Thursday, September 13, 2012, 08:16: Opened up cooling water. Vacuum (IG1) increased from 5.9E-7 to 6.2E-7 before returning to 5.9E-7. Similar response on IG6 (valve closed). Response is however similar to previous (short time ~5 min) vacuum fluctuations.

Replaced swollen insulator and added Ta heat shield on insulator.

Wednesday, September 12, 2012, 17:03: Roughing

Wednesday, September 12, 2012, 17:23 : Starting turbos

Wednesday, September 12, 2012, 17:32 : Turbos at speed

Wednesday, September 12, 2012, 17:33 : Vacuum at 3.2E-5

Wednesday, September 12, 2012, 08:01: Turbos off

Wednesday, September 12, 2012, 13:35: Venting, water off and purged.

Wednesday, September 12, 2012, 13:55: Vented

start cooldown. Found computer at teststand off. Somebody tried to login with username ARIEL.

 See attached photo

mass scan is finished saved as

http://isacwserv.triumf.ca/onlylocal/isactdata/save_restore/masscorr/plotdump-local-clean.txt_Sep7_12_13-01-51.txt

mass scan has been started after optimization on 23Na

start high voltage and heaters

Friday, August 31, 2012, 15:19: roughing

Friday, August 31, 2012, 15:39 : starting turbos

Friday, August 31, 2012, 15:44 : TP1B at speed

Friday, August 31, 2012, 15:48 : TP1A timed out

Friday, August 31, 2012, 15:48 : TP1A restarted. at speed.

Friday, August 31, 2012, 15:49 : both turbos at speed. Vacuum @2.7E-5

Anders Mjos wrote:

Friday, August 31, 2012, 15:19: roughing Friday, August 31, 2012, 15:39 : starting turbos Friday, August 31, 2012, 15:44 : TP1B at speed Friday, August 31, 2012, 15:48 : TP1A timed out Friday, August 31, 2012, 15:48 : TP1A restarted. at speed. Friday, August 31, 2012, 15:49 : both turbos at speed. Vacuum @2.7E-5

 Tuesday, September 04, 2012, 08:10: Opened cooling water. Vacuum stable @ 2.2E-7

Friday, August 31, 2012, 11:39: Stopped turbos.

Friday, August 31, 2012, 13:06: Venting.

Friday, August 31, 2012, 13:23: Water lines purged.

Friday, August 31, 2012, 13:25 : Vented

Turned off the HV and the optics in the first section. Couldn't turn off the optics in the second section: left a message for Evgeniy.

Also TMS:RP2 is very noisy. Talked to Edi D. from vacuum group. He would work on it this afternoon. E-Fault#6282

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

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

Anders Mjos wrote:

Thursday, August 23, 2012, 10:40: Replacing TMSRP2 with Edi. E-fault 6261. Thursday, August 23, 2012, 10:49: TMSRP2 replaced and started.

Edi will replace TMSRP2 again as it became noisy since yesterday morning. Vacuum should not be affected by the work.

Started the cooldown.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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