Alcator C-Mod Run 941213 Information

Back to runs

Miniproposals
Miniproposal:069a
Date Filed:11/13/1994
Title:Development of New Equilibria for Divertor Geometry Studies
First Author:Bruce Lipschultz
Session Leader:Bruce Lipschultz (shots 1-30)

Operators
Session leader(s):Bruce Lipschultz
Physics operator(s):Steve Wolfe
Engineering operator(s):Joe Daigle,Vinny Bertolino

Engineering Operator Run Comment
divertor geometry

Session Leader Plans

Physics Operators Plans

Session Leader Summaries
Entered: Jul 7 2004 03:49:11:523PM
Author: To Be Determined
Run of 941213
Physics Operator - Steve Wolfe
Session Leader - B. Lipschultz
Engineering - V. Bartolino

The first part of this MP (#69), creation of an 'open' or flat-plate divertor
equilibrium, was achieved. The gaps to inner wall and outer antenna were
very good and the strike points were above the divertor noses.
We tried to sweep the strike points across the plates to
be able to reconstruct a divertor plasma profile. This aspect was somewhat
successful but it would be nice to do better in order to reconstruct the
divertor plasma profile on the basis of too few probes.
On the last shot of the run, 30, we got the best sweeping of RXU. On
the basis of the analyzed probe data from probe 8 on the outer divertor it
appears that more sweep distance would be usefull. In addition it would be
nice if the sweep retraced inward as well. This would better justify the
profile obtained from the divertor probes.

As expected, the scanning probe was not able to penetrate the
SOL very far. Brian did get 2 scans in every shot after (and including)
shot 18. We did not start on the second part of the MP; creating the
slot divertor equilibrium.
In general there was alot of difficulty at the beginning of the run.
This appeared to be a combination of slight variations in the response in
EF1 and a dirty machine. The latter was caused by the recent inability to
close the cryopump gatevalve which precluded any ECDC as well as dumping gases
into the machine. We seemed to recover from both of the above problems by
shot 17. The problem of fizzles following disruptions continued to dog us
in this run.

The shot summary/comments follow:

shot1: OH test, prepare for run by loading 94120928.

SHOT 2: fizzle, some problem with EF1

shot 3: fizzle

shot 4: plasma but awful. May have been due to no ECDC

shot 5: awful

shot 6: lasted longer

shot 7: reasonable, lasts till inversion. Almost to the point where
we can start the program of the day. Wait at least one more shot. Steve will
try and tune up the gaps better for the next shot.

shot 8:fizzle

shot 9: disrupt up, start with program anyway on next shot.

shot 10: fizzle

shot 11: elliptical plasma that lasted 400 ms.

shot 12: fizzle

shot 13: lasted almost to current inversion. The plasma is diverted with the
strike points roughly in the right spots. The probe currents on the divertor
plates are peaked on probes 8 (outer) and 5 (inner). The outer and inner gaps
are miniscule.

shot 14: fizzle

shot 15: again lasted almost to current inversion. The gaps are
slightly better than on shot 13; inner gap of 1. cm, outer gap of .6 cm.
We will try to improve these.

shot 16: fizzle

shot 17: This shot almost made it completely through inversion. The gaps are
the same. Peak in Isat is still on probe 8.

shot 18: This one also went the full length. Two in a row! Huge moly injection
at .84 seconds. Inner gap still hanging around 1 cm but the outer gap is much
better! ~ 1.3 cm.

shot 19: This also looks pretty good. Steve moved the plasma .5 cm down and
increased clearin by 0.5 cm to increase the inner and outer gaps. This
was successfull; inner gap = 1.5 dropping to 1.25, outer gap 1.7 cm or so.
In addition, there was no injection on this shot. Steve will try to increase the
inner gap on the next shot. The x-point will also be moved up and out 0,5 cm each
to better position the outer strike point.

shot 20: Gaps are looking very good! Left gap is 1.5 cm, right gap is 1.8 cm.
The x-point did not move out very much so more work is needed there.

shot 21: same but slightly higher density

shot 22: same but slightly higher density 1.5 e20 line-averaged.

shot 23: density still higher, however, the plasma disrupts slightly into
inversion.

