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Message ID: 131     Entry time: Monday, December 22, 2014, 14:31
Author: Isaac Earle 
Category: Maintenance 
Type: Target 2 
Specific: Water Leak 
Subject: Drop in T2 water level 

This morning at 5:30am the T2 cooling package expansion tank switched to WARNING LEVEL NOT OK.  There was no change in BL1A vacuum at this time.  The change in level was confirmed by inspecting the water level visually.  Operators suggested it may have happened because the cyclotron was shut off and the temperature of all water systems dropped, however T1 did not experience a noticeable change in level, so I do not think this is the cause.  It is possible there is a leak on the cooling system somewhere, but the evidence does not suggest a leak into the vacuum volume.

At 11:55am the BL1A vacuum spiked tripping off both cooling packages.  Valve 1AV8 is closed.  There is no pumping on the T1 volume, so the pressure is slowly increasing.  T2 is at approximately 50mTorr.  Operators believe it may have been caused by work at M15 or M13.  

This appears to be unrelated to the water loss at T2, but proper diagnosis is not possible because Vacuum Group staff are away for the holidays.  The cooling packages will be left off until proper diagnosis can be performed in the new year.

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