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Miniproposal:357
Date Filed:11/12/2003
Title:Active Low Frequency MHD
First Author:Joseph Snipes
Session Leader:Joseph Snipes (shots 1-28)

Operators
Session leader(s):Joseph Snipes
Physics operator(s):Bill Rowan
Engineering operator(s):Bill Parkin,Bill Byford,Gary Dekow

Engineering Operator Run Comment
MP#357 Low Frequency Active MHD Experiment; SL:Snipes; PO:Rowan; EO:Deko

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Session Leader Summaries
Entered: Jul 7 2004 03:49:03:443PM
Author: Joseph Snipes
Run Summary for 1040305
MP#357 Low Frequency Active MHD
Session Leader: J A Snipes
Physics Operator: W L Rowan

MP357 Low Frequency Active MHD run looking for MHD eigenmode resonances. Starting with inner
wall limited Ohmic plasmas with low elongation at 5.4 T and 0.8 MA at moderate density of
nl04 = 1 x 10^20 m^-2.

Summary:
The machine ran rather well, though the data acquisition system had several failures. Nonetheless, we managed
to do the experiment. The new audio amplifier drove 40 - 60 A peak current into each of the two Active MHD
antennas for most of the discharge and worked excellently without overheating because of the low duty cycle.
While there were a few shots where there seemed to be possible resonances at the Active MHD frequency, but other
shots showed no correlation with the Active MHD frequency. So, it seems that the Active MHD antennas have
little or no effect on MHD modes in the plasma at audio frequencies at least for all of the conditions we tried,
which included inner wall limited and diverted plasmas at low and high density with flattop TF of 5.4 T or
ramping TF down to 2.5 T, with flattop Ip of 1 MA or ramping Ip down to 0.4 MA, and with outer gaps between
1.5 cm and a few mm to even outboard limited. Indeed, we achieved an Ohmic H-mode with an outboard limited
plasma with only 1.5 MW of Ohmic input power at 2.4 T and 1.9 x 10^20 m^-3 on shot 1040305021. The last few
shots attempted to see if there was any interaction between the Active MHD antennas at low frequency and
locked modes with and without the A-coils, but the results were inconclusive.


Shot 1: Set Active MHD f0 = 10 kHz at an amplitude of 2.5 V. Gains on Crest Audio amplifier set to 0 dB.
Also plugged in the function generator on ACQ32_1:INPUT_01 and the VCO on ACQ32_1:INPUT_02.
Data system failed.
Shot 2: Repeat with multiple frequency sweeps from 11 kHz to 1 kHz. Data system failed again but some
data did come through.
Shot 3: Data system partially worked.
Shot 4: Finally got good data. Good shot, but very little signal from Active MHD antennas.
Shot 5: Repeat. Still little signal.
Shot 6: Reduce outer gap to 0.5 cm.
Shot 7: Removed input to low frequency amplifier on antenna 1, GH_LOWER, to see if there is some
cancellation of the perturbed field because both antennas are being driven. Appears to be even
less signal on the pick-up coils.
Shot 8: Reconnected the input to the GH_LOWER antenna and reversed the polarity of the output to drive
a different m spectrum. Good shot. V_GH_LOWER now is very small even though the output currents
in both antennas reached 100 A peak!
Shot 9: Reduced outer gap to 2 mm.
Shot 10: Reduced Ip to 0.4 MA and increased nl04 to 1.5 x 10^20 m^-2 at 1.5 s. Disrupted at 1.65 s.
Shot 11: Repeat with a diverted plasma. Disrupted at 1.74 s.
Shot 12: Repeat with a smaller outer gap down to 0.5 cm.
Shot 13: Repeat with a smaller outer gap down to 0.3 cm.
Shot 14: Fizzle.
Shot 15: Put in a new cable to invert the input to the amplifier for GH_LOWER antenna. This inverts the
current in the GH_LOWER antenna properly.
Shot 16: Repeat.
Shot 17: Repeat. Still seeing a peak at 1.05 s around 7 kHz that is nearly correlated with the
Active MHD frequency.
Shot 18: Took out one frequency scan at 1.05 s to see if the apparent resonance moves. It did move to
about 1.08 s in the middle of the next sweep. So, it could be coincidental, but at least it did
move to the next sweep.
Shot 19: Fizzle. Data system failed again.
Shot 20: Repeat again. Apparent resonance at 1.05 s is back even though the Active MHD frequency does not
go through that frequency at that time. So, it appears to be related to the MARFE and independent
of the Active MHD excitation.
Shot 21: Return to 0.8 MA flattop and ramp down the TF to 2.2 T at 1.5 s to go to low q. Density flat
at 0.85 x 10^20 m^-2. Outboard limited Ohmic H-mode at 1.14 s with 1.46 MW of POH at
nebar = 1.9 x 10^20 m^-3 and 2.42 T.
Shot 22: Increase outer gap and reduce the ramp rate of the TF.
Shot 23: Returned GH_LOWER antenna to the same polarity as the GH_UPPER antenna.
Shot 24: Repeat.
Shot 25: Return to inner wall limited but now going to low q. This should avoid the H-mode.
Shot 26: Reduced ramp rate and frequency range of Active MHD to concentrate on frequencies below 7 kHz.
Shot 27: Go to low density at 5 x 10^20 m^-2, flattop TF at 5.4 T and flattop Ip at 1 MA. Mode locks
at 1.05 s at the minimum in Active MHD frequency, perhaps by coincidence.
Shot 28: Changed when the Active frequency goes to near zero to 0.8 s and put in a very slow ramp up to
about 1 kHz by the end of the shot. Turning on the A coils at 1.2 s. No clear resonances found.