shot 24: fizzle

shot 25: fizzle

shot 26: ok with density lowered back down slightly. We will try to
get more sweep in RXU next shot

shot 27: ok again. RXU swept about 1.5 cm over course of shot. We will try
to have RXU start 1 cm inward and sweep 3 cm next.

shot 28: fizzle

shot 29: fizzle

shot 30: This shot went. There were 2 moly injections at .32 and .59 seconds.
Here we did finally succeed in moving the RXU 3 cm over the shot. This shot
is very nice with respect to sweeping past probe 8 on the outer divertor. That
probe changes from a location in the common flux region ot the private flux
regions over the lenght of the shot.

Physics Operator Summaries
Entered: Jul 7 2004 04:36:52:457PM
Author: To Be Determined
Physics Operator's Summsary for 941213

MP#069
SL: Lipschultz
PO: Wolfe
EO: Bertolino/Daigle

The plan for today was to develop the top-of-the-divertor strike point
configuration and begin development on the slot equilibrium. The top-surface
configuration was developed successfully, although some difficulty remained in
moving the strike points over a wide range. Nothing was accomplished on
the slot configuration.

This run was a real struggle, primarily for reasons extraneous to the main
focus of the experiment. After the initial OH-only shot, the next two attempts
were fizzles. The EF1 supplies appeared to be unbalanced in the opposite
direction from last Friday, i.e. EF1L was overshooting the nominal current.
Several shots were spent trying to overcome this by increasing the P gains and
decreasing the feed-forward voltage on the two supplies symmetrically. It was
found that raising the P gain over 5 caused an oscillation on the EF1's so we
had to back off from this. Finally a combination that produced reasonable
results was obtained. Current rises were produced during this period,
beginning with shot 4, but they were dirty and disruptive. This was
attributed to the lack of ECDC and the partial dump of the cryo-pump into the
machine over the weekend, both results of the GV3 valve being stuck open.
Lowering the density allowed the shots to run successfully.

We finally began the run proper on shot #10, loading the previously prepared
user9:[wolfe.mds.shots.hybrid.pcs]pcs_941210002 and using import seg to get
the revised startup from Segment 1 of shot 941213009. It was found that IMPORT
SEG would not work to bring segment 2 from the private shot into the live
shot, because the code tried to open HYBRID rather than PCS; Josh put up a
fix for this after the run. Shot 10 fizzled and 11 was dirty and disruptive.
Shot 12 ran ok with the density reduced from 1.1e20 to 0.8e20. Qualitatively,
this shot had the correct behavior, but RXU was much more positive than
expected and EF2U was on the rail for the entire flattop. Subsequent shots
adjusted the programming, primarily of RXU, ZXU but also of CLEARIN and RCUR,
to give a satisfactory equilibrium with strikepoints in the nominal locations
on top of the divertor modules and good inner and outer gaps. Good examples
are #21 - 23. We tried raising the density in 10% increments, until we got in
trouble on shot 23, which disrupted hard in the early ramp-down. All
disruptions today were followed by one or two fizzles.

Shots 22 and 23 had repetitive H-alpha excursions that might have been
H-modes, but looked rather funny. The lower density shots did not have such
transitions.

Shot #26,28 and 30 dropped the density back to 8.6e19 (NL_04) and tried a long
ramp in RXL to sweep the strike point across a probe to get a dynamic SOL
profile. The last of these got about a 2cm sweep, but did not follow all the
way. After the run it was found that there may have been a problem on one of
the EF2L supplies for the last few shots; not only were the voltage waveforms
for the two supplies different, the current waveforms were different as well.
This of course cannot be correct, since the supplies are in series. The
engineers will investigate in the morning.

The disruptions early in ramp-down on shots 28 and 30 were almost certainly
due to operator error; the ZXU was programmed to come down, i.e. toward the
plasma, during ramp-down, and ended up going upper-null diverted and then
disrupting. The ZXU should have been held constant during rampdown. This error
may also have contributed to some of the disruptions on previous shots as
well.

The startup is still not robust. A large "lurch" appears in Br following
commutation. Getting rid of this might help the fizzle problem. Also, the EF1
supplies seem to have a response that drifts durting the day.

