Friedhelm Ames commented to me that there appears to be a short between High Voltage and Ground at TM3 at ITE.

Friedhelm, Anders and I initiated a survey by Andrew from RPG, and entered the Target Hall at approximately 5pm to visually assess the HV cover at the MAA.  There was no clear indication of a problem.  We opted to wait for David to return as we weren't sure exactly what we were looking for.

Friedhelm and Anders confirmed in the Electrical Room that the short is in the Target Hall.

Anders and I opened the HV cover in ITE and did  a visual check inside ITE HV  cover and top of TM3.Bill was with us and took the pictures. There was nothing obviously wrong when we opened the HV cover in ITE. We disconnected TM3 high current cables from ITE. Then we did an electrical check on TM3.The TM3 was good and passed megga test (465Mohm at 500V). The module was good and was separated electrically from the ITE at that moment. Then, we went back to electrical room and measured the resistance between bias and ground with ground bar opened and power supply disconnect. It was still shorted at that moment .We thought the short is located inside HV chase between electrical room and ITE. Then, we went back to ITE again and reconnected TM3 back to ITE. We wiped two blue nylon insulators between bias and ground, and no obviously spark track or dirty on them. We put HV cover back in ITE locked area, and went back to electrical room again.We decided to do a final electrical check there. We thought the short should be still there and we just want to confirm it . But this time the short  is gone. Everything goes back to normal.   The short disappeared and We test bias to 5KV and the current looks normal now.  

TM#4 with TiC#4 has been moved from the east target station to the south hot cell.

Electrical check of the TiC#4 on TM#3 post beam at the south hot cell, see attached PDF for details

When the Containment Box was opened today by Chad for a target change, we found the conductor insulator block B (ITD0054) to be broken close to the right TGHT terminal. Chad was nevertheless able to remove the target. See DocuShare and attached file for photos.

An attempt to replace the insulator will be made tomorrow with a spare.

A small sticky piece, likely off plastic material, was found next to the left main source tray insulator. The piece was removed from the Containment Box. See link above and attachment for photos.

See attached pdf and DocuShare for more photos. It may be possible to clean some of it from the Ground Electrode.

Anders Mjos wrote:

When the Containment Box was opened today by Chad for a target change, we found the conductor insulator block B (ITD0054) to be broken close to the right TGHT terminal. Chad was nevertheless able to remove the target. See DocuShare and attached file for photos. An attempt to replace the insulator will be made tomorrow with a spare. A small sticky piece, likely off plastic material, was found next to the left main source tray insulator. The piece was removed from the Containment Box. See link above and attachment for photos.

 The two insulators ITD0053 and ITD0054 was replaced this morning by Chad. Photos on DocuShare. All bolts torqued with torque wrench see attached PDF for values.

 See attached PDF. The object is not accessible with only the front panel removed. Photos on DocuShare.

Electrical check of TM#3 after the insulator repair. See attached PDF for details.

Chad and I leak checked the TM3 HS water line with new target installed.  No leak has been found during the check. Leak detector base LR 0.0xE-9 atm.cc/sec, base pressure 0.0xE-4 torr. The line will be helium pressurized at CS later.

Electrical check of the TM#3 with SiC#30 attached. Also an electrical check of TM#3 after the cleaning of ground electrode with no target attached.

TM#3 with SiC#30 has been moved from the south hot cell to the conditioning station.

TM3 HS water line helium pressure test is done at CS. 70 psi helium , 3 minutes.Base LR 0.0xE-9 atm.cc/sec, base pressure 0.0xE-4 torr.  No response. The line is leak free.

Anders Mjos wrote:

See attached pdf and DocuShare for more photos. It may be possible to clean some of it from the Ground Electrode.

 Chad cleaned the GND electrode yesterday June 26th - see attached PDF. Photos on DocuShare.

TM#3 with SiC#30 has been moved from the conditioning station to the east target station.

There were some problems this morning with provision of FEBIAD gas to the the target at ITE.  It was suspected that the gas line was improperly connected to the module, or that the valves at the module were not opened.

Remote Handling was asked to open the HV cover on TM3 at ITE and check the connection of the FEBIAD gas line.  Grant Minor, Maico Dalla Valle, Dan McDonald, and Anders Mjos entered the Target Hall before lunch on Work Permit I2014-07-07-1.

Maico entered ITE with suit and respirator, disengaged / disconnected the interlocks and removed the HV cover.  He inspected the FEBIAD gas line and found that it was properly connected, and that the valves were both open.  The gas line is shown in the attached image, with both valves marked in red.

Grant and Anders went into the electrical room to examine the supply gas bottle and supply circuit, and found that the supply gas pressure to the regulating valve was low.  It was concluded that the problem was not at the Target Module / Target Station.

Grant returned to the Target Station and instructed Maico to replace the HV cover.  After this was done, Grant confirmed with Jon Aoki over the phone that the interlock switch signals were both reading "OK".

Friedhelm Ames made an entry in today's ISAC Ops e-log regarding the supply pressure to the regulating valve.

ISAC E-log

5 Shielding blocks have been transferred from ITW to ITE. The ITE is configured to take proton beam.

Just some notes on the install of SiC#30 on TM3 last month...It was installed with all new fasteners and torque values provided by Anders were used...of main interest is probably the main high current fasteners which were torqued to 150 in lbs.

SiC#30 has been removed from TM3. A quick exam of TM3 source tray did not  yield any obvious signs of damage.

9 pin connector on the target showed the usual sparking/arcing marks.

Heat shield has been removed from the target. Inside of heat shield has some unusual marks on it and quite a lot of black deposits.

TM#3 with no target has been moved to the northwest silo for storage.