Using broken LP-FEBIAD oven. TBHT off.

Friday, September 27, 2019, 11:53: Roughing.

Friday, September 27, 2019, 13:14: Turbo pumps on.

Friday, September 27, 2019, 13:20: Ion gauge on.

Friday, September 27, 2019, 13:24: RGA on.

Monday, September 30, 2019, 07:30: Waterlines Opened. No response on RGA. Vacuum ok @ 5.39e-07T.

Monday, September 30, 2019, 07:34: Power / Sources on.

Monday, September 30, 2019, 07:35: Auto-ramping TGHT to 580 A @ 2 A per min.

Tuesday, October 01, 2019, 14:29: Auto-Cooling TGHT @ 2A per min.

Wednesday, October 02, 2019, 08:24: Power / sources off.

Wednesday, October 02, 2019, 08:25: RGA off.

Wednesday, October 02, 2019, 08:26: Ion gauge & Turbo pumps off.

Wednesday, October 02, 2019, 12:50: Venting & Waterlines purged.

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.

Monday, September 23, 2019, 13:28: Roughing.

Monday, September 23, 2019, 13:38: Closed BV1A / Opened BV1 A & B to open both @ 35.0 T.

Monday, September 23, 2019, 14:20: Turbo pumps started.

Monday, September 23, 2019, 14:27: Ion gauge on.

Tuesday, September 24, 2019, 08:04: RGA on.

Tuesday, September 24, 2019, 08:07: Waterlines opened. No response on RGA. Vacuum ok @ 1.52e-06T.

Tuesday, September 24, 2019, 08:12: Power / sources on.

Tuesday, September 24, 2019, 08:16: Auto-ramping TGHT / TBHT to 580 / 230 A @ 2A per min.

Tuesday, September 24, 2019, 08:19: IV4 opened. Initial attempt to open IV4 unsuccessful - Timed out. Reset.

Tuesday, September 24, 2019, 08:20: IV4 Opened.

Tuesday, September 24, 2019, 08:28: BIAS / EE / EZL @ 27 / -1.5 / 13 kV. Spark*

Tuesday, September 24, 2019, 08:30: BIAS / EE / EZL @ 30 / -1.5 / 13 kV.

Tuesday, September 24, 2019, 09:07: Optics set.

Tuesday, September 24, 2019, 10:45: Clusters of sparks noted. Especially around 10:20.

Tuesday, September 24, 2019, 10:58: RGA reset.

Tuesday, September 24, 2019, 11:05  Sparks ongoing. spaced from 1 minutes apart to 15 minutes apart. The TBHT insulator is glowing blue on the left right side again.

Tuesday, September 24, 2019, 11:06: Abort Target heating.

Tuesday, September 24, 2019, 11:12: BIAS to 23 KV. Blue glow less pronounced /  almost gone.

Tuesday, September 24, 2019, 11:15: BIAS to 30 KV. Blue glow remains.

Tuesday, September 24, 2019, 11:31: Continue auto-ramping @ 2A per min.

Tuesday, September 24, 2019, 11:39. HV off.

Tuesday, September 24, 2019, 11:49: Halt ramp. Auto-cooling @ 4 A per min.

Remove loose wiring / connection from 9-pin area in the back. Ground other loose connections.

Tuesday, September 24, 2019, 13:28: Auto-ramping TGHT / TBHT to 250 / 200 A @ 4A per min.

Tuesday, September 24, 2019, 13:31: HV sources on. Optics on.

Tuesday, September 24, 2019, 13:38: BIAS / EE / EZL @ 30 / -1.5 / 13 kV.

Tuesday, September 24, 2019, 14:32: Auto-ramping TGHT to 280 A @ 4A per min.

Tuesday, September 24, 2019, 14:40: TGHT / TBHT @ 280 /  200 A.

EPICS issues* ? Won't open at the ISAC TS computer.

Wednesday, September 25, 2019, 07:30: Auto-ramping TGHT to 350 A @ 2 A per min. 

Wednesday, September 25, 2019, 07:44:  EPICS Error at my desk as well. Able to restart it and continue ramping.

Wednesday, September 25, 2019, 07:56: EPICS Issue ongoing. Halted ramping @ 290 A on TGHT.

Wednesday, September 25, 2019, 10:44: Auto-ramping TGHT / TBHT to 580 / 230 A @ 2A per min. 

Wednesday, September 25, 2019, 11:57: FM: Sparks have been occurring for the past 20 min with a rate approx of 0.5/min. The TBHT insulator is again  showing a glowing blue. I managed to saw one spark flashing up the TBHT insulator.