Blow-by-blow
------------
941213001 OH only test. Looks ok.
941213002 Load of prepared shot PCS$WOLFE:PCS941210001 Pfill=1.6e-5
fizzle !@#$%^&*() EF1L overshooting.
941213003 Try raising the P gain on each from 2.5 to 5.0 in SEG01
Another fizzle. Now 50A imbalance in EF1s
941213004 Try raising the P gain again on each from 5.0 to 9.0 in SEG01
Short and ugly, but not a fizzle
Increased ripple on the EF1's. Too much P gain on the supplies
Shot looks dirty.
941213005 Drop the P gain again on each from 9 to 7 in SEG01
Drop voltage feedforward from -72.3 to -62.3 on both
Still have ripple on the EF1s.
Plasma lasted till 350msec, still dirty and disruptive.
941213006 Drop the P gain on EF1's again on each from 7 to 5 in SEG01
Up to 500kA, still drty and disruptive
Small ripple on EF1's, but still there. Imbalance is worse.
941213007 Drop density prog from 1e20 to 7e19 NL04
Drop gas programming from 30msec. (seg1)
Drop EF1 voltages from -62.3 to -52.3
Longer, disrupted on ramp-down?
Several injections along the way.
It goes up on the disruption.
941213008 Change SeG2 offset on RCUR to 10000.
Fizzle
941213009 repeat
Short again. Big thrash at 350msec? Vertical instability.
941213010 Load my shot 941210002 and do an import segment on seg 01 from
941213009.
Fizzle.
941213011 repeat
Short dirty disruptive
Lasted 400msec, never got up to current.
EF2U rails, so does EF2L but not for as long.
941213012 Lower density program to 8e19 from 1.1e20
fizzle.
941213013 Repeat
Looks good. Disruption early in ramp-down.
EF2U is completely railed for the whole shot.
RXU is way further out than the programming.
ZXU not too bad.
Small inner and outer gaps, barely diverted but strikes are
close to nominal.
941213014 Drop RXU from 0.07 to about +0.01
Drop fill to 1.4e-5 to try to avoid fizzle
Didn't work, got a fizzle anyway.
941213015 Repeat- It ran, disrupted early in rampdown.
EF2U is still railed the whole time.
941213016 Drop RXU from +0.01 to 0.
Drop ZXU from .09 to 0.06
fizzle.
941213017 Change RCUR rampin at end to start at 1sec, ramp slower.
Lasted longer, till 1.33sec. EF2U rails only between
.31 and .55.
941213018 Ramp ZXU up from -.5cm to +.06 at 450msec
Move RCUR in by .005
It ran. Brian poked his probe in twice.
Dip in current and increase in density around 0.63 (injection)
EF2U rails from 340 to 470msec.
Gaps look more balanced, but still a bit small.
Made it longer into ramp-down to 180kA
941213019 Move ZCUR down from 0.014 to 0.01
Move CLEARIN from -.005 to 0.
Seemed to work. Disruption around 200kA.
941213020 MOve RXL out by .005, ZXL up by .005
INcrease CLEARIN Int gain from .05 to 1.0 at .5 sec.
INcrease CLEARIN to +.005
Still railing EF2U.
941213021 Back off ZXU another .01 to .05 to get EF2U off the rail.
MOve RXL out earlier, and increase P gain from 3 to 5.
Raise density by 10% (to 8.8e19 NL04)
EF2U now just kisses 4000a.
Still not getting RXL under control early
941213022 MOve RXL programming to .018 by 400 msec
Raise density another 10% to 9.8e19
Drop ZCUR to 0.005 (down 5mm)
OK it came out lower, RXL may be out earlier, still too far in.
Got more density.
941213023 Ramp RXL out by an extra cm from .5 to 1.0sec
Raise density another 10% to 1.1e20
Disrupted early in ramp down: 1.08 sec, 700kA,
260kA halo current
941213024 Drop ZXU to 0.04
Drop density to 8.6e19, maxing at 0.5 sec
Fizzle (surprise, surprise!)
941213025 Repeat-fizzle
941213026 Drop ZXU to 0.04
This one ran to 1.4 sec. EF2U does not rail (or only briefly)
This time got part of the RXL ramp.
941213027 Increase ramp on RXL by 0.5cm, add ramp on ZXL by 0.5cm,
from 0.5 to 1sec. Disrupted in ramp-down at 1.18
941213028 Start RXL ramp further in .01, swing it out to 0.04
fizzle.
941213029 repeat - another fizzle
941213030 Raise Br0 by 0.5mT
Ran but disrupted on ramp-down.
Br still has a serious negative lurch.
RXL ramp looks ok from 400 to 900, then saturates

