After submitting a fault report (FR - ISAC Fault 12461) a Work Permit was issued (WP - C2019-07-19-1),

Controls tunnel the faulty signal to another ADC by removing signal no longer used at the Test Stand.

Test successful with a constant current power supply in the range 1 nA-40 nA.

TBD: does this work with beam?

Friday. July 26th 2019 

A new electrical configuration of the test stand was decided and installed. The TGHT and TBHT were parallelized in order to deliver up to 600 + 600 Amperes to the p2n target.

Connections:

TGHT+: D

TGHT-: C

TBHT+: one cable to E and one cable to G (both going down to the coil terminal blocks, which are connected to the target terminal blocks through a copper short.

TBHT-: both cables to F. One 4/0 cable was run from F to H to achieve the same configuration as for TBHT+. The H terminal is connected to I (HV ground, conencted to the target copper heat shield) through a braided cable

One braided cable was connected from C to H so the target line should have the same potential as the TBHT/coil lines.

Saturday, July 27th

The current was ramped from the TBHT and TGHT in parallel up to 400+400=800A.

Sunday, July 28th

One leg of the target is glowing a bit, while the other doesn't. This suggests the current path is not straightforward as we planned.

Temperature measurements of the cables on top of the test stand were performed using a mini IR thermometer (FLUKE, borrowed from Arthur).

Temperature of the braided cable from C to H = ~50 °C --> This points to an imbalance of current between the two lines (TGHT and COIL lines). This might be alright.

Temperature of the braided cable from H to I = ~130 °C. This likely points to a short circuit between the target and the copper heat shield.

Monday, July 29th

In order to understand if the target is broken or touching the heat shield, we opened up the service cap.

- The braided cable from H to I was removed

- The braided cable from H to Q was disconnected

These two modifications were made so that the current cannot come back from the heat shield, but has to go through the target lines.

The 4/0 cables from the PS to the feedthroughs were removed so that we could confirm there is a short between C (target) and I(HV ground/heat shield). The 4/0 were than put back on the feedthrough connections.

Under advice of Dan Louie and Arthur, we did not change any configuration of the power supplies. We know that the current would go through the controls loop, but the impedance of this electronics should be high enough to sustain the current load.

At 3pm, the ramping was still increasing the current on the target, but one leg (the right one) was still glowing. By this time, the total current in the target assembly is ~500 amperes, so there should be no signs of any glowing happening. Probably there's something wrong with the target itself. We're opening up to check the status of the target.

Tuesday, July 30, 2019, 10:00: Venting. 

Tuesday, July 30, 2019, 10:03: Purging heat shield water loop. 

Tuesday, July 30, 2019, 11:46: P2N removed

The p2n target was taken out of the test stand for inspection. Comments and measurements on the container below:

- Initially, continuity measurements were mode between the target and heat shield (HS) while they were still in the test stand, and looks like they were shorted. However, after removing the HS from the test stand, no short was seen, not even after moving the target legs. Instead, we confirmed that the short was happening in the test stand, so some water lines were touching each other. 

- The target look in one piece, except for the ion source that came off right after manufacturing. (see picture)

- The insulator connecting the bottom section of the ion source central current lead, to the HS, was broken (see picture)

- The annular disc of the connecting the inner and outer tube of the ion source was bulging outwards, maybe the ion source was heating too much while we put current in it (see picture).

- The screw connecting the top part of the central ion source current lead, is now of a blue-ish color

Resistance measurementts:

- Copper to copper: 1008 microOhm

- Copper to bottom flexy leg: 101 microOhm

-  Bottom-to-top (flexy): 30-45 microOhm

- Target: 476 microOhm

- Copper to top flexy: 261 microOhm

- Copper to bottom flexy (left): 100 microOhm

- Copper to bottom flexy (right): 94 microOhm

- Top Flexy - botton target assy (left): 88 microOhm

From left to right:

- Cu to bottom flexy leg: 102

- Flexy bottom to flexy top: 31

- Flexy top left to flexy top right: 473

- Flexy top to flexy bottom: 0 (???)

- flexy bottom to Cu: 93

Tuesday, August 06, 2019, 16:00

Start ramp up to 300+300 = 600 A

Tuesday, August 06, 2019, 17:30

Wednesday, August 07, 2019, 08:11

The same p2n target was installed in the test stand, taking off the ion source since we thought it could have been shorting to the reference electrode and providing a return path for the current, hence generating the asymmetric heating that was noticed on the target.

