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ID Date Author Target/No.# Source Station Module Target Oven W.O# Heat Shield W.O#down Status Subject
  912   Monday, February 28, 2022, 08:08 Aaron Schmidt LP-SIS     Mass marker / Coil-Tube target Test #2

Installed & roughing Friday. 

Monday, February 28, 2022, 08:07: Turbopump TP1B on.

Monday, February 28, 2022, 09:21: TP1A on.

New thermocouple setup:

  Rack position Multipin position Target position
TC1

5,9

 -  -
TC2 1,2  4,5  Right side of Ta oven
TC3 6,7  8,9  Left side of Ta oven

Monday, February 28, 2022, 18:57 : Data logging started. Forgot to set interval, not sure what it is at....

 

PLAN:

Ramp up coil to 50A, record temperatures

Ramp coil down then ramp target and tube to same values as before, record temperatures.

Ramp coil as before.


Tuesday, March 01, 2022, 14:52: Vacuum @ 1.60e-06T. Waterlines opened - AS

Tuesday, March 01, 2022, 14:54: Vacuum ok.


Turbos stopped Wednesday night. Ready to be uninstalled after venting and water purging.

  913   Monday, March 21, 2022, 13:59 Carla Babcock       3rd mass marker test

3rd version of the mass marker target has been installed. This one is further back on the heat shield, and has a longer ceramic piece attached. There are three thermocouples as follows:

Thermocouple Source tray pins Rack position Target location

TC1

1,2  4,5  ceramic feeder tube
TC2 4,5  1,2  Right side oven
TC3 8,9  6,7  Left side oven

 

Monday, March 21, 2022, 13:55 : Roughing down.

Monday, March 21, 2022, 16:45 : Turbos have been on for a few hours. Starting water.

Monday, March 21, 2022, 17:20 : Only TC1 has to be tested with heating and maybe swapped if it is the wrong way around. Otherwise ready to go.

 

Thursday, March 24, 2022, 10:51 : Ramping up heaters to test thermocouples.


AS:

Monday, April 04, 2022, 09:10: Power locked out. IG1 & Turbo pumps off. HV top cage removed.

  914   Monday, April 04, 2022, 20:44 Carla Babcock       Change from 9-pin connectors to 5-pin connectors

Swapped the old 9pin connectors out and replaced with 2 5-pin connectors, same as on the modules.

See attached for current pin out diagram. Many of the wires are too short to reach the bottom sockets, so wires 2, 8, 9 are not connected in the connector. 4 spots are empty on connector 2 (right).  (6, 7) and (4, 5) are twisted pairs. Unused wires are tapped up out of the way, but we should improve this, the tape may come loose due to heat and then the wires could present an HV risk. (Update: added some wire to hold them in place. Slightly better...)

Need to either extend the wires, or put in new ones. All wires are grounded on the rack.

In addition, there are two screws in each connector which are floating right now. Need to make a connection for them but should be ok if we dont go to really high voltages.

  915   Monday, April 04, 2022, 20:56 Carla Babcock       wiring reverted for cathode-bias FEBIAD

Wiring which was changed to run the mass marker tests has been reverted:

  • anode bias cable connected to "B"
  • tube negative attached to HV common through "B" to "F" connection

Ready for cathode biased FEBIAD operation.

  918   Monday, April 11, 2022, 14:52 Aaron Schmidt      Problems/SolutionsTP6 controller

Monday, April 11, 2022, 13:58: Controller for TP6 is dead. Literally smokes if you try to use it.

Monday, April 11, 2022, 14:51: TP6 Controller is replaced. TP6 on.

  919   Wednesday, April 13, 2022, 07:46 Aaron Schmidt      Problems/SolutionsWater leak

Wednesday, April 13, 2022, 07:38: Appears to have a water leak. Vacuum @ 8.48e-06T. All power / sources shut off. (Had already tripped).

Wednesday, April 13, 2022, 07:44: All waterlines closed. Water leak confirmed. Vacuum dropped to 2.33e-06T.

Wednesday, April 13, 2022, 08:23: Vacuum @ 2.06e-06T.