Scorecard:
----------

Tests 1
Plasmas 18 (13 through flattop)
Fizzles 11
Duds 0
-------- --
Total 30

Session Leader Comments
Dec 13 1994 08:32:43:760AMBruce LipschultzRun of 941213
Physics Operator - Steve Wolfe
Session Leader - B. Lipschultz
Engineering - V. Bartolino

goal - to develop diverted plasma equilibria that correspond to 'slot' and 'fla
geometries. These will be used in the study of the effect of divertor
geometry on divertor and main plasma characteristics (M.P. \# 39). Milestone
\# 51 (scheduled for completion 1/95) will be satified by completion of this
mini-proposal.

Dec 13 1994 08:40:26:880AM941213001Bruce Lipschultzshot1: OH test, prepare for run by loading 94120928Run of 941213

The first part of this mp is to create a "flat" plate divertor configuration
with the strike points just up above the nose on the
divertor modules. This corr. to R=62.2, z=-42.4 on the outer divertor
and R=51, z=-38.4 cm on the inner divertor.

Dec 13 1994 10:41:31:310AM941213009Bruce Lipschultzshot9: still problems with disruptions. However Steve will try to start
the MP program anyway - raising the plasma so that the strike points are
above the noses of the divertor noses.

Dec 13 1994 11:50:01:180AM941213009Bruce Lipschultzshot 13: lasted almost to current inversion. The plasma is diverted with the
strike points roughly in the right spots. The probe currents on the divertor
plates are peaked on probes 8 (outer) and 5 (inner). The outer gap and inner
gaps are miniscule.

Dec 13 1994 11:50:31:620AM941213013Bruce Lipschultzshot 13: lasted almost to current inversion. The plasma is diverted with the
strike points roughly in the right spots. The probe currents on the divertor
plates are peaked on probes 8 (outer) and 5 (inner). The outer gap and inner
gaps are miniscule.

Dec 13 1994 12:19:59:430PM941213015Bruce Lipschultzshot 15: again lasted almost to current inversion. The gaps are
slightly better than on shot 13; inner gap of 1. cm, outer gap of .6 cm.
We will try to improve these.

Dec 13 1994 12:34:57:510PM941213015Bruce Lipschultzshot 15: again lasted almost to current inversion. The gaps are
slightly better than on shot 13; inner gap of 1. cm, outer gap of .6 cm.
We will try to improve these.

Dec 13 1994 01:01:32:350PM941213017Bruce Lipschultzshot 17: This shot almost made it completely through inversion. The gaps are
the same. Peak in Isat is still on probe 8.

Dec 13 1994 01:20:23:580PM941213018Bruce Lipschultzshot 18: This one also went the full length. Two in a row! Huge moly injection
at .84 seconds. Inner gap still hanging around 1 cm but the outer gap is much
better! ~ 1.3 cm.

Dec 13 1994 01:35:47:730PM941213019Bruce Lipschultzshot 19: This also looks pretty good. Steve moved the plasma .5 cm down and
increased clearin by 0.5 cm to increase the inner and outer gaps. This
was successfull; inner gap = 1.5 dropping to 1.25, outer gap 1.7 cm or so.
In addition, there was no injection on this shot. Steve will try to increase t
inner gap on the next shot. The x-point will also be moved up and out 0,5 cm e
to better position the outer strike point.

Dec 13 1994 02:02:56:530PM941213020Bruce Lipschultzshot 20: Gaps are looking very good! Left gap is 1.5 cm, right gap is 1.8 cm.
The x-point did not move out very much so more work is needed there.

