Thursday, December 13, 2012, 08:38: TBHT and TGHT off

Thursday, December 13, 2012, 08:38 : Vacuum at 1.8E-7 T

Thursday, December 13, 2012, 08:38 : Turbos off

Thursday, December 13, 2012, 11:19: Venting

Thursday, December 13, 2012, 11:30: Water lines purged

Thursday, December 13, 2012, 11:41: Target removed for inspection.

new ion guide laser ion source installed. Pure target container without targetmaterial and without surface ion source.

Heat up to 580A for heat test of all components. Distance between target and repeller < 1mm

13:15 start heating TGHT, 1A per 30sec vacuum below 2E-7T

14:50 reached 200A at TGHT (1.5V readback same as frontpanel), vacuum now 2.9E-7T, proceed on to 400A

16:10 TGHT 350 A (setpoint, readback stopped at 269A) and 3.4V readback, sudden increase in vacuum from 4E-7T to 5.5E-7T and larger fluctuations, give it 10min

16:22 vacuum back to 4.4E-7T but some occasional vacuum spikes , proceed to 400A

17:00 at 400A / 4.13V, vacuum hit 2E-6T in between which delayed the heating, now decreasing, will goto 410A for half an hour and then 385A over night

Dec 12th

8:30 3.3E-7T Vac at 385A, goto 420A

8:50 7.5E-7T Vac at 420A, goto 450A

9:20 1.7E-6T Vac at 450A, goto 470A

10:00 1.5E-6T Vac at 470A / 4.5V

11:30 1.1E-6T at 520A/4.56V

Wednesday, December 12, 2012, 11:46   1.7E-6T at 550A/4.58V

Wednesday, December 12, 2012, 14:31 

     580A reached,  Vacuum dropped from 1.8E-6T to 5.8E-7T in 2h

     voltage read back is wrong as well Panel readings are 572A/6.99V (read back values in EPICS are 248A/ 4.6V) 

Wednesday, December 12, 2012, 14:47 6.5E-7T at 592A/ 7.31V (Panel readings)

Wednesday, December 12, 2012, 15:01 there is no contact of the target to HV GND (especially the repeller), the target can still be biased to 5V

Wednesday, December 12, 2012, 19:48     5.9E-7Tvacuum is slowly going down now

Thursday, December 13, 2012, 00:23   5.5E-7T, start cooling down

Short summary on results of first heating teest with the Ion Guide Ion source:

The Ion source is still in good shape, nothing was effected by the heat. Just some deposition in the repellers and the exit electrode

The capton wires used for  wiring the electrodes had some problem with heat and went black and got brittle - for the next test we will ad a Ta schield at the side of the source to prevent radiation inside the source.

A Sub D 9 Pin connector on a HV insulator was installed on Port Q of the target box at the teststand. The insulator is leak tested and OK, vacuum is below 2E-7 T

The feed through is connected (1to1) to the upper 9 Pin connector of the target tray. Since the existing upper 9 Pin connector was damaged from a previous FEBIAD test, this connector was replaced. For wiring 4 twisted pair Capton insulated and shielded wires (identical to ITE and TM4) of about 50cm length are used.

View on top of the feedthrough and the connector on the source tray (male connectors)

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    \    1     2      3      4      5   /

      \     6      7     8      9    /

          ----------------------  

1to1 connection for pins 1,2,4-9

Pin 3 is NOT CONNCTED

The pin pairs 1&2, 4&5, 6&7, 8&9 each use a line of twisted pairs

Monday, December 17, 2012, 22:21

Connection to the HV added. The wires end in the HV cage on a screw terminal with labels 1--12. The numbers 1,2,4-9 are used in corresponding notation to the sketch above. Since 3 is not connected at all this terminal is used for grounding the wire shielding.

As cable 2 Capton isolated pairs of wire (1&2, 4&5) and two "normal" pairs for thermocouple (6&7, 8&9) reading are used. So all connections have shielded twisted pair cable, while  (6&7, 8&9)change the cable type at the 9Pin connector

Vacuum stable at 2.8E-7 T

Vacuum at 4.4E-7T

Base leak rate 2 - 3 E-9 mbar-l/sec

No response above background.

The RFQ heating test target was installed by Sebastian and Anders.

Tuesday, December 04, 2012, 17:26: roughing

Tuesday, December 04, 2012, 17:45: starting turbos

Tuesday, December 04, 2012, 17:55 : turbos at speed

Tuesday, December 04, 2012, 17:55 : vacuum at 3.3E-5 T

In preparation for RFQ target and leak troubleshooting.

Tuesday, December 04, 2012, 11:04: Turbos off (vacuum at 3.8E-7 T)

Water lines purged.

Tuesday, December 04, 2012, 15:03: Venting

Tuesday, December 04, 2012, 15:32 : Vented

Base leak rate 6 - 7 E-9 mbar-l/s

A leak was found around the 9-pin feed through.

in preparation for RFQ testing. By Sebastian and Anders

An insulated  9-pin D-sub connector was installed on the service cap in port Q (as labeled in ISK4523). The connector mating to the target assembly was placed in the upper slot on the source tray.

Friday, November 30, 2012, 14:57: Rouging in preparation for leak check (next week).

Friday, November 30, 2012, 15:16: Turbos on

Friday, November 30, 2012, 15:25 : Turbos at speed

Friday, November 30, 2012, 15:26 : Vacuum at 3.4E-5 T

Thursday, November 29, 2012, 16:21: Roughing

 Thursday, November 29, 2012, 14:15: Stopping turbos

Thursday, November 29, 2012, 15:57: Venting

Evgeniy and Kazuya investigated the problem with TSH:TGHT readbacks and they came to the conclusion that the PS is faulty, and the PLC reads correctly the signal sent by the PS.  Kazuya is redirecting the E-Fault from Controls to PS.

Ray Dube estimated few weeks (4-6) to send the PS offsite for repairs. This needs to be scheduled. For the time being, one can use the Test Stand with the PS setpoints, displayed on its front panel, as a reference.

Prepared the Test Stand for Controls to investigate E-Fault#6389.

Evgeniy increased the current limit on the power supply TSH:TGHT from 2 rotations to 7 rotations, after talking to Ray Dube.

I turned on the HV at 30kV and started the Auto-ramping.

Monday, November 05, 2012, 14:41: Roughing

Monday, November 05, 2012, 14:58: Started turbos

Monday, November 05, 2012, 15:06 : Turbos at speed

Monday, November 05, 2012, 15:068: Vacuum at 2.2E-5 T

Wednesday, November 07, 2012, 08:26: Cooling water open. Vacuum stable at 1.8E-7 T

Target looks OK. The right leg was a bit much out of center and will be adjusted in the lab.

The torque required to loosen the bolts were measured (from left to right):

Target legs: 48 and 30 in lbs

Tube htr: 25, 30 and 25 in lbs

Venting the Test Stand.

TiC#3 will be ready to be removed in few minutes. 

Please note: water is still ON.

All TPS optics, with the exception of TPS:Q4 cannot be turned off. E-Fault#6395 for Controls.

Same for the TSG optics: CB1, VCB1 and CBC.

Talked to Evgeniy and Kazuya. Optics are OFF now.

Started the cooldown for SiC#3.

Mass scan file: plotdump-local-clean.txt Nov2 12 13-15-59.txt

The scan was taken at TGHT=573A (read from the PS panel) .

The TBHT = 230A