The optics at the teststand has been switched on, but TMS:CBC1 is not working. A fault report has been send to controls.

The cyclotron operators discovered a water leak in the magnet power supply. The water is valved off and the power is off. A fault report has been issued to the power supplies group.

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

found TSG:TP1B tripped off. Closed TSG:BV1B as pressure at TSG:iG1 was rising. Pressure is coming down again.

Tuesday, June 30, 2015 by AM

Found the control cable not completely inserted. Inserted cable, which tripped TP1A. Started both turbo pumps again.

Tuesday, June 30, 2015, 09:54: Both turbos at speed.

Tuesday, June 30, 2015, 09:56: Stopped turobs. BV1B does not close when TP1B is switched off. Requested Dave Morris to look into it. All remaining BVs close when TP is swithced off in TMS and TSG sections.

Wednesday, August 25, 2021, 15:29: Roughing.

Thursday, August 26, 2021, 04:11: IG1 switched on. Vacuum @ 8.35e-06T - AS 

Thursday, August 26, 2021, 14:04 Water on, no spike in vacuum. IG1:2.6e-6T

Thursday, August 26, 2021, 14:37 HV rack closed, BIAS EE and EZL power supplies on.

Thursday, August 26, 2021, 15:03 BIAS/EE/EZL 10000/-1000/9000

Thursday, August 26, 2021, 15:08 BIAS/EE/EZL 30000/-1500/13000 1 spark just when reached 30kV.

Thursday, August 26, 2021, 15:28 Series of sparks restarted the controling PC. Back in control BIAS/EE/EZL 48000/-2500/22000

Thursday, August 26, 2021, 15:34 BIAS/EE/EZL 50000/-2500/22000

Thursday, August 26, 2021, 15:48 BIAS/EE/EZL 55000/-2800/24000

Thursday, August 26, 2021, 15:53 Ramping down.

Monday, August 30, 2021, 10:25 turbos off.

Monday, November 27, 2023, 16:09  Roughing

Monday, November 27, 2023, 17:22 Both turbos are on, leaving vacuum over night.

Tuesday, November 28, 2023, 09:28  after pumping over night IG1 is at .15e-6 T. Water cooling on.

Tuesday, November 28, 2023, 14:34  HV test started. Sparks on the TC seen at BIAS/EE/EZL 31/-1.8/15kV. TC values recovered after sparks, TP6 tripped during sparks as well. Venting chamber to reposition TC.

Tuesday, November 28, 2023, 17:37 I couldn't manage to close properly the side door of the chamber... waiting for help tomorrow.

Wednesday, November 29, 2023, 10:51 Roughing started earlier in the morning. IG1 at 1e-5 T. Ramping up bias.

Wednesday, November 29, 2023, 11:41 HV tests lead to 45kV sparks on the TC. Nothing seen on the RPi.

Wednesday, November 29, 2023, 13:22 The ballast of TMSRP2 was opened to attempt to improve the roughing in the beam line section. Things appear to be somehow better now, TMSTP6 and TMSTP2 are on now.

Wednesday, November 29, 2023, 16:00 IG1 is at 3.58e-6. HV tests starting again.

Wednesday, November 29, 2023, 23:36 HV tests ended earlier in the afternoon. No spark up to 55kV when gauge in the HV cage started sparking as usual.

Wednesday, November 29, 2023, 23:38 TGHT and TBHT ramp up in preparation of mass scans in the morning. 1A/30s up to TGHT:400A, TBHT:160A

Thursday, November 30, 2023, 09:05  TGHT and TBHT ramp up in preparation of mass scans in the morning. 1A/30s up to TGHT:580A, TBHT:230A

Thursday, November 30, 2023, 12:12 Mass scans started earlier in the morning. 1st scan completed at 0.1A/s, repeating it again now with 0.05A/s.

Thursday, November 30, 2023, 15:04 HV tests again up to 55kV. 2 sparks inside the vacuum, to be checked if they affected TC measurement with the pi. Gauge still sparks in the upper HV cage.

Friday, December 01, 2023, 12:05.  Error saving mass scan data Thursday. Repeating mass scans at 0.02,0.01,0.005 scan speeds. note* must delete old data prior to saving. -> save procedure: Delete Old Data, Right click plot, save as plot.txt, click Clean, Show/Save Data, enter file name and save. Filenames: 2023-12-01-* 

Friday, December 01, 2023, 15:22.  Spent some time selectively tuning various elements of the beam. Report in local folder, file "2023-12-01 beam tuning".