Dec 13 1994 02:50:36:740PM941213022Bruce Lipschultzshot 21: same but slightly higher density

shot 22: same but slightly higher density 1.5 e20 line-averaged.

Dec 13 1994 03:16:34:390PM941213023Bruce Lipschultzshot 23: density still higher, however, the plasma disrupts slightly into
inversion.

Dec 13 1994 04:34:38:230PM941213026Bruce Lipschultzshot 26: recovered with lower density finally

Dec 13 1994 04:35:07:300PM941213027Bruce Lipschultzshot 27: same as 26

Physics Operator Comments
Dec 13 1994 07:41:21:610AMSteve WolfeMP#069 - Development of New Equilibria for Divertor Geometry Studies
SL: Blip
PO: Wolfe
EO:

Start from user9:[wolfe.mds.shots.hybrid.pcs]PCS_941210001.*, which is
basically the same as 941209028 with NL feedback moved to wire 14, and
block 9-12 set to IP reference and loaded with shape parameters.

This will serve as a checkout shot. If successful we will proceed to
development of the top-surface strike-point equilibrium. Reference
simulations are in user9:[wolfe.efit.test]*941207902.*.

Gas/vac conditions: No ECDC since Friday; GV3 is stuck in open position.
Base pressure = 4.2e-8 Torr.

Load at 13-Dec-1994 06:59:20.00
HYBINIT at 07:38

First shot will be OH only test (Tuesday ritual)

Dec 13 1994 08:33:12:520AM941213001Steve WolfeShot #941213001

OH only test. Looks ok.
CAMAC store error on Hybrid CADF07

Dec 13 1994 08:56:35:280AM941213002Steve WolfeShot #941213002

Load of prepared shot PCS$WOLFE:PCS941210001; based on 941209028 with
new wire arrangement.

Pfill=1.6e-5 (base=4.4e-8)
fizzle !@#$%^&*()

EF1L is now overshooting.
For next shot Try raising the P gain on each from 2.5 to 5.0

Dec 13 1994 09:08:55:010AM941213003Steve WolfeShot #941213003

EF1L is now overshooting.
Try raising the P gain on each from 2.5 to 5.0 in SEG01

Another fizzle.
Now 50A imbalance in EF1s

Breakdown at 5msec, never forms

Dec 13 1994 09:21:57:100AM941213004Steve WolfeShot #941213004

EF1L is still overshooting by 50 A.
Try raising the P gain again on each from 5.0 to 9.0 in SEG01

Short and ugly, but not a fizzle

Increased ripple on the EF1's. Too much P gain on the supplies
Shot looks dirty.

Dec 13 1994 09:36:30:860AM941213005Steve WolfeShot #941213005

Drop the P gain again on each from 9 to 7 in SEG01
Drop voltage feedforward from -72.3 to -62.3 on both

Still have ripple on the EF1s. Need to go back down in P gain, or turn
up D.

Plasma lasted till 350msec, still dirty and disruptive.

Dec 13 1994 09:47:39:750AM941213006Steve WolfeShot #941213006

Drop the P gain on EF1's again on each from 7 to 5 in SEG01

Up to 500kA, still drty and disruptive
Small ripple on EF1's, but still there. Imbalance is worse.

Dec 13 1994 10:06:17:190AM941213007Steve WolfeShot #941213007

Drop density prog from 1e20 to 7e19 NL04
Drop gas programming from 30msec. (seg1)
Drop EF1 voltages from -62.3 to -52.3 (I don't want to have to program
an imbalance).

Longer, disrupted on ramp-down?
There is a big hesitation at segment switch; the starting shot has
the 10000 discontinuity in RCUR.

Several injections along the way.
It goes up on the disruption.

Dec 13 1994 10:19:49:730AM941213008Steve WolfeShot #941213008

Change SeG2 offset on RCUR to 10000.
Fizzle, probably post-disruption.

Dec 13 1994 10:36:44:320AM941213009Steve WolfeShot #941213009

Change SeG2 offset on RCUR to 10000.
repeat

Short again. Big thrash at 350msec? Vertical instability.
OH2L faulted on the disruption.

