NOTE:

TBHT Power Supply is 600A. EPICS thinks it is 500. Multiply current setting with 1.2 for actual current to the tube.

Time stamp on OM-DAQPRO-5300 is on hour behind (daylight savings).

All bolts torqued to 130 in lbs. TGHT and TBHT bolts tightened and loosened 3x.

Monday, March 17, 2014, 19:10: Roughing

Monday, March 17, 2014, 19:30: Turbos started

 Monday, March 17, 2014, 19:38: Turbos at speed. 

Monday, March 17, 2014, 19:40: Vacuum at 1.3E-5 T

BY R.M.

Tuesday, March 18, 2014, 10:10: Vacuum 2.87e-07 T

Tuesday, March 18, 2014, 10:12: Heatshield Water Circuit turned on

Tuesday, March 18, 2014, 10:25: Vacuum 2.85e-07 T

By AM

Tuesday, March 18, 2014, 16:06:

Conditioned high voltage BIAS to 30kV. BIAS:RDCUR 37 uA.

Started heater auto-ramping. TBHT to 50A at 1A/min. TGHT to 100A at 2 A/min.

Vacuum at 2.7E-7 T

Tuesday, March 18, 2014, 17:06: TBHT and TGHT reached 50A and 100A respectively. Local readback on TBHT is 58A (as expected - see note above). Vacuum is gradually coming down.

Operation stable over night. TSG:CBC needed to be restarted. Switched off over night.

Wednesday, March 19, 2014, 08:21: Continue heating to 85A / 250 A TBHT/TGHT.

Wednesday, March 19, 2014, 09:12

Water temperatures 27 - 28 deg C, and flow Rates
4.0 l/m HS+MSP
6.4 l/m TBHT
5.1 l/m COIL+EE
5.6 l/m TGHT

Wednesday, March 19, 2014, 09:57: Continue heating to 170 A / 500 A, TBHT/TGHT

Wednesday, March 19, 2014, 09:58: Opened IV4

Wednesday, March 19, 2014, 09:58: Restarted Q1.

Wednesday, March 19, 2014, 10:11: Switched FC0 bias to negative

Wednesday, March 19, 2014, 10:30: Q1 restarted. Possible spark. Small vacuum response on IG1

Wednesday, March 19, 2014, 10:49: Some sparking

Wednesday, March 19, 2014, 12:43: Continue heating to 190A / 580 A TBHT/TGHT.

Wednesday, March 19, 2014, 13:00: TBHT voltage limited. Increased limit to 2.3V

Water temperatures and flow rates
35 C 4.0 l/m HS+MSP
28 C 6.4 l/m TBHT
28 C 5.1 l/m COIL+EE
30 C 5.6 l/m TGHT

Wednesday, March 19, 2014, 13:32: Local read back on PS: 223A / 580A TBHT/TGHT

Water temperatures and flow rates
37 C 4.0 l/m HS+MSP
28 C 6.4 l/m TBHT
29 C 5.1 l/m COIL+EE
31 C 5.6 l/m TGHT

Wednesday, March 19, 2014, 14:30: Measured ~2E-7 A 23Na on FC6 and 2E-7 A on FC0. Vacuum on IG1 4.2E-8 T

Wednesday, March 19, 2014, 14:58: TBHT was voltage limiting. Increased voltage limit to 2.4 V

Target will condition over night.

Thursday, March 20, 2014, 10:07: Measured ~1.4E-8 A 23Na on FC6 and 2E-7 A on FC0. Vacuum on IG1 8.3E-7 T

Water temperatures and flow rates
35 C 4.0 l/m HS+MSP
27 C 6.4 l/m TBHT
27 C 5.1 l/m COIL+EE
29C 5.6 l/m TGHT

Thursday, March 20, 2014, 10:13: Starting mass scan 200 - 0

Local current  on PS (TBHT/TGHT): 227 A / 580 A

At about 10:15 to 10:20 the TGHT:RDVOL dropped from 7.2 - 7.1 V.

Thursday, March 20, 2014, 11:05: Mass scan finished.

