TM#1 has been moved from the south west silo to the south hot cell.

ThO#1 has been installed onto TM1 and is ready for leak and electrical checking. High current fasteners torqued to 130 in lbs.

TM#1 with ThO#1 electrical check see attatched PDF for details.

Chad and I leak checked HS line on TM1 with ThO#1 target installed. The LD pumped down to base leak rate 0.0xE-9 atm.cc/sec, base leak rate 0.0xE-4 torr. The pumping down process is normal. Chad sprayed helium on both VCR joints (each for 2 seconds) , and he did a flush spray around the target for 5 seconds. No any response had been found on LD during and after the spray( 40seconds waiting time). The target is leak tight.

Tm1 with ThO#1 is buttoned up and ready for transport.

TM#1 with ThO#1 has been moved from the south hot cell to the west target station.

TM1 has been connected in ITW. All turbo pumps are started. The pumping down on ITW is good so far. The water is supplied to TM1 for HV conditioning.

I found primary vacuum back up pressure ITH CG1, CG2, and CG4A were unusually high this morning. They should be about 10 -20 mtorr after one night pumping, but all of thier reading were 340-350-mtorr. Thease cause the current draw on primary turbo pumps were all over 2.0A(should be about 1.0A). I let Paul closed all BVs on primary side . The pressure dropped quickly to normal range after all BVs were closed. This shows the back up line are good. The problem are from   one of  the connections  on primary BVs. I let Paul opened the BVs one by one,but the problem did not show again. Now ,the current draw on the turbo pumps are back to normal also.

I will keep monitoring the system and take a look on all KF25 clamps on BVs once I have a chance to access to ITW.

Dan and I transferred 5 shielding blocks from ITE to ITW. The ITW is configured to take proton beam.

I replaced flow wheel and coil on ITW MSP water flow sensor which is located in ITW pit. Before replacement, I checked the signal strength and frequency form e-board on this circuit. The signal was good in 10minutes watching. Still, I replaced them. The flow sensor works fine after replacement. I made a comment  on Isac e-fault system about this issue.

ThO#1 has been removed from TM1 and placed into the plastic dissection box.

Containment box cover has been reinstalled as per usual.

TM#1 has been moved from the west station to the south hot cell had the ThO#1 target removed and then the modules was moved from the south hot cell to the south west silo. Also an electrical check was done on the target before it was removed.

Chad, Anders and Alex inspected the target this morning. The target had no significant visible damage to the container. Some material was deposited on the Extraction Electrode.

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TM#1 with no target has been moved from the south west silo to the south hot cell for the installation of the UCx target.

Electrical check of TM#1 with UCx#12 attached. See attached PDF for details.

TM#1 with UCx#12 has been moved from the south hot cell to the conditioning station.

Monday, April 20, 2015, 09:35: Started cooling water circulation

HV cover did not fit due to interference with the air sampling valve. Target Hall will have to be locked out for conditioning to proceed. WP I2015-04-20-2

Monday, April 20, 2015, 10:09: Started chiller staging

Target hall and HV enclosure has been locked out.

Monday, April 20, 2015, 13:45: 22 kV, 0.04 mA BIAS 

Monday, April 20, 2015, 14:58: No sparks observed. BIAS off

Tuesday, April 21, 2015, 08:26:  Starting heater auto-ramp to 500 / 230 A at 2 A/min

Tuesday, April 21, 2015, 08:32: BIAS/EE to 20 / 1.5 kV

Tuesday, April 21, 2015, 12:59: TGHT / TBHT at 327 / 230 A. Pausing the auto-ramping. Bill will be monitoring TCS while I am off-site.

Tuesday, April 21, 2015, 15:56: Continue auto-ramping

Tuesday, April 21, 2015, 17:34: Auto-ramping finished. TGHT / TBHT at 500 / 230 A

Wednesday, April 22, 2015, 08:43: Vacuum tripped heaters and BIAS over night. Switching off to do a leak check on the service cap.

Wednesday, April 22, 2015, 09:03: Stopping turbo and roughing pump for David. David is preparing a leak check.

Wednesday, April 22, 2015, 09:06: Started roughing pump.

Wednesday, April 22, 2015, 09:22: Roughing pump trips off after a few minutes of pumping.

Wednesday, April 22, 2015, 13:11: Stopped water flow.

Wednesday, April 22, 2015, 16:07: Starting turbos 

Wednesday, April 22, 2015, 16:15: All turbos at speed.

David found a leak on the window line this morning.
https://elog.triumf.ca/TIS/RH-ISAC/896

Thursday, April 23, 2015, 11:12 : Starting cooling pack

Good vacuum limit on IG1 changed from 7E-5 T to 1E-5 T

Thursday, April 23, 2015, 12:53 : Starting heater auto-ramp to 500 / 230 A at 2 A/min. Bad vacuum limit reduced to 8E-6 T

Thursday, April 23, 2015, 13:03 : BIAS/EE to 15/ 1.5 kV

Thursday, April 23, 2015, 13:28 : BIAS/EE to 20/ 1.5 kV. No sparking observed

Thursday, April 23, 2015, 17:23: Auto-ramping finished. TGHT / TBHT at 500 / 230 A

Thursday, April 23, 2015, 17:51: Fault on cooling circuit (Fault 2).. Manually starting CP1

Thursday, April 23, 2015, 18:01: Cycled power of chiller unit. System recovered. Enabled staging.

Thursday, April 23, 2015, 18:42 : One minor spark observed. Starting cool down at 12 and 9 A/min

Thursday, April 23, 2015, 19:51 : Heaters and BIAS off

Friday, April 24, 2015, 08:21 : Water cooling off

The TH will be locked during the TM1 conditioning time due to  an interference issue between CS HV cover and a gas analysis valve on top of TM1. A work permit has been issued for the conditioning job because of it.

On Friday April 17th, UC#12 target was installed in TM1.  One of the copper water lines was bent slightly as the target was lifted into the module which caused ~15 minute delay due to difficulty getting the VCR nut threads to engage.  Other than this the install went smoothly.

During replacement of the containment box panel two of the threaded holes were found to be stripped.  One on the top at the center, the other in the bottom right corner.  These two holes were left without fasteners (see attached photo).  It is unknown at this time whether these holes were already stripped, or if they were stripped during this installation.

I did an electrical check on TM1 at CS. The resistance check:A-B 3.918m ohm, A-C 5.905m ohm,A-D 4.070m ohm,B-C5.462m ohm,B-D3.633m ohm. They are very close to the check we did in SHC. The only unusual thing I found during the check is the ohmmeter reading between A and 60 KV common (6.2K )and the Megga reading between them  at 250 V which is 0. I repeated 4 times and always got the same readings. However, after so many times check, the Megga reading between A and 60KV   suddenly went back to normal(300 M at 250V) at the final check.  And,it stays at 300M now.  All other measurements are same as we did at SHC before.