I think this one may have been trying for too high elongation, because
of the change in RCUR. It got to 1.7

Dec 13 1994 10:56:24:300AM941213010Steve WolfeShot #941213010

Load my shot 941210002 and do an import segment on seg 01 from
941213010.
Note: IMPORT SEG would not work from my area.

This is starting the actual adjustments from a bad place, but we have to
get on with it.

Fizzle. Not unexpected, but unpleasant.

Dec 13 1994 11:21:18:690AM941213011Steve WolfeShot #941213011
repeat

Short dirty disruptive
Lasted 400msec, never got up to current.
EF2U rails, so does EF2L but not for as long.
It never gets above 500kA.

fizzle.

Dec 13 1994 11:22:30:120AM941213012Steve WolfeShot #941213012

Lower density program to 8e19 from 1.1e20
fizzle.

Dec 13 1994 11:45:39:910AM941213013Steve WolfeShot #941213013
Repeat with
Lower density program to 8e19 from 1.1e20

Looks good. Disruption early in ramp-down.
EF2U is completely railed for the whole shot.

RXU is way further out than the programming.
ZXU not too bad.
Small inner and outer gaps, barely diverted but strikes are
close to nominal.

Dec 13 1994 11:53:45:630AM941213014Steve WolfeShot #941213014

Drop RXU from 0.07 to about +0.01
Drop fill to 1.4e-5 to try to avoid fizzle

Didn't work, got a fizzle anyway.

Dec 13 1994 12:22:09:970PM941213015Steve WolfeShot #941213015

Repeat-
Drop RXU from 0.07 to about +0.01
Leave fill to 1.4e-5

It ran, disrupted early in rampdown.
EF2U is still railed the whole time.

Dec 13 1994 12:27:12:810PM941213016Steve WolfeShot #941213016

Drop RXU from +0.01 to 0.
Drop ZXU from .09 to 0.06

fizzle.

Dec 13 1994 12:54:38:170PM941213017Steve WolfeShot #941213017

Change RCUR rampin at end to start at 1sec, ramp slower.
As on previous, Drop RXU from +0.01 to 0., ZXU from .09 to 0.06

Lasted longer, till 1.33sec. EF2U rails only between .31 and .55.

Dec 13 1994 01:16:59:810PM941213018Steve WolfeShot #941213018

Ramp ZXU up from -.5cm to +.06 at 450msec
Move RCUR in by .005

It ran. Brian poked his probe in twice.
Dip in current and increase in density around 0.63
EF2U rails from 340 to 470msec.
Gaps look more balanced, but still a bit small.
Made it longer into ramp-down to 180kA

Dec 13 1994 01:33:20:730PM941213019Steve WolfeShot #941213019

Move ZCUR down from 0.014 to 0.01
Move CLEARIN from -.005 to 0.

Seemed to work. Disruption around 200kA.

Dec 13 1994 01:49:36:640PM941213020Steve WolfeShot #941213020

MOve RXL out by .005, ZXL up by .005
INcrease CLEARIN Int gain from .05 to 1.0 at .5 sec.
INcrease CLEARIN to +.005

Still railing EF2U. I could back off some more on ZXU I think

Dec 13 1994 02:23:26:100PM941213021Steve WolfeShot #941213021

Back off ZXU another .01 to .05 to get EF2U off the rail.
MOve RXL out earlier, and increase P gain from 3 to 5.
Raise density by 10% (to 8.8e19 NL04)

EF2U now just kisses 4000a.
Still not getting RXL under control early

Dec 13 1994 02:47:18:380PM941213022Steve WolfeShot #941213022

MOve RXL programming to .018 by 400 msec
Raise density another 10% to 9.8e19
Drop ZCUR to 0.005 (down 5mm)

OK it came out lower, RXL may be out earlier, still too far in.
Got more density.

Dec 13 1994 03:07:36:630PM941213023Steve WolfeShot #941213023

Ramp RXL out by an extra cm from .5 to 1.0sec
Raise density another 10% to 1.1e20

Disrupted early in ramp down: 1.08 sec, 700kA, 260kA halo current
RXL has a transition at 700msec?

