TM4 was moved from ITE to SHC. Shield plug installed in ITE.

TM4 was moved from Safe Module Parking to the North Hot Cell today.

Dan and I finished TM4 and ITE annual leak check on primary and secondary vacuum vessel. We found one leak on a KF25  blank off which is located on the top of the service cap. It is a low E-7 atm.cc/sec range leak. But, it is very close to turbo-pumps so ITE IG1 and other gauges are not affected by it very much. It is an easy fix. TheKF -25 center ring on the blank off  will be replaced  after vent . It be will leak checked again at CS after replacement.  That is only leak we found on TM4 and ITE primary and secondary vessel air to vaccum leak check.

Dan and I also finished the helium pressure test on all TM4 using water circuits. 70 psi helium. base LR 0.0xE-9 atm.cc/sec. All of them are leak free. No any response has been found on leak detector during test.

 the tests were done when TM4 was on NHC. see attached photos please.

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.

TM4 HS line leak checks are done, at SHC and TCS. SHC: Helium spray. TCS: Helium  pressurize 70psi.  LD base LR 0.0 X E-9 atm.cc/sec.  No leak has been found on both leak checks. 

Chad and I leak checked TM4 HS line after UCx 24 is installed. No leak at 5xE-9atm.cc/sec.  Today, I did helium pressure test on HS line at TCS. No leak at 70 psi helium 0.0xE-9 atm.cc/sec.

Both helium spray and helium pressurize on TM4 HS line withUCx31 target are done at SHC and TCS. No leak.

Bevan and I did a helium pressure test on TM4 HS water circuit at CS. The leak detector is pumped to the bottom scale(E-9 atm.cc/sec and E-4torr). We applied 70 psi helium to the HS circuit for 3 minutes .  No response had been found. I also leak checked IG1 flange which was replaced yesterday. It is  good. We connected the TM4 to CS and put the HV cover on. The water cooling system will be started soon.

The febiad coil line removed from TM4 has been cut into pieces small enough to be disposed of in a 5 gal pal. The line was cut with a Ridgid Model 104 manual pipe cutter (using the manipulators of course).

This pieces constitute the bulk of the field in the hot cell and will be disposed of with the next spent target.

TM4 has been disconnected in ITE this morning. See attachment.

TM3 with UCx#44 electrical check and leak check are good. see attachment.

HS line 70 psi helium pressure test at TCS: no leak at 0.0xe-9 torr.

Wires were pulled in TM3 and service cap was closed up again:

Einzel lens wire (30kV kapton), routed in the pumping duct and attached with #10 ring tongue to EZL feedthrough in service cap

4 steerer wires, routed in th pumping duct and attached with push on connectors to the 4 SHV feedthroughs on the module side panel. Coax grounding sheath is cut back by about 3cm.

Multipin cable bundle #1, routed through the left cable tube in the service tray then along the heat shield water lines (with PEEK zip ties) to feedthrough A.

Multipin cable bundle #2, routed through the right cable tube in the service tray then along the heat shield water lines (with PEEK zip ties) to feedthrough B. This bundle contains the EE wire as well, which was branched out after exiting the service tray and routed along the gas lines to the EE feedthough. It was attached with a smaller (size?) ring tongue to the EE feedthrough. Do not use this wire again, very fragile. Use the Accuglass 30kV wire instead.

The multipin wires touch the back of the water blocks in the source tray (same as in MT2/4, so far no issues with that) and they also touch the COIL lines in the service cap.

The EZL and steerer wires are routed along the floor of the service cap.

Due to the difficulty of the installation, there is no metal braid over the multipin bundles in the service cap.

Photos here : https://triumfoffice365-my.sharepoint.com/:f:/g/personal/cbabcock_triumf_ca/EslWNUST-UJKh1s8jjxWG6EBpLQEnWxgV4v-NvR4ZJjlOQ?e=Mw5vvI

TM3 window line has been leak checked after containment box removal and installation for insulator installation on water cup C.   No leak.

I leak checked TM3 water lines at CS with 60 psi and 80psi helium. The base leak rate is 5.0xe-9 atm.cc/sec. Each circuit 3 minutes helium pressurizing for each time test. No any respose had been found on leak detector during the test. See attachment

TM3 water lines helium spray leak check at SHC is done. No leak has been found on all lines. seeattachment

TM3 old source tray, old target hall high active water resin tank, and  old 2A window RH clamp are transferred from TH to cyclotron lower vault basement 10 and 10A location for storage. They are placed beside and in front of old TM1 and TM2 source tray boxes which stored there in 2018. 

Saturday, April 27, 2024, 09:35 :

Started ramping up HV, EE and EL together. First small spark at 20.5kV on bias, no reaction in other devices.