Water temperatures and flow rates
36 C 4.0 l/m HS+MSP
28 C 6.4 l/m TBHT
29 C 5.1 l/m COIL+EE
30 C 5.6 l/m TGHT

Thursday, March 20, 2014, 13:20

Water temperatures and flow rates
34.8 C 4.0 l/m HS+MSP
26.1 C 6.4 l/m TBHT
26.8 C 5.1 l/m COIL+EE
28.4 C 5.6 l/m TGHT

Thursday, March 20, 2014, 13:24: Conditioning EE to -2kV

Thursday, March 20, 2014, 13:26: EE at -2kV and 694 uA

Thursday, March 20, 2014, 13:36: Lowering EE back to -1.4kV

Thursday, March 20, 2014, 13:38: Starting the cool down of the target at 2 A/min

Thursday, March 20, 2014, 15:08: Closed IV4

Friday, March 21, 2014, 08:32: Lowered BIAS, EE and EZL to 0. TGHT and TBHT off.

Friday, March 21, 2014, 08:33: Stopped turbos. Vacuum at 1.3E-7 T

Friday, March 21, 2014, 13:10: Venting

Roughing

Friday, March 21, 2014, 13:59: Starting turbos

Friday, March 21, 2014, 14:08: Turbos at speed

Friday, March 21, 2014, 14:09: Vacuum at 7.5 E-6T

The performance of the roughing pump has gradually gone down. Notably after the system has been vented. See attached screenshot from the archiver.

E-fault 7258.

NOTE:

TBHT Power Supply is 600A. EPICS thinks it is 500. Multiply current setting with 1.2 for actual current to the tube.

Friday, March 28, 2014, 10:38: Stopped turbos. Vacuum at 1.3E-7 T 

Friday, March 28, 2014, 15:05: Venting

By RM

Friday, March 28, 2014, 15:22: Target assembly installed

Friday, March 28, 2014, 15:43: Chamber Roughing started

Friday, March 28, 2014, 15:58: Turbos started

Friday, March 28, 2014, 16:03: TP1B at speed

Friday, March 28, 2014, 16:06: TP1A at speed

Friday, March 28, 2014, 16:07: IG1 Turned on - reading 1.29e-05T

 By R.M.

Monday, March 31, 2014, 09:55: Water to heatshield line turned on, no change in vacuum: 1.31e-07 T

Friday, April 04, 2014, 08:23: Target bias, EE and EZL to zero. Turbos off.

Friday, April 04, 2014, 10:14: Venting 

Friday, April 04, 2014, 10:48: Target removed - By R.M.

The archiver was not running

Wednesday, April 23, 2014, 14:15: Roughing

Wednesday, April 23, 2014, 14:34 : Starting turbos

Wednesday, April 23, 2014, 14:42 : Turbos at speed

Wednesday, April 23, 2014, 14:44 : Vacuum at 8.3E-6 T

Thursday, April 24, 2014, 09:12: Opened water for HS loop. Vacuum stable at1.6E-7 T

Thursday, April 24, 2014, 09:25: Started heating TGHT to 580A at 2A/min

Thursday, April 24, 2014, 14:07: Aborted autoramping. Cu-strip glowing. Started Target Cooldown.

Monday, April 28, 2014, 08:36: Stopped turobs. Vacuum at 1.2E-7 T

Monday, April 28, 2014, 10:23: Started roughing

Monday, April 28, 2014, 10:48: Started turbos. CG1 at ~0.3 T 

Monday, April 28, 2014, 10:56 : Turbos at speed

Monday, April 28, 2014, 10:58 : Vacuum at 7.2E-6 T

Tuesday, April 29, 2014, 09:15: Vacuum over night was somewhat erratic with a couple of excursions. Venting to redo door seal and inspect chamber. 

Tuesday, April 29, 2014, 13:18: Venting 

Aborted venting.

Wednesday, April 30, 2014, 10:15: Vented. Cleaned front door o-ring and groove. Inspected VCR joint on HS water loop. No visible issues.

Wednesday, April 30, 2014, 10:15: Roughing

Wednesday, April 30, 2014, 10:35 : Starting turbos

Wednesday, April 30, 2014, 10:44 : Turbos at speed

Wednesday, April 30, 2014, 10:45 : Vacuum at 6.5E-6 T

Thursday, May 01, 2014, 08:44: Vacuum erratic over night. Small burst of pressure increase in vacuum with ~2 hours intervals. Leak found on HS cooling circuit by purging the water line.

