Monday, August 26, 2013, 14:07: The turbo could be restarted, but it does not sound happy (Dimo was consulted earlier today). The pump is drawing around 4 A. The current draw is fluctuating between 3.5 and 4.2 A at the same time as backing pressure is spiking from 0.015 to 0.045 T

Monday, August 26, 2013, 15:32:: The turbo failed again. Dimo had a quick look. It will have to be replaced. See e-fault: 6953

Wednesday, August 28, 2013, 08:48: Stopping TP1B. Vacuum at 4.8 E-7 T

Wednesday, August 28, 2013, 10:59: Venting

Anthony has replaced the pump. There was no screen on the existing pump. A screen has been installed in front of the turbo.

Wednesday, August 28, 2013, 14:03: started roughing

Wednesday, August 28, 2013, 14:31: Starting turbos

Wednesday, August 28, 2013, 14:41Turbos at speed

Wednesday, August 28, 2013, 14:43: Vacuum at 2.0 E-5 T

CG1A is climbing from 0.016 to 0.130 in 30 seconds when isolated.

The leak was confirmed to be between BV1A and PV1 in the bellows. The bellows has been replaced and backing pressure is back to normal values.

TP1B high frequency noise is coming and going. Power is 22W , current 1.1A (other pumps are 11W and 14W, 0.7A)

Edi from vacuum group notified. He will replace the pump today.

Tuesday, August 20, 2013, 08:40: Turbos off. Vacuum 1.4E-7 T

Tuesday, August 20, 2013, 10:01: Started venting.

Turbo has been replaced by Edi.

Tuesday, August 20, 2013, 16:28: Roughing

Tuesday, August 20, 2013, 16:51: Turbos started.

TP1A timed out. Could not open BV1A and restart due to too high backing pressure at CG1A

Wednesday, August 21, 2013, 08:17: Turbos started. Vacuum 0.043 T

Wednesday, August 21, 2013, 08:25: Turbos at speed. TP1B: 1.2A 28W 30 deg C.

Wednesday, August 21, 2013, 08:27: Vacuum at 5.6 E-6 T

Tuesday, August 20, 2013, 08:13: Roughing gas lines

Tuesday, August 20, 2013, 08:22: Gas lines roughed. Valve closed

By Ray. Note that controls have not been updated yet.

Friday, July 19, 2013, 14:14 : Stopping Turbos. Vacuum at 1.3E-7 T 

Friday, July 19, 2013, 15:14:  Venting

Friday, July 19, 2013, 16:22: Target installed. Roughing.

Friday, July 19, 2013, 16:41: Starting turbos

Friday, July 19, 2013, 16:49: Turbos at speed

Friday, July 19, 2013, 16:51 : Vacuum at 1.4E-5 T

Monday, July 22, 2013, 08:19: Opened up water flow. Vacuum stable at 1.3E-7 T after some minor bumps to 1.6E-7 T

Monday, July 22, 2013, 13:34: T/C logger installed on 9-pins 4 & 5. Ray is working in the HV cage to install a different PS for the magnet coil.

Monday, July 22, 2013, 14: Increasing Coil current manually. Vacuum starts to creep up at 3A (T/C around 85 deg C).

Monday, July 22, 2013, 16:37: Current at 4A. Voltage at 6.5V. T/C around 400 deg C.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013, 08:50: Coil conditioned to ~500 deg C at about 4.7A

Tuesday, July 23, 2013, 08:54: Evacuating gas line through the chamber.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013, 09:01: Gas lines evacuated.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013, 09:10: Coil current to zero.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013, 09:22: Target. biased

Tuesday, July 23, 2013, 09:22: Opened IV4

Tuesday, July 23, 2013, 09:32: ANODE to 200V. Helium leak to 6.0

Tuesday, July 23, 2013, 09:35: Coil temp at 220 deg C.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013, 10:58: Heating aborted at 200A. Will resume later.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013, 12:01: Restarted heating to 250A.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013, 13:11: Spark too out some optics. Restarted.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013, 14:39: COIL 130 deg C. TBHT at 280A read back.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013, 14:44: Sparking occurs across the spark gap on top of the test stand.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013, 16:14: Lowered TBHT to 270 read back. Will leave it like this over night.

