Same target as in e-log entry https://elog.triumf.ca/TIS/Test-Stand/106

Thursday, April 25, 2013, 13:54: Roughing

Thursday, April 25, 2013, 14:25: Started turbos 

Thursday, April 25, 2013, 14:33: Turbos at speed

Thursday, April 25, 2013, 14:33: Vacuum at 8.8E-6 T

Friday, April 26, 2013, 08:25: Cooling water supply opened. Vacuum stable at 2.2E-7 T

Friday, April 26, 2013, 13:35: Gas lines evacuated.

Testing Coil current vs Temperature before heating

COIL:RDCUR at 1.95A
COIL:RDVOL at 1.47V
COIL T/C at 86 deg C and still slowly increasing

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Testing Coil current vs Temperature before heating

COIL:RDCUR at 3.96A

COIL:RDVOL 3.2 V Vacuum starts to increase (base 1.4E-7

COIL:RDVOL 3.8 V T/C at 150 C vacuum at 5E-7

COIL:RDCUR at 3.47A to reduce out-gassing T/C at 175 C

Tuesday, April 30, 2013, 12:39

COIL:RDCUR at 3.96A T/C 225 C

COIL:RDVOL 5.0 V T/C at 250 C vacuum at 6.2E-7

Tuesday, April 30, 2013, 13:00

COIL:RDCUR at 4.25A COIL:RDVOL at 5.7V T/C 290 C

Tuesday, April 30, 2013, 13:10

COIL:RDCUR at 4.15A COIL:RDVOL at 5.75V T/C 310 C

Tuesday, April 30, 2013, 14:53

COIL:RDCUR at 4.15A COIL:RDVOL at 5.85V T/C 320 C

Tuesday, April 30, 2013, 16:30

COIL:RDCUR at 4.15A COIL:RDVOL at 5.89V T/C 328 C

Wednesday, May 01, 2013, 08:16

COIL:RDCUR at 4.15A COIL:RDVOL at 5.95V T/C 350 C - P/S is voltage limited at 5.95V

Ramping down current to 0. T/C logger is required elsewhere.

Friday, May 03, 2013, 12:07: Pumping out gas line through vacuum chamber.

The anode cable has been reconnected (see e-log entry 297)

Friday, May 03, 2013, 14:17: BIAS and EE to 30kV and -800V

Friday, May 03, 2013, 14:24: Started heating TBHT to 280A at 1A/min

Monday, May 06, 2013, 08:46: TBHT @ 276A, Voltage limiting at 2.5V. Increased limit to 2.7V. TGHT to 280A and 2.52V. COIL temp ~100C

Monday, May 06, 2013, 09:48: COIL:RDCUR at 2.93A

Monday, May 06, 2013, 10:34: Coil temp ~240C. Increasing COIL:RDCUR to 3.52A COIL:RDVOL at 4.1V

Monday, May 06, 2013, 11:48: Coil temp 330C COIL:RDCUR at 3.52A RDVOL at 4.9V

Monday, May 06, 2013, 11:54: COIL:RDCUR at 3.9A

Monday, May 06, 2013, 12:56: RDVOL at 5.9V. Coil temp ~380C

Monday, May 06, 2013, 13:47: Cooling down target to correct anode connection.

Tuesday, May 07, 2013, 08:47: De-biased

Tuesday, May 07, 2013, 10:06: Corrected el. connections to cathode floating. Started tube heating to 280A

Wednesday, May 08, 2013, 12:12: De-biased

Wednesday, May 08, 2013, 12:12: Cooling down cathode 1A/min

Thursday, May 09, 2013, 15:22: TPS:IV4 closed

Testing FEBIAD anode end cap as per dwg ITD0304 REV C

Target with TUBE ONLY. Do not use target heater.

Tuesday, June 26, 2012, 18:03: Roughing

Tuesday, June 26, 2012, 18:24: Turbos started

Tuesday, June 26, 2012, 18:31 : Turbos at speed. Vacuum at 1.8E-5

Wednesday, June 27, 2012, 08:48: Cooling opened. Vacuum stable at 4.2E-7. Ready for testing.

Friday, July 19, 2013, 14:14 : Stopping Turbos. Vacuum at 1.3E-7 T 

Friday, July 19, 2013, 15:14:  Venting

Friday, July 19, 2013, 16:22: Target installed. Roughing.