Friday, December 01, 2023, 15:23. Recording mass scan with inactive quadrupole elements. File name 2023-12-01_Q-off.txt

Sunday, December 03, 2023, 22:02 : Vacuum looks good.  4e-7 T.   Heating up target for Monday morning. 1A/30s up to TGHT:580A, TBHT:230A

Monday, December 04, 2023, 12:21: This morning, increased BIAS to 30kV. Ran mass scan with adjusted beam tune up to FC0. This mass scan was repeated with inactive quadrupole elements up to FC0 to compare with Friday.  2023-12-02_RBsalt_SIS_test1.txt and 2023-12-02_RBsalt_SIS_test2.txt

Tuesday, December 05, 2023, 14:12 HV tests restarted, TC wire brought closer to the ground wall. IG1 at 2.3e-6 T. Ramping up HV.

Wednesday, December 06, 2023, 13:48 Both yesterday and today the TC wire was not close enough to spark even at 60kV. Venting the chamber one more time to bring the TC closer. 

Thursday, December 07, 2023, 10:18 Vacuum at 5e-7T we see sparks at about 47kV. Lost control of epics during sparks, PS shut off manually. Everything recovered after.

Thursday, December 07, 2023, 13:32 After spark tests at ~55kV, Pi seems not to be affected by the sparks. Tests without the power surge components yielded similar results. We discovered that the sparks on the TC are partially diverted by spark gaps and probably other elements in the top HV cage.

 Monday, December 11, 2023, 10:35 Turbopumps winding down.

Friday, August 09, 2024, 21:07 Insulators, retainer and Re foil have been replaced, source cup machined so the ion source does not short against it. Venting TS now.

Friday, August 09, 2024, 22:17 Roughing.

Friday, August 09, 2024, 22:35: TP1B on. - AS

Friday, August 09, 2024, 22:42: TP1A on. - AS.

Friday, August 09, 2024, 22:50: Both TP at speed. 2.65e-05T Vacuum. FS#5 open.

Friday, August 09, 2024, 22:52: PS on. - AS.

AS:

Saturday, August 10, 2024, 07:02: TGHT / TBHT @ 26 / 5 A. BIAS / EE / EZL @ 1 / -0.5 / 1 kV. TGHT tapped back down to 5 A. 

Saturday, August 10, 2024, 07:05: Auto-ramping TGHT / TBHT to 350 / 150 A @ 2 A per min.

Saturday, August 10, 2024, 07:27: Halt ramping @ 45 / 45 A. Set auto-ramping TGHT / TBHT to 500 / 230 @ 2 A per min. Optics are set.

Saturday, August 10, 2024, 09:59: BIAS / EE / EZL @ 30 / -1.5 / 13 kV. TGHT / TBHT @ 321 / 230 & still ramping. One spark on tap up.

Saturday, August 10, 2024, 10:02: Small peaks on RPM0A & RPM0B. No signal on FC0. One spark*.

Saturday, August 10, 2024, 10:07: Spark* 

Saturday, August 10, 2024, 10:11: BIAS / EE / EZL @ 1 / -0.5 / 1 kV. TGHT / TBHT @ 344 / 230 & still ramping.

Saturday, August 10, 2024, 11:35: BIAS / EE / EZL @ 30 / -1.5 / 13 kV 

Saturday, August 10, 2024, 11:38: 1 spark* 

Saturday, August 10, 2024, 11:40: TGHT / TBHT @ 500 / 230 A. FC0 & wire scans produced signals / peaks. 

Saturday, August 10, 2024, 11:45: Starting mass scan. 

Saturday, August 10, 2024, 12:17: Mass scan taken. Wire scans on Mass 27 taken. Signals noted on mass 40 & 138 approx. Also of note. One large spark. Steerers reset. Signal on TGHT current.

https://isacwserv.triumf.ca/onlylocal/isactdata/save_restore/masscorr/2024_07_26_Ta_67_thinfoil_1st_massscan.txt

Saturday, August 10, 2024, 12:21: Begin HV Check.

Saturday, August 10, 2024, 12:24: BIAS / EE / EZL @ 35 / -1.8 / 15 kV.

Saturday, August 10, 2024, 12:28: BIAS / EE / EZL @ 40 / -2.0 / 17 kV.

