Using a broken LP-FEBIAD oven for out gassing. Tentative UC#31*

Wednesday, February 12, 2020, 10:57: Roughing.

Wednesday, February 12, 2020, 11:30: Turbo pumps on.

Thursday, February 13, 2020, 07:19: Waterlines opened. Vacuum ok @ 6.91e-07T.

Thursday, February 13, 2020, 07:22: Power / Sources on. TGHT only.

Thursday, February 13, 2020, 07:25: Auto-ramping TGHT @ 2A per min to 580 A.

Friday, February 14, 2020, 14:03: Auto-cooling @ 1 A per min.

Thursday, February 20, 2020, 07:33: PS, sources off, locked out.

Thursday, February 20, 2020, 07:34: Turbo pumps & IG1 off.

Thursday, February 20, 2020, 07:35: Waterlines purged. Nitrogen Bottle around 2050 PSI.

Thursday, February 20, 2020, 09:22: Venting.

Tuesday, February 11, 2020, 14:27: UC#32 HS removed.

Tuesday, February 11, 2020, 14:27: Roughing.

Wednesday, February 12, 2020, 09:05: Venting.

Was for UC# 32* - Schedule change, now for C#1* - Last HS conditioning revealed a TGHT to HS lid short. Milled the lid back 1/8" - Aaron S.

Friday, February 07, 2020, 14:00: Roughing.

Friday, February 07, 2020, 14:33: Turbo pumps on.

Friday, February 07, 2020, 14:38: IG1 on.

Monday, February 10, 2020, 07:39: HS waterlines opened. Vacuum ok @ 4.12e-07T.

Monday, February 10, 2020, 07:41: Power / sources on.

Monday, February 10, 2020, 07:43: Auto-ramping TGHT / TBHT to 580 / 230 A @ 2 A per min.

Monday, February 10, 2020, 13:01: Heating appears ok. No voltage abnormalities or short.

Monday, February 10, 2020, 13:02: Auto-Cooling @ 1 A per min.

Tuesday, February 11, 2020, 06:39: Power / Sources off.

Tuesday, February 11, 2020, 06:40: Waterlines purged. Nitrogen bottle @ 2100 PSI approx.

Tuesday, February 11, 2020, 06:42: IG1 off. Turbo pumps off.

Tuesday, February 11, 2020, 09:59: Venting.

Was for UC# 32* - Schedule change, now for C#1

Thursday, January 30, 2020, 15:13: Roughing.

Thursday, January 30, 2020, 15:46: Turbo pumps on.

 Thursday, January 30, 2020, 15:50: IG1 on.

Friday, January 31, 2020, 08:14: Waterlines opened. No Vacuum response. Vacuum ok @ 6.10e-07T.

Friday, January 31, 2020, 08:16: Power / sources on

Friday, January 31, 2020, 08:18: Auto-ramping TGHT / TBHT to 580 / 230 A @ 2 A per min.

Monday, February 03, 2020, 12:56: Auto-cooling @ 2 A per min. 

Wednesday, February 05, 2020, 09:07: Power / sources off. Waterlines purged. IG1 & turbo pumps off.

Friday, February 07, 2020, 11:45:

Short was found on the HS Lid from the TGHT on the left. Milled out 1/8" off both HS lid / TGHT gaps. Lots of clearance now. Reheat req'd.

Anders Mjos wrote:

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.

 Ray from controls has updated EPICS and changed the cabling today. The power supply is operational.

NOTE: Current limit will need to be set in EPICS. Default value should be 0.1 mA for now.

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

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.

Was intended for UC#31 - Now used for SiC#40*

PEEK SEAL Test piece attached.

Tuesday, January 21, 2020, 09:34: BV1A open Roughing.

Tuesday, January 21, 2020, 09:38: BV1B open.

Tuesday, January 21, 2020, 10:05: Turbo pumps on.

Tuesday, January 21, 2020, 10:10: Ion gauge on.

Monday, January 27, 2020, 07:07: PS / Sources on. Waterlines already opened.

Monday, January 27, 2020, 07:10: Auto-ramping TGHT / TBHT to 580 / 230 A @ 2 A per min.

Tuesday, January 28, 2020, 14:45: Auto-Cooling @ 2 A per min.

Thursday, January 30, 2020, 11:31: PS / Source off.

Thursday, January 30, 2020, 11:33: IG1 off. Turbos off.

Thursday, January 30, 2020, 13:00: Venting.

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.

Friday, December 20, 2019, 07:58: Turn off ion gauges. Shut off turbo pumps TP6, TP2, TP1A, & TP1B. Close backing valves.

Friday, December 20, 2019, 08:06: PV1 & PV2 off. RP1 & RP2 off.