Thursday, May 01, 2014, 08:46: Stopping turbos. Vacuum at 2.7E-7 T

HS water line should be purged again before breaking VCR seal.

Thursday, May 01, 2014, 09:59: Venting

Thursday, May 01, 2014, 10:45: Removed HS loop.

Thursday, May 01, 2014, 10:45: Roughing

Thursday, May 01, 2014, 11:11: Starting turbos. CG1 ~ 0.1 T

Thursday, May 01, 2014, 11:19: Turbos at speed

Thursday, May 01, 2014, 11:21 : Vacuum at 5.2E-6 T

Monday, May 12, 2014, 10:03  : Turbos stopped. Vacuum at 1.22 E-7 T

Monday, May 12, 2014, 13:34: Venting

 Archiver restarted.

Monday, May 12, 2014, 10:02: Jane R. power cycled the hardware. EPICS is back up. Sources archiver required a restart.

Monday, May 12, 2014, 14:14 : Roughing

Monday, May 12, 2014, 14:34: Starting turbos

Monday, May 12, 2014, 14:42 : Turbos at speed

Monday, May 12, 2014, 14:44 : Vacuum at  1.7E-5 T

Tuesday, May 13, 2014, 10:51: Opened water for HS circuit. Vacuum stable at 2.2E-7 T. Minor spike to 2.5E-7 T for 10 s.

Tuesday, May 13, 2014, 10:54: Roughing out gas lines.

Tuesday, May 13, 2014, 11:30: Opening SV5 and SV2 to evacuate gas lines completely.

Tuesday, May 13, 2014, 11:58: BIAS to 30kV, EZL to 13 kV. EE to 1.5 kV.

Tuesday, May 13, 2014, 11:59: Opening isolation valve

Tuesday, May 13, 2014, 12:12: Started heating to 450A / 200A TGHT / TBHT.

Target heating stopped at 167 A - likely caused by network problems. Multiple gaps in strip tool. Indicating lost network connection.

Wednesday, May 14, 2014, 10:07: Resuming heating to 450A / 200A TGHT / TBHT (EPICS 170A)

Wednesday, May 14, 2014, 10:12: De-biasing to investigate ANODE/CATHODE BIAS

Switched ON ANODE/CATHODE BIAS PS.

Wednesday, May 14, 2014, 10:22: BIAS to 30kV, EZL to 13 kV. EE to 1.5 kV.

Wednesday, May 14, 2014, 16:07: Continue heating TGHT to 500A

Wednesday, May 14, 2014, 16:33: TGHT at 500A. TBHT at 203 A.

Thursday, May 15, 2014, 14:57: Switched OFF/ON IOC to recover from white-out.

Thursday, May 15, 2014, 15:51: Started heating to 550A / 240A 

COIL to 50A
ANODE to 200V
TGHT to 580A
TBHT to 280A

Friday, May 16, 2014, 11:28  : Opening Ne

Friday, May 16, 2014, 11:56: TBHT to 290 A

Friday, May 16, 2014, 14:12: Started cool down. ANODE/CATHODE Bias requires reconfiguration.

Tuesday, May 20, 2014, 11:10: Ray and co is checking the configuration and troubleshooting the burnt off GND connection. The Test Stand will be configured to CATHODE negative BIAS.

Tuesday, May 20, 2014, 12:35: BIAS, EZL, EE, COIL, ANODE ON.

Tuesday, May 20, 2014, 12:35: Gas lines pumped.

Tuesday, May 20, 2014, 12:35: Auto heating to 240A/500A at 1A/2A /min.

Tuesday, May 20, 2014, 12:44: IV4 opened 

Restarted archivers.

The ground connection between B and F (ISK4523D Rev 6) was found burnt off. It will be switched out as per CATHODE BIAS configuration (ISK4563D Rev 3) by Ray D.

As per ISK4562 Rev 3 and ISK4563 Rev 3

By Ray D. and co.

Anders Mjos wrote:

The performance of the roughing pump has gradually gone down. Notably after the system has been vented. See attached screenshot from the archiver. E-fault 7258.

