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| 04/15/13 || 07:34 ||  536 || 1068 ||  -750 || 0.080 || 0.170 || Left it this way over the weekend
 
| 04/15/13 || 07:34 ||  536 || 1068 ||  -750 || 0.080 || 0.170 || Left it this way over the weekend
 
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| 04/15/13 || 07:40 ||  536 || 1110 ||  -750 || 0.000 || 0.080 ||
 
| 04/15/13 || 07:40 ||  536 || 1110 ||  -750 || 0.000 || 0.080 ||
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| 04/15/13 || 08:40 ||  536 || 1130 ||  -750 || 0.000 || 0.090 ||
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| 04/15/13 || 09:08 ||  536 || 1140 ||  -750 || 0.000 || 0.090 ||
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| 04/15/13 || 10:05 ||  536 || 1150 ||  -750 || 0.000 || 0.090 ||
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| 04/15/13 || 10:35 ||  536 || 1150 ||  -750 || 0.005 || 0.100 ||
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| 04/15/13 || 12:50||  536 || 1160 ||  -750 || 0.015 || 0.10 ||
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| 04/15/13 || 15:27||  536 || 1170 ||  -750 || 0.020 || 0.12 ||
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| 04/16/13 || 07:39||  536 || 1195 ||  -750 || 0.005 || 0.100 ||
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| 04/16/13 || 08:56||  536 || 1195 ||  -750 || 0.01 || 0.100 ||
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| 04/16/13 || 13:37||  536 || 1195 ||  -750 || 0.00 || 0.090 ||
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| 04/16/13 || 13:40||  536 || 1205 ||  -750 || 0.005 || 0.100 ||
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| 04/16/13 || 16:50||  536 || 1205 ||  -750 || 5.0 || 5.1 || Current is fluctuating around 5, but not entirely stable. No observed large spikes above 6.
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| 04/17/13 || 07:35||  536 || 1205 ||  -750 || 0 || 0 || found in tripped state.
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| 04/17/13 || 07:35||  536 || 1020 ||  -750 || 3 || 3 || during rise to 1175 V, current appeared unstable so I backed off to 1020V where it oscillated between 3 and <1. Letting it settle here before ramping back up to 1205.
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| 04/17/13 || 12:46||  536 || 1070 ||  -750 || 0.1 || 0.2 || increased Senve voltage by 20 volts until current fluctuations were seen on the field current
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| 04/17/13 || 14:48||  536 || 1090 ||  -750 || 0.01 || 0.1 ||
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| 04/17/13 || 14:48||  536 || 1110 ||  -750 || 0.01 || 0.1 ||some 5uA current spikes are occurring, leave at this voltage overnight.
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| 04/18/13 || 10:50||  536 || 1160 ||  -750 || 0.080 || 0.170 || Noticed some possible spiking, getting close to trip current at 1170, scaled back to 1160 and current stabilized within a minute.
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| 04/18/13 || 12:04||  536 || 1170 ||  -750 || 0.080 || 0.170 ||
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| 04/18/13 || 13:46||  536 || 1180 ||  -750 || 0.080 || 0.170 ||
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| 04/19/13 || 15:28||  536 || 1020 ||  -750 || 0.080 || 0.170 || Found HV in tripped state, wouldn't restore to 1100 Volts without tripping so set to 1020 for weekend, current spikes began around 1050 volts
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| 04/19/13 || 20:20||  536 || 1000 ||  -750 || 0.080 || 0.170 || Found HV in tripped state, restored to 1000
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| 04/22/13 || 07:30||  536 || 1000 ||  -750 || 0.000 || 0.035 ||
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| 04/22/13 || 07:35||  536 || 1100 ||  -750 || 0.000 || 0.045 ||
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| 04/22/13 || 10:40||  536 || 1150 ||  -750 || 0.000 || 0.050 ||
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| 04/22/13 || 13:30||  536 || 1150 ||  -750 || 0.000 || 0.045 ||
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| 04/22/13 || 13:35||  536 || 1200 ||  -750 || 0.000 || 0.070 ||
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| 04/22/13 || 17:40||  536 || 1140 ||  -750 || 0.000 || 0.050 || HV was found in a tripped state a few hours ago. Voltage was ramped up to 1050 a few minutes ago. Just ramped up to 1140 now. Current appears stable at 0.050 on field.
