Thursday, November 15, 2012

Gun off for thanksgiving


  • Extractor 5.02 kV current 107.2 uA fil 2.33 A 15 Nov 12
  • Gun vac 2.72 e-10 system 1.2e-10 before gun off
  • Gun vac drops slightly to 2.27 e-10 while gun runs down 
before restart on Mon 26 Oct 12
  • Gun vac 1.1e-10, system 1.3e-10, gun vac fluctuates near zero
  • have "column pumping" = pumping, "ready", occasionally off, EHT vac ready = no
  • Throttle ion pump, open Ar leak valve to get system pressure 1e-8, try to get SEM ion pressure stable above 1e-10. Not enough, pressure (ion pump current monitor) fluctuates below 1e-10
  • Have to open pump bypass, get ion pump pressure ~ 3 e-10 with no fluctuations below 1e-10, after ~ 100 sec stable pressure, EHT vac goes to ready, now start gun run up
Extractor reaches 5020 V at 9:50
9:50  78.4 uA
9:53  83.4
9.56  85.2  also close bypass, gun vac 8.8e-11
10:13  92.3
11:48 105.6 close to steady state

On Tuesday, gun 107.8 uA EHT off, 62 uA EHT on 3 kV, 42.5% extraction

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