Did a local IOC reboot to cure to white-out. The test stand is now operational.

Rick and John installed the ITE-TM4-SiC#27-HP-SIS-May2012 in the Test Stand. Pumping down.

The vacuum on TSGIG1 reads 2.85e-07. Turing on water on teststand and observing any changes in vacuum pressure.

Target needs to be removed form teststand to remove heatshielding around target oven. The chamber will be vented, water circuits flushed and target removed.

 Tuesday, May 15, 2012, 10:13: Turbo pumps at speed. Vacuum at 1.4E-5.

Tuesday, May 15, 2012, 12:03: Cooling lines opened. Vacuum stable at 1.6E-6

Tuesday, May 15, 2012, 12:17: Target ready to be heated and biased.

Did the HV conditioning up to 30kV and started to ramp up the heaters to 580A and 230A.

 A chip of insulator material was detected below the lower target insulator stand-off (attachment - left picture). The chip may come from the tube heater insulator above (attachment - right picture). The chip will be further investigated when the target is removed.

Today: did a mass scan at 580A on TGHT and 230A on TBHT at 30kV. Found some A/q units discrepancies on the mass scan page. It may be a hall probe problem:  under investigations.

Uploaded the testing file on Docushare: http://documents.triumf.ca/docushare/dsweb/View/Collection-8539/Document-56575

Started the cool down.

During the mass scan today it was discovered, that the mass calibration was off. Further investigation showed, that the Hall probe readings are a factor of 1.31 lower than during previous measurements. A fault report has been issued to controls.

Thursday, May 17, 2012, 08:36: Turbo pumps switched off in preparation of target removal.

Thursday, May 17, 2012, 08:51: Purging cooling lines.

Thursday, May 17, 2012, 08:55: Venting.

Thursday, May 17, 2012, 09:21: Target removed

Anders Mjos wrote:

A chip of insulator material was detected below the lower target insulator stand-off (attachment - left picture). The chip may come from the tube heater insulator above (attachment - right picture). The chip will be further investigated when the target is removed.

 The chip came from the lower insulator stand-off on the target assembly (see attachment). After investigating the chipped insulator, it was decided (Pierre, Friedhelm, Anders) not to replace it - as the risk involved may be less than the risk involved in replacing.

Thursday, May 17, 2012, 15:14: Started roughing. Cooling lines blanked off.

Thursday, May 17, 2012, 16:52: Starting turbos.

Thursday, May 17, 2012, 17:00: Turbos at speed. Vacuum at 1.5E-5.

Thursday, May 31, 2012, 14:46: Switching off turbos

Thursday, May 31, 2012, 15:05: Venting

Thursday, May 31, 2012, 15:42: Roughing

Thursday, May 31, 2012, 16:01 : Starting turbos

Thursday, May 31, 2012, 16:08 : Turbos at speed. Vacuum 1.7 E-5

Friday, June 01, 2012, 08:08: Cooling water opened. Vacuum stable at 5.7E-7. Target ready to be heated and biased.

Did the HV conditioning.

Heaters conditioning in progress.

The Hall probe is not working: couldn't pass 35.5 units (readback) or 50.16 units (setpoint) at field -3710G.

Tried to turn ON/OFF magnet PS and to reboot Canbus, but nothing worked. Still waiting for E-Fault 6031 to be resolved.

Started cool-down.

Aurelia Laxdal wrote:

Did the HV conditioning. Heaters conditioning in progress. The Hall probe is not working: couldn't pass 35.5 units (readback) or 50.16 units (setpoint) at field -3710G. Tried to turn ON/OFF magnet PS and to reboot Canbus, but nothing worked. Still waiting for E-Fault 6031 to be resolved. Started cool-down.

 Monday, June 04, 2012, 10:51: Turbos switched off

Monday, June 04, 2012, 11:06: Purging water. Venting.

Monday, June 04, 2012, 11:36: Target removed