Friday, July 19, 2013, 16:41: Starting turbos

Friday, July 19, 2013, 16:49: Turbos at speed

Friday, July 19, 2013, 16:51 : Vacuum at 1.4E-5 T

Monday, July 22, 2013, 08:19: Opened up water flow. Vacuum stable at 1.3E-7 T after some minor bumps to 1.6E-7 T

Monday, July 22, 2013, 13:34: T/C logger installed on 9-pins 4 & 5. Ray is working in the HV cage to install a different PS for the magnet coil.

Monday, July 22, 2013, 14: Increasing Coil current manually. Vacuum starts to creep up at 3A (T/C around 85 deg C).

Monday, July 22, 2013, 16:37: Current at 4A. Voltage at 6.5V. T/C around 400 deg C.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013, 08:50: Coil conditioned to ~500 deg C at about 4.7A

Tuesday, July 23, 2013, 08:54: Evacuating gas line through the chamber.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013, 09:01: Gas lines evacuated.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013, 09:10: Coil current to zero.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013, 09:22: Target. biased

Tuesday, July 23, 2013, 09:22: Opened IV4

Tuesday, July 23, 2013, 09:32: ANODE to 200V. Helium leak to 6.0

Tuesday, July 23, 2013, 09:35: Coil temp at 220 deg C.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013, 10:58: Heating aborted at 200A. Will resume later.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013, 12:01: Restarted heating to 250A.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013, 13:11: Spark too out some optics. Restarted.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013, 14:39: COIL 130 deg C. TBHT at 280A read back.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013, 14:44: Sparking occurs across the spark gap on top of the test stand.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013, 16:14: Lowered TBHT to 270 read back. Will leave it like this over night.

Friday, July 26, 2013, 10:09: Cooling down TBHT.

Friday, July 26, 2013, 11:13: ANODE and COIL OFF. Closed IV4. Closed gas supply.

Friday, July 26, 2013, 12:41: BIAS, EE and EL to zero.

Data on Docushare:

https://documents.triumf.ca/docushare/dsweb/View/Collection-11041

Tuesday, August 20, 2013, 08:13: Roughing gas lines

Tuesday, August 20, 2013, 08:22: Gas lines roughed. Valve closed

Wednesday, September 18, 2013, 16:18: Starting turbos

Wednesday, September 18, 2013, 16:26 : Turbos at speed

Wednesday, September 18, 2013, 16:28 : Vacuum at 2.8 E-5 T

Wednesday, September 25, 2013, 15:11
TGHT flow 5.52, temp 28.6
TBHT flow 5.92, temp 28.5

Thursday, September 26, 2013, 09:25: Stopped turbos. Vacuum at 1.4 E-7 T

Friday, September 27, 2013, 08:35
TGHT flow 5.49, temp 28.2
TBHT flow 5.90, temp 28.0

Friday, September 27, 2013, 10:47: Venting 

Friday, October 31, 2014, 14:47: Starting turbos

Friday, October 31, 2014, 14:57: Turbos at speed. Vacuum at 2.9E-5 T

Monday, November 03, 2014, 10:08 : Opened HS water circuit. Vacuum stable at 1.7E-7 T

Monday, November 03, 2014, 10:22: Starting auto ramping to 228A on TBHT at 1 A/min

Monday, November 03, 2014, 13:44: Target at temperature. Opening IV4.

Monday, November 03, 2014, 14:45: IV4 closed

Monday, November 03, 2014, 15:00: Starting cool down. 1 A/min 

Friday, September 23, 2011, 16:4: Target installed and roughing started.

Friday, September 23, 2011, 17:12: Started turbo pumps. 

Monday, September 26, 2011, 09:00: Opened up water flow. Vacuum rose from 3e-6 to 3e-5 torr in 30 s. Closed water flow.

Monday, September 26, 2011, 09:00: Venting for leak check.

Monday, September 26, 2011, 10:20: Pressurized water lines with 120 PSI He. Leak detected on right water line connection to heat shield.

Monday, September 26, 2011, 12:00: Leak repaired. Pumping down. Kapton added on target  heater cooling line to prevent short with cooling line for FEBIAD coil.

Monday, September 26, 2011, 12:47: Started turbo pumps. 

Monday, September 26, 2011, 15:45: Opened up water flow. Vacuum stable at 3.5e-6 torr.Target ready to be heated.

Started the HV conditioning: TSG:BIAS=30kV

Started the heaters conditioning: TGHT up to 580A and TBHT up to 230A.