Physics Operator Summaries
Entered: Jul 7 2004 04:36:49:287PM
Author: Bill Rowan
Physics Operator Summary, Friday, March 5, 2004, Run 1040305

MP#357 Low Frequency Active MHD Experiment

Session Leader: Snipes
Physop: Rowan
Engop: Dekow, Byford, Parkin

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Summary-----------------------------------------------------------------------
The run started with an inner wall limited discharge. It was loaded from
1040209005. A-coils were disabled for all but the last shot of this run.
The outer gap was adjusted down to approximately 5 mm over a series of shots.
For shot 010 the current was ramped down to 0.4 MA. The density was programmed
for a ramp up.

A diverted shot was used for shots 011 through 024. The current and density
ramps were added once again. A BT ramp with constant density and plasma
current was applied on shots 021 through 024.

Returned to an inner wall limited discharge for shots 025 through 026.
This was a copy of shot 006 with a BT rampdown added.

A diverted shot (1040301003) was reloaded for shots 027 and 028. The density
was reduced to assure locked modes. The A-coil was not applied on shot 027
and locked modes were observed. For shot 028, the A-coils were energized.

There were several delays due to data acquisition problems. Note that PCS
crashed during two of these.

Score Card------------------------------------------------------------------
Plasmas 26 (001,002,003,004,005,006,007,008,009,010,011,
012,013,015,016,017,018,020,021,022,023,024,
025,026,027,028)
Fizzles 02 (014,019)
Total 28
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Engineering Setup-------------------------------------------------------------

ECDC overnight in D2, stopping by 07:00 on Friday morning

Run Begins at 09:00 and ends at 17:00

Power Supplies as on 1040209005

Gas System Setup:
fill B-Top with 6 psi D2 Hybrid enabled (PG4)
fill B-side lower with 1 psi Ar Hybrid enabled (PG1)
leave B-side upper as is Hybrid DISABLED (PG2)
fill C-side with 30 psi D2 Hybrid enabled (PG3)
fill NINJA (lower cap) with 5 psi D2

