1. Al corona shield installed over end of the HV duct to suppress discharges from the sharp edge of the duct.

2. Some moving and shortening of cables to keep them from running close to different voltages.

3. Changed the angle bracket on the 3M bias-EE resistor chain to a plate, same position.

4. Moved the 164K EE resistor chain to sit flat against feedthrough K.

5. Moved the bias-EE spark gap to sit flat against the back of feedthrough K, required tapping a hole in the back of the copper clamp.

6. Cap and top of rack vacuumed.

7. Piece of shielding removed from top of HV rack

New parts installed. Corona Shield, brackets, and board/spark gap orientation.

Wednesday, February 28, 2018, 11:48: Power on. Ready to test

Wednesday, February 28, 2018, 14:00: BIAS / EZL / EE @ 30 / 13 / 1.5 kV

Wednesday, February 28, 2018, 14:06: BIAS / EZL / EE @ 40 / 17 / 2.0 kV

Wednesday, February 28, 2018, 14:11: BIAS / EZL / EE @ 55 / 24 / 2.8 kV

Wednesday, February 28, 2018, 14:16: BIAS / EZL / EE @ 60 / 28 / 3.1 kV

Wednesday, February 28, 2018, 14:18: BIAS / EZL / EE @ 62 / 30 / 3.2 kV

Wednesday, February 28, 2018, 14:21: BIAS / EZL / EE @ 63 / 31 / 3.2 kV

Wednesday, February 28, 2018, 14:26: BIAS / EZL / EE @ 65 / 32.5 / 3.2 kV

Wednesday, February 28, 2018, 14:32: BIAS / EZL / EE @ 66 / 33 / 3.3 kV

Wednesday, February 28, 2018, 14:35: BIAS / EZL / EE @ 66.5 / 33.5 / 3.3 kV ***2 sparks***

Wednesday, February 28, 2018, 14:37: BIAS / EZL / EE @ 66 / 33 / 3.3 kV

Wednesday, February 28, 2018, 14:41: BIAS / EZL / EE @ 66.5 / 33 / 3.3 kV

Wednesday, February 28, 2018, 14:44: BIAS / EZL / EE @ 67 / 33 / 3.3 kV

Wednesday, February 28, 2018, 14:47: BIAS / EZL / EE @ 68 / 33 / 3.3 kV

Wednesday, February 28, 2018, 14:49: BIAS / EZL / EE @ 68.75 / 33 / 3.3 kV ***Spark***

Wednesday, February 28, 2018, 14:51: BIAS / EZL / EE @ 68 / 33 / 3.3 kV

Wednesday, February 28, 2018, 14:57: *** 2 sparks ***

The BIAS was pushed to 69 kV however the resulting sparks shut down the communications with the test stand computer.

RPM0B was put into a continuous running cycle and had to be shut off manually.

The voltage was brought back down remotely via a separate computer. Turbo pump TMS : TP2 was also restarted.

Turning up bias, no corona discharge at 60kV but a spark at 61.5kV bias, 31kV EZL, -800V EE

Thursday, March 01, 2018, 10:26: BIAS / EZL / EE @ 65 / 32.5 / 3.2 kV

Thursday, March 01, 2018, 10:32: Spark* Knocked out turbo pump TMS : TP6 (Restarted) Communications restarted. RPM0A restarted.

Thursday, March 01, 2018, 10:44: BIAS / EZL / EE @ 61 / 30.5 / 3.1 kV

I have removed the resistor/varistor combinations that go between the poles of the target and tube heaters, and between those two supplies. I tested all the components to make sure they were still working after the sparks - for the record the varistors clamp at 23V, not 33V as implied by the schematic.

Tuesday, March 06, 2018, 10:48  BIAS/EE/EZL = 59.5/-1000/29.5  There was some kind of spark, the current on the bias supply went up to 400uA ( normally at 40 +/- 5 ) and the vacuum jumped a bit ( but still in the 10e-7 range ) but I didn't hear anything. It took out TP6 again. See first attachment.

Tuesday, March 06, 2018, 10:54  BIAS/EE/EZL = 60/-1/30

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Problems

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Tuesday, March 06, 2018, 12:00 BIAS/EE/EZL = 60/-1.5/29

Tuesday, March 06, 2018, 12:37 BIAS/EE/EZL = 62/-1.5/30

Tuesday, March 06, 2018, 14:11 BIAS/EE/EZL = 64/-1.5/31 No sparks but occasional ticking sounds from either the EZL or behind where the EE is... see second screenshot

Tuesday, March 06, 2018, 14:40 BIAS/EE/EZL = 65/-1.5/33

Test stand has been sitting at 65kV for about an hour now. Some small increases in bias power supply current but nothing significant (40uA). Some small sparks on the way to this voltage, and I ramped up very slowly. The corona discharges seen before seem to be related to the resistor/varistor combos since there are none now that I have removed them. Will redesign and reinstall.