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| 04/23/13 || 07:30||  536 || 1140 ||  -750 || 0.000 || 0.040 ||
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| 04/23/13 || 07:35||  536 || 1170 ||  -750 || 0.000 || 0.050 ||
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| 04/23/13 || 10:00||  536 || 1140 ||  -750 || 0.000 || 0.050 || Found in tripped state. Reset to previous stable voltage. Some current spiking from 0 - 3, sometimes up to 140 microamps for a split second in the first few minutes after reset.
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| 04/23/13 || 10:00||  536 || 1150 ||  -750 || 0.000 || 0.045 ||
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| 04/23/13 || 11:31||  536 || 1180 ||  -750 || 0.000 || 0.045 ||
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| 04/24/13 || 17:43||  536 || 1400 ||  -750 || 6.2 || 6.3 || Kraken was removed from SL1 and placed on SL2 to test up to full operating voltage on a burned in SL. SL2 averaged 1.2 microamps after 24 hours of full voltage on with the Kraken. moved Kraken back to SL1. Able to get voltage up much higher now, and current spiking does not occur quite as readily to high levels (e.g., 140 microamps with an average reading of 3 or less microamps). Current trip level is set to 200 microamps on all wires.
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| 04/24/13 || 17:53||  536 || 1050 ||  -750 || 3 || 3 || Found fields in tripped state. Reset and turned down sense voltage to 1050. Still observing some current instability a few minutes after setting the voltage to 1150 initially and turning down to 1050.
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| 04/25/13 || 07:35||  536 || 1050 ||  -750 || 0.000 || 0.040 ||
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| 04/25/13 || 07:38||  536 || 1100 ||  -750 || 3 || 3 || Current instability started when taking voltage up to 1150. Dropped back to 1100, current is still somewhat high.
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| 04/25/13 || 11:00||  536 || 1150 ||  -750 || 0.000 || 0.055 ||
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| 04/25/13 || 12:33||  536 || 1160 ||  -750 || 0.000 || 0.055 ||
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| 04/25/13 || 16:30||  536 || 1160 ||  -750 || 0.000 || 0.055 ||
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| 04/25/13 || 16:35||  536 || 1190 ||  -750 || 3.2 || 3.3 || Unstable current started when going up to 1200V. Averaged 3-13 microamps at 1200V. Average reading is closer to 3 at 1190V.
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| 04/25/13 || 16:35||  536 || 1170 ||  -750 || 10 || 10 || Current went up to 12-20 microamps at 1190V after a couple minutes. Scaled back to 1170V.
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| 04/25/13 || 16:40||  536 || 1180 ||  -750 || 0.000 || 0.080 || Current stabilized to almost 0 at 1170. Went back up to 1180. Slight rise in field current from 1160V.
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| 04/25/13 || 16:55||  536 || 1190 ||  -750 || 0.000 || 0.095 || Temporary spiking above 0.095 on fields. Average reading is stable.
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| 04/25/13 || 17:07||  536 || 1190 ||  -750 || 2.1 || 2.2 || Average reading is higher now.
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| 04/25/13 || 17:20||  536 || 1190 ||  -750 || 10 || 10 || Average reading got higher, appeared unstable - was more around 15-16, occasional spikes to 20 and 70 microamps. Seems to be reaching a lower average now.
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| 04/25/13 || 17:23||  536 || 1190 ||  -750 || 0.000 || 0.080 || Average reading is now stable. No observed spikes for a couple minutes.
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| 04/25/13 || 17:30||  536 || 1190 ||  -750 || 0.000 || 0.075 ||
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| 04/25/13 || 17:32||  536 || 1195 ||  -750 || 0.000 || 0.080 ||
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| 04/25/13 || 17:39||  536 || 1195 ||  -750 || 0.000 || 0.085 ||
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| 04/25/13 || 17:41||  536 || 1200 ||  -750 || 9-30 || 9-30 || Reading is unstable, average ranges from 9-30 microamps.
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| 04/25/13 || 17:47||  536 || 1200 ||  -750 || 0.000 || 0.085 || Reading has been stable for 3 minutes at 0.085-0.090 on fields.
