IG1 8.0 e-7 T

IG1S 2.5 e-6 T

IG2 4.3 e-6 T

I will start the high voltage now

high voltage conditioning was carried out over the day up to 24 kV. i will leave it at 20 kV over night. Current is at 22 micro Amps, heaters off.

vacuum: IG1 7.7e-7

IG2 4.07 e-6

IG1sS 2.2 e-6

The high voltage was sparking several times during the night. It may be correlated with the cycling of the cooling water temperature and conductance.

vacuum levels at 11:00

IG1 7.5e-7 T

IG2 3.9e-6 T

IG1s 2.0 e-6 T

heaters have been ramped up to TGH 580 A, TBHT 250 A,

anode 100 V 5.3 mA, coil 50 A Faraday cup 50 nA bias 20 kV EL 6 kV

vacuum

IG1 7.9e-7

IG2 4.5e-6

IG1s 2.2e-6

All power supplies tripped on high conductivity of the cooling water < 5 MOhm, It is not clear if this was caused by a spark or vice versa. According to the strip tool for this signal the resistance of the water went up. There might be a fault in this signal. I do not have permission to force this signal so I keep the heaters off. We should revisit the interlock conditions, this signal should not be included in the interlocks for the heaters. Both target and tube seem to be still o.k. As I do not want to destroy the target I keep the heaters off and restart the high voltage only.

vacuum readings before stopping

IG1: 7.4e-7 T

IG2 3.8 e-6 T

IG1S 1.95 e-6 T

TM#3 has been moved from the conditioning station to the east target station, move went well.

 Blocks 1-4 have been moved from ITW to ITE. Block 5 was moved to a storage area as it will be in the way of the harp repair. Danka took air samples and found 200 counts of alpha on the air samples but nothing on the swipes. It is recommended that resporators be worn while blocks are being lifted and lowered. She will check the monitor tomorrow to confirm it is behaving as it should.

as measured today in the electrical room by David and Anders

with TM4 in ITW as measured today in the electrical room by David and Anders.

with TM4 in ITW as measured today in the electrical room by David and Anders.

TM3 has been disconnected this morning and  purged all HV water lines. I found the power plug for all turbo pump fans wasnt connected  during the last run. That maybe the one of the reason on that ITE TP3 failure.

TM#3 with NiO#2 moved from ITE to the south hot cell.

NiO#2 has been removed from TM3

TM#3 with no target has been moved from the south hot cell to the north east silo.

The target was inspected by Chad and Anders in the Hot Cell. Electrical megger tests were done during the assembly. It was found that Insulators No 3 (ITD0311) and No 2 (ITD0310) failed to hold voltage after the run.

EE to HS was measured OL at 1000  V.

Photos can be found on DocuShare

TM#3 with no target has been moved from the north east silo to the south hot cell.

 Travis and I completed an electrical check on the wiring harness for the devices on the ground plane. All lines passed 500V with the megger except for PNG and the BTM steerer. Those devices had a short to ground. of ~1.4ohm.

 Maico removed the containment box today allow Travis and I to further test the wiring harness. I disconnected the junction block and Travis and I repeated the test from yesterday. The all lines except the PNG tested OL. The module was then lowered and the twisted pair connected to the pin that corresponds to the steerer labeled BTM (it is likely this is not labeled correctly). This testing showed showed that the source of the short found yesterday is in the wiring harness or the source tray. The PNG gauge was then tested again. When beeping out the harness to find the location of the pin it was found that the short had gone away. This circuit was then tested with the megger at 500V and showed OL. Don Jackson has suggested looking at the SHV feed through. It is difficult to determine where the source of the problem is as it is intermittent. The source tray side wiring harness for the steerers was then disconnected from the steerers and tested to OL. Finally the connections on the source tray were tested. It was determined that the third socket down (see attached picture) has a short somewhere to ground. When Chad returns on Friday I will have him complete a visual inspection and if the source can be found we may be able to deflect the line. Failing that to repair this connection a new steerer cone assembly will need to be installed.

Using in cell camera and transit the suspect line on the steerers was inspected as best as possible. An existing photo of the complete steerers before installation was used for comparison. The wiring and beading inspected today showed no obvious problems, breaks or spots where there may be a short. In comparison to the photo from construction, what we could see of the steerers looked identical to the original installation.

chad fisher wrote:

Using in cell camera and transit the suspect line on the steerers was inspected as best as possible. An existing photo of the complete steerers before installation was used for comparison. The wiring and beading inspected today showed no obvious problems, breaks or spots where there may be a short. In comparison to the photo from construction, what we could see of the steerers looked identical to the original installation.

 The test was repeated to confirm that there was a short.