I brought up TCS bias to 57.5 KV on TM4 without source tray at TCS. It was kept at this level about 1.0 hours. Some intermediate sparks. No spark trip on devices. 57.5KV is very close to the HV up limit of this module.

Ramping up TM4 with new source tray in. Current condition: new source tray but no water running in lines B, D or window. Multipin on the source tray grounded but no lines running into the service tray. Vacuum at 1e-6T.

Small sparks at each BIAS voltage increase starting at 30kV. First real spark around 38kV.

Going up in more than 100V steps causes spikes that take out TP2.

Monday, July 08, 2019, 14:54 : TP2 sparked off at BIAS/EZL = 44kV/25.1kV after 10mins at this point... will leave it here for a couple hours

Monday, July 08, 2019, 16:44 : 6 sparks in last 2hrs, some very strange vacuum response in which the pressure rose steadily and stayed high for 30mins before coming back to normal.

Monday, July 08, 2019, 17:25 : After 30mins at 45kV, started sparking, so will ramp down to 40kV and leave it overnight

Left TM4 at 40kV overnight with no previous heating. There was only one real spark which turned off TP2 but ops turned it back on. Ramping up again.

Tuesday, July 09, 2019, 09:13 : At 45kV the module is sparking on the top pretty regularly. Turned down and David will remove cover and lock out target hall.

Tuesday, July 09, 2019, 16:30 : Went up to 45kV pretty easily now.

Tuesday, July 09, 2019, 16:32 : Everything tripped at 46.5kV. Looks to be a spark outside the vacuum. TM4 sparking much more outside the vacuum than last checks done without the source tray...

Tuesday, July 09, 2019, 16:43 : Everything easy up to 46.8kV, then sparking a bit. Most of the sparks are outside the vacuum. Sitting at BIAS / EZL = 47.1kV / 28kV for a couple mins before ramping down.

Tuesday, July 09, 2019, 16:57 : 10 mins at 47.1kV with not problems. Continuing up still looks like it is really sparking a lot outside the vacuum.

David raised the bias to 49.5kV. Module is still sparking mainly on top. Humidity is super high.

Wednesday, July 10, 2019, 09:50 : sitting at 49.7kV for a coupe mins, big spark in vacuum took everything down.

Wednesday, July 10, 2019, 10:16 : Bias at 50kV drawing 0.1mA but looking pretty jumpy. Left it here for ~5 mins then had to turn down bias for TH work.

Wednesday, July 10, 2019, 13:33 : Back at 50kV on bias with no problems.

Wednesday, July 10, 2019, 13:46 : 10 mins at 50kV, will try to go a bit higher

Wednesday, July 10, 2019, 14:06 : Everything sparked off while sitting at 50.6kV. This seems a bit futile....

Wednesday, July 10, 2019, 14:15 : Back at 50.1kV with no problems

 Wednesday, July 10, 2019, 14:33 : Up to 51kV

Wednesday, July 10, 2019, 15:20 : Difficult to go above 51.4. Turning up EZL since there were a couple sparks to it. -> Putting this up causes significant sparks between HV bias and EZL in vacuum at 5kV on the EZL, 51.1kV on bias. Leaving EZL @ 5kV

Wednesday, July 10, 2019, 16:04 : Around 52.2 sparking on the top of the module

Wednesday, July 10, 2019, 16:36 : 53kV

Wednesday, July 10, 2019, 17:16 : up to 54kV without much trouble

Wednesday, July 10, 2019, 17:53 : Sitting at 55kV for about 4mins when a spark tripped off everything. Will try to bring it back to sit stable at 55kV tomorrow

Thursday, July 11, 2019, 10:28 : TM4 up to 54.9kV without too many problems, EZL at 25kV. Will sit here for a little while

Thursday, July 11, 2019, 10:48 : 20mins at 54.9kV, going to 55kV

Thursday, July 11, 2019, 11:14 : 25 mins at 55kV and everything sparked off

Thursday, July 11, 2019, 11:26 : Back up to BIAS / EZL = 54.8kV / 26kV. Checked that the TGHT and TBHT power supplies have not been killed by sparks, everything looks fine.

Thursday, July 11, 2019, 12:56 : Sat at 49.6kV for 1.5hrs with one spark.

Thursday, July 11, 2019, 14:02 : Been sitting at 55kV for 2 hrs now with one spark.

Friday, July 12, 2019, 08:09 : Back up to 52kV easily, then had to reduce step size to 100V to keep going

Friday, July 12, 2019, 08:47 : 56kV

everything sparked off at 56.5 or so

Yesterday, TM4 B line was supplied with water at TCS for testing.  TCS: IG1 and IG2 had big response on it. See attachment. The water was disconnected right away, and line was purged. Vacuum recovered after overnight pump.