All diagnostic valves (ECE, VUV, DNB) Enabled
assuming no vacuum problems

RF: NO RF FOR FRIDAY
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Run plan----------------------------------------------------------------------
Due to limited RF power, we will only do the Ohmic part of the run.
Begin with an inner wall limited low elongation plasma like 1040209005
at 0.8 MA and 5.4 T. Sweep the Active MHD frequency from 2 to 20 kHz
in multiple sweeps throughout the shot at full power looking for resonant
MHD eigenmodes. Decrease the outer gap from 1.5 cm to 1 cm and repeat.
Decrease the outer gap again to 2 to 3 mm and repeat. Choose the outer
gap where resonances are clearest or if there are no clear resonances,
return to 1.5 cm outer gap and then ramp the density up to
nl04 = 1.5 x 10^20 m^-2 and the current down to 0.4 MA by the end of
the flattop at 1.5 s to approach the density limit. Next, return to
0.8 MA and ramp the TF down to 2.2 T to approach the low q limit.
In each case sweep the Active MHD frequency looking for resonances.
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Detailed Log------------------------------------------------------------------

Load from 1040209005
A coils are disabled

001. Plasma. Clearly inner wall limited.
Data acquisition problems
PCDAQ mhd1 was part of the problem


002. Plasma.
Data acquistion problems persist.

Next shot. Tom restarted the servers
Some improvements to tci laser operation

003. Plasma

Nest shot. No pcs changes

004. Plasma
Data acquistion problems persist. Computers guys on it.

Next shot. No pcs changes

005. Plasma

Next shot. Reduce the outer gap by 1 cm
Increase RCUR by 5 mm
PCS problems in preparing for next shot.
PCS was corrupted
Reloaded the starting shot 1040209005
Reentered the RCUR changes

006. Plasma
Outer gap is approximately 0.5 cm
Cell access for Joe to work on antennas and power room access

Next shot. No pcs changes

007. Plasma.

Next shot., No pcs changes.


008. Plasma.

Next shot.
Reduce the outer gap to approximately 3 mm.
Increased RCUR by 1 mm

009. Plasma.

Next shot.
Return to the outer gap of shot 006.
Ramp IP to 0.4 MA
Ramp nl_04 to 1.5e+20


010. Plasma

Next shot.
Reload segment 2 from 1040301003
diverted shot
Ip ramp to 0.4 Ma
nl_04 ramp to 1.5e+20

011. Plasma

Next shot.
Decrease the outer gap by 5 mm
Increase RCUR by 3 mm

012. Plasma

Next shot.
Decrease the outer gap to 3 mm and flatten it out.

013. Plasma

Next shot
Reduce Bt slightly in segment 1 from 5.6 T to 5.4 T


014. Fizzle

Next shot.
Reloaded segment 1 from shot 013.


015. Plasma


Next shot. No PCS changes

016. Plasma

Next shot. No PCS changes

017. Plasma

Next shot. No PCS changes


018. Plasma

Next shot
nl_04 changed to flat at 8.5e+19
IP = 0.8 MA
BT ramped down to 2.2 T

019. Fizzle.
computer problems
PCS failure after this shot.

Next shot. reloaded shot 018
Reduced BR_0 offset for 0.0005 T to 0.0 T

020. Plasma

Next shot.
Reloaded shot 018
Reduced BR_0 offset for 0.0005 T to 0.0 T
nl_04 changed to flat at 8.5e+19
IP = 0.8 MA
BT ramped down to 2.2 T

021. Plasma. Disruption at 1.3s
Outer wall limited
May be an H-mode

Next shot.
Slow the rampdown rate of the TF
Increased the outer gap by approx 1.0 cm

022. Plasma
Disruption at 1.3s

Next shot. No changes

023. Plasma.

Next shot. No pcs changes

024. Plasma

Next shot.
reloaded shot 006
Bt ramping to 2.2T at 1.5s
This should be innerwall limited


025. Plasma

Next shot. No pcs changes.