Saturday, August 10, 2024, 12:44: Began sparking after 40. Brought back down 

Saturday, August 10, 2024, 12:56: HV @ 0 kV. 

Saturday, August 10, 2024, 13:05: BIAS / EE / EZL @ 30 / -1.5 / 13 kV 

Saturday, August 10, 2024, 13:07: BIAS / EE / EZL @ 35 / -1.8 / 15 kV 

Saturday, August 10, 2024, 13:10: BIAS / EE / EZL @ 40 / -2.0 / 17 kV.

Saturday, August 10, 2024, 13:24: Spark* reset optics. 

Saturday, August 10, 2024, 13:44: BIAS / EE / EZL @ 30 / -1.5 / 13 kV  

Saturday, August 10, 2024, 14:03: HV to 0 kV. 

Saturday, August 10, 2024, 14:12: Begin Auto-cooling @ 2 A per min. 

Monday, August 12, 2024, 05:43: Sources Off. IV4 Closed.

Monday, August 12, 2024, 05:45: IG1 & Chamber TP off. 

Monday, August 12, 2024, 07:46: TS Computer rebooted. IV4 reset. PS off. Venting.

 Friday, November 22, 2019, 19:02: The new design for the PEEK irradiation will be tested.

Blinds were removed and a new LP-SIS assembly with a modify heatshield was installed. Three termocuples installed.

Friday, November 22, 2019, 19:04: Roughing 

Friday, November 22, 2019, 19:38: Turbos on

Friday, November 22, 2019, 19:46: TSGIG1 on

Monday, November 25, 2019, 15:43: Vacuum stable@ 5.73E-7T

Monday, November 25, 2019, 15:47: Waterlines open. No response on Vacuum

Monday, November 25, 2019, 15:51: RGA on.

Tuesday, November 26, 2019, 08:41: Vacuum stablet@ 5.2E-7T

 Tuesday, November 26, 2019, 15:04: Power on

Tuesday, November 26, 2019, 17:17: Auto-ramping  to 300A/150A on the TGHT/TBHT @ 6 A/min

Tuesday November 26, 2019 20:00: Thermocouple 3 gives signs to have a bad contact with the HS. "Luckily" it is the one attached to the HS itself. TH 1 and 2 show similar temperatures below 40degC at 500A. Ramping to 600A

 Tuesday November 26, 2019 20:46: 600A TH1 and 2 around 40degC slightly going down. Tomorrow it will be known the final steady-state temperature. The test shows tho that the temperature evolves similarly between the copper piece and the Peek assembly. Showing good contact.

FM

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 13:47: Th1=35, Th2=34.8, Th3=19.6 C.

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 13:49: Closing Farady cage to proceed with HV tests.

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 13:56: HV on. Optics set.

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 14:01: RGA off to protect it from potential sparks.

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 14:18: Bias/EE/EZL to 30/1.5/13 kV.\

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 14:25: Bias/EE/EZL to 40/2.0/17 kV.

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 14:28: Audible spark on top @ 48kV

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 14:29: Bias/EE/EZL to 50/2.5/22 kV.

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 14:35: Spark noticed on striptool, not audible.

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 14:36: Audible spark on top. not as loud as previous one.

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 14:39: Spark noticed on striptool, not audible.

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 14:39: Moving to 55kV to condition for 10 minutes then coming down to 50kV

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 14:42: Audible spark at 59kV. TP6 and CB knocked out.

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 14:46: Bias/EE/EZL to 55/2.8/24 kV.

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 14:50: Audible spark. TP6 , CB, optics knocked out..

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 14:51: Audible spark. TP6 , CB, optics knocked out.

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 15:01: Thermal incident (see elog 773)

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 15:03: All HV to 0 V

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 16:01: Resuming HV test. Max HV=50kV.

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 16:10: Bias/EE/EZL to 30/1.5/13 kV.

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 16:38: Bias/EE/EZL to 40/2.0/17 kV.

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 16:50: Spark

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 17:01: Spark

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 17:09: Spark to EZL. Instabilitiesafter this, TBHT insulator glowing blue

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 18:11:  Bias/EE/EZL to 0 kV.

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 18:11: Auto-cooling at 10 A/min (2.5A/15s).

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 19:13: IG1 off. Turbos off.

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 20:35: Venting. Tighten the 4 bolts from the heatshields as they were not done before the tests. Removing thermocouples as they might be causing some sparks.

Wednesday, November 27, 2019, 20:42: Roughing

Thursday, November 28, 2019, 07:00: Turbo pumps on.