Wednesday, April 13, 2022, 08:28: Open FS#2. Vacuum @ 2.06e-06T.

Wednesday, April 13, 2022, 08:34: Vacuum @ 2.06e-06T. Open FS#3. Vacuum @ 2.06e-06T.

Wednesday, April 13, 2022, 08:39:. Open FS#4. immediate spike to 2.57e-06T.

Wednesday, April 13, 2022, 08:44: All lines closed & purged.

Wednesday, April 13, 2022, 08:47: Opened FS#4 w/ added air pressure (40 PSI). Immediate spike noticed.

Wednesday, April 13, 2022, 08:50: FS#5 Pressurized. No change. Leak appears on FS#4.

Wednesday, April 13, 2022, 08:51: IG1 & Turbo pumps off.

 

  920   Wednesday, April 20, 2022, 13:42 Aaron Schmidt       Vent Beamline half

Aurelia to do a visual test later.

Wednesday, April 20, 2022, 13:41: IG6 Off. TP6 & TP2 off.


Tests by AL were complete. Installed a fresh gasket on the rear window.

Thursday, April 21, 2022, 12:04: BV6 open. Roughing.

Thursday, April 21, 2022, 12:06: BV2 open.

Thursday, April 21, 2022, 12:11: TMS:TP6 on.

Thursday, April 21, 2022, 12:15: TMS:TP2 on.

Thursday, April 21, 2022, 12:16: TMS:TP6 Green.

Thursday, April 21, 2022, 12:20: TMS:TP2 Green.

  921   Thursday, April 21, 2022, 13:38 Aaron Schmidt      Problems/SolutionsLeak checks

https://elog.triumf.ca/TIS/Test-Stand/919

Vacuum Group LD#1

(A) Top feed through fittings upgraded

Thursday, April 21, 2022, 13:11: Pumping directly on FS#4-Line A (TBHT). Leak rate @ 0.0E-07 atm-cc/sec.

Thursday, April 21, 2022, 13:13: Sprayed He on Block (A) & the TBHT solder joints. No signal change.

(B) Top feed through fittings upgraded.

Thursday, April 21, 2022, 13:39: Pumping directly on FS#4-Line B (TBHT). Leak rate @ 0.0E-07 atm-cc/sec.

Thursday, April 21, 2022, 13:42: Sprayed He on Block (A) & the TBHT solder joints. Dips up to a Leak rate @ 0.1E-07 atm-cc/sec & back to 0.0.

Disconnect LD. Will need to pressurize w/ He.

Thursday, April 21, 2022, 14:09: Pressurize FS#4-Line B (TBHT) to 50 PSI.

Thursday, April 21, 2022, 14:20: False positives. Saturated the area w/ He. LD off & lines depressurized.


Tuesday, April 26, 2022, 11:14: Leak rate @ 0.0E-07 atm-cc/sec. (No He)

Tuesday, April 26, 2022, 11:15: Pressurize FS#4-Line B (TBHT) to 120 PSI.

Tuesday, April 26, 2022, 11:20: Checked TBHT solder joints & water block (B). Leak rate @ 0.0E-07 atm-cc/sec. Disconnect, purge, & swap fittings to (A)

Tuesday, April 26, 2022, 11:31: Pressurize FS#4-Line A (TBHT) to 120 PSI. Leak rate @ 0.0E-07 atm-cc/sec

Tuesday, April 26, 2022, 11:38: Checked TBHT solder joints & water block (A). Leak rate @ 0.4E-07 atm-cc/sec on the water block.  Disconnect, purge.


Wednesday, April 27, 2022, 10:38: Indium gasket installed on FS#4-Line A water block.

Wednesday, April 27, 2022, 10:43: Leak rate @ 0.0E-07 atm-cc/sec. (No He)

Wednesday, April 27, 2022, 10:44: Spiked as soon as He was applied.

Wednesday, April 27, 2022, 11:14: Line A removed.

Wednesday, April 27, 2022, 11:40: Line A reinstalled after inspection w/ new Indium gasket fitted. Gasket only. No C-Seal.