026. Plasma

Next shot.
Reload segment 2 from 1040301003
Reduce nl_04 to 5e19

027. Plasma

Next shot.
Enable A coils


028. Plasma.

Session Leader Comments
Mar 5 2004 09:01:43:947AMJoseph SnipesMP357 Low Frequency Active MHD run looking for MHD eigenmode resonances. Starting with inner wall limited
Ohmic plasmas with low elongation at 5.4 T and 0.8 MA at moderate density of nl04 = 1 x 10^20 m^-2.
Mar 5 2004 09:27:57:150AM1040305001Joseph SnipesShot 1: Set Active MHD f0 = 10 kHz at an amplitude of 2.5 V. Gains on Crest Audio amplifier set to 0 dB.
Also plugged in the function generator on ACQ32_1:INPUT_01 and the VCO on ACQ32_1:INPUT_02.
Mar 5 2004 09:37:45:737AM1040305002Joseph SnipesShot 2: Repeat with multiple frequency sweeps from 11 kHz to 1 kHz. Data system failed again but some
data did come through.
Mar 5 2004 11:04:32:167AM1040305004Joseph SnipesShot 4: Data system finally worked.
Mar 5 2004 11:05:21:900AM1040305005Joseph SnipesShot 5: Repeat. Good shot. Very little signal from active MHD antennas on pick-up coils.
Mar 5 2004 11:06:50:513AM1040305006Joseph SnipesShot 6: Reduce outer gap to 0.5 cm.
Mar 5 2004 11:17:15:227AM1040305007Joseph SnipesShot 7: Removed input to low frequency amplifier on antenna 1, GH_LOWER, to see if there is some
cancellation of the perturbed field because both antennas are being driven. Appears to be even
less signal on the pick-up coils.
Mar 5 2004 11:45:14:917AM1040305008Joseph SnipesShot 8: Reconnected the input to the GH_LOWER antenna and reversed the polarity of the output to drive
a different m spectrum. Good shot. V_GH_LOWER now is very small even though the output currents
in both antennas reached 100 A peak!
Mar 5 2004 12:18:27:750PM1040305009Joseph SnipesShot 9: Reduced outer gap to 2 mm.
Mar 5 2004 12:28:37:387PM1040305010Joseph SnipesShot 10: Reduced Ip to 0.4 MA and increased nl04 to 1.5 x 10^20 m^-2 at 1.5 s.
Disrupted at 1.65
Mar 5 2004 12:36:54:727PM1040305011Joseph SnipesShot 11: Repeat with a diverted plasma. Disrupted at 1.74 s.
Mar 5 2004 12:54:30:863PM1040305012Joseph SnipesShot 12: Repeat with a smaller outer gap down to 0.5 cm.
Mar 5 2004 01:03:07:437PM1040305013Joseph SnipesShot 13: Repeat with a smaller outer gap down to 0.3 cm.
Mar 5 2004 01:16:01:300PM1040305014Joseph SnipesShot 14: Fizzle.
Mar 5 2004 01:31:22:407PM1040305015Joseph SnipesShot 15: Put in a new cable to invert the input to the amplifier for GH_LOWER antenna. This inverts the
current in the GH_LOWER antenna properly.
Mar 5 2004 01:55:52:950PM1040305015Joseph SnipesShot 15: Two small peaks on pickup coils between 1.05 and 1.2 s nearly at the same frequency as the Active
MHD, but perhaps just coincidental.
Mar 5 2004 01:54:56:867PM1040305016Joseph SnipesShot 16: Moved ACQ16 start time to 0.25 s to extend the end time to 1.75 s.
Mar 5 2004 01:56:36:220PM1040305016Joseph SnipesShot 16: Repeat.
Mar 5 2004 02:05:49:890PM1040305017Joseph SnipesShot 17: Repeat. Still seeing a peak at 1.05 s around 7 kHz that is nearly correlated with the
Active MHD frequency.
Mar 5 2004 02:16:00:347PM1040305018Joseph SnipesShot 18: Took out one frequency scan at 1.05 s to see if the apparent resonance moves. It did move to