Note both BIAS and EL are off in their readbacks. See table below

Saturday, April 27, 2024, 10:23 :

Spark on HV only at 25.5, couple sparks from here to 33, then at 33 starts real conditioning.

EL is reacting to some of the sparks, not sure if this is just electrical noise or not.

Saturday, April 27, 2024, 18:14 :

lots of trips above 60kV on the set pt. tripping off turbos and gauges. IG2 needed the controller reset.

RESULT: Got to 64.5 (actual) 62 (set point) with quite a bit of sparking over 60kV. Will go the rest of the way to 73 in the next days. Data dumped as isac/data/TM3_HVtests_Apr272024.dat

Sunday, April 28, 2024, 11:23 :

Ramped back up to 60kV reasonably easily, couple sparks and turbo trips.

Went up to 64kV (set point) with a lot of difficulty. Data dumped as isac/data/TM3_HVtests_Apr282024.dat

Monday, April 29, 2024, 14:58 :

Ramped up to set pt 62 easily, went down to 500V then 100V steps after that.

Went to set pt of 67 and left it there for ~40mins. Not perfectly stable but not too bad.

Tuesday, April 30, 2024, 17:12 :

After rebooting the TCS PLC to fix all the non-responsive devices, everything is working fine again.

Ramped easily to 60kV in 1kV steps.

Still got to 67 without too much trouble. Behaving pretty well...

At 70.2 (set pt, 71.3 readback) the water and vacuum gauge both tripped off and cannot be restarted. I am not sure what the real power supply reading is here but in the past it has been 70.5 set pt = 73 real value, which is as high as the power supply goes.

Stopping here since I'm not sure the water is circulating... the off pump says it is and the on pump says its not... left it at 70.2 for 40mins, still sparking going on (20:28 to 21:10)

Data dumped as isac/data/TM3_HVtests_Apr302024.dat

Sunday, May 05, 2024, 10:50 :

Containment box and target installed.

HV conditioning starting at 47kV.

Spark at 58kV knocked out IG1. Continuing with IG2 and IG1S.

Went up to set point of 63, readback 64. Will continue on Monday.

Data dumped: isac/data/TM3_HVtests_May52024.dat

Monday, May 06, 2024, 09:37 :

Ramping system back up.

First sparks at 50kv while raising the EL voltage (not sure if they are related).

AS: Voltage quickly up to 63 kV from 49 kV. Very smooth, no sparks or instabilities. Ramped at around 250 V steps every 10-20 seconds. First signs of instability at ~62.75 kV and definitely at 63 kV. I guess this is where it was conditioned to last. Let sit at 63 kV for a while while doing something else. It sparked once and turned off a turbo after half an hour. Starting ramping again.

AS: Spark at 65.75 kV killed IG1. Carla manually reset at 69 kV. Still working. A spark at 70.25 kV took out IG1 again.

AS: Maximum voltage reached at about 16:45. Setpoint 70.5 kV, readback 71.7 kV, PS itself ~73 kV. Carla reset IG1.

AS: 18:30, spent about 1.5 hours cumulatively at this maximum voltage. During this time it sparked about 15 times. Not long enough to tell if the spark frequency is decreasing. In the middle of this, Carla did something accidentally and caused the voltage to drop a bunch, so I manually set it to 0 V. She then reset TP1S, which was not staying on. Also, the EE and EL stayed at their respective voltages during this downtime (2 kV and 28.7 kV). I ramped the main BIAS voltage back up to the maximum voltage within 5 minutes and it was smooth all the way but sparked again at the maximum voltage. It seems conditioned up to or near the max voltage. Ramped down and turned off BIAS, EL, and EE.

AS: Dumped data to isac/data/TM3_HVtests_May62024_Alexander.dat

Tuesday, May 07, 2024, 10:02 :

Tested the EE - ramped up easily to 7kV, but then had issues maintaining the voltage. No vacuum response. Ramped down since we never use it that high anyway, though cable should be good for 10kV. More investigations later.

EDIT 2024-11-25, Alexander Shkuratoff:

Summary of StripTool data taken during this round of tests:

	TM3_HVtests_Apr272024.dat	2024-04-27 18:56	12M
	TM3_HVtests_Apr282024.dat	2024-04-28 13:16	1.4M
	TM3_HVtests_Apr302024.dat	2024-04-30 21:11	9.0M
	TM3_HVtests_May52024.dat	2024-05-05 13:06	5.0M
	TM3_HVtests_May62024_Alexander.dat	2024-05-06 18:45	9.5M

TM3 service tray side panel is cleaned and installed back to TM3 this morning. I visually inspected service tray insulators. Nothing is changed comparing to inspection before.Nine screws are installed on  panel to hold it onto TM3.