Wednesday, September 25, 2019, 12:59: RGA restarted.

Wednesday, September 25, 2019, 13:36: Spark* knocked out TSG:CB1 during RPM6A wire scan. Controls notified.

Wednesday, September 25, 2019, 14:45: After investigation with controls, replacement of the control board to TSG:CB1 likely req'd.

Thursday, September 26, 2019, 06:30: HV off. Prep to remove control board for TSG:CB1. 

Thursday, September 26, 2019, 11:28: The control board to TSG:CB1 was removed and replaced. https://elog.triumf.ca/TIS/Test-Stand/759

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

Thursday, September 26, 2019, 11:36:  BIAS / EE / EZL @ 30 / -1.5 / 13 kV. 

Thursday, September 26, 2019, 12:31: Mass, wire, & emittance scans successful

Thursday, September 26, 2019, 12:33: Auto-cooling to TGHT / TBHT to 530 / 180 @ 4A per min.

Thursday, September 26, 2019, 12:45: TGHT / TBHT @ 530 / 180A. Hold*  

Thursday, September 26, 2019, 13:17: No Sparks*. Auto-cooling to TGHT / to 500 @ 4A per min.

Thursday, September 26, 2019, 13:25: No Sparks*. FC0 'in'.  

Thursday, September 26, 2019, 13:26: Auto-ramping TGHT / TBHT to 580 / 230 A @ 2A per min. 

Thursday, September 26, 2019, 14:28: Auto-cooling @ 2A per min.

Friday, September 27, 2019, 07:17: HV off.

Friday, September 27, 2019, 07:19: RGA off

Friday, September 27, 2019, 07:21: Close & reset IV4.

Friday, September 27, 2019, 07:23: Power / Sources off. Ion gauge & Turbo pumps off.

Friday, September 27, 2019, 10:29: Venting. Waterlines purged.

 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, 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.

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)

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?

Inserted a used (heating) LP-FEBIAD target with a basic heat shield assembly with no end plate foil on the window side to observe heating. The P2N Coil / TGHT connections were added.

Test whether the TS connections are affecting the P2N heating or if it's the P2N target itself.

-Heat the TGHT only, observe, then ramp down.

-Heat Coil only, observe, then ramp down.

-Heat TGHT w/ Coil, observe, then ramp down.

Note* Heating should be even across the target. Elog & take pictures.

NO HV ALLOWED!!!!

Thursday, August 08, 2019, 09:05: Roughing.

Thursday, August 08, 2019, 09:14: BV1A closed to allow pressure stabilization. Opened about within 2 seconds later with BV1B.

Thursday, August 08, 2019, 09:41: Turbo pumps on.

Thursday, August 08, 2019, 09:47: Ion gauge on.

Thursday, August 08, 2019, 10:37: RGA on.

TSG:CG1A & TSG:CG1B do not appear to be pumping down efficiently - May need to swap out TSG:RP1 after this test. Last done April 18, 2018. elog: 655.

Friday, August 09, 2019, 08:49: Power on.

Friday, August 09, 2019, 08:51: Waterlines opened. No response on RGA. Vacuum ok @ 3.03e-06T

Friday, August 09, 2019, 08:56: Auto-ramping TGHT  @ 4 @ per min to 150 A.

Friday, August 09, 2019, 10:10: Ramping the TGHT down from 150 A to 0A.

Friday, August 09, 2019, 10:39: Anode Current @ 200 mA w/ 19V? Anode PS on. Voltage & current dropped off.

Friday, August 09, 2019, 11:18: TGHT and TBHT power supplies ramped to 150A each, total of 300A in the target

Friday, August 09, 2019, 13:12:  Target glows symmetrically. TGHT and TBHT ramped from 150A to 200A each for a total of 400A on the target

Friday, August 09, 2019, 14:05: RGA error.

Friday, August 09, 2019, 14:08: RGA Restarted.

Friday, August 09, 2019, 14:08: Target heating evenly on total 400 A.

Friday, August 09, 2019, 15:57:  Auto-ramping TGHT/TBHT  @ 4 @ per min to 250/250 A.

Friday, August 09, 2019, 16:28: Vacuum limit reach at 241 and 238 A for TGHT and TBHT, respectively.

Friday, August 09, 2019, 16:28: Auto-cooling started at 4A/min

Monday, August 12, 2019, 09:22: Sources off. RGA off.

Monday, August 12, 2019, 10:04: Power off. Ion gauge off. Turbos off.

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 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.

Friday, August 02, 2019: p2n target installed in the test stand, the ion source was fully removed to avoid any risk of shorting. The Central ion source current lead is attached to the target body so it was left there and attached to its electrodes.