about 1.08 s in the middle of the next sweep. So, it could be coincidental, but at least it did
move to the next sweep.
Mar 5 2004 02:45:25:073PM1040305019Joseph SnipesShot 19: Fizzle. Data system failed again.
Mar 5 2004 03:03:19:897PM1040305020Joseph SnipesShot 20: Repeat again. Apparent resonance at 1.05 s is back even though the Active MHD frequency does not
go through that frequency at that time. So, it appears to be related to the MARFE and independent
of the Active MHD excitation.
Mar 5 2004 03:19:04:193PM1040305021Joseph SnipesShot 21: Return to 0.8 MA flattop and ramp down the TF to 2.2 T at 1.5 s to go to low q. Density flat
at 0.85 x 10^20 m^-2. Outboard limited Ohmic H-mode at 1.14 s with 1.46 MW of POH at
nebar = 1.9 x 10^20 m^-3 and 2.42 T.
Mar 5 2004 03:26:48:047PM1040305022Joseph SnipesShot 22: Increase outer gap and reduce the ramp rate of the TF.
Mar 5 2004 03:45:36:093PM1040305023Joseph SnipesShot 23: Returned GH_LOWER antenna to the same polarity as the GH_UPPER antenna.
Mar 5 2004 03:54:03:383PM1040305024Joseph SnipesShot 24: Repeat.
Mar 5 2004 04:15:12:113PM1040305025Joseph SnipesShot 25: Return to inner wall limited but now going to low q. This should avoid the H-mode.
Mar 5 2004 04:38:35:967PM1040305026Joseph SnipesShot 26: Reduced ramp rate and frequency range of Active MHD to concentrate on frequencies below 7 kHz.
Mar 5 2004 04:46:02:800PM1040305027Joseph SnipesShot 27: Go to low density at 5 x 10^20 m^-2, flattop TF at 5.4 T and flattop Ip at 1 MA. Mode locks
at 1.05 s at the minimum in Active MHD frequency, perhaps by coincidence.
Mar 5 2004 05:15:42:543PM1040305028Joseph SnipesShot 28: Changed when the Active frequency goes to near zero to 0.8 s and put in a very slow ramp up to
about 1 kHz by the end of the shot. Turning on the A coils at 1.2 s. No clear resonances found.
Mar 5 2004 05:27:38:557PM1040305028Joseph SnipesSummary:
The machine ran rather well, though the data acquisition system had several failures. Nonetheless, we managed
to do the experiment. The new audio amplifier drove 40 - 60 A peak current into each of the two Active MHD
antennas for most of the discharge and worked excellently without overheating because of the low duty cycle.
While there were a few shots where there seemed to be possible resonances at the Active MHD frequency, but other
shots showed no correlation with the Active MHD frequency. So, it seems that the Active MHD antennas have
little or no effect on MHD modes in the plasma at audio frequencies at least for all of the conditions we tried,
which included inner wall limited and diverted plasmas at low and high density with flattop TF of 5.4 T or
ramping TF down to 2.5 T, with flattop Ip of 1 MA or ramping Ip down to 0.4 MA, and with outer gaps between
1.5 cm and a few mm to even outboard limited. Indeed, we achieved an Ohmic H-mode with an outboard limited
plasma with only 1.5 MW of Ohmic input power at 2.4 T and 1.9 x 10^20 m^-3 on shot 1040305021. The last few
shots attempted to see if there was any interaction between the Active MHD antennas at low frequency and
locked modes with and without the A-coils, but the results were inconclusive.