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| 04/25/13 || 17:50||  536 || 1205 ||  -750 || 0.000 || 0.090 ||
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| 04/25/13 || 17:56||  536 || 1205 ||  -750 || 0.000 || 0.090 || Reading has been stable for 6 minutes. Leaving at this voltage for the night.
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| 04/26/13 || 10:05||  536 || 1240 ||  -750 || 0.000 || 0.09 || current was 0.5 , increased voltage from 1205 to 1220 in 3, 5 volt steps and 1V/s increases
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| 04/26/13 || 16:02||  536 || 1230 ||  -750 || 0.000 || 0.09 || the HV did not trip but the current was fluctuating up to 2 muA so I lowered the HV to 1230 and the current went down to 0.09 on Field.
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| 04/27/13 || 15:40||  536 || 1240 ||  -750 || 0.000 || 0.07 || I started seeing what may be signals on the scope at this HV but they look too narrow [[File:042713_S6_1240HV.png| 50 px]]
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| 04/29/13 || 07:40||  536 || 1250 ||  -750 || 0.000 || 0.07 || HV stayed up 1240 over the weekend, increase another 10 volts. Signal rate went up and saw wider pulses[[File:042913_S6_1250HV.png| 50 px]]
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| 04/29/13 || 09:19||  536 || 1260 ||  -750 || 0.000 || 0.08 ||
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| 04/29/13 || 10:54||  536 || 1270 ||  -750 || 0.000 || 0.09 ||
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| 04/29/13 || 16:56||  536 || 1500 ||  -750 || 11.30 || 11.4 || had to turn off power supply for a bit to work on soldering HVB-4, I tried to increase voltage to 1500 first to check if it would trip at 50 muA, The current was 11 uA and no current spike, lets see how long it will stay here.
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| 04/29/13 || 17:41||  536 || 1500 ||  -750 || 9.8 || 9.9 || Guard Current 0muA, Field Current 9.55muA, Sense Current 9.43muA.
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| 04/30/13 || 07:43||  536 || 1240 ||  -750 || 3 || 3|| Field HV was in tripped state, current fluctuations are large at 1240.
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| 04/30/13 || 09:54||  536 || 1260 ||  -750 || .1 || .2||
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| 04/30/13 || 10:44||  536 || 1270 ||  -750 || .2 || .3||
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| 04/30/13 || 11:43||  536 || 1270 ||  -750 || .1 || .2||
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| 04/30/13 || 11:43||  536 || 1270 ||  -750 || .1 || .2||
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| 04/30/13 || 17:53||  536 || 1270 ||  -750 || .07 || .155||
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| 05/01/13 || 10:33||  536 || 1270 ||  -750 || 0.000 || 0.095||
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| 05/01/13 || 10:54||  536 || 1280 ||  -750 || 0.01 || 0.1||
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| 05/01/13 || 11:38||  536 || 1290 ||  -750 || 0.02 || 0.1||
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| 05/01/13 || 16:35||  536 || 1290 ||  -750 || 0.01 || 0.110||
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| 05/02/13 || 09:27||  536 || 1290 ||  -750 || 0.00 || 0.08||
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| 05/02/13 || 09:33||  536 || 1310 ||  -750 || 0.00 || 0.1||
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| 05/02/13 || 14:10||  536 || 1310 ||  -750 || 0.00 || 0.1||
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| 05/02/13 || 14:30||  536 || 1320 ||  -750 || 0.010 || 0.105||
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| 05/02/13 || 14:34||  536 || 1320 ||  -750 || 0.015 || 0.115||
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| 05/02/13 || 14:56||  536 || 1320 ||  -750 || 0.010 || 0.110||
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| 05/02/13 || 14:58||  536 || 1330 ||  -750 || 0.035 || 0.125|| Current is fluctuating by around 50% of this measurement.
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| 05/02/13 || 15:12||  536 || 1330 ||  -750 || 0.030 || 0.125|| Current reading appears stable within 5% over a 1 minute period.
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| 05/02/13 || 15:12||  536 || 1320 ||  -750 || 0.020 || 0.115|| Turned down voltage for the weekend.