On Tuesday 6th afternoon, the p2n was ramped up to 600 A (300 + 300 A from TGHT and TBHT in parallel). The target and its right flexible leg were still glowing. After noticing it, the current was ramped down wating to open up for inspection.

Wednesday, August 07, 2019, 15:12:  Arthur helped inspected the electric connections on the TS.

One of the coil positive waterlines  was touching a HS waterline. Manually adjusted them to have a better clearance.

Tuesday, August 13, 2019, 11:55: Close PV1. Turn off RP1.

Tuesday, August 13, 2019, 12:02: RP1 replaced.

Tuesday, August 13, 2019, 13:24: TS exhaust / screen cleaned out.

Tuesday, August 13, 2019, 13:25: RP1 on

Tuesday, August 13, 2019, 13:59: Turbo pumps on.

Tuesday, August 13, 2019, 14:05: IG1 on.

Wednesday, August 14, 2019, 09:17: Revising the archiver, on July 8th at around 4 am, the vacuum on GC1A increased from normal levels to around 0.2 T. This happened while the target was held at a high combined current from both TGHT PS and Coil PS. See screenshots attached.

Thursday, August 15, 2019, 09:57: Vacuum is only around 1.06e-06T.  Turbo pumps off. Ion gauge off. 

Tuesday, August 20, 2019, 08:59: Ion gauge acting funny. CG1A unplugged & re-plugged in. Seems to work now?

Thursday, August 15, 2019, 16:17: Q FT undone to remove the connection to the 9-pin

The idea is to change the cables to have individual signals. This will allow 4 thermocouple readings.

NB: The FT is not vacuum tight as of now  (gasket needs to be replaced and flange needs to be tight)

Thursday, August 29, 2019, 14:47 : Changing back to the nominal wiring 

Thursday, August 29, 2019, 17:01: TIS changed to Ferran's heat shield. 

Thursday, August 29, 2019, 17:02: 9-pin FT redone.

Friday, August 30, 2019, 00:28: Turbos on 

Friday, August 30, 2019, 00:36: IG1 on. 

Tuesday, September 03, 2019, 09:09: RGA on. Vacuum stable @ 2.1e-6T 

Tuesday, September 03, 2019, 15:00. Wire redone. Crosschecked by Arthur Leung. 

Tuesday, September 03, 2019, 15:16: Turbos tripped. TSG:CG1A above 50 mTorr 

Wednesday, September 04, 2019, 09:34 : Turbos on.  After the bakeout it will be better to have TSG:CG1A checked.

Wednesday, September 04, 2019, 09:43: IG1 on 

Wednesday, September 04, 2019, 09:45: RGA on 

Wednesday, September 04, 2019, 12:42 : Waterlines opened. No response on RGA. Vaccum stable @ 3.1e-6 T

Wednesday, September 04, 2019, 14:53 : Auto-ramping TGHT / TBHT to 100/ 100 A @ 4 A/min.

Wednesday, September 04, 2019, 16:04:  Auto-ramping TGHT / TBHT to 250/ 250 A @ 4 A/min.

Wednesday, September 04, 2019, 17:33: Final auto-ramping of the day TGHT / TBHT to 290/ 290 A @ 4 A/min. Vacuum stable@2.7e-7T

NB: Ferran's HS doesn't have an extraction electrode. Since the purpose of the heating is to "baked-out" the system, this is actually great as the shine will go downstream the beamline.

Thursday, September 05, 2019, 08:05:  Auto-ramping TGHT  to 580 A @ 2 A/min. Vacuum stable @2.97e-7T

Thursday, September 05, 2019, 09:30: TGHT PS is voltage-limited @440A and 5.2V. Stopping auto-ramping to increase the voltage limit to 7.7 (from previous screenshots).

Thursday, September 05, 2019, 09:31: Auto-ramping TGHT to 580A @ 2A/min.

Wednesday, May 15, 2019, 08:58: Optics/ HV on.

Monday, September 09, 2019, 16:05: Optics set. IV4 open.

Monday, September 09, 2019, 17:26: BIAS / EE / EZL @ 30 / -1.5 / 13 kV.

