One thing that seems to be strange regarding this FEBIAD is the best results are without any current in the coil.

Normally for the neon ionization the on-line source wanted to be at around 50 to 80 Amp. Not this one.

Is there anything special about this coil?

Ray is finishing the electrical modifications for the FEBIAD with the biased cathode.

We found the source of the sparks. The disconnected target heater cables were resting on the Einzel lens cap.

Thursday, August 16, 2012, 15:29: Turbos off

Thursday, August 16, 2012, 15:50 : Venting

There was a short between the gas line and the heat shield - as the gas line insulator was not tied to the heat shield. A Ta-wire was used to tie the gas line and keep it from touching the heat shield.

As per Ray Dube for the FEBIAD anode bias test. The PS will need to be reconnected before a target is run.

Thursday, August 16, 2012, 17:04 : Starting turbos

Thursday, August 16, 2012, 17:09 : TP1B at speed

Thursday, August 16, 2012, 17:13 : TP1A at speed (after 1 time out)

Thursday, August 16, 2012, 17:14 : Vacuum at 1.8E-5

Yesterday Ray Dube has changed the configuration in order to run the FEBIAD with the cathode on negative bias.

There were a short between the gas line and the common. The box has been opened and the short removed.

This morning I am turning on the cathode heater to 290 A.

Backing pressure on the bender section is quite large. TMSIG6 reads 5.09E-7 T and TMS:CG2B reads 0.249 T!

Test completed.

exel file on My Documents in folder FEBIAD Test Aout2012/TestFEBIAD

 Edited by Anders 2012-09-19, file attached.

Thursday, August 23, 2012, 10:10: Vacuum 2.1E-7

Thursday, August 23, 2012, 10:10: Stopped both turbos.

Thursday, August 23, 2012, 10:20: Water purged.

Thursday, August 23, 2012, 10:53: Venting

Thursday, August 23, 2012, 10:40: Replacing TMSRP2 with Edi. E-fault 6261.

Thursday, August 23, 2012, 10:49: TMSRP2 replaced and started.

Thursday, August 23, 2012, 11:38: NiO#1 installed.

Thursday, August 23, 2012, 11:38: Started roughing. Both roughing pumps timed out.

Thursday, August 23, 2012, 11:54: Roughing.

Thursday, August 23, 2012, 12:12 : Starting turbos.

Thursday, August 23, 2012, 12:16 : TP1B at speed.

Thursday, August 23, 2012, 12:20 : TP1A timed out. Restarted.

Thursday, August 23, 2012, 12:20 : Turbos at speed. Vacuum at 2.5E-5

Thursday, August 23, 2012, 12:22: Vacuum at 2E-5

Friday, August 24, 2012, 08:26: Vacuum at 3.1E-7

The fuse for both roughing pumps blows when roughing the chamber. With the help from Edi: disconnect the exhaust port on the roughing pump for the first few hundred torrs of roughing. Reconnect and continue.

Seems the roughing pump RP1  pushes air towards the exhaust of RP2 which blows the fuse

Anders Mjos wrote:

Thursday, August 23, 2012, 11:38: NiO#1 installed. Thursday, August 23, 2012, 11:38: Started roughing. Both roughing pumps timed out. Thursday, August 23, 2012, 11:54: Roughing. Thursday, August 23, 2012, 12:12 : Starting turbos. Thursday, August 23, 2012, 12:16 : TP1B at speed. Thursday, August 23, 2012, 12:20 : TP1A timed out. Restarted. Thursday, August 23, 2012, 12:20 : Turbos at speed. Vacuum at 2.5E-5 Thursday, August 23, 2012, 12:22: Vacuum at 2E-5 Friday, August 24, 2012, 08:26: Vacuum at 3.1E-7

 Friday, August 24, 2012, 08:28: Opened water lines. No response in vacuum. Stable at 3.1E-7

Did HV conditioning up to TSG:BIAS=30kV, TSH=EE=-600V

Turned off the HV for Kazuya to check the connection/output of the TSG:TGHT Xantrex power supply.

When turned ON it was not going higher than 3.6A (EPICS/front panel). Kazuya checked the connections at the back and also the EPICS/PLC/PS input/output signals. He compared these values with the similar once of the TSH:TBHT PS (which is also a Xantrex PS 10-600). E-Fault 6275

It turned out to be the connections on the top of the ion source box: the target heater was not connected and the power supply was not seeing the load. Tomorrow we'll check all the top connections, with the corresponding power supplies.

Tested the power supplies and locked up the HV cage.

Turned on the HV: 30kV.

Tomorrow we'll start up the heaters: 580A for the target and 280-300A for the tube.

Friedhelm checked the voltage across R4 from ISK4563D-rev2.pdf. It shows 50 kOhms with the power supplies off and everything connected according to the drawing. With the Anode PS On and set at 20V, we could see the same readback on EPICS and on the meter.

Then started the heater ramping: auto ramp 2A/min.

We'd be watching the vacuum carefully during this process. Also the setup is such that:

- the target and tube heaters are only incremented if the vacuum is less than 5e-6Torr

- and if the vacuum exceeds 2e-5Torr the last increment of the target and tube heater is backed off.

Pierre asked for the 2e-5Torr limit to be changed to 8e-6Torr.

Anders asked to stop the heating at 500A to take a temperature measurement.

Raising the target heater from 500A to 580A.

Did a mass scan at TGHT=580A & TBHT=280A:  Plotdump-local-clean.txt Aug29 12 19-53-16.txt

http://isacwserv.triumf.ca/onlylocal/isac/IsacInternalFrameSet.html

Did another mass scan at 280A for the ionizer:

Plotdump-local-clean.txt Aug30 12 14-28-14.txt

http://isacwserv.triumf.ca/onlylocal/isac/IsacInternalFrameSet.html

Ramping up the TBHT from 280A -> 290A

And from 290A -> 300A:

Plotdump-local-clean.txt Aug30 12 16-40-29.txt

http://isacwserv.triumf.ca/onlylocal/isac/IsacInternalFrameSet.html

Started the cooldown.