Friday, August 30, 2013, 15:09 : Turbos stopped in preparation for installation. 

Friday, August 30, 2013, 16:22: Venting

Friday, August 30, 2013, 17:08: Roughing with NiO#2

Friday, August 30, 2013, 17:27: Starting turbos

Friday, August 30, 2013, 17:35: Turbos at speed

Friday, August 30, 2013, 17:37:  Vacuum at 1.9 E-7 T

Monday, September 09, 2013, 14:04: Opened up water. Vacuum stable at 1.5E-7 T

Tuesday, September 10, 2013, 08:59: Pumping out the gas lines.

Tuesday, September 10, 2013, 09:10: Gas lines evacuated.

Tuesday, September 10, 2013, 09:23: TPS:IV4 opened

Tuesday, September 10, 2013, 10:06: TGHT PS was off. Debiased to access el cage.

Tuesday, September 10, 2013, 10:07: EZL/EE/BIAS: 15/2/30 kV 61/674/55 uA

Tuesday, September 10, 2013, 10:08: COIL/ANODE: 50A/200V

Tuesday, September 10, 2013, 10:09: Started target heat to TGHT/TBHT 250/230A

Tuesday, September 10, 2013, 15:12: Started target heat to TGHT 350A (TBHT remains at 230A)

Wednesday, September 11, 2013, 13:06: Heating TGHT to 500A

Thursday, September 12, 2013, 08:44: Heating TGHT to 580A

Thursday, September 12, 2013, 09:39: Heating TBHT to 260A

Thursday, September 12, 2013, 10:06: BIAS sparking occurred  at 9:48 TBHT:RDCUR at 256A. Gradually reduced TBHT:RDCUR to 254A. Sparking stopped after ~20 min. ANODE:RDCUR, EE:RDCUR and IG1:RDVAC showed correlated sparking responses. ANODE:RDCUR went to 0 mA and back up after sparking had stopped.

 Thursday, September 12, 2013, 10:30: Manually increased TBHT:RDCUR to 260A.

Thursday, September 12, 2013, 11:06: A jump in TBHT:RDVOLT and TBHT:RDCUR at 10:44. Reduced TBHT:RDCUR to 255A

Thursday, September 12, 2013, 12:10:  TPS:Q4 was taken out by a spark. Restarted.

Thursday, September 12, 2013, 12:19: EZL to 13 kV

Thursday, September 12, 2013, 13:14: TBHT:RDCUR to 260A

Thursday, September 12, 2013, 13:31: TBHT:RDCUR to 265A. Sparking returns. Lower to 260A

Friday, September 13, 2013, 10:51: Increased TBHT:RDCUR to 265A

Friday, September 13, 2013, 10:58 : Increased TBHT:RDCUR to 270A

Friday, September 13, 2013, 11:05: Some sparking. Lowered EE to 1kV

Friday, September 13, 2013, 11:07 : Increased TBHT:RDCUR to 275A

Friday, September 13, 2013, 11:15 : Increased TBHT:RDCUR to 280A

Friday, September 13, 2013, 11:24 : Increased TBHT:RDCUR to 290A. ANODE:RDCUR 8.5mA. FC0 1.3E-6 A

Friday, September 13, 2013, 11:53: SV5 and SV2 gas lines opened.

Friday, September 13, 2013, 12:05: A spark took out Q4. Restarted.

Friday, September 13, 2013, 12:07: Lowered TBHT:RDCUR to 285A

Friday, September 13, 2013, 13:03: Started mass scan.

Friday, September 13, 2013, 14:27: Lowered TBHT:RDCUR to 280A

Friday, September 13, 2013, 15:01 : Lowered TBHT:RDCUR to 270A

Monday, September 16, 2013, 08:00: Mass scan started. 

Monday, September 16, 2013, 09:00: Starting heater ramp down. 2A/min. Gas lines closed.

Monday, September 16, 2013, 13:30: Source off. Target debiased.

Monday, September 16, 2013, 13:56: Turbos stopped

Monday, September 16, 2013, 14:50: Venting.

The GE on the Source tray and EE on the target was cleaned. The target will be conditioned again to verify if sparking has been reduced. Torque 120 in lbs

Monday, September 16, 2013, 17:05: Roughing. The roughing pump is somewhat noisy.

Monday, September 16, 2013, 17:26: Starting turbos.

Monday, September 16, 2013, 17:34: Turbos at speed

Monday, September 16, 2013, 17:36: Vacuum at 3.8E-5 T.

Tuesday, September 17, 2013, 08:10: Opened cooling water. Vacuum stable at 6.5E-7. EE flow 4.8 l/min 27.9 C

Tuesday, September 17, 2013, 08:20: Target biased: 30kV, 15kV, -1kV.

Tuesday, September 17, 2013, 08:25: Opening gas line SV5 and Ne SV3 evacuated

Tuesday, September 17, 2013, 08:32: Started auto-ramping to 580A/230A

Tuesday, September 17, 2013, 08:34: Coil to 50A, Anode to 200V (0mA)

Tuesday, September 17, 2013, 08:36: Opened IV4

Tuesday, September 17, 2013, 10:39: EE flow 4.9 l/min 28.5 C

Tuesday, September 17, 2013, 13:05: EE flow 4.9 l/min 28.8 C

Tuesday, September 17, 2013, 15:03: EE flow 4.9 l/min 28.8 C

Tuesday, September 17, 2013, 15:04 :TGHT at 580A, TBHT at 280A.