Friday, July 26, 2013, 10:09: Cooling down TBHT.

Friday, July 26, 2013, 11:13: ANODE and COIL OFF. Closed IV4. Closed gas supply.

Friday, July 26, 2013, 12:41: BIAS, EE and EL to zero.

Data on Docushare:

https://documents.triumf.ca/docushare/dsweb/View/Collection-11041

Thursday, July 18, 2013, 08:41: Restarting archivers

The right side of the insulator cracked/fractured either as the bolt was tightened or loosened. 

Tuesday, July 16, 2013, 15:39: Roughing

Tuesday, July 16, 2013, 16:01: Starting turbos.

Tuesday, July 16, 2013, 16:10: Turbos at speed.

Tuesday, July 16, 2013, 16:11: Vacuum at 6.9E-6 T

A flash and "thumb" was observed at the end of the mass scan.

Friday, July 12, 2013, 15:51: Ray Dube had a look inside. After the fuse was reset, the Power Supply could operate again.

A power bump was experienced at about the same time as the MB1 fuse latched.

https://web.accel.triumf.ca/isac_elog/Elog_show_result.pl?inid=172266&style=entry#172266

The power supplies were "de-dusted" yesterday by Ray Dube and team. 

Wednesday, July 10, 2013, 10:20 : Turbos off. Vacuum at 1.3 E-7 T

Wednesday, July 10, 2013, 11:23: Venting chamber 

Wednesday, July 10, 2013, 12:00: Vented

Wednesday, July 10, 2013, 12:38: Roughing

Wednesday, July 10, 2013, 12:54: Pumping on gas lines for 10 min.

Wednesday, July 10, 2013, 12:58: Starting Turbos

Wednesday, July 10, 2013, 13:07 : Both turbos at speed. TP1A timed out one.

Wednesday, July 10, 2013, 13:08 : Vacuum at 1.5E-5 T

T/C connectors removed from HV rack. All connections put to ground.

Thursday, July 11, 2013, 08:43: Opened up cooling water supply. Vacuum stable at 2.2E-7 T

Thursday, July 11, 2013, 08:58: Starting ramp up of TGHT and TBHT to 100A and 50A respectively to verify proper function of the new power supply set-up.

Thursday, July 11, 2013, 09:20: TBHT reached 50A. EPICS read back 51.2A / 0.186V. P/S local read back 51A / 0.20V

Thursday, July 11, 2013, 09:44: BIAS 30kV, EE -800V, EZL 13kV

Thursday, July 11, 2013, 09:44: TGHT reached 100A. EPICS read back 100.2A / 0.488V. P/S local read back 99A / 0.46V

Thursday, July 11, 2013, 09:46: IV4 opened

Thursday, July 11, 2013, 09:53: Starting ramp up of TGHT and TBHT to 500A and 200A respectively

Thursday, July 11, 2013, 10:00: Coil and Anode to 50A and 200V respectively

Thursday, July 11, 2013, 14:59: TGHT and TBHT to 500A and 207A EPICS read back. Local read back 500A and 205A.

Thursday, July 11, 2013, 15:03: Opening gas lines into chamber.

Thursday, July 11, 2013, 15:12: Starting ramp up of TGHT and TBHT to 550A and 220A respectively

Thursday, July 11, 2013, 15:21: Some current on FC0 at TBHT 210A

Thursday, July 11, 2013, 15:25: He leak valve at 5.5

Thursday, July 11, 2013, 16:07: Will leave target in current condition over night and continue the test tomorrow.

Friday, July 12, 2013, 08:25: Target ran without interruptions overnight. Started magnet scan. Masscorr constants had to be reentered after the reboot of EPICS.