Twenty minutes w/o sparks

Monday, September 09, 2019, 17:52 Optics/HV off

Tuesday, September 10, 2019, 10:05:  Auto-cooling 4A/min

Tuesday, September 10, 2019, 13:27: IV4 closed.

Tuesday, September 10, 2019, 13:27: IG1 off. RGA off

Tuesday, September 10, 2019, 13:28: Turbos off

Wednesday, September 11, 2019, 09:21: Venting.

Wednesday, September 11, 2019, 09:24 HS waterline purged

Wednesday, September 11, 2019, 10:54:  Cleaned the interior of chamber with methanol and Kim-wipes. Some dust and debris were removed with

Wednesday, September 11, 2019, 10:54 : Adding EE to the Assy.

Wednesday, September 11, 2019, 11:03: Roughing.

Wednesday, September 11, 2019, 11:35: Turbos on

Wednesday, September 11, 2019, 11:47: Turbos at  speed.

Wednesday, September 11, 2019, 11:48: IG1 on

Wednesday, September 11, 2019, 11:54: RGA on

Friday, September 13, 2019, 08:56: RGA off. IG1 off.

Friday, September 13, 2019, 08:56: Turbos off

Monday, September 16, 2019, 08:11: Venting

Monday, September 16, 2019, 09:58: Assembly removed.

 Monday, September 16, 2019, 10:03: The rightmost alignment pin has been reinstalled (see picture attached). It was previously removed for Ferran's test. 

Thursday, September 26, 2019, 11:28: The control board to TSG:CB1 was removed and replaced. 

Thursday, September 26, 2019, 11:30: All optics & steering operational. Board replacement successful.

Wednesday, October 23, 2019, 09:50:

Fault: 12797
WP: C2019-10-23-2

ISAC test stand power supply MB-1 leak.

Water can be seen underneath and behind power supply cabinet. Repairs as per WP.

Friday, October 25, 2019: Power supply operational. AM

Restarted TP. Note that CG1A is above 50 mTorr. CG1B shows 15 mTorr

Monday, October 28, 2019, 09:22: The local reader indicated 42 mTorr while EPICS showed 51mTorr.

CG1B showed 8.9mTorr while EPICS shows 14mTorr.

After reconnecting CG1A, EPICS shows 16mTorr. Anthony suggest replacing the gauge.

Wednesday, October 30, 2019, 14:49: John C. changed the polarity of the anode power supply to negative, and Fernando M. rewired the cabling on the service cap.

Thursday, October 31, 2019, 10:41: Cage removed. Tape put on the limit switches. Anode interlock bypassed.

Thursday, October 31, 2019, 10:42: Measuring voltage between F/T B and cable tray.

Thursday, October 31, 2019, 10:42: Readings match EPICS readback, i.e, 4 V readsback 3.7V and multimeter shows -3.816V

Thursday, October 31, 2019, 10:44: Probing from F/T B to J reads 0 V as expected. Anode is on common

Thursday, October 31, 2019, 10:45: Probing from F/T B to other F/T show 0V.

Thursday, October 31, 2019, 11:37: Current draw from the power supply matches the on neede for the 50 kOhm resistor.

Thursday, October 31, 2019, 13:20: After inspecting the interior, the 9 pin bracket was found not making full contact with the  baseplate (pic attached).

After pushing it and re doing the bolts conctact works.

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 15:31: During HV tests, bias was around 55kV when a spark occur and almost immediately the controller for TP6 made a noticeable noise and smoke started to come out of it.

Control room notified about the smoke.

Both turbo and IG6 were not affected.

Eddie was contacted for assessment, and a new controller (from OATIS)  was installed and tested. Turbo turned on without any issue.

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 16:00: Resuming HV tests

A new power supply was installed today by John Chow. Due to differences in pin configuration of the controls, a change to the cabling is required. Contacted controls (Julie) for support.

Tuesday, January 21, 2020, 13:42: The RGA was unable to connect. Typically connects on COM4, however it did not register. RGA Offline.

Brought in a separate RGA. Was able to connect & see the 2nd RGA ID on COM4. Removed 2nd RGA.

We likely need to replace / repair our communication chip again.

Wednesday, January 22, 2020, 13:21: The chip was replaced and the RGA reinstalled, however, the RGA is still no connecting on COM4.

Thursday, January 23, 2020, 16:05: Restarting vacuum and TPs