Tuesday, September 17, 2013, 15:30: TBHT:RDCUR to 290A 

Wednesday, September 18, 2013, 08:07: Stared mass scan.

Wednesday, September 18, 2013, 08:08:EE flow 4.9 l/min 28.8 C

Wednesday, September 18, 2013, 09:14: EE to 2kV. Current at 676 uA

Wednesday, September 18, 2013, 09:23: Opened He gas to 6.0. It was later found the SV2 was closed. I.e. no He was supplied to the target.

Wednesday, September 18, 2013, 09:26: Tuning source. EE 0.8kV, EZL 1.3kV

Wednesday, September 18, 2013, 09:32: Started mass scan.

Wednesday, September 18, 2013, 09:55: A jump in BIAS current from 42 to 61 uA. Came down towards 42 after 30 min

Wednesday, September 18, 2013, 10:22: Ramping down heaters at 2A and 2.5A /min

Wednesday, September 18, 2013, 10:23: He and Ne off.

Wednesday, September 18, 2013, 10:48: Gas lines closed.

Wednesday, September 18, 2013, 10:53: EE flow 4.9 l/min 28.5 C

Wednesday, September 18, 2013, 10:55: IV4 closed.

Wednesday, September 18, 2013, 10:59: Target de-biased.

Wednesday, September 18, 2013, 12:18: Heaters off.

Wednesday, September 18, 2013, 12:18: Stopped turbos.

Wednesday, September 18, 2013, 12:56: Started wenting.

Wednesday, September 18, 2013, 13:02: EE flow 4.9 l/min 28.2 C

Wednesday, September 18, 2013, 13:20 : Chamber vented.

Friday, September 27, 2013, 11:41: Roughing

Friday, September 27, 2013, 12:08: Turbos started

Friday, September 27, 2013, 12:16: Turbos at speed.

Friday, September 27, 2013, 12:18: Vacuum at 1.5E-5 T

Monday, September 30, 2013, 08:41: Opened water supply. Vacuum stable at 1.5E-7 T

TGHT Q=5.5 T=28.0
TBHT Q=5.8 T=28.0

Monday, September 30, 2013, 15:19: Flow sensor moved from TBHT to HS

TGHT Q=5.5 T=27.9
HS      Q=3.6 T=27.8

Tuesday, October 01, 2013, 12:08: Taget Biased to 30kV.

Wednesday, October 02, 2013, 08:50: Started autoramping to 580A/230A

Wednesday, October 02, 2013, 08:50: Opened IV4

Wednesday, October 02, 2013, 10:51 TGHT/TBHT 250A / 239A
TGHT Q=5.5 T=28.5
HS      Q=3.6 T=29.2
SUPPLY (ext)    27.3
RETURN (ext)  27.8

Wednesday, October 02, 2013, 13:28 TGHT/TBHT 250A / 570A
TGHT Q=5.5 T=30.4
HS      Q=3.6 T=33.4
SUPPLY (ext)    27.4
RETURN (ext)  29.3

Wednesday, October 02, 2013, 13:30: TBHT was starting to limit on voltage. Increased voltage limit to 2.4V.

Thursday, October 03, 2013, 08:21: TMS:TP2 timed out over night.

Magnet PS breaker tripped during a mass scan yesterday. Reset breaker and cleared interlocks.

TGHT Q=5.5 T=30.4
HS      Q=3.6 T=34.0
SUPPLY (ext)    27.3
RETURN (ext)  29.3

Thursday, October 03, 2013, 08:28: Started mass scan 200 -> 0 m/q. FC0 7.5E-8 A

Thursday, October 03, 2013, 14:29
TGHT Q=5.5 T=30.6
HS      Q=3.6 T=33.9
SUPPLY (ext)    27.4
RETURN (ext)  29.6

Thursday, October 03, 2013, 15:14: Lowered TBHT:RDCUR  to 230A.

Thursday, October 03, 2013, 15:37: Increased EE to -2000 V

Thursday, October 03, 2013, 16:22
TGHT Q=5.5 T=30.6
HS      Q=3.6 T=33.9
SUPPLY (ext)    27.5
RETURN (ext)  29.6

Friday, October 04, 2013, 08:08
TGHT Q=5.5 T=30.6
HS      Q=3.5 T=33.9
SUPPLY (ext)    27.5
RETURN (ext)  29.3

Mass scan started.

Friday, October 04, 2013, 08:46: Cool down started.

Friday, October 04, 2013, 13:35: TPS:IV4 closed

Friday, October 04, 2013, 13:41: Source debiased.

Tuesday, October 15, 2013, 09:56: Turbos stopped. Vacuum at 1.15 E-7 T

Tuesday, October 15, 2013, 12:44: Venting

After the conditioning, some oxidation (?) from the standards (?) were found on the Plasma Electrode and around the Target Tube. See attachment

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.