Friday, July 12, 2013, 10:30: TMS:Q1 and TMS:Q6 found off. Restarted.

Friday, July 12, 2013, 10:32: Starting TGHT ramp to 580A. Increased EE to -1200V

Friday, July 12, 2013, 10:47: Reached 580A. EPICS 581.7A / 5.724V. PS local 580A / 5.69V.

Friday, July 12, 2013, 10:51: Starting manual ramp of TBHT.

Friday, July 12, 2013, 11:14: Autoramping TBHT to 250A

Friday, July 12, 2013, 11:23: Reached 250A. EPICS 259.6A / 1.934V. PS local  256A / 1.93V

Friday, July 12, 2013, 11:35: Manual ramp. ANODE current @ 2mA seen at TBHT @ 262A.

Friday, July 12, 2013, 11:41: BIAS spark seen on current and vacuum.

Friday, July 12, 2013, 12:09: TBHT:RDCUR  at 269A

Friday, July 12, 2013, 13:18:TBHT:RDCUR  at 280A.. PS local 277A.

Friday, July 12, 2013, 13:21: EE to -1500V / 510uA

Friday, July 12, 2013, 13:30: Ne leak opened.

Friday, July 12, 2013, 14:12: Mass scan started.

Friday, July 12, 2013, 15:04: A thumb sound and flash was seen. Confirmed with AAPS operator. TMS:SX3 went off. TMS:MB1 does not respond to current adjustments.

Friday, July 12, 2013, 15:53: The source will be left in it's present state over the weekend.

Saturday, July 13, 2013, 07:10: FC0 Bias found off. Restarted. Could be related to sparking. 

No further issues over the weekend.

Monday, July 15, 2013, 09:10: Starting mass scan.

Monday, July 15, 2013, 10:39: Magnet at Ne (20 amu). FC6 1.3E-10. Ne gas off: FC6 < 1E-11

Monday, July 15, 2013, 10:45: Ne gas on.

Monday, July 15, 2013, 10:50: EE to 2kV. EE:RDCUR at 684 uA.

Monday, July 15, 2013, 13:27: Manually increasing TBHT to 290A. Local 287A.

Monday, July 15, 2013, 15:07: Cooling down target.

Monday, July 15, 2013, 15:26: COIL off. Gases off (earlier). ANODE off.

Monday, July 15, 2013, 15:31: IV4 closed.

Tuesday, July 16, 2013, 08:21: BIAS, EZL and EE to zero.

Tuesday, July 16, 2013, 08:24: Turbos off. Vacuum at 1.3E-7 T.

Tuesday, July 16, 2013, 15:12: Venting

Tuesday, July 16, 2013, 15:38: Target removed.

See PO# TR193650 

Thursday, June 13, 2013, 10:17: Roughing.

Thursday, June 13, 2013, 10:52: Turbos started

Thursday, June 13, 2013, 11:00 : Both turbos at speed.

Thursday, June 13, 2013, 11:02 : Vacuum at 7.5E-6 Torr

The target heater power supply at the teststand has been removed to replace one in ITE.

Tuesday, June 11, 2013, 08:41: Restarted Q1, Q2 and Q4

Tuesday, June 11, 2013, 10:36: Restarted Q2 and Q4. No sign of sparks

Tuesday, June 11, 2013, 11:06: Restarted Q1, Q2, Q4 and CBC. No sign of sparks

Tuesday, June 11, 2013, 11:52: Restarted Q1, Q2 and Q4

Tuesday, June 11, 2013, 14:40:  Restarted Q1, Q2, Q4 and CBC.

 Monday, June 10, 2013, 16:44: Restarted Q2 and Q4. A dip in coil current and voltage was seen at the same time.

Anders Mjos wrote:

Friday, June 07, 2013, 08:42: Restarted Q2, Q4 and MB1

 Monday, June 10, 2013, 08:16: Restarted Q2 and Q4

Friday, June 07, 2013, 08:42: Restarted Q2, Q4 and MB1

SOURCES ARCH was found not running