The resistor/varistor combinations across the target + / -, tube + / - and target- / tube + have been remade and moved to the back of the power supplies to limit the corona discharges at higher voltages. Pictures attached.

First attachment: BIAS/EE/EZL = 63.25/-1.5/31 So far no issues.

Second attachment: BIAS/EE/EZL = 64.25/-1.5/32 Slight spark - bias current jumped from 40uA to 88uA and vacuum jumped from 2e-7 to 2e-6... Steerers went off.

Third attachment: BIAS/EE/EZL = 65/-1.5/32  Some small signs of instability in the bias power supply

Fourth attachment :  BIAS/EE/EZL = 65/-1.5/32  Been running for 20 mins now. More variation on the bias current output than at lower voltages but not too bad

Monday, March 12, 2018, 09:45: Gas lines opened. Leak rate set. Vacuum @ 1.16e-06T

Monday, March 12, 2018, 10:00: RGA on

Monday, March 12, 2018, 10:07: RGA off. Manually shut off power as well

Pressure:

Ramping up:

• Second attachment - bias at 50kV
• Third attachment - bias at 60kV
• Fourth attachment - bias at 65kV

Pressure has been slowly falling since we started this test - now down to 8.7e-7

Spark after 10 mins, see attachment 5. Very slight vacuum jump (8.5e-7 -> 1.2e-6) and bias current jump (36uA -> 113uA). Tripped TP6 and the steerers, as usual. Bias current read back more erratic afterwards (see sixth attachment).

System has been stable for 20mins, though current on bias is still more erratic than before the spark. Increasing He leak rate from 7 to 7.06 to bring vacuum back up to 2e-6 (see attachment 7). No effect from increased pressure.

Tuesday, March 13, 2018, 05:52: Power off.

Tuesday, March 13, 2018, 05:56: Waterlines purged

Tuesday, March 13, 2018, 05:57: Ion gauge, Turbos off.

Tuesday, March 20, 2018, 09:11: TMS:Q5 & TMS:Q2 controllers require repair. Unable to hold a negative voltage.

+ @ 680V

- @ 0V (Should be 680V as well)

Kyle L. & Rod N notified.

Tuesday, March 20, 2018, 12:58: The controller was fixed.

Started with Anode at 25V and coil at 0A, bias at 30kV. (attachment 1)

Ramped coil to 60A (0.4V) (attachment 2)

Ramped bias to 51kV, but then TP6 turned off and there was a momentary 0.2A decrease in the TGHT current. No spike in BIAS current seen, maybe TP6 is turning off for another reason? (attachment 3)

At 57kV, a small spark, heard outside the vacuum, sounding like it comes somewhere near the blue racks which hold the power supplies. It has sounded like that to me before. Did not turn anything off but bias current spiked from 110uA to 280uA. (attachment 4)

At 57.5kV another spark, taking down TP1B and TP6, as well as the CB1 steerers and TPS:Q1/2. TGHT current dropped momentarily from 581A to 240A, or so says EPICS. Maybe just a communications effect? Voltage for TBHT also dropped but nothing seen on TBHT. Coil current and voltage also showed small effects. (attachment 5)

After 10mins at 60kV, spike in bias current with slight spike in EE current but no other effects.

After 20mins everything has been stable, will turn the bias back to 30kV. As I turn the bias voltage down, the EE current ramps up. No change to EE voltage... (attachment 6)

Wednesday, April 11, 2018, 10:19: Roughing

Tuesday, April 17, 2018, 10:57: Vacuum not coming down. @ 1.514T . Backing valves have been closed.

TSG:CG1A @ 1.515T

TSG:CG1B @ 1.529T.

Tuesday, April 17, 2018, 11:02: TSG:PV1 Closed. Roughing pump off.

Vacuum group notified.

Wednesday, April 18, 2018: Replace pump & adapters. Clean.

Wednesday, April 18, 2018, 08:45: Start TSG:RP1 and open PV1, BV1A  & BV1B

Wednesday, April 18, 2018, 08:55: exhaust pipe/mesh cleared out back

Wednesday, April 18, 2018, 08:57: Turbo pumps on.

RP status ok.