Wednesday, April 27, 2022, 11:44: Leak rate @ 0.0E-07 atm-cc/sec. (No He)

Wednesday, April 27, 2022, 11:46: Spiked as soon as He was applied.

Wednesday, April 27, 2022, 11:53: New Indium gasket fitted. Gasket only. No C-Seal.

Leak rate @ 0.0E-07 atm-cc/sec. (No He)

Wednesday, April 27, 2022, 11:54: Pressurize to 30 PSI. Leak rate @ 0.0E-07 atm-cc/sec

Wednesday, April 27, 2022, 11:57: Pressurize to 50 PSI. Leak rate gradually increased to the (X)E-05 atm-cc/sec range.


Multiple leak checks & gasket attempts Thursday.


Monday, May 02, 2022, 09:45: Indium gasket installed w/ 90-100 inch pounds of torque. Used a heat gun up to 90. Allowed to cool, then given one more tightening.

Monday, May 02, 2022, 09:57: Leak rate @ 0.0E-08 atm-cc/sec. (No He) using the sniffer.

Monday, May 02, 2022, 09:59: Initial leak rate @ 0.0E-08 atm-cc/sec. (w/ 120 PSI He)

Monday, May 02, 2022, 10:11: Leak rate @ 0.0E-08 atm-cc/sec. (w/ 120 PSI He).

Monday, May 02, 2022, 10:20: BV1B open. Rouging

Monday, May 02, 2022, 10:22: BV1A open.

Monday, May 02, 2022, 11:51: TP1B on.

Monday, May 02, 2022, 11:57: TP1A on.

Monday, May 02, 2022, 12:05: IG1 on.

Monday, May 02, 2022, 12:10: Vacuum @ 4.19e-05T & dropping.

Monday, May 02, 2022, 13:59: Vacuum @ 1.33e-05T

Monday, May 02, 2022, 14:04: FS#4 open. Vacuum @ 1.33e-05T. Stable. No immediate Spike.

Monday, May 02, 2022, 14:05: FS#2 open. Vacuum @ 1.33e-05T.

Monday, May 02, 2022, 14:06: FS#3 open. Vacuum @ 1.33e-05T.

Monday, May 02, 2022, 14:09: FS#5 open. Vacuum @ 1.33e-05T. Stable.

 

  922   Monday, May 02, 2022, 14:10 Aaron Schmidt P2N-SIS     Empty Chamber PS test.

No P2N is loaded. Testing the power supplies.

Tuesday, May 03, 2022, 10:07

In the past few days, the ITS has been reconfigured for P2N operation:

  •  The two ATTS PS were moved to the ITS rack, one on top of the TGHT and the other instead of the COIL
  • AC rewiring was necessary since the breakers were not connected to the wires. Marshall was on it and re-connected
  • Ray has configured the ATTS PLC to be compatible with P2N operation in ITS
  • The controls cables to the MASTER and SLAVE supplies have been configured: the cables come from the front of the PS rack, so we could close the back and top cage if we wanted. One control cable was connected to the relay to send the proper ENABLE signal only when the ITS vacuum and water flow are OK
  • DC cables re-routed for P2N parallel operation:
    MASTER+ = D
    MASTER- = C
    SLAVE+ = E,G 
    SLAVE- = F,H
    TBHT+ = A
    TBHT- = B

Wednesday, May 04, 2022, 07:54: PS main shutoff. IG1 & Turbo pumps off.

  924   Monday, May 09, 2022, 10:08 Luca Egoriti P2N-SISITETM4  In progressP2N heating test

Beginning of May:

The cabling on the top of the test stand was changed to adapt for P2N testing. The TGHT and COIL PS were disconnected, and their DC cable terminals were connected instead to the TDK-LAMBDA P2Nheaters. The configuration on top of the ITS module is the following:

TBHT+ = A

TBHT- = B

MASTER+ = D

MASTER- = C

SLAVE+ = G/E

SLAVE- = F/H

 

Friday May 6th, afternoon

Once the pressure was almost stable in the low E-6 torr range, the first rampup was conducted up to ~600 A and the I,V parameters looked similar to previous P2N units. More tests to full current happening next week.