Thursday, November 28, 2019, 07:06: Ion gauge on.

Tests on coil, temperature and the use of silver bolts.

(3) Vented silver bolts on the TBHT and (2) Full silver bolts on the coil

Wednesday, March 21, 2018, 14:10: Roughing.

Wednesday, March 21, 2018, 14:30: Turbo pumps on.

Wednesday, March 21, 2018, 14:35: Ion gauge on.

Wednesday, March 21, 2018, 14:42: RGA on.

Thursday, March 22, 2018, 06:52: Waterlines opened: Vacuum stable @ 3.04e-07T

Thursday, March 22, 2018, 06:53: Power/sources on.

Thursday, March 22, 2018, 06:56: IV4 Opened.

Thursday, March 22, 2018, 07:00: Auto ramping TGHT / TBHT to 580 / 200 A @ 2A per min.

Thursday, March 22, 2018, 07:04 : BIAS / EZL / EE @ 30 / 13 / 1.5 kV .

Thursday, March 22, 2018, 07:05: Optics on.

Thursday, March 22, 2018, 11:32: Out gassing noted. TBHT @ 200 A . TGHT @ 472 A. Ramping rate slowed automatically. Vacuum @ 3.03e-06T.

Thursday, March 22, 2018, 14:42: Out gassing continued. TGHT @ 570A.  Auto ramping TGHT / TBHT to 580 / 250 A @ undefined rate according to vacuum. Vacuum @ 3.03e-06T

Friday, March 23, 2018, 08:11: Auto ramping TBHT from 250 A to 290 A @ 2A per min. TGHT @ 580 A.

Friday, March 23, 2018, 10:20: Anode @ 100V & 8.5mA.

Friday, March 23, 2018, 10:28: Coil @ 50 A

Friday, March 23, 2018, 10:34: Anode @ 200V & 11 mA.

Friday, March 23, 2018, 13:08: RGA froze. Restart RGA

Sunday, March 25, 2018, 20:34 Vacuum stable @ 4.3e-07T . 

Sunday, March 25, 2018, 20:34: TBHT @ 290 A. TGHT @ 580 A.

Sunday, March 25, 2018, 20:34 :  Coil @ 50 A ^ 0.5 V

Sunday, March 25, 2018, 20:34 : Increasing Coil to 60 A

Sunday, March 25, 2018, 20:43: Vacuum seemed to increase to 4.4e-07T. 

Monday, March 26, 2018, 06:45: Optics on. Vacuum stable @ 4.38e-07T

Fernando

Wednesday, March 28, 2018, 08:31: Optics on. Vacuum stable @  3.57e-7T

Wednesday, March 28, 2018, 16:2: After increasing the coil current to to 75, A the coil voltage started to show an oscillating behaviour. (see image ttached)

When increased to 80 A the oscillatory behaviour increases. Reducing the current to 65A and then increasing it to 70 A showed a steady behaviour

Thursday, March 29, 2018, 15:51: Ramping down EZL, BIAS, and TGHT for the long weekend

Tuesday, April 03, 2018, 09:14: Vaccum at 1.77e-7T

Tuesday, April 03, 2018, 09:14 : Auto ramping TGHT / TBHT to 550/ 250A @ 2A per min.

Tuesday, April 03, 2018, 09:18 : BIAS / EZL / EE @ 30 / 13 / 1.5 kV  

Tuesday, April 03, 2018, 09:23 : Optics on

Wednesday, April 04, 2018, 08:39: Ramping TBHT to 290A @ 2A per min. TGHT remains @ 550 A

 Friday, April 6, 2018, afternoon: Due to inconsistencies on EPICS, Carla and I Change the Anode power supply to local in order to monitor the leakage current with a multimeter.

Monday, April 9, 2018, afternoon: TBHT@350A and TGHT@550A 

PS went current limited at AnodeBias=300V and show 3A on the PS Screen, the multimeter read the same.

Ramp down to 0 V 0A on PS. PS shows 0.01V

PS goes to limited current even at 2V.

Tuesday, April 10, 2018, 09:10: Problem persists even at lower TBHG (330A). 

The output cable was removed and the power power supply seemed to behave better. This could mean that there is a short inside the unit, in the past the anode cable had melted into the cup.

Planning to ramp down the TBHT and see if the behaviour remains. If it does, I would ask to remove the unit for inspection.