Thursday, April 19, 2018, 08:30: waterlines opened. No response on RGA. Vacuum @ 3.42e-07T

Thursday, April 19, 2018, 12:52: Pin J1 was reconnected into the anode power supply. All jumpers were put back to remote control.

NOTE: the cable EXTLKT is still not connected. I will ask Carla about this one.

Thursday, April 19, 2018, 18:00: Cable EXTLKT connected.

Thursday, April 19, 2018, 18:12  When turning the transformer on, the Anode PS was not turned on. Neither the TGHT.

Thursday, April 19, 2018, 18:30: I turned off everything. Will check tomorrow with someone. 

Friday, April 20, 2018, 11:01 : Issue fixed. I've attached a picture of the jumpers connection for future references

The fan in the EZL power supply is making a terrible noise - keep an eye on it, it sounds like it might give up soon.

Monday, April 23, 2018, 10:47: The back panel was opened. Original entry stated EZL power supply issue. Corrected to BIAS PS. High voltage group notified. Fan replacement required.

Monday, May 14, 2018, 13:20: BIAS fans, external an internal were replaced. Re-installed @ TS.

Monday, May 14, 2018, 13:26: BIAS ramped up to 10 kV. Response ok on epics and locally on the PS. No odd noise on the fans either. The issue appears to be fixed.

Pump found off on Tuesday morning.

Tuesday, May 22, 2018, 08:40: Starting TP1A

Tuesday, May 22, 2018, 08:47: TP1A at speed

Tuesday, May 22, 2018, 16:33: Source and optics off

Wednesday, May 23, 2018, 08:30: Stopped TP

Wednesday, May 23, 2018, 14:10: Water purged

Thursday, May 24, 2018, 08:38: TPs stopped

Thursday, May 24, 2018, 09:18: Venting

Thursday, May 24, 2018, 14:30: IG6 replaced (second attempt) by Anthony. System pumping down

Thursday, May 24, 2018: Configured coil to be (-) E&F, (+) G&H. Water should be supplied to both terminals in either configuration.

Mass separator magnet timed out. Tried reconfigure. Called Kyle from controls who power cycled the CANbus card. This resolved the issue

(From the Source tray swap out.) - AS

Tuesday, June 05, 2018, 11:25: BIAS / EZL / EE @ 52 / 24 / 2.8 kV. SPARK *knocked out optics, magnet & Turbo TMS:TP6. IV4 closed/opened/reset. TP6/optics restarted. Magnet still off.

Complete failure of the communications with the magnet.

Wednesday, June 06, 2018, 13:40: Canbus contoller was swapped by Kyle L from Controls group. The old card was dead and replaced with a new one. The magnet is back and running.

Wednesday, June 06, 2018, 13:50:

It was noted yesterday during the TM2 Source HV tests that the E-rig was not running accordingly through the beam.

Upon turning on the PS, there a 45 second or so delay before the needle drops to the right at +500V and the PS no longer responds. (similar issue in August 2016)

Wednesday, June 06, 2018, 14:20: Soft reboot on Emittance rig communication. (Reboot IOC - Kyle LeBlanc)

Wednesday, June 06, 2018, 14:30: Calibrate

test scan & park

Reference parameters. Dac in bottom right corner to control PS.

Enter: 100 on Dac -- Reads 100 - On PS

Enter: 200 on Dac -- Reads 200 - On PS

Enter: 0 on Dac -- Reads 0 - On PS

Enter: -200 on Dac -- Reads -200 - On PS

The reboot fixed the erig/scanner.

TM2 Source tray still in.

Thursday, June 07, 2018, 09:20: Roughing.

Thursday, June 07, 2018, 12:42: Turbo pumps started.

Friday, June 08, 2018, 08:00: Anode run to 15 A. Short still apparent.

Friday, June 08, 2018, 08:12: Ion gauge, Turbos off.

Friday, June 08, 2018, 08:55: Venting.

Friday, June 08, 2018, 09:45: Anode connection investigated. Short found on the bracket once the anode wire was disconnected from the back screw (Picture)

Friday, June 08, 2018, 10:00: Removed 9-pin bracket. (Top connector left connected to TS. (Picture)

New Anode 9-pin connection/wire to be installed on the bracket. Test in the cold lab.

Friday, June 08, 2018, 10:12: Roughing.

Friday, June 08, 2018, 11:14: Turbo pumps started.

Friday, June 08, 2018, 12:31: Ion gauge on.

Tuesday, June 12, 2018, 06:18: Ion gauge & Turbo pumps off.

Tuesday, June 12, 2018, 07:40: Venting.