Dec 13 1994 03:13:48:120PM941213024Steve WolfeShot #941213024

Drop ZXU to 0.04
Drop density to 8.6e19, maxing at 0.5 sec

Fizzle (surprise, surprise!)

Dec 13 1994 03:38:42:540PM941213025Steve WolfeShot #941213025

Repeat=Drop ZXU to 0.04
Drop density to 8.6e19, maxing at 0.5 sec

fizzle/

Dec 13 1994 03:52:14:440PM941213026Steve WolfeShot #941213026

Repeat=Drop ZXU to 0.04
Drop density to 8.6e19, maxing at 0.5 sec

This one ran to 1.4 sec. EF2U does not rail (or only briefly)
This time it looks like we got the RXL ramp. or not.

Dec 13 1994 04:07:40:570PM941213027Steve WolfeShot #941213027

Increase ramp on RXL by 0.5cm, add ramp on ZXL by 0.5cm, from 0.5 to 1.

Disrupted in ramp-down at 1.18
Still not seeing the ramps as clearly as I think we should.

Dec 13 1994 04:22:50:330PM941213028Steve WolfeShot #941213028

Start RXL ramp further in .01, swing it out to 0.04
Draw a waveform on KAPPA (wire 9) just to be sure the reference switch
happens

fizzle.

Dec 13 1994 04:43:43:920PM941213029Steve WolfeShot #941213029

Try it again:
Start RXL ramp further in .01, swing it out to 0.04
Draw a waveform on KAPPA (wire 9) just to be sure the reference switch
happens
Turn on one Ar pulse at 300msec (17msec wide)

Another fizzle. Null looks bad, late b.d.

Dec 13 1994 05:29:11:560PM941213030Steve WolfeShot #941213030

Try it again:
Start RXL ramp further in .01, swing it out to 0.04
Draw a waveform on KAPPA (wire 9) just to be sure the reference switch
happens
Turn on one Ar pulse at 300msec (17msec wide)
Raise Br0 by 0.5mT

Ran but disrupted on ramp-down. Call it a day.
Br still has a serious negative lurch. Breakdown is at 7.4msec
Ramp looks ok from 400 to 900, then saturates; get about 2cm of RXL
ramp.

Engineering Operator Comments
ShotTimeTypeStatusComment
108:29:07:180AMTestOkoh1, oh2u, oh2l +10ka coax test
208:39:59:530AMPlasmaOkno faults
308:58:40:970AMPlasmaOkno faults
409:11:34:500AMPlasmaOkno faults
509:29:24:440AMPlasmaOkno faults
609:41:23:510AMPlasmaOkno faults
709:56:10:280AMPlasmaOkno faults
810:12:24:210AMPlasmaOkno faults
910:24:27:110AMPlasmaOkoh2l comm fault at disruption
1010:54:18:690AMPlasmaOkno faults
1111:06:05:260AMPlasmaOkno faults
1211:19:36:140AMPlasmaOkno faults
1311:32:02:650AMPlasmaOkdisruption induced comm faults, oh1 and oh2l
1411:52:10:110AMPlasmaOkno faults
1512:03:53:000PMPlasmaOkdisruption induced comm faults, oh1, oh2u and l, ef1u
1612:25:41:340PMPlasmaOkno faults
1712:37:06:720PMPlasmaOkno faults
1801:02:08:540PMPlasmaOkComm fault OH2 L EF1 L
1901:21:05:250PMPlasmaOkComm fault OH1L & EF1L
2001:41:51:960PMPlasmaOkNo faults.
2102:04:18:140PMPlasmaOkNO Faults.
2202:30:52:840PMPlasmaOkNo Faults.
2302:50:34:530PMPlasmaOkOH1 OH2U comm faults.
2403:11:57:500PMPlasmaOkNo faults.
2503:24:56:260PMPlasmaOkNO faults fizzle
2603:36:57:990PMPlasmaOkNo faults.
2703:55:10:650PMPlasmaOkoh1 & oh2 comm fault.
2804:21:28:930PMPlasmaOkNO faults
2904:34:56:940PMPlasmaOkNO faults
3004:47:47:530PMPlasmaOkNo faults