Monday, January 06, 2020, 09:35: Restarting TS. RP1 & RP2 on. (BIAS PS upgraded / Note: https://elog.triumf.ca/TIS/Test-Stand/776 ). No HV as yet.

Monday, January 06, 2020, 09:37: Turbo pumps (TP6, TP2, TP1A, & TP1B) on.

Monday, January 06, 2020, 09:42: Ion gauges on (IG1 & IG6).

Monday, January 20, 2020, 08:17: Ion gauge. Turbos pumps off.

Monday, January 20, 2020, 10:26: Venting.

Friday: Test to validate Ferran's assembly. The plan is to ramp up to operating current, apply high voltage, and possibly extract beam.

Turbos on. IG1. Power on.

Monday, December 02, 2019, 15:59: Auto-ramp to 230/600 A for TBHT/TGHT @ 2A/min and 4A/min  (0.5A/15 s 1 A/15s.)

Tuesday, December 03, 2019, 15:30: Sources on.

Tuesday, December 03, 2019, 15:41: Bias/EZL/EE @ 30/13/1.5 kV

 Bias/EE/EZL to 40/2.0/17 kV.

Bias/EE/EZL to 50/2.5/22 kV.

Bias/EE/EZL to 50/2.6/22.5 kV.

Spark. Inaudible

Tuesday, December 03, 2019, 17:26: Bias/EZL/EE to 0kV.

Tuesday, December 03, 2019, 17:26: Auto-cooling  @ 2A/min

Wednesday, December 04, 2019, 09:37: Power/sources off

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

 Friday, November 22, 2019, 19:02: The new design for the PEEK irradiation will be tested.

Blinds were removed and a new LP-SIS assembly with a modify heatshield was installed. Three termocuples installed.

Friday, November 22, 2019, 19:04: Roughing 

Friday, November 22, 2019, 19:38: Turbos on

Friday, November 22, 2019, 19:46: TSGIG1 on

Monday, November 25, 2019, 15:43: Vacuum stable@ 5.73E-7T

Monday, November 25, 2019, 15:47: Waterlines open. No response on Vacuum

Monday, November 25, 2019, 15:51: RGA on.

Tuesday, November 26, 2019, 08:41: Vacuum stablet@ 5.2E-7T

 Tuesday, November 26, 2019, 15:04: Power on

Tuesday, November 26, 2019, 17:17: Auto-ramping  to 300A/150A on the TGHT/TBHT @ 6 A/min

Tuesday November 26, 2019 20:00: Thermocouple 3 gives signs to have a bad contact with the HS. "Luckily" it is the one attached to the HS itself. TH 1 and 2 show similar temperatures below 40degC at 500A. Ramping to 600A

 Tuesday November 26, 2019 20:46: 600A TH1 and 2 around 40degC slightly going down. Tomorrow it will be known the final steady-state temperature. The test shows tho that the temperature evolves similarly between the copper piece and the Peek assembly. Showing good contact.

FM

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 13:47: Th1=35, Th2=34.8, Th3=19.6 C.

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 13:49: Closing Farady cage to proceed with HV tests.

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 13:56: HV on. Optics set.

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 14:01: RGA off to protect it from potential sparks.

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 14:18: Bias/EE/EZL to 30/1.5/13 kV.\

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 14:25: Bias/EE/EZL to 40/2.0/17 kV.

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 14:28: Audible spark on top @ 48kV

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 14:29: Bias/EE/EZL to 50/2.5/22 kV.

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 14:35: Spark noticed on striptool, not audible.

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 14:36: Audible spark on top. not as loud as previous one.

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 14:39: Spark noticed on striptool, not audible.

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 14:39: Moving to 55kV to condition for 10 minutes then coming down to 50kV

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 14:42: Audible spark at 59kV. TP6 and CB knocked out.

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 14:46: Bias/EE/EZL to 55/2.8/24 kV.

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 14:50: Audible spark. TP6 , CB, optics knocked out..

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 14:51: Audible spark. TP6 , CB, optics knocked out.

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 15:01: Thermal incident (see elog 773)

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 15:03: All HV to 0 V

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 16:01: Resuming HV test. Max HV=50kV.

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 16:10: Bias/EE/EZL to 30/1.5/13 kV.

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 16:38: Bias/EE/EZL to 40/2.0/17 kV.

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 16:50: Spark

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 17:01: Spark

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 17:09: Spark to EZL. Instabilitiesafter this, TBHT insulator glowing blue

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 18:11:  Bias/EE/EZL to 0 kV.

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 18:11: Auto-cooling at 10 A/min (2.5A/15s).

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 19:13: IG1 off. Turbos off.

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 20:35: Venting. Tighten the 4 bolts from the heatshields as they were not done before the tests. Removing thermocouples as they might be causing some sparks.

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 20:42: Roughing

Thursday, November 28, 2019, 07:00: Turbo pumps on.

