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

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.

 The cooling package was started at 10:00 today. See attached picture. There is another snap shot at 10:03.

Bevan Moss wrote:

The cooling package was started at 10:00 today. See attached picture. There is another snap shot at 10:03.

 The conductivity of the cooling package is above 5Mohm which is the minimum limit for the PS. This was achieved at 11:55. See attached picture.

Electrical check performed on the CS Test Target #1 at the south hot cell. See PDF for details.

TM#4 with the test target #1 is now in the conditioning station, move went well.

 Today the module was biased to 40kV in the conditioning station. The current draw was 0uA. Sparking started at 27 kV. I have attached the recording from the strip tool of the vacuum while we were testing. After consulting Pierre if we should take the module to a higher voltage it was decided not to. The purpose of this test we to check the interaction between the module, cover, new cooling line, EE and EINZEL cables. This test was considered a success and although there are no anticipated problems care should be taken when taking the module past 40kV for the first time.

 Hello Ray and Yi

Completed a HV test with the water flowing today.

8.96 Mohm

56.4 PSI across the load

16.5 GPM through the loads

some sparking occurred see attached file.

module was biased with all items tied to common to 40kV. Leakage current was less than 100uA.

This was a very successful test.

 Today while putting the cover on the cord that goes to the controller was bumped. This bent the connector down and caused a vacuum leak. I tried to tighten the bolts in the hope the leak would go away but it did not and I sheared one of the bolts off. David is inquiring with Edi if the pump can be repaired or if it needs to be replaced. The good news is that the interlocks work exactly as planned. Upon detecting a leak they shut the turbos down and closed all of the valves they even beat the turbo controllers for overload.

David believes we can rotate the pump slightly to avoid this problem in the future. Hopefully repairs can start on Monday. 

The conditioning station will be shut down for the weekend.

TM#4 with CS Test Target #1 (dummy target) moved from the conditioning station to the east target station. Move went well.

 Today David and I moved the module from ITE to the SHC. Move went very smoothly, David operated the cameras and has had basic training in how to manually lock out the controls.

 TM4 with CS Test Target #1 was moved from the SHC to the Conditioning Station. All went well. The welding cables came a little close to the cage, David will bend them in more in the future.

 Roughing pumps were turned on at 15:23 13/03/2013.

 Turbos started at 11:14. TP1S achieved full speed in less than 2 minutes. TP1 and 2 tripped at 9 minutes. Restarted and reached at speed after another 1 minute 20 seconds.

 Over the weekend Turbo pump one failed. It was attempted to restart the turbo in soft start but that also failed. Although the Vacuum was good enough to operate both Turbos are required to pass commissioning. As such the pumps were turned off at ~10:00 today. Venting started at 12:00.

The Model of the Power Supply (PS) is TSQLG 480-20/1500 and serial number is 2755.02.01.01.09.

We went to test the PS and supplied the required 480V and turned the local switch to on. At this point nothing happened, the controls screen didn’t light up nothing. We tried to run the PS in remote mode as that is what it had previously been set at and again there was no response. At this point I called the electrician the check that we were in fact supplying 480V. He checked all the way to the contactor inside of the PS (see attached picture). He also checked the 3 larger fuses and 6 smaller ones, they have not failed.

I have inquired with Jens Lassen who is more familiar with these PS and he has not had this issue before. He is going to have another look at the PS with the electrician specifically checking the 24VDC for the control board. Any further information or checks you could provide would be very helpful.

 This PS is needed for commissioning of a system and unfortunately this failure has come at a very in opportune time.  Although the PS is show to be several years old we have not actually used it aside from some minor tests ie does it turn on (it has previously).  I have phoned the manufacture to determine what else can be check and what the next steps are. Werner requested that I send an email (completed) so he could give it to their engineers.

 The conditioning station has been vented with argon. Time taken is not known but it is less than 3 hours. See attached picture for convectron gauge readings. CG1A is in air.

 David replaced the broken turbo pump this morning and I have started roughing at 9:54.

 Turbo Pumps have been started and are in normal operation. TP1 which has recently been replaced was started in soft start and had no issues. TP2 was started normally and tripped prior to reaching speed. It was left for a while and restarted. When restarted it was still at 17KRPM, it reached normal operation.

 The cooling package and vacuum was stopped today at 9:26 so the module can be move.