Today, did a did a mass scan: plotdump-local-clean.txt Sep30 11 12-20-08.txt

Optimized a bit the tune with Friedhelm, then started the Target Cooldown.

Turned off the HV and locked up the transformer. Isolated the ion source box. The target is under vacuum and the water is still on.

Aurelia Laxdal wrote:

Turned off the HV and locked up the transformer. Isolated the ion source box. The target is under vacuum and the water is still on.

 Monday, October 03, 2011, 13:45: Venting.

Anders Mjos wrote:

Aurelia Laxdal wrote: Turned off the HV and locked up the transformer. Isolated the ion source box. The target is under vacuum and the water is still on.  Monday, October 03, 2011, 13:45: Venting.

 Monday, October 03, 2011, 14:45

• Target was visually  inspected and found to be ready to go online.
• No burn marks found on the 9-pin connectors.
• Pumping down. Target will be stored under vacuum for now. Target is scheduled to go to Hot Cell on Oct. 20th. Electrical connections (target/tube heater + coil) are not connected

Anders Mjos wrote:

Anders Mjos wrote: Aurelia Laxdal wrote: Turned off the HV and locked up the transformer. Isolated the ion source box. The target is under vacuum and the water is still on.  Monday, October 03, 2011, 13:45: Venting.  Monday, October 03, 2011, 14:45 Target was visually  inspected and found to be ready to go online. No burn marks found on the 9-pin connectors. Pumping down. Target will be stored under vacuum for now. Target is scheduled to go to Hot Cell on Oct. 20th. Electrical connections (target/tube heater + coil) are not connected

 Wednesday, October 12, 2011, 13:15: Venting

Wednesday, October 12, 2011, 14:15: Target brought back to lab for inspection and final check.

Wednesday, September 14, 2011, 15:39: Vacuum at 1.3e-5 torr 

Thursday, September 15, 2011, 08:59: Vacuum at 2.9e-7 torr. Water flowing and vacuum stable. 

Started the HV conditioning: TSG:BIAS=30kV and TSH:EE=-700V.

Heaters conditioning went fine: 580A and 230A.

Did a mass scan:

Plotdump-local-clean.txt Sept19 11 12-45-22.txt

Set for Li-7 for over the night on TMS:FC6.

Tuesday, September 20, 2011:

Did another mass scan today at 5:40. Saved as: plotdump-local-clean.txt Sept 20 11 11-51-20.txt

Started target cool-down. Tomorrow the target would be ready to be removed from the Test Stand.

Wednesday, September 21, 2011:

Turned off the HV & optics.

Target is ready to be removed. Currently, it's under vacuum and the water is still on.

Tuesday, December 12, 2023, 16:07  - Pumping down test stand overnight for testing tomorrow. vacuum good, turbos starting now. Four thermocouples attached inside. tc1: high on (+) TGHT leg, pins 1+2. tc2: at target terminal (+), pins 4+5. tc3: at target terminal (-), pins 6+7. tc4: low on (+) TGHT leg, pins 8+9.

 Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 09:32 : Vacuum at 8.2e-7 T.  Electrical team is finishing connecting the cables. Claim it will be complete at 11am.

 Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 11:41Started both tc loggers at 11:40 - important for offset time. Beginning ramp as well on ATTS TGHT. set vacuum values high at 1e3 1e4 to bypass ATTS interlock, which does not apply here. ramping to 600A with step increment 10A and wait interval 10s.

    ATTS TGHT claims ramping in progress, but increased voltage is reported only on the autoramp window, which reports increasing the target amperage by 10A each 10s. However, no increased voltage reading is reported there, nor is there any increased current. ATTS:TGHT:RDCUR and ATTS:TGHT:RDVOL are ~0 as well. No increased temperature on any of 6 tc channels.

Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 11:57 ATTS TGHT power supplies appear to be under local control. It also appears (low current right now) that the value reported in EPICS is 1/3 of the value reported on the master power supply. It may be that the epics value is per output of the individual 3 supplies, while the total output is reported on the PS display. Planning to now increase to 300A and reach steady state.

Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 12:13 : 1/3 ratio idea confirmed at 33A EPICS reading / 100A master reading and again at 100A EPICS reading / 300A master reading. 300A now reached. Waiting for 20min. Temps inside ~ 21°C. Temps on feed through terminals ~22°C

 Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 12:26:  200epics 600A master. tc out: 23.0, 22.6. tc in: 21.4 21.7 22.0 20.8.  waiting

Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 12:36  No temp change over 10 min. increasing to 900A

 Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 12:47: 900A. outside tc 24.5 23.7°C. inside tc 21.7 23 23.6 21.0 °C.

Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 13:04: increasing to 1200A

Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 13:11  1200A. outside tc 27.1 25.4. inside tc 22.6 24.8 25.9 21.7 °C. Will wait to observe stability

Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 13:20 after ~10min. outsideTC: 27.6 25.9. insideTC: 22.5 25.2 26.1 21.8 °C.  Temperatures appear stable. increasing to 1300A

 Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 13:25   at 1300A. outsideTC: 28.3 26.5, insideTC: 22.8 25.7 26.8 21.8.   waiting for stability

 Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 13:38 after ~10min, outsideTC 29.1 27.1, insideTC 23.2, 26.2, 27.4, 21.9.  stable. Increasing to 1400A

 Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 13:41:   1400A. outsideTC 29.8, 27.6. insideTC 23.4 26.7 28.2 21.4

Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 13:50     temps look stable 30.1 27.9,     23.3 27.7 28.4 21.4 .    going to increase to 1500A   ---- turning off turbo pumps in case of failure at high current

 Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 13:57    at 1500A. temps:   30.9 28.3.  23.6 27.2 28.9 21.8 .

 Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 14:07  temps look stable:   31.5 28.8...   23.6 28.0 29.4 22.0     going to increase to 1600A

 Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 14:10    at 1600A     temps:  32.0 29.1..... 23.8 28.2 30.0 22.2

 Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 14:20   temps stable: 32.8 29.7,    23.9 28.9 30.6 22.2,.  increasing to 1700A

 Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 14:24 at 1700A    temps:  33.5 30.2       24.3 29.3 31.5 22.4

 Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 14:35  temps stable :   34.2 31.0       24.3 30.0 32.0 22.6 increasing to 1800A

Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 14:38  at 1800A. temps:    35.0 31.3      24.6 30.3 32.7 22.8

 Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 14:47  temps:   35.8 32.0      24.7 31.2 33.3 22.8

 Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 14:58   temps stable. 36.0 32.2    24.7 31.2 33.3 23.1       turning down power supply

 Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 15:23 power supply off. strip tool data dumped to test1.txt --- copy this elsewhere. TCs left to continue monitoring for any additional cooldown.

Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 16:13    tc recording stopped.

repeat test

Thursday, December 14, 2023, 15:18    tcs start time

Thursday, December 14, 2023, 15:20  increasing TGHT from ATTS directly to 1500A and waiting for steady state temperature. Aiming for similar ramp rate to previous ~1A/s, 60A/min.   tcs at cold read 21.9 21.9... 21.1 20.9 20.9 20.7

 Thursday, December 14, 2023, 15:39  at 1500A

Thursday, December 14, 2023, 15:50   after~10min, temps at 31.3 28.4... 23.6 27.6 29.1 22.3

 Thursday, December 14, 2023, 15:59 after ~20min, temps at 31.5 28.6.... 23.5 27.5 28.8 22.5.    stable.  increasing to 1800A

 Thursday, December 14, 2023, 16:03  at 1800A 

Thursday, December 14, 2023, 16:14   after 10min - 35.8 31.8      24.7 30.8 32.6 23.1

 Thursday, December 14, 2023, 16:25  after 20min - 36.3 32.2     24.7 30.9 32.6 23.4    stable.   decreasing current.

Thursday, December 14, 2023, 16:42    0A... cooling for a while

 Thursday, December 14, 2023, 16:56  22.8 22.8    21.1 21.0 21.2 20.8

The system was vented to  make clearance on the waterlines as a very small continuous discharge was observed.

The inspection revealed some marks on the HS water line (sideview photo). From the the bottom and from real close (zoom and backview photo) the marks are quite noticeable with shinny copper in the middle and dark circles around.

The GND line is routed in such a way that sits on top of the ion gauge chamber (gnd-ig1) this could explain why the vacuum had small oscillation during the current limited events.

Moreover, the GND line has the steerer cables tied to it, this could explain why one of the steerers got affected after the sparks.

Also, the GND line is in contact with a dark grime that goes all the way into the first skimmer (gnd-quad). I think the grime observed inside the test stand might have become conductive, or if this is trace from a previous flashover, this  is good path to flash again.

The EE and the plasma electrode were removed and they show signs of buildup. Cleaned and reinstalled