, 08:44:  BIAS / EL / EE at 45 / 22.5 / 0 kV

Friday, October 20, 2017, 09:48: No sparking. Continue conditionoing

Friday, October 20, 2017, 10:40: BIAS / EL / EE at 50 / 22.5 / 0 kV

Friday, October 20, 2017, 11:30: HV spark (at 52.5 kV) tripped TP2 and TP1s resulting in IG1S and power supplies tripping.

Friday, October 20, 2017, 13:50: Gelo is troubleshooting flickering on/off of ANODE, TGHT and TBHT power supplies.

Friday, October 20, 2017, 13:51: BIAS / EL / EE at 50 / 25 / 0 kV

Friday, October 20, 2017, 14:26: BIAS / EL / EE at 55 / 28 / 0 kV

Friday, October 20, 2017, 14:37: TP2 tripped on spark

Friday, October 20, 2017, 14:51: Gelo has determined there is a communication problem with the PLC on the HV platform. Troubleshooting continues.

Friday, October 20, 2017, 19:02: Troubleshooting did not succeed. Not able to control power supplies. Troubleshooting continue on Monday.


Monday, October 23, 2017, 09:00: After starting the TCS again today communication has been reestablished. Started heater conditioning.

Monday, October 23, 2017, 14:03: Heater ramping previously aborted and ramp down started due to ongoing PLC communication issues. TGHT and TBHT power supplies tripped on timeout around 13:45. Gelo will continue the troubleshooting.

Monday, October 23, 2017, 19:55: Switching off source after operating for 5 hours without any communication glitches detected (fiber optic communication cables swapped between HV platform and BIAS/EZL PLCs)

Entry  Thursday, November 09, 2017, 08:46, Anders Mjos, Conditioning Station, Repair, , , Communication fiber replaced for HV PLC 

 After extensive troubleshooting the communication fiber was found to be damaged and has been replaced by Gelo.

Entry  Thursday, November 09, 2017, 09:34, David Wang, Conditioning Station, Standard Operation, TM2, Ta#55, Leak check on TM2 HS line at SHC and TCS. 

The TM2 HS line was leak checked at SHC yesterday . 0.9xE-9 atm.cc/sec.Helium sprayed by Chad, NO leak.  It was helium pressurized at TCS this morning. Leak rat:2.5 XE-7 atm.c/sec. The result  is same as last time check. No concern.

Entry  Thursday, November 09, 2017, 09:35, David Wang, Conditioning Station, Standard Operation, TM2, Ta#55, TM2 has been connected at TCS 

TCS vacuum system and water system have been started as well. Everything looks fine.

Entry  Thursday, November 09, 2017, 10:39, Anders Mjos, Conditioning Station, Standard Operation, TM2, Ta#55, Conditioning Ta#55 

Thursday, November 09, 2017, 10:40: BIAS / EL to 30 / 15 kV. 400 uA on BIAS

Bias was stable for 1 hour. Handed over to RIB ops for heater conditioning.

Entry  Wednesday, November 15, 2017, 08:55, David Wang, Conditioning Station, Standard Operation, , , Install shield plug onto TCS and pumping down TCS. 

Shielding plug is installed onto TCS. TCS is being pumped down to keep it under vacuum for the rest of the year.

Entry  Wednesday, December 06, 2017, 09:33, Anders Mjos, Conditioning Station, Maintenance, , , Running chiller for maintenance tech 

 Dakine is on site to do maintenance on the chiller. The tech requested the chiller to operate.

Entry  Thursday, December 21, 2017, 15:11, Anders Mjos, Conditioning Station, Maintenance, , , Powered down devices 

Powered down mechanical pumps in ISAC-I Experimental hall, vacuum gauge and turbo pump controllers in ISAC-I B2 North Hot Cell service area

Entry  Tuesday, January 02, 2018, 14:47, Anders Mjos, Conditioning Station, Standard Operation, , , Pumping on secondary vacuum 

Tuesday, January 02, 2018, 14:45: TP1S started

Entry  Tuesday, January 02, 2018, 15:17, Anders Mjos, Conditioning Station, Maintenance, , , Tested chiller 

Tested all 3 compressors and MP2

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