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| 05/03/13 || 10:45||  536 || 1300 ||  -750 || 0.00 || 0.08|| Found HV for Field wires in tripped state, lowered Sense voltage
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| 05/04/13 || 10:46||  536 || 1300 ||  -750 || 0.00 || 0.06|| Found HV for Field wires in tripped state, lowered Sense voltage
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| 05/04/13 || 10:47||  536 || 1320 ||  -750 || 0.00 || 0.07|| Found HV for Field wires in tripped state, lowered Sense voltage
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| 05/06/13 || 07:35||  536 || 1320 ||  -750 || 0.00 || 0.07||
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| 05/06/13 || 07:37||  536 || 1280 ||  -750 || 0.00 || 0.07|| HV 110 voltage was interrupted and power supply was reset
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| 05/06/13 || 11:19||  536 || 1350 ||  -750 || 0.04 || 0.13||
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| 05/06/13 || 13:38||  536 || 1350 ||  -750 || 0.07 || 0.16||
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| 05/07/13 || 07:37||  536 || 1360 ||  -750 || 0.1 || 0.2||
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| 05/07/13 || 09:55||  536 || 1360 ||  -750 || 0.13 || 0.22||
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| 05/08/13 || 09:01||  536 || 1360 ||  -750 || 0.04 || 0.13||
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| 05/08/13 || 09:01||  536 || 1380 ||  -750 || 0.1 || 0.2||
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| 05/08/13 || 12:45||  536 || 1380 ||  -750 || 0.12 || 0.22||
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| 05/08/13 || 17:31||  536 || 1380 ||  -750 || 0.25 || 0.34||
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| 05/09/13 || 17:20||  536 || 1380 ||  -750 || 0.2 || 0.3||
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| 05/09/13 || 17:21||  536 || 1500 ||  -750 || 2.3 || 2.4|| pictures have been taken, lets see if voltage will hold or trip
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| 05/09/13 || 17:26||  536 || 1500 ||  -750 || 2.8 || 2.9|| no current spikes but the current did increase
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| 05/09/13 || 17:31||  536 || 1500 ||  -750 || 2.7 || 2.8||
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| 05/09/13 || 17:52||  536 || 1500 ||  -750 || 2.4 || 2.5||
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| 05/13/13 || 07:43||  536 || 1500 ||  -750 || 0.67 || 0.77||
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| 05/14/13 || 07:38||  536 || 1500 ||  -750 || 0.35 || 0.44||
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Latest revision as of 13:34, 14 May 2013

Date Time (24h) Guard (V) Sense (V) Field (V) Sense ([math]\mu[/math]A) Field ([math]\mu[/math]A) comments
04/08/13 12:27 536 1100 -750 Tripped (trip is set to 10 [math]\mu[/math]A). Initially settled around 4-5 [math]\mu[/math]A.
04/08/13 12:36 536 950 -750 Tripped
04/08/13 12:40 536 850 -750 Fluctuating from 1.5-3.0 [math]\mu[/math]A on both sense and field.
04/08/13 13:32 536 850 -750 Tripped
04/08/13 13:40 536 800 -750 Set trip threshold to 15 [math]\mu[/math]A. Current tripped within 5 minutes.
04/08/13 13:45 536 750 -750 Sense/field fluctuating around 1.5 [math]\mu[/math]A.
04/08/13 14:40 536 750 -750 2 2 HV found in tripped state, set Imax to 100 [math]\mu[/math]A, and restored HV.
04/09/13 07:34 536 750 -750 0.1 0
04/09/13 07:35 536 800 -750 0.1 0
04/09/13 07:35 536 900 -750 0.2 0.3
04/09/13 07:37 536 1000 -750 1.5 1.6
04/09/13 07:37 536 1050 -750 6.2 6.3
04/09/13 10:12 536 900 -750 5 4 Found HV in tripped state, restored sense to 900 instead of 1050, it first tripped when attempting 900 Volts but staged 50 volts increases brought it back without tripping, I observe 30[math] \mu[/math]A spikes at 900 Volts
04/09/13 11:00 536 890 -750 0.1 0 Found HV in tripped state, set HV to 890 any further and 30 [math]\mu[/math]A current spikes occurr, changed trip time from 0.1 to 1.1 sec
04/09/13 13:11 536 900 -750 0.1 0 current is jumping more
04/09/13 13:11 536 890 -750 0.1 0 found HV in tripped state, went back to 890
04/09/13 17:22 536 890 -750 0.05 0.00
04/09/13 17:30 536 970 -750 1.3 1.2 Changed voltage in steps of 10V at a time. Changed ramp rate to 1V/s on sense. Observed some surge currents after voltage stabilized at around 30 - 40 [math]\mu[/math]A for a few seconds.
