Tuesday, November 10, 2015, 16:53: Roughing

Tuesday, November 10, 2015, 18:24: TP1S started

Tuesday, November 10, 2015, 18:30: TP1 and TP2 started

Tuesday, November 10, 2015, 18:41: All 3 turbos at speed.

Thursday, November 12, 2015, 08:30: Purged backing pump using purging function. Vacuum in backing line recovered to previous value. 

Module connected for HV testing. No target heating possible. All F/Ts tied together to HV common. EZL connected.

Friday, November 13, 2015, 11:20: Started water package

Friday, November 13, 2015, 11:52: 1kV on BIAS and 1 kV on EL

Friday, November 13, 2015, 12:54: BIAS/EL 10 / 5 kV

Friday, November 13, 2015, 12:59: BIAS/EL 15 / 7.5 kV

Friday, November 13, 2015, 13:04: BIAS/EL 20 / 10 kV

Friday, November 13, 2015, 13:08 : BIAS/EL 22 / 11 kV. Some sparks.

Friday, November 13, 2015, 13:17: Sparking at 22.5 kV. Had to return to 20 kV to recover. Back at 22.5

Friday, November 13, 2015, 13:21 : BIAS/EL 24 / 12 kV. 

 Friday, November 13, 2015, 13:27: Heavy spakring around 24.5 kV. Had to return to 20 kV to recover.

Friday, November 13, 2015, 13:31: Attempted to increase voltage again. Sparking started around 23 kV. Had to lower to 20 kV.

Friday, November 13, 2015, 13:36: 9 sparks for the last 5 min.

Friday, November 13, 2015, 13:45: Spark rate reduced, but multiple sparks encountered again at 20.5 kV. Reduced back to 20 kV

Friday, November 13, 2015, 13:50: Increased sparking at 20 kV. Had to lower to 18 kV

Friday, November 13, 2015, 14:07: Back at 20 kV

Friday, November 13, 2015, 14:13: BIAS and EL off

Monday, November 16, 2015, 08:18: Fault on chiller. Reset chiller unit on the roof.

Anders Mjos wrote:

Conducted a more thorough leak check this morning with Edi. He found a leak on the base of the  blue F/T insulator for the multi-pin connector (see attachment). I discovered that all the bolts could rotate freely in the threads as they were too small. The bolts were replaced. The leak rate was reduced but still significant. The o-ring will likely need to be replaced. Tuesday, November 10, 2015, 17:00: Could not find new o-ring. Cleaned groove and o-ring and applied o-ring grease. Re-attached F/T.

Tuesday

Steerer wire had disconnected again. See DocuShare for photos.

Thursday, November 12, 2015

Leak checked the fixed F/T and the panel for steeerers. No leaks found.

Target to Anode and target to Common showed ~ 500 kOhm values. No leaks above 3E-9 atm-cc/s seen. See attached.  

 Problem found between ANODE (F) and chassis 90 kOhm. See attachment for details.

ISAC operators attempted HV conditioning over the weekend.

https://web.accel.triumf.ca/isac_elog/Elog_show_result.pl?inid=218447&style=entry

 Wednesday, November 25, 2015, 15:36: RGA on

Thursday, November 26, 2015, 09:55: PS energized. EE connected to power supply.

Thursday, November 26, 2015, 11:41: Applied some current and voltage to all power supplies. All looks good.

Some sparking around 5 kV. Turned out to be a bad cable connection. Fixed with David W.

Thursday, November 26, 2015, 15:04: BIAS/EL/EE 20 / 15 1.5 kV

Thursday, November 26, 2015, 15:43: Handed TCS over to ISAC operations

 Target heated over the weekend. EE went into current limiting (down to ~100 V) a while after the target was at temperature.

Monday, November 30, 2015

Target conditioned by ISAC operators to 30 kV without any problems.

EE current limit increased to about 26 mA in an attempt to recover. Cooling down target to investigate.

 After conditioning over the weekend the EE developed a short. This was confirmed by measuring the resistance between EE and Heat Shield on the module yesterday.

Thursday, December 10, 2015, 13:17: Roughing

Thursday, December 10, 2015, 14:56: Started TP1S

Thursday, December 10, 2015, 15:59: Bypass applied on IG2

Thursday, December 10, 2015, 15:59: IG2 / IG1S 5.5E-5 T

Thursday, December 10, 2015, 16:01: RGA ON

Friday, December 11, 2015, 09:24 : IG2 / IG1S 7.5E-6 / 5.4E-6 T

Friday, December 11, 2015, 16:54: IG2 off for the weekend. Vacuum at 6.5 and 4.4E-6 Torr

Monday, December 14, 2015, 08:57: IG2 switched on.

Friday, December 18, 2015, 11:40: IG2 off for the weekend. Vacuum at 2.0E-6 and 8.9E-7 Torr 

Tuesday, December 22, 2015, 15:11: RGA off

Monday, January 11, 2016, 10:13: RGA on

Monday, January 11, 2016, 12:50: RGA off

 It was found that the conversion from voltage to vacuum (Torr) in EPICS is not correct for the XGS-600 controllers in use at the TCS. EPICS did not correspond to local values displayed on the controller. An e-fault has been submitted.

Anders Mjos wrote:

It was found that the conversion from voltage to vacuum (Torr) in EPICS is not correct for the XGS-600 controllers in use at the TCS. EPICS did not correspond to local values displayed on the controller. An e-fault has been submitted.

 EPICS conversion updated and corrected by Mike Rowe.

The high active water resistivity took a long time to recover after the upgrade to the water cooling circuit. The system needed about a month (from end February to end March) to recover to nominal values. See attached plot of archiver data.

TM1 has now been connected in ITW and the water resistivity remains > 8 MOhm cm, which should allow normal operation. However, the resin is suspected to be approaching end of life. Work is ongoing to get a new replacement resin tank.

 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