 Edi replaced the backing pump on June 5th.

Aurelia Laxdal wrote:

HV and Heaters Conditioning for SiC#30 was completed Friday, May 23, 2014. The target was cooled down and it's ready for the on-line installation.

 Friday, June 13, 2014, 08:43: Turbos stopped. Vacuum at 1.2E-7 T

Monday, June 16, 2014, 08:26: Venting. Water purged.

Monday, June 16, 2014, 09:00: Target removed

Monday, June 16, 2014, 09:12: Roughing

Tuesday, June 17, 2014, 14:38: Venting 

Anders Mjos wrote:

Aurelia Laxdal wrote: HV and Heaters Conditioning for SiC#30 was completed Friday, May 23, 2014. The target was cooled down and it's ready for the on-line installation.  Friday, June 13, 2014, 08:43: Turbos stopped. Vacuum at 1.2E-7 T Monday, June 16, 2014, 08:26: Venting. Water purged. Monday, June 16, 2014, 09:00: Target removed

The target assembly did not pass the megger test between anode and heat shield after the previous conditioning. The AlN insulators were found to have failed during the conditioning. The coil insulation was burnt. AlN insulators and anode ware replaced.

Tuesday, June 17, 2014, 15:22: Roughing

By R.M.

Tuesday, June 17, 2014, 15:52: Turbos Started

Tuesday, June 17, 2014, 15:54: TP1B at speed

Tuesday, June 17, 2014, 15:57: IG1 Turned on  1.92e-05T

Tuesday, June 17, 2014, 15:59: TP1A at speed

Tuesday, June 17, 2014, 15:59: IG1 1.31e-05T

By AM

Wednesday, June 18, 2014, 08:24: Opened HS water circuit. Vacuum stable at 2.2E-7 T.

Wednesday, June 18, 2014, 08:40: Pumping on gas lines.

Wednesday, June 18, 2014, 08:49: Closed pump valve on gas lines.

Wednesday, June 18, 2014, 08:51: Opening TSH:SV5

Wednesday, June 18, 2014, 08:53: Opening TSH:SV2

Wednesday, June 18, 2014, 09:00: BIAS/ EZL / EE 30 / 13 / -1.5 kV

Wednesday, June 18, 2014, 09:04: Starting target heating to 500 / 240 A

Wednesday, June 18, 2014, 09:07: COIL to 50 A. ANODE to 200 V

Wednesday, June 18, 2014, 09:33: OPEN TPS:IV4 

Wednesday, June 18, 2014, 14:05: TBHT at 240 A 2.6 V. TGHT still ramping (403 A)

Wednesday, June 18, 2014, 15:03: TGHT at 500 A 4.5 V 

Thursday, June 19, 2014, 08:51: Ramping to 580 A / 265 A

Thursday, June 19, 2014, 09:37: Continue ramping TBHT to 290A

Thursday, June 19, 2014, 09:44: 8E-8 A on FC0

Thursday, June 19, 2014, 10:52: TBHT at 305A. Running mass scan.

Thursday, June 19, 2014, 11:36: Opening for He.

Thursday, June 19, 2014, 11:46: Opening for Ne.

Thursday, June 19, 2014, 11:54: Lowering TBHT to 300 A

Thursday, June 19, 2014, 13:01: Mass scan. ~1E-10 A Ne current on FC6 with Ne open.

Thursday, June 19, 2014, 15:06: Mass scan up.

Thursday, June 19, 2014, 16:00: Mass scan down.

Thursday, June 19, 2014, 16:49: Started cooling down target.

Friday, June 20, 2014, 08:53: Target de-biased. Turbos off.

Friday, June 20, 2014, 10:23: Venting. Purging water from  HS circuit.

A water leak on MB1 was found and reported by operations on June 10th e fault 7429

MB1 can not be switched on due to an TSH:MB1 water flow trip. Paddle wheel is rotating.

Wednesday, June 18, 2014, 14:03: Paddle wheel replaced with a used one from beam lines. Model SST150. Signal recovered.

Upon inspection it was found that the bolt attaching the FC to the actuator had fallen off. The bolt was reattached and FC0 can be actuated in/out again.