04/10/13 07:40 536 970 -750 0.115 0.005 Found fields in tripped state, but not sense or guard. Turned on again, current was relatively low.
04/10/13 07:50 536 1080 -750 1.1 1.0 Went up in voltage in 10V increments at 1V/s ramp, monitoring change in average current at each step after voltage settled. Last increment to 1080 saw some surge currents up to 30 [math]\mu[/math]A, but average current is around 1 [math]\mu[/math]A.
04/10/13 10:40 536 1070 -750 0.2 0.3 Found fields in tripped state. Set sense to lower voltage and reset field voltage.
04/10/13 10:42 536 1070 -750 1.3 1.4 Tried turning voltage on sense up to 1080, current and voltage started fluctuating more than usual. Turned voltage back to 1070. Current is still a little higher than when initially started up again at 10:40, fluctuating from 1 to 4 [math]\mu[/math]A.
04/10/13 11:04 536 1050 -750 1.3 1.4 Found Field & Sense HV in tripped state, set Sense HV to 1050 current becomes non zero after a sense wire Voltage of 1000 VOlts
04/10/13 11:25 536 1050 -750 0.2 0.3 tried to increased to 1060 since current fluctuations were small and below 0.2 [math]\mu[/math]A, both sense & FIled tripped so returned to 1050 sense wire voltage setting
04/10/13 12:30 536 1050 -750 0.2 0.3
04/10/13 13:45 536 1070 -750 0.15 0.25 Current instability was observed when taking voltage up to 1075. Backed off to 1040, current stabilized to less than 0.01 [math]\mu[/math]A. Raised back up to 1070V again, current appears stable for the moment.
04/10/13 15:15 536 1070 -750 0.065 0.115
04/11/13 08:30 536 1120 -750 0.065 0.115 Currently raising voltage only 1-3 volts at a time and monitoring sense current for a few seconds before raising again. If sense current stays above 0.075 for more than a few seconds, run-away current instability will usually start-up again.
04/11/13 10:32 536 1130 -750 0.080 0.170
04/11/13 11:25 536 1130 -750 0.080 0.170 HV tripped at about this time
04/11/13 11:25 536 1120 -750 0.080 0.170
04/15/13 07:34 536 1068 -750 0.080 0.170 Left it this way over the weekend
04/15/13 07:40 536 1110 -750 0.000 0.080
04/15/13 08:40 536 1130 -750 0.000 0.090
04/15/13 09:08 536 1140 -750 0.000 0.090
04/15/13 10:05 536 1150 -750 0.000 0.090
04/15/13 10:35 536 1150 -750 0.005 0.100
04/15/13 12:50 536 1160 -750 0.015 0.10
04/15/13 15:27 536 1170 -750 0.020 0.12
04/16/13 07:39 536 1195 -750 0.005 0.100
04/16/13 08:56 536 1195 -750 0.01 0.100
04/16/13 13:37 536 1195 -750 0.00 0.090
04/16/13 13:40 536 1205 -750 0.005 0.100
04/16/13 16:50 536 1205 -750 5.0 5.1 Current is fluctuating around 5, but not entirely stable. No observed large spikes above 6.
04/17/13 07:35 536 1205 -750 0 0 found in tripped state.
04/17/13 07:35 536 1020 -750 3 3 during rise to 1175 V, current appeared unstable so I backed off to 1020V where it oscillated between 3 and <1. Letting it settle here before ramping back up to 1205.
04/17/13 12:46 536 1070 -750 0.1 0.2 increased Senve voltage by 20 volts until current fluctuations were seen on the field current
04/17/13 14:48 536 1090 -750 0.01 0.1
04/17/13 14:48 536 1110 -750 0.01 0.1 some 5uA current spikes are occurring, leave at this voltage overnight.
04/18/13 10:50 536 1160 -750 0.080 0.170 Noticed some possible spiking, getting close to trip current at 1170, scaled back to 1160 and current stabilized within a minute.
