TM4 has been moved from SHC to TCS. the move is smooth.

Tm4 has been moved from ITW to SHC. the move is smooth.

Tm4 has been disconnected in ITW per document 141576. Checklist is done.  HS line is purged.

 Targets UC#38,40 Ta#62,63 SiC#44 have been moved from the spent target vault to the mini vault in preparation for F-308 loading. See attached PDFs for details.

Tuesday, May 14, 2024, 10:26 :

Ramping up bias/EE/EL on ITE - will see if the HV cage in the pit can hold 60kV or not.

At around 50kV the bias read current starts to get jumpy. Doesn't look like its an issue for the voltage, but definitely instability increases.

Occasional sparks seem to increase the EL current significantly...

David heard some sparks in the target hall. Looks like from heat shield feed through to the top of the cage. Several sparks heard in the TH also changed the einzel lens draw current significantly. These feethroughs are not far from each other so could be related.

Apparently the sparking also tripped off all the optics and heaters in ITW, by changing the state of the water flow interlock. Interesting and not seen ever before. Will test again with the cage off, rather than risk tripping ITW again.

Tried ramping up the voltage on just the EE. Seems the limit is 7kV - at that level it gets sparky and unstable. Should be investigated (should hold 10kV) but not critical for module function.

Wednesday, May 15, 2024, 10:05 :

HV cover was removed this morning and the MAA was locked out.

Started ramping things up, was very easy until around 58kV. At 59.5kV a spark tripped off the EL. Canbus controller had to be power cycled to fix it. Bias current is much more stable in this configuration.

Ramped up again while listening from the TH to see if it was sparking outside. Went slowly to 60kV (left EL at 29kV) and didn't see any outside sparks in the first 10 mins, couple sparks in vacuum. But after 15 mins a spark seems to have fried the EL canbus card. We were not in the TH so not sure if it was on the outside or not.

After 2 hours a spark tripped off both ITE and ITW. Looks like it makes a water interlock go bad momentarily, but after the trip the interlocks seem fine.

Tuesday, May 28, 2024, 16:41

Running TM3 at any voltage in ITE produces fairly destructive sparks. There are not many but so far they have tripped off all optics in ITW, the water flow interlocks (later forced on to prevent this), the EL (generally comes back but killed the canbus card once), destroyed two vacuum gauge controllers, and may have contributed to the cathode short on ITE-TM3-UC44-LP-FEBIAD.

The conditioning process seems to go as planned, but the occassional inevitable spark still trips things, which is making it difficult to run stable.

Will continue with regular HV conditioning to see if this helps. Control over the current limit on the ITE:BIAS supply would also help, but seems a complicated thing to add according to Roberto.

TM3 sat fine at 53kV overnight and at 58kV for several hours. The EZL trips off maybe once every 2-3hrs or so, which is not ideal but liveable. This was with the TGHT and CHT power supplies forced, so not sure if we would know if they would have tripped...

CONCLUSIONS:

1. TM3 has been commissioned for beam delivery after one week of delivery of UF to TITAN using a FEBIAD ion source in anode bias mode. Cathode mode was also used, so all functionality of the target except IGLIS current/voltage delivery through the mutlipin has been tested successfully.
2. TM3 still requires commissioning at high voltage with protons to be considered fully commissioned, this will be done July 2 2024 due to problems with the cyclotron.

ITE water signal annual interlock check is done. Ed helped me on this check. Everything works normal.

Tm3 has been connected in ITE.  see attachment.

 F308 Inspection and service complete on #06, #08, #13, #15, #16, #19, #20, #21, #22.

All in good condition with new gasket material installed on #20.

Prepped for move to ISAC B3 for storage.

The ITW Faraday Cage has been cleaned, this is part of Winter Shut Down job happens in ISAC-1 Electric maintenance room annually.

The move is smooth and successful.

TCS was argon vented this morning between 7:00 to 8:30 am before module was moved to ITE.

ISAC Storage Vault Door Re-alignment (April-May 2024) 

Issue

• Rollers gouging and marking on roller supports, testing shows door shifts at least 185 thou on structural beam when fully open vs. fully closed
• door misaligned: 1/4" laterally, slight rotation (~1/16" difference across closed door gap).

Repair

• Moved left structural beam (facing front of door) inward 1/4" at post.
• Loosened drive system to shift door over via crane to average laterally (1/8" shift) towards center,
• Attempted to fix door rotation with crane, door would not settle down perfectly flush, but got slight improvement 
• Adjusted limit switches for fully open and closed (due to the adjustments made previously, needed to realign limit switches) - adjusted flag for final close back by ~1/4"; adjusted limit switch at back of vault forward ~1/4" 

Verification 

• Unloaded vault door actuation tested multiple times with no issues, door returned to same position every cycle, no interferences during travel
• Vault Door actuation tested with trays 4 and 6 engaged, no issues
• All pails accessible when open
• Tested open and closed limit switches: the open limit switches are working properly; the closing soft and hard limit switches are slightly close together, causing the door to just "bump" the vault when closing, The scale of this is OK for current operation, will be adjusted when the ISAC Target Hall Controls Overhaul is done
• Tested and reset Emergency override mechanism - works properly

Outstanding Tasks

• Will paint marks on structural supports to track if problem reoccurs - update ELog when complete 

System State: Operational

See attached file for details

Broken TM2:TP2 has been replaced otday by a new TV-1001 nav pump supplied by vacuum group. replaced pump seris number:201281. new pump series number:IT23431008. TPs replacement history sheet will be updated by Frank. I will put comment on this e fault and let operator to close it.

 The Ta#66 target was repacked after the parasitic target was removed it was place in a new pail (#290) and place back in spot 5B of the vault. See attached PDF for further details.

ITW gas lines pumped down to 2e-3Torr on leak detector with leak rate in the low e-7 atm-cc/s. Gas bottles opened at 3psi and labels in epics changed to reflect correct setup. switch box set to cathode mode, checked that anode wire was at HV common.

note ballast is removed from ITW now to be used in ITE so that line is blanked off.

After new containment box installation on TM3, Chad and I did a helium spray leak check on two VCR fittings on front side water lines. they are leak free.

Helium pressurize window water line to 70 psi for 3minutes. No response on leak detector which is 0.0xe-9 atm.cc/sec.

TM3 with UCx#44 electrical check and leak check are good. see attachment.

HS line 70 psi helium pressure test at TCS: no leak at 0.0xe-9 torr.

TM3 has been moved  from SHC to TCS by David and Frank. The move is smooth.

Annual ITW water signal interlock check has been done. Renee helped me on it. Everything works fine.

Travis and I moved TM3 from TCS to SHC this afternoon. The move is smooth.