Tuesday, April 10, 2018, 09:32 : Ramping down TBHTH to 250A

Tuesday, April 10, 2018, 13:07 : Same behaviour. Cooling procedure started to see if the issue is still present, anf if it does remove unit for inspection

Wednesday, April 11, 2018, 06:44: RGA, power/sources confirmed off. IV4 closed. Ion gauge & turbos off.

Wednesday, April 18, 2018, 13:00: Post use comparison of the coil - A.S

1) Used coil from this FEBIAD = 1.999mΩ ***

2) Unused coil A = 2.421mΩ

3) unused coil B = 2.451mΩ

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

Wednesday, June 19, 2019, 17:13  Ferran and Fernando tested the 9-pin connector to have a reading on a thermocouple following the connections used by Aurelia (see elog 721).

Wednesday, June 19, 2019, 17:24: Test succesful!

Monday, June 24, 2019, 15:25: Current quadrupole polarities:

Monday, June 24, 2019, 15:35 : The polarity on TMS:Q3 is reversed. The top and bottom poles should be at a positive voltage similar to TMS:Q4, however a negative tagged cable is connected to it.

Monday, June 24, 2019, 15:39 : Swapping the cables on TMS:Q3.

Tuesday, June 25, 2019, 16:15: While inspecting the 9-pin connection with Ferran, it was noticed how two braided cables were burnt out pretty bad to the point they were separated in half (see attached pictures).  Additionally the plastic insulator for the anode wire was melted.

Tuesday, June 25, 2019, 16:30: Braided cables need to be changed and anode wire redone. 

Tuesday, June 25, 2019, 17:16: Wondering if this happened during TM4 source tray conditioning given the following entries in the elog (entry 725):

Monday, June 03, 2019, 09:51: BIAS down to 50 kV. Burnt plastic smell lingering. Wait* 

Tuesday, June 04, 2019, 10:29: Note* Minute fluctuations of Anode current have ended after the spark. Also slight 'Burnt' smell noticed around the test stand area.

See elog 737 

Thursday, June 27, 2019, 09:45: The cables showing burnt marks were changed with new ones on Wednesday 26th. The grounding cables were insulated with yellow heatshrink. The anode wire connection was redone.

 Tuesday, July 02, 2019, 18:24: A blind is installed  on the FEBIAD gas line (see attached picture)  to rule out the possibility of  gases entering the TIS.

Monday, July 15, 2019, 15:54 : TBHT high current cables moved to Coil feedthroughs.

Coil high current cables moved to TBHT feedthroughs.

Resistor across  Coil feedthroughs E and F are now moved between TBHT feedthroughs A and B.

Tuesday, July 16, 2019, 09:00

A braided cable between F and H was changed due to the burnt aspect it had. Most likely this cable was burnt along the previous ones (see entry 740) but since it was uniformed blacked and not broken I didn't noticed it.

Resistor/Varistor between TGHT and TBHT removed.

Tuesday, July 16, 2019, 10:27: The idea of this run is to have the full 600 A from TGHT and the full 600 A from TBHT.

This will done based on the rewiring done previously (see entry 745)

Tuesday, July 16, 2019, 12:16: Jumper cable F-H burning while target was at 600 A total. Ramp up aborted and auto-cooling started to remove the jumper.

Jumper removed.

TBHT cables on both positive coil FT.

Jumper E-G removed.

High current cable connecting F-H.

Tuesday, July 16, 2019, 16:49

Current ramped up to 300A + 300A on TGHT and TBHT in parallel, for an equivalent of 600A on the target. No burn to anything noticed, PS ramping nicely together. Stopped ramping up and started ramp down for the night.

After submitting a fault report (FR - ISAC Fault 12461) a Work Permit was issued (WP - C2019-07-19-1),

Controls tunnel the faulty signal to another ADC by removing signal no longer used at the Test Stand.

Test successful with a constant current power supply in the range 1 nA-40 nA.

TBD: does this work with beam?

Wednesday, August 07, 2019, 15:12:  Arthur helped inspected the electric connections on the TS.

One of the coil positive waterlines  was touching a HS waterline. Manually adjusted them to have a better clearance.

Thursday, August 15, 2019, 16:17: Q FT undone to remove the connection to the 9-pin

The idea is to change the cables to have individual signals. This will allow 4 thermocouple readings.

NB: The FT is not vacuum tight as of now  (gasket needs to be replaced and flange needs to be tight)