04/18/13 12:04 536 1170 -750 0.080 0.170
04/18/13 13:46 536 1180 -750 0.080 0.170
04/19/13 15:28 536 1020 -750 0.080 0.170 Found HV in tripped state, wouldn't restore to 1100 Volts without tripping so set to 1020 for weekend, current spikes began around 1050 volts
04/19/13 20:20 536 1000 -750 0.080 0.170 Found HV in tripped state, restored to 1000
04/22/13 07:30 536 1000 -750 0.000 0.035
04/22/13 07:35 536 1100 -750 0.000 0.045
04/22/13 10:40 536 1150 -750 0.000 0.050
04/22/13 13:30 536 1150 -750 0.000 0.045
04/22/13 13:35 536 1200 -750 0.000 0.070
04/22/13 17:40 536 1140 -750 0.000 0.050 HV was found in a tripped state a few hours ago. Voltage was ramped up to 1050 a few minutes ago. Just ramped up to 1140 now. Current appears stable at 0.050 on field.
04/23/13 07:30 536 1140 -750 0.000 0.040
04/23/13 07:35 536 1170 -750 0.000 0.050
04/23/13 10:00 536 1140 -750 0.000 0.050 Found in tripped state. Reset to previous stable voltage. Some current spiking from 0 - 3, sometimes up to 140 microamps for a split second in the first few minutes after reset.
04/23/13 10:00 536 1150 -750 0.000 0.045
04/23/13 11:31 536 1180 -750 0.000 0.045
04/24/13 17:43 536 1400 -750 6.2 6.3 Kraken was removed from SL1 and placed on SL2 to test up to full operating voltage on a burned in SL. SL2 averaged 1.2 microamps after 24 hours of full voltage on with the Kraken. moved Kraken back to SL1. Able to get voltage up much higher now, and current spiking does not occur quite as readily to high levels (e.g., 140 microamps with an average reading of 3 or less microamps). Current trip level is set to 200 microamps on all wires.
04/24/13 17:53 536 1050 -750 3 3 Found fields in tripped state. Reset and turned down sense voltage to 1050. Still observing some current instability a few minutes after setting the voltage to 1150 initially and turning down to 1050.
04/25/13 07:35 536 1050 -750 0.000 0.040
04/25/13 07:38 536 1100 -750 3 3 Current instability started when taking voltage up to 1150. Dropped back to 1100, current is still somewhat high.
04/25/13 11:00 536 1150 -750 0.000 0.055
04/25/13 12:33 536 1160 -750 0.000 0.055
04/25/13 16:30 536 1160 -750 0.000 0.055
04/25/13 16:35 536 1190 -750 3.2 3.3 Unstable current started when going up to 1200V. Averaged 3-13 microamps at 1200V. Average reading is closer to 3 at 1190V.
04/25/13 16:35 536 1170 -750 10 10 Current went up to 12-20 microamps at 1190V after a couple minutes. Scaled back to 1170V.
04/25/13 16:40 536 1180 -750 0.000 0.080 Current stabilized to almost 0 at 1170. Went back up to 1180. Slight rise in field current from 1160V.
04/25/13 16:55 536 1190 -750 0.000 0.095 Temporary spiking above 0.095 on fields. Average reading is stable.
04/25/13 17:07 536 1190 -750 2.1 2.2 Average reading is higher now.
04/25/13 17:20 536 1190 -750 10 10 Average reading got higher, appeared unstable - was more around 15-16, occasional spikes to 20 and 70 microamps. Seems to be reaching a lower average now.
04/25/13 17:23 536 1190 -750 0.000 0.080 Average reading is now stable. No observed spikes for a couple minutes.
04/25/13 17:30 536 1190 -750 0.000 0.075
04/25/13 17:32 536 1195 -750 0.000 0.080
04/25/13 17:39 536 1195 -750 0.000 0.085
04/25/13 17:41 536 1200 -750 9-30 9-30 Reading is unstable, average ranges from 9-30 microamps.
04/25/13 17:47 536 1200 -750 0.000 0.085 Reading has been stable for 3 minutes at 0.085-0.090 on fields.
04/25/13 17:50 536 1205 -750 0.000 0.090
04/25/13 17:56 536 1205 -750 0.000 0.090 Reading has been stable for 6 minutes. Leaving at this voltage for the night.