 

Monday, May 09, 2022, 09:29

P2N unit is being heated now, the automatic ramping utility is ramping the TDK-LAMBDAs while the TBHT is being increased manually.

Monday, May 09, 2022, 10:31

A voltage event happened, the TBHT voltage increased frmo 0.64 V to 0.73 V, while the P2Nheater dropped from  1.73 V to 1.56 V. 

 

 

Monday, May 09, 2022, 12:19

At P2NHT=950A it was noticed that one leg of the P2N was glowing much more than the other, the ramping was first stopped and then ramped down.

Now the P2NHT=282A and TBHT=47A

 

Tuesday, May 10, 2022, 09:32

Test stand vented and target inspected, there is no obvious sign of damage or misconnection on the tantalum assembly. Some resistance measurements were taken across target elements and connections: 

Screw on copper L to bottom flexy leg L = 117

Bottom flexy leg L to top flexy leg L = 24 / 0 (?)

top flexy leg L to bottom elephant leg L = 64

elephant L to elephant R = 360

top flexy leg R to bottom elephant leg R = 69

Bottom flexy leg R to top flexy leg R = 0 (?)

Screw on copper R to bottom flexy leg R = 125

 

Tuesday, May 10, 2022, 11:39

This morning, the target was inspected but nothing major was noticed, hence it was put back in the ITS for heating.

 

Tuesday, May 10, 2022, 17:40

Target being ramped: so far all good, total current in P2NHT=690A and TBHT=116A

A current measuring clamp was used to measure current in the 4/0 cables. The only bad thing is that the slave outputs half the current than the master, making the cables hotter (30deg vs 24deg).

Currents:

A-B ~116 A (TBHT)

C~468

E~124

G~102

 

Tuesday, May 10, 2022, 17:45

Event: reduction in P2NHT voltage and increase in TBHT voltage. After letting the PS ramp, it was noticed that the P2NHT voltage accelerated its increased, and the left leg started glowing like the previous time. The current was immediately ramped down, but still there was a voltage spike upwards in the P2NHT. 

While the leg was glowing hot, the current between feedthroughs H (P2NHT-) and I (HV common) was 90A. Now that the "episode" is not there any more, the current is zero

 

Wednesday, May 11, 2022, 10:55 

The previous P2N target had stainless steel screws at the bottom, where the copper L-shaped connector and the ta foil legs connect, which might have bene the cause of the gap opening and voltage increase. Now, the target manufactured for the previous beamtime is used, which does not have the cuts on the elephant ears but they are OK since don't interfere with the new IS cup design, and are ~3mm away from it.

 

Wednesday, May 11, 2022, 13:57 

 Start heating the new P2N assembly

Wednesday, May 11, 2022, 14:58

 Stopped at

P2NHT= 501 A

TBHT= 95 A

All currents seem to be flowing in the right path, with no current in the jumper between H-I

 

Wednesday, May 11, 2022, 15:26

Voltage step in P2NHT and TBHT happened again. Current sum:

A = 125 A

B = 125 A

C= 470 A

D=474 A

E = 118 A

F= 85 A

G = 95 A

H = 132 A

Short G-E = 5 A

Short F-H = 3 A

Jumper H-I = 62 A

 

The most likely explanation of this jump is that the IS tip touches the plasma electrode as shown in the drawing below which would result in some current flowing through the jumper, more investigations are needed

 

Thursday, May 12, 2022, 08:19

Test stand opened, there is some sign of burn in the plasma electrode, but it's hard to say if it's because they were touching. Aaron added a tantalum 0.040" shim to the plasma electrode to distance it further from the target IS tube

 

Thursday, May 12, 2022, 13:20

ITS with P2N target installed and pumping down 

 

Thursday, May 12, 2022, 15:50

P2NHT started ramping 

  929   Friday, May 27, 2022, 07:19 Fernando Maldonado      DoneFEBIAD parameter scan web-app and brief description (with links)

A web-app for systematic FEBIAD parametrizations has been develop and  now includes the ISAC Test Stand (ITS) :

https://beta.hla.triumf.ca/degaussing/FEBIAD-scan/

Upon landing in the web-app the ITS will be selected by default as well as the TMS:FC6:SCALECUR faraday cup, which corresponds the last cup of the ITS beamline.