Physics Operator Comments
Mar 5 2004 07:55:33:840AMBill RowanEngineering Setup and Run Plan 1040305, Friday, March 5, 2004.

MP#357 Low Frequency Active MHD Experiment

Session Leader: Snipes
Physop: Rowan

Engineering Setup:

ECDC overnight in D2, stopping by 07:00 on Friday morning

Run Begins at 09:00 and ends at 17:00

Power Supplies as on 1040209005

Gas System Setup:
fill B-Top with 6 psi D2 Hybrid enabled (PG4)
fill B-side lower with 1 psi Ar Hybrid enabled (PG1)
leave B-side upper as is Hybrid DISABLED (PG2)
fill C-side with 30 psi D2 Hybrid enabled (PG3)
fill NINJA (lower cap) with 5 psi D2

All diagnostic valves (ECE, VUV, DNB) Enabled
assuming no vacuum problems

RF: NO RF FOR FRIDAY


Run plan for MP 357 Active Low Frequency MHD

Due to limited RF power, we will only do the Ohmic part of the run.
Begin with an inner wall limited low elongation plasma like 1040209005
at 0.8 MA and 5.4 T. Sweep the Active MHD frequency from 2 to 20 kHz
in multiple sweeps throughout the shot at full power looking for resonant
MHD eigenmodes. Decrease the outer gap from 1.5 cm to 1 cm and repeat.
Decrease the outer gap again to 2 to 3 mm and repeat. Choose the outer
gap where resonances are clearest or if there are no clear resonances,
return to 1.5 cm outer gap and then ramp the density up to
nl04 = 1.5 x 10^20 m^-2 and the current down to 0.4 MA by the end of
the flattop at 1.5 s to approach the density limit. Next, return to
0.8 MA and ramp the TF down to 2.2 T to approach the low q limit.
In each case sweep the Active MHD frequency looking for resonances.
Mar 5 2004 08:08:12:010AMBill RowanLoad from 1040209005
Mar 5 2004 09:14:22:320AM1040305001Bill Rowan001. Plasma. Clearly inner wall limited.
Data acquisition problems
Mar 5 2004 09:22:14:220AM1040305001Bill RowanPCDAQ mhd1 was part of the problem
Mar 5 2004 09:31:13:823AM1040305002Bill Rowan002. Plasma.
Mar 5 2004 09:38:31:550AM1040305002Bill Rowan
Data acquistion problems persist.

Next shot. Tom restarted the servers
Mar 5 2004 10:11:58:730AM1040305003Bill Rowan003. Plasma

Nest shot. No pcs changes
Mar 5 2004 10:27:17:717AM1040305004Bill Rowan004. Plasma
Data acquistion problems persist. Computers guys on it.

Next shot. No pcs changes
Mar 5 2004 10:47:47:100AM1040305005Bill Rowan005. Plasma

Next shot. Reduce the outer gap by 1 cm
Increase RCUR by 5 mm
Mar 5 2004 10:51:44:840AM1040305005Bill RowanPCS problems in preparing for next shot.
PCS was corrupted
Mar 5 2004 10:55:34:670AM1040305006Bill Rowan006. Plasma
Outer gap is approximately 0.5 cm
Cell access for Joe to work on antennas and power room access

Mar 5 2004 11:04:45:573AM1040305006Bill RowanNext shot. No pcs changes
Mar 5 2004 11:18:28:837AM1040305007Bill Rowan007. Plasma.
Mar 5 2004 11:47:09:403AM1040305008Bill Rowan008. Plasma.

Next shot.
Reduce the outer gap to approximately 3 mm.
Increased RCUR by 1 mm
Mar 5 2004 12:09:59:570PM1040305009Bill Rowan009. Plasma.

Mar 5 2004 12:12:13:760PM1040305009Bill Rowan009. Plasma.

Next shot.
Return to the outer gap of shot 006.
Ramp IP to 0.4 MA
Ramp nl_04 to 1.5e+20
Mar 5 2004 12:27:04:950PM1040305010Bill Rowan010. Plasma

Next shot.
Reload segment 2 from 1040301003
Ip ramp to 0.4 Ma
nl_04 ramp to 1.5e+20
Mar 5 2004 12:36:27:897PM1040305011Bill Rowan011. Plasma

Next shot.
Decrease the outer gap by 5 mm
Increase RCUR by 3 mm
Mar 5 2004 12:50:38:053PM1040305012Bill Rowan012. Plasma

Next shot.
Decrease the outer gap to 3 mm and flatten it out.
Mar 5 2004 01:13:26:833PM1040305013Bill Rowan013. Plasma