04/26/13 10:05 536 1240 -750 0.000 0.09 current was 0.5 , increased voltage from 1205 to 1220 in 3, 5 volt steps and 1V/s increases
04/26/13 16:02 536 1230 -750 0.000 0.09 the HV did not trip but the current was fluctuating up to 2 muA so I lowered the HV to 1230 and the current went down to 0.09 on Field.
04/27/13 15:40 536 1240 -750 0.000 0.07 I started seeing what may be signals on the scope at this HV but they look too narrow 042713 S6 1240HV.png
04/29/13 07:40 536 1250 -750 0.000 0.07 HV stayed up 1240 over the weekend, increase another 10 volts. Signal rate went up and saw wider pulses042913 S6 1250HV.png
04/29/13 09:19 536 1260 -750 0.000 0.08
04/29/13 10:54 536 1270 -750 0.000 0.09
04/29/13 16:56 536 1500 -750 11.30 11.4 had to turn off power supply for a bit to work on soldering HVB-4, I tried to increase voltage to 1500 first to check if it would trip at 50 muA, The current was 11 uA and no current spike, lets see how long it will stay here.
04/29/13 17:41 536 1500 -750 9.8 9.9 Guard Current 0muA, Field Current 9.55muA, Sense Current 9.43muA.
04/30/13 07:43 536 1240 -750 3 3 Field HV was in tripped state, current fluctuations are large at 1240.
04/30/13 09:54 536 1260 -750 .1 .2
04/30/13 10:44 536 1270 -750 .2 .3
04/30/13 11:43 536 1270 -750 .1 .2
04/30/13 11:43 536 1270 -750 .1 .2
04/30/13 17:53 536 1270 -750 .07 .155
05/01/13 10:33 536 1270 -750 0.000 0.095
05/01/13 10:54 536 1280 -750 0.01 0.1
05/01/13 11:38 536 1290 -750 0.02 0.1
05/01/13 16:35 536 1290 -750 0.01 0.110
05/02/13 09:27 536 1290 -750 0.00 0.08
05/02/13 09:33 536 1310 -750 0.00 0.1
05/02/13 14:10 536 1310 -750 0.00 0.1
05/02/13 14:30 536 1320 -750 0.010 0.105
05/02/13 14:34 536 1320 -750 0.015 0.115
05/02/13 14:56 536 1320 -750 0.010 0.110
05/02/13 14:58 536 1330 -750 0.035 0.125 Current is fluctuating by around 50% of this measurement.
05/02/13 15:12 536 1330 -750 0.030 0.125 Current reading appears stable within 5% over a 1 minute period.
05/02/13 15:12 536 1320 -750 0.020 0.115 Turned down voltage for the weekend.
05/03/13 10:45 536 1300 -750 0.00 0.08 Found HV for Field wires in tripped state, lowered Sense voltage
05/04/13 10:46 536 1300 -750 0.00 0.06 Found HV for Field wires in tripped state, lowered Sense voltage
05/04/13 10:47 536 1320 -750 0.00 0.07 Found HV for Field wires in tripped state, lowered Sense voltage
05/06/13 07:35 536 1320 -750 0.00 0.07
05/06/13 07:37 536 1280 -750 0.00 0.07 HV 110 voltage was interrupted and power supply was reset
05/06/13 11:19 536 1350 -750 0.04 0.13
05/06/13 13:38 536 1350 -750 0.07 0.16
05/07/13 07:37 536 1360 -750 0.1 0.2
05/07/13 09:55 536 1360 -750 0.13 0.22
05/08/13 09:01 536 1360 -750 0.04 0.13
05/08/13 09:01 536 1380 -750 0.1 0.2
05/08/13 12:45 536 1380 -750 0.12 0.22
05/08/13 17:31 536 1380 -750 0.25 0.34
05/09/13 17:20 536 1380 -750 0.2 0.3
05/09/13 17:21 536 1500 -750 2.3 2.4 pictures have been taken, lets see if voltage will hold or trip
05/09/13 17:26 536 1500 -750 2.8 2.9 no current spikes but the current did increase
05/09/13 17:31 536 1500 -750 2.7 2.8
05/09/13 17:52 536 1500 -750 2.4 2.5
05/13/13 07:43 536 1500 -750 0.67 0.77
05/14/13 07:38 536 1500 -750 0.35 0.44