To run a similar scan but on the total source current (FC0) the field has to change from TMS:FC6:SCALECUR to TMS:FC0:SCALECUR.

 

Each measurement will create a unique id (measurement_id), and the data can be retrieved from

https://beta.hla.triumf.ca/jaya/data/get/measure_id

 

Plot and analysis routines for the data generated by the FEBIAD-scan can be found in 

https://jupyter.triumf.ca/hub/login

for which you need a TRCOMP account. The routines are located in the group folder 

/group/ionsrc/fernando

  933   Monday, June 20, 2022, 11:49 Aaron Schmidt       Pump down empty chamber

Monday, June 20, 2022, 11:49: Water line loop installed. Roughing.


Thursday, June 23, 2022, 09:25: Venting.

  935   Thursday, June 30, 2022, 13:50 Aaron Schmidt       Pump down empty chamber

Thursday, June 30, 2022, 13:46: Roughing.


Thursday, July 07, 2022, 15:00: Venting.

  937   Sunday, July 10, 2022, 22:19 Aaron Schmidt      Problems/SolutionsTP2 Trip / TMS:RP2 issue

 Sunday, July 10, 2022, 22:19: A trip was noted on TP2. the backing pressure is quite high. Shutting off the turbo pumps for the beamline side.


Monday, July 11, 2022, 06:01: Venting.

Monday, July 11, 2022, 08:12: RP1 off.

Monday, July 11, 2022, 09:01: RP changed. SN#LPA49885

Monday, July 11, 2022, 09:02: Down to 0.032T Fast. TP2 & TP6 on.

Monday, July 11, 2022, 09:08: Pumps up to speed. IG6 on.

  938   Monday, July 11, 2022, 09:17 Aaron Schmidt      In progressPump down empty chamber

Monday, July 11, 2022, 09:15: Roughing.

  941   Thursday, September 29, 2022, 13:50 Aaron Schmidt      In progressPump down empty chamber

Water loop installed.

Thursday, September 29, 2022, 13:50: Roughing


Tuesday, October 18, 2022, 11:17: Venting

  943   Wednesday, October 19, 2022, 12:16 Aaron Schmidt       Test Stand controls changed

genepicsas.triumf.ca

x11 enabled.

Then use login credentials.

 

Wednesday, October 19, 2022, 12:10: Login. Success


Monday, November 07, 2022, 13:13 Use ATTS on putty page.

New ramping program:

Monday, November 07, 2022, 13:15: Auto-ramping TGHT /  TBHT to 20 A @ 4A per minute. (Testing new auto-ramp)

Monday, November 07, 2022, 13:19: Ramping complete:

  945   Tuesday, November 15, 2022, 15:32 Sam Gupta       ATTS tantalum Bracket Heating test

Heated up sample 01 for the second time and measured the temperature with increasing current. Used pyrometre to measure temperature and calibrated it with the emmissivity values from cassidy

  946   Wednesday, November 16, 2022, 13:28 Aaron Schmidt      Problems/SolutionsTSG:TP1A Replaced

 See elog 944

Wednesday, November 16, 2022, 13:23: TP1 A replaced

Wednesday, November 16, 2022, 13:25: Roughing.

Wednesday, November 16, 2022, 14:53: TP1B on

Wednesday, November 16, 2022, 14:56: TP1B at speed.

Wednesday, November 16, 2022, 14:58: TP1A on.

Wednesday, November 16, 2022, 15:07: TP1A at speed. IG1 on. Vacuum @ 3.32e-05T

 

 

  948   Monday, December 05, 2022, 15:41 Aaron Schmidt       Source tray insulator replacement

 Monday, December 05, 2022, 15:38: Source Tray TGHT & TBHT insulators replaced. 

Torqued @ 75 in-lbs. (Reference image attached)

 

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