Friday, August 02, 2019, 13:15: Roughing.

Friday, August 02, 2019, 13:58: BV1A closed to allow pressure stabilization. Opened about 10-15 seconds later with BV1B.

Friday, August 02, 2019, 14:00: Turbos pumps on.

Friday, August 02, 2019, 14:09: Ion gauge on.

Friday, August 02, 2019, 15:15: RGA cycled. Now the filament can start. RGA on.

Tuesday, August 06, 2019, 07:49: RGA Error. Halted.

Tuesday, August 06, 2019, 07:53: Restarted RGA.

Tuesday, August 06, 2019, 09:32: Waterlines opened on FS#5. No response on RGA. Vacuum ok @ 1.16e-06T.

Power on.

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

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

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?

Tuesday, July 16, 2019, 10:27: The idea of this run is to have the full 600 A from TGHT and the full 600 A from TBHT.

This will done based on the rewiring done previously (see entry 745)

Tuesday, July 16, 2019, 12:16: Jumper cable F-H burning while target was at 600 A total. Ramp up aborted and auto-cooling started to remove the jumper.

Jumper removed.

TBHT cables on both positive coil FT.

Jumper E-G removed.

High current cable connecting F-H.

Tuesday, July 16, 2019, 16:49

Current ramped up to 300A + 300A on TGHT and TBHT in parallel, for an equivalent of 600A on the target. No burn to anything noticed, PS ramping nicely together. Stopped ramping up and started ramp down for the night.

Monday, July 15, 2019, 15:54 : TBHT high current cables moved to Coil feedthroughs.

Coil high current cables moved to TBHT feedthroughs.

Resistor across  Coil feedthroughs E and F are now moved between TBHT feedthroughs A and B.

Tuesday, July 16, 2019, 09:00

A braided cable between F and H was changed due to the burnt aspect it had. Most likely this cable was burnt along the previous ones (see entry 740) but since it was uniformed blacked and not broken I didn't noticed it.

Resistor/Varistor between TGHT and TBHT removed.

(see entry 742)

p2n target heated over the weekend after the connections between the bottom target legs and the copper connector has been modified from rivets to M3 screws. Target hold current nicely with no major voltage spikes.

The plan now is to cycle the current heating few times to "stress test" the target.

Thursday, July 04, 2019, 15:00: TBHT insulator was swapped out on the source tray side. 

The old one is very chipped.

Screws instead of rivets on target leg. Insulator changed.

Thursday, July 04, 2019, 15:14: Roughing

Thursday, July 04, 2019, 16:00: Turbos on.

Thursday, July 04, 2019, 16:12: IG1 on. RGA on

Friday, July 05, 2019, 08:12: Waterlines opened. No response on RGA. Vacuum ok @ 4.57e-06T.

Friday, July 05, 2019, 08:14: Power / sources on.

LE,FM

Friday, July 05, 2019, 10:00: Autoramping TGHT/TBHT to 250/100 A @ 3 A/min. Vacuum limits change to 5e-6 T and 5.5e-6 T. Vacuum ok @ 4.2e-6 T.

Friday, July 05, 2019, 11:42 :

Friday, July 05, 2019, 11:45 : Auto ramping TGHT/TBHT to 300/150A @ 3 A/min.

Friday, July 05, 2019, 17:32:

Friday, July 05, 2019, 13:56: Source/Optics on

Friday, July 05, 2019, 14:38: BIAS / EE / EZL @ 30 / -1.5 / 13 kV. One spark while bring the BIAS to 30 kv around 27.5 kV. IV4 opened.

Friday, July 05, 2019, 17:32: BIAS / EE / EZL @ 0 for the weekend. Heater will be left on.

FM

Monday, July 08, 2019, 15:12:  BIAS / EE / EZL @ 30 / -1.5 / 13 kV.

Monday, July 08, 2019, 18:59: BIAS / EE / EZL @ 0.00 kV

Tuesday, July 09, 2019, 13:42: TBHT/TGHT @ 590/230A.

Tuesday, July 09, 2019, 13:49 BIAS / EE / EZL @ 30 / -1.5 / 13 kV.

Tuesday, July 09, 2019, 14:04: Dipole magnet not responding. Cycling the PS on EPICS didn't work. Cycling the PS directly worked.

Tuesday, July 09, 2019, 17:28: BIAS / EE / EZL @ 0.00 kV

 Tuesday, July 02, 2019, 18:24: A blind is installed  on the FEBIAD gas line (see attached picture)  to rule out the possibility of  gases entering the TIS.