Next shot
Reduce Bt slightly in segment 1 from 5.6 T to 5.4 T


Mar 5 2004 01:13:41:583PM1040305014Bill Rowan014. Fizzle

Next shot.
Reloaded segment 1 from shot 013.
Mar 5 2004 01:30:25:073PM1040305015Bill Rowan015. Plasma
Mar 5 2004 01:57:20:460PM1040305017Bill Rowan017. Plasma
Mar 5 2004 02:06:15:910PM1040305017Bill Rowan017. Plasma

Next shot. No PCS changes
Mar 5 2004 02:18:15:483PM1040305018Bill Rowan018. Plasma

Next shot
nl_04 changed to flat at 8.5e+19
IP = 0.8 MA
BT ramped down to 2.2 T
Mar 5 2004 03:05:02:157PM1040305019Bill Rowan019. Fizzle.

computer problems
PCS failure after this shot.

Next shot. reloaded shot 018
Reduced BR_0 offset for 0.0005 T to 0.0 T
Mar 5 2004 03:03:14:790PM1040305020Bill Rowan020. Plasma

Next shot.
Reloaded shot 018
Reduced BR_0 offset for 0.0005 T to 0.0 T
nl_04 changed to flat at 8.5e+19
IP = 0.8 MA
BT ramped down to 2.2 T
Mar 5 2004 03:11:55:957PM1040305021Bill Rowan021. Plasma. Disruption at 1.3s

Next shot.
Slow the rampdown rate of the TF
Increased the outer gap by approx 1.0 cm
Mar 5 2004 03:32:56:357PM1040305022Bill Rowan022. Plasma
Disruption at 1.3s

Next shot. No changes
Mar 5 2004 04:17:40:610PM1040305022Bill Rowan026. Plasma

Next shot. No pcs changes

Mar 5 2004 04:47:16:930PM1040305023Bill Rowan023. Plasma.

Mar 5 2004 04:47:43:323PM1040305023Bill Rowan
Next shot. No pcs changes
Mar 5 2004 04:48:17:470PM1040305024Bill Rowan024. Plasma

Mar 5 2004 04:48:33:080PM1040305024Bill RowanNext shot.
reloaded shot 006
Bt ramping to 2.2T at 1.5s
Mar 5 2004 04:48:50:237PM1040305025Bill Rowan025. Plasma
Mar 5 2004 04:49:06:033PM1040305025Bill Rowan

Next shot. No pcs changes.
Mar 5 2004 04:43:12:927PM1040305026Bill Rowan026. Plasma

Next shot.
Reload segment 2 from 1040301003
Reduce nl_04 to 5e19
xt shot. No pcs changes

Mar 5 2004 04:46:36:680PM1040305027Bill Rowan027. Plasma

Next shot.
Enable A coils
Mar 5 2004 04:58:46:630PM1040305028Bill Rowan028. Plasma

Engineering Operator Comments
ShotTimeTypeStatusComment
109:06:08:500AMPlasmaOk
209:26:15:473AMPlasmaOk
310:02:48:673AMPlasmaOk
410:18:38:940AMPlasmaOk
510:33:47:320AMPlasmaOk
610:51:56:497AMPlasmaOk
711:08:48:890AMPlasmaOk
811:21:58:623AMPlasmaOk
911:50:12:187AMPlasmaOk
1012:12:30:853PMPlasmaOk
1112:27:52:810PMPlasmaOk
1212:41:20:433PMPlasmaOk
1312:56:00:747PMPlasmaOk
1401:08:58:357PMPlasmaOk
1501:21:40:827PMPlasmaOk
1601:38:00:860PMPlasmaOk
1701:54:24:240PMPlasmaOk
1802:07:11:990PMPlasmaOk
1902:20:00:510PMPlasmaOk
2002:48:37:543PMPlasmaOk
2103:04:52:920PMPlasmaOk
2203:17:59:923PMPlasmaOk
2303:31:13:660PMTestOk
2403:44:28:180PMPlasmaOk
2503:58:09:873PMPlasmaOk
2604:14:47:130PMPlasmaOk
2704:36:25:300PMPlasmaOk
2804:54:57:297PMPlasmaOk