TM4 vacuum has been connected in TCS. All vacuum pumps were started yesterday. The pumping down of TM4 and TCS are good so far.

 Wednesday, November 25, 2015, 15:36: RGA on

Thursday, November 26, 2015, 09:55: PS energized. EE connected to power supply.

Thursday, November 26, 2015, 11:41: Applied some current and voltage to all power supplies. All looks good.

Some sparking around 5 kV. Turned out to be a bad cable connection. Fixed with David W.

Thursday, November 26, 2015, 15:04: BIAS/EL/EE 20 / 15 1.5 kV

Thursday, November 26, 2015, 15:43: Handed TCS over to ISAC operations

 Target heated over the weekend. EE went into current limiting (down to ~100 V) a while after the target was at temperature.

Monday, November 30, 2015

Target conditioned by ISAC operators to 30 kV without any problems.

EE current limit increased to about 26 mA in an attempt to recover. Cooling down target to investigate.

Cell (table) was systematically cleaned with a swiffer and resulting piles of contaminated waste placed in pail with spent Ta target.

UCx#14 installed onto TM4. High current fasteners torqued to 130 in lbs.

TM#4 with UC#14 was moved from the south hot cell to the conditioning station.  Here are the results of the electrical check of the module with the UC#14 target while at the hot cell.

Yesterday TM#4 with Ta#46 was moved from the east station to the south hot cell.

Ta#46 has been removed from TM4.

electronics package on left manip died completely yesterday (it has been going for a while).

Disconnected entire package and replaced with package from "spare" manipulator.

everything is back up and working.

Residual fields from the remaining compressible waste were still too high (as far as I'm concerned) so I have unpacked all compressible waste looking for a "hot" item that has snuck into these items.

I have a hand full of small bolts (possible target components), a hand full of target material/dust (including an entire target disc), and some cloths that had clearly been used to wipe the table (they are black with target dust).

These items will be disposed of with the next spent target.

Decon/removal of large solid waste was performed on Wednesday November 18th."Hot" activated items included containment box cover from TM2, Febiad coil line remnants from TM4 (the hottest ends were previously cut off and disposed of), some target conductor bolts, steerer plugs from TM2, target material remn.

Drum containing these solid items is 2.5mSv/hr at 1/2m.

Drum is stored in the north hot cell temp.

Compressible waste will require another drum.

Swipes were taken of the window... 170k counts per minute of cont.

TM#3 has been moved back to the NW silo.

I stopped the TM3 and TCS vacuum pumps and water system. The TM3 is disconnected and vented. It will be moved to silo this afternoon.

ISAC operators attempted HV conditioning over the weekend.

https://web.accel.triumf.ca/isac_elog/Elog_show_result.pl?inid=218447&style=entry

 Problem found between ANODE (F) and chassis 90 kOhm. See attachment for details.

Update TH schedule according to changes. See attachment 1,2 .

update TH schedule weekly. See attachments 3,4

Target to Anode and target to Common showed ~ 500 kOhm values. No leaks above 3E-9 atm-cc/s seen. See attached.  

Anders Mjos wrote:

Conducted a more thorough leak check this morning with Edi. He found a leak on the base of the  blue F/T insulator for the multi-pin connector (see attachment). I discovered that all the bolts could rotate freely in the threads as they were too small. The bolts were replaced. The leak rate was reduced but still significant. The o-ring will likely need to be replaced. Tuesday, November 10, 2015, 17:00: Could not find new o-ring. Cleaned groove and o-ring and applied o-ring grease. Re-attached F/T.

Tuesday

Steerer wire had disconnected again. See DocuShare for photos.

Thursday, November 12, 2015

Leak checked the fixed F/T and the panel for steeerers. No leaks found.

Tuesday, November 10, 2015, 16:53: Roughing

Tuesday, November 10, 2015, 18:24: TP1S started

Tuesday, November 10, 2015, 18:30: TP1 and TP2 started

Tuesday, November 10, 2015, 18:41: All 3 turbos at speed.

Thursday, November 12, 2015, 08:30: Purged backing pump using purging function. Vacuum in backing line recovered to previous value. 

Module connected for HV testing. No target heating possible. All F/Ts tied together to HV common. EZL connected.

Friday, November 13, 2015, 11:20: Started water package

Friday, November 13, 2015, 11:52: 1kV on BIAS and 1 kV on EL

Friday, November 13, 2015, 12:54: BIAS/EL 10 / 5 kV

Friday, November 13, 2015, 12:59: BIAS/EL 15 / 7.5 kV

Friday, November 13, 2015, 13:04: BIAS/EL 20 / 10 kV

Friday, November 13, 2015, 13:08 : BIAS/EL 22 / 11 kV. Some sparks.

Friday, November 13, 2015, 13:17: Sparking at 22.5 kV. Had to return to 20 kV to recover. Back at 22.5

Friday, November 13, 2015, 13:21 : BIAS/EL 24 / 12 kV. 

 Friday, November 13, 2015, 13:27: Heavy spakring around 24.5 kV. Had to return to 20 kV to recover.

Friday, November 13, 2015, 13:31: Attempted to increase voltage again. Sparking started around 23 kV. Had to lower to 20 kV.

Friday, November 13, 2015, 13:36: 9 sparks for the last 5 min.

Friday, November 13, 2015, 13:45: Spark rate reduced, but multiple sparks encountered again at 20.5 kV. Reduced back to 20 kV

Friday, November 13, 2015, 13:50: Increased sparking at 20 kV. Had to lower to 18 kV

Friday, November 13, 2015, 14:07: Back at 20 kV

Friday, November 13, 2015, 14:13: BIAS and EL off

Monday, November 16, 2015, 08:18: Fault on chiller. Reset chiller unit on the roof.

Conducted a more thorough leak check this morning with Edi. He found a leak on the base of the  blue F/T insulator for the multi-pin connector (see attachment). I discovered that all the bolts could rotate freely in the threads as they were too small. The bolts were replaced. The leak rate was reduced but still significant. The o-ring will likely need to be replaced.

Tuesday, November 10, 2015, 17:00: Could not find new o-ring. Cleaned groove and o-ring and applied o-ring grease. Re-attached F/T.

Service cap leak checked this afternoon. Found multiple leaks of 10E-8 to 10E-7 range. Connected to the backing line with IG1 at ~4E-6 T, CG1A around 40 mT. Got responses around large round flange on top, rectangular side panels, water f/t on GND and water f/t on HV. Will resume leak checking tomorrow to attempt to pinpoint sources of leak more accurately.