 TM4 has been moved from the conditioning station to the south west silo. Module was placed with the turbo pump facing south which puts the windows facing north and south and the shutter facing west. 

Original Problem:

Leaks on the B and D copper blocks, probably due to corrosion between the blocks and the inserts. Final solution, after many tries, was to make an indium sheet the size of the copper blocks and use that to seal the entire surface.

So far offline tests seem to show these seals working, though long term tests are needed to say for sure.

New Problem:

TM4 was in the conditioning station, running water and under vacuum. 50A on the target and tube heaters from Friday evening to Saturday afternoon.

Sunday morning 9:30am target heating increased to 200A, 100A on the tube heater, ramp finishing around 1:30pm.

At around 3pm, the vacuum stops dropping and begins to climb very slowly, continuing until Monday morning (see first attachment).

Tests on the individual water lines show an immediate vacuum response only to the EE lines, the other lines show no response (note the window line is blanked off since the containment box is not on).

With water in the EE lines, the vacuum sits around 1e-6 near the target.

Testing:

Ramped target to 400A and tube to 200A. Sitting there for several hours shows no change in the vacuum response, though there is a variation that corresponds to the chiller turning on and off (see second attachment).

Ramped target to 450A and tube stayed at 200A. Vacuum staying in the low 10^-6 range, seems to be entirely due to EE leak, other seals are holding well.

TM4 has developed 4 leaks so far:

1. Line B - seems to be solved with an indium gasket (some testing already done)
2. Line D - seems to be solved with an indium gasket (some testing already done)
3. EE - indium gasket installed, preliminary tests are good
4. Window cooling line - David found with 70 psi helium, leak detector response went from 3E-7 atm.cc/sec to 4E-4torr atm.cc/sec in 1 min and stayed there. When water was put through the circuit, there was an initial vacuum increase to about 1E-6, then a couple hours later it began to fall and has been falling for ~14hrs, now in the 7E-7 range for IG1.

Testing indium seals on lines B, D, EE. No repair has been done for window line. Ramping heaters to TGHT=450A, TBHT=200A. Everything behaving normally.

Wednesday, ramped up BIAS, EZL and EE to 36kV, 17kV, 1.5kV. Sparking at about 1 spark per 20 - 30 mins. Bias current somewhere between 66uA and 78uA, varying with the chiller ON/OFF.

Thursday morning around 2am everything tripped off. No spark visible on strip tool, seems this is from an increase in the window water leak. Vacuum recovered on its own and heaters were ramped back up.

LD base leak rate, 0.0Xe-9atm.cc/sec. Helium pressure, 70psi. 5 minutes each circuit. No response on all water line except containment box window which has a VCR leak issue now. Window line leak rate, 2.3Xe-4 atm.cc/sec.

TM4 is moved from TCS to SW silo this morning. The move is good.

TM4 HS and window line are helium pressure checked at TCS. 70 psi helium 5 minutes. No response @1.2XE-8 atm.cc/sec. They are leak free.

TCS is argon vented. TM4 is disconnected at TCS.

Tuesday, October 01, 2019, 15:15: Started roughing.

Tuesday, October 01, 2019, 16:30: Started TPs

Tuesday, October 01, 2019, 16:34: All TPs at speed

Conditioning completed over the weekend by RIB operations. The shutter was left closed on the module, so no beam could be seen on the FC. Conditioning otherwise OK.

TM2 has been connected at TCS this morning. helium pressure test on Tm2 HS line is done. No leak.

Yesterday a leak was discovered in the ISAC-I experimental hall. The leak appears to be at the connection between the evaporator and the return water line. 1 in of water was lost from TCS:TK1. The water is currently valved off to prevent further leakage.

A fault reportt has been submitted to mechanical services - awaiting response.

Friday, November 01, 2019

Leak repaired by Mechanical Services. A brass fitting had cracked and was replaced with a galvanized fitting.

Helium pressure leak check on TM2 HS line at TCS is done. No leak. Also, Helium are sprayed to gas line adapter and fittings. No leak. TM2 is connected at TCS. Anode plug on TCS is connected to module 52pin connector. Water system is started. Vacuum pumping down is good. HV cover will be installed today.

Thursday, November 07, 2019, 10:35: Tested source to 30 A on TGHT, TBHT and COIL. ANODE at 100 V.

Tuesday, November 12, 2019

The FEBIAD source worked well over the weekend. The anode current limit was adjusted twice to stop voltage limiting. About 5E-8 A on the FC with TGHT=580A, TBHT=300A, ANODE=200V,150 mA, COIL=50A. Bias was conditioned to 30 kV

TM2 was disconnected in ITE yesterday.

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

I started TCS roughing pump. TM3 TP1 and TP2 will be started tomorrow morning.