Thursday, November 28, 2019, 07:06: Ion gauge on.

Friday, November 15, 2019, 09:35: Roughing.

Friday, November 15, 2019, 10:34: Turbo pumps on.

Wednesday, November 20, 2019, 09:19: Turbo pumps off. Ion gauge off.

Wednesday, November 20, 2019, 11:20: Roughing. U-Line removed from HS waterline. Blanks installed. Do not open HS waterline.

Friday, November 01, 2019, 14:00: Nitrogen bottle installed. Purged waterlines HS / FS#5. Purge done in conjunction with SiC#38

4.8 Purity

35-40 PSI pressure.

Successfully purged the line after 5 minutes.

Friday, November 08, 2019, 14:16: Begin FS#5 waterline purge w/ Nitrogen. Purge done in conjunction with UC#30 HS & assy.

4.8 Purity

12-14 PSI line pressure.

2500 PSI bottle pressure.

Full stream for a minute or so, then purged lightly. Drops / mist outgoing.

Friday, November 08, 2019, 14:24: Line Pressure at 10-11 PSI, brought back up to 14 PSI.

2400 PSI bottle pressure. Water / mist outgoing still.

Friday, November 08, 2019, 14:31: No water appears on line with purge.

Approx 2350 PSI bottle pressure.

Line pressure increased to 40 PSI. No water appeared on the purge line.

Friday, November 08, 2019, 14:34: Purge complete. 14 PSI appears successful.

Friday, November 01, 2019, 15:47: A symbiotic  peek seal assembly  was installed on the manipulator grip to verify the temperature at high voltage and high current.

Friday, November 01, 2019, 15:48: Three  thermocouples added for temperature readings.

Friday, November 01, 2019, 15:47: Roughing

Friday, November 01, 2019, 16:19: Turbos on.

Friday, November 01, 2019, 16:27: IG1 on.

Friday, November 01, 2019, 16:29: RGA on.

AS

Monday, November 04, 2019, 07:41: Waterlines opened. No response on RGA. Vacuum ok @ 3.97e-07T.

Monday, November 04, 2019, 07:44: Power / sources on.

Monday, November 04, 2019, 07:47: Auto-ramping TGHT to 300 A @ 2 A per min.

Monday, November 04, 2019, 10:57: Auto-ramping TGHT to 400 A @ 2 A per min.

FM

Monday, November 04, 2019, 12:11: Auto-ramping TGHT to 500 A @ 2 A per min.

Monday, November 04, 2019, 13:35: Auto-ramping TGHT to 600 A @ 2 A per min.

Monday, November 04, 2019, 14:48: Bias/EE/EZL @ 30/1.5/13 kV.

Monday, November 04, 2019, 15:03: Bias/EE/EZL @ 40/2.0/17 kV.

Monday, November 04, 2019, 15:04: Sparks observed after reaching 40 kV. TMS:TP6 down. Back down to 32 kV.

Monday, November 04, 2019, 15:04:  Bias to 40 kV. One spark only. Seems stable now.

Sparks occurred sparsely. Max time without a spark was 26 minutes.

Monday, November 04, 2019, 16:09: Bias/EE/EZL @ 30/1.5/13 kV.

Monday, November 04, 2019, 16:16: RGA restart.

AS

Tuesday, November 05, 2019, 08:30: RGA Restarted.

Tuesday, November 05, 2019, 08:32: Begin bringing up HV to 35 kV on BIAS.

Tuesday, November 05, 2019, 08:35: BIAS / EE / EZL @ 35 / 1.8 / 15 kV.

Tuesday, November 05, 2019, 08:55: No sparks after 20 minutes. Move up to 40 kV.

Tuesday, November 05, 2019, 08:59: BIAS / EE / EZL @ 40 / 2.0 / 20 kV.

Tuesday, November 05, 2019, 09:34: Audible Spark*. Restart TSG: CB1, VCB1, CBCx2. Reset & restart turbo pump. TMS:TP6. Appears on EZl cur.

Tuesday, November 05, 2019, 09:37: RGA off. Leave it off.

Tuesday, November 05, 2019, 09:38: Audible Spark* but not loud at all. Restart TSG: CB1, VCB1, CBCx2. Reset & restart turbo pump. TMS:TP6.

Tuesday, November 05, 2019, 10:00: BIAS / EE / EZL @ 35 / 1.8 / 17.5 kV.

Tuesday, November 05, 2019, 10:06: BIAS / EE / EZL @ 0 / 0 / 0 kV.

Tuesday, November 05, 2019, 10:07: Auto-cooling TGHT to 500 A @ 4 A per min.

Wednesday, November 13, 2019, 07:29: Turbo pumps & ion gauge off. RGA was already off.

Friday, November 15, 2019, 08:43: Venting.

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.

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.

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.

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.