Alcator C-Mod Run 990203 Information

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Miniproposals
Miniproposal:214
Date Filed: 1/5/1999
Title:D and E-port RF System Commissioning
First Author:Steve Wukitch
Session Leader:Steve Wukitch (shots 1-16)

Operators
Session leader(s):Steve Wukitch
Physics operator(s):Robert Granetz
Engineering operator(s): Unknown

Engineering Operator Run Comment
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Session Leader Plans

Physics Operators Plans

Session Leader Summaries
Entered: Jul 7 2004 03:49:18:790PM
Author: To Be Determined
990203 Feb 3 1999

Engineering Setup for Wednesday, 990203

Load from 990202026 (last shot yesterday):

Overnight ECDC in D2

TF under hybrid control

Gas setup - fill B-top with 6 psi of D2 Hybrid enabled
fill B-side lower with 1 psi of Ar Hybrid enabled
fill B-side upper with 24 psi of He for between-shot ECDC
fill C-side with 30 psi of D2 Hybrid enabled

The following gate valves should be enabled, assuming no vacuum problems:

ECE only

Run Plan for 990203:
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RF conditioning requires many fiducial-like plasmas (0.8 MA to start with).
Start from 990202026. The outer gap feedback signal will not be used today.
Don't know about the TCI for density feedback yet. Currently the visible
bremsstrahlung is being used for density control. We will try the first 5
shots without between-shot ECDC. If we get more than 2 fizzles in those first
5 shots, we'll enable ECDC between all remaining shots.

Hybrid coldstart done; no errors
Shot 990202026 re-loaded from yesterday into PCS.
NL_ZMETER currently being used for density feedback.
RF feedback confirmed off.

In case TCI fails again today, reload discharge 990202012 to have a
successful example to use.

001 start from where we left off yesterday
rampup power from 0.1 - 0.8 MW with overlap
ST1: 557 PS1: 439 ST2: 2278 PS2:1073
early disruption

002 early disruption

003 plasma - no RF trigger

004 plasma - offset in RF data (that which we collected).
RF power measured in the power room.

005 RF ran with poor match on #1 but #2 ramped to 1 MW
plasma

006 ST1: 557 PS1: 439 ST2: 2239 PS2:936
increased power to 1 MW
both ran with few faults to about 1 MW
007 plasma
ST1: 573 PS1: 423 ST2: 2239 PS2:936
increased power to 1.5 MW and had several faults in #1
HV overload on FMIT#1

008 plasma good ramp
changed timing to: D-port: ramp .5-1. and E-port: ramp .5-1.

009 changed timing so D and E port ramp together
D-port did not run at all
010 plasma - early disruption
moved D-port before E and lowered the power
011 early disruption
lowered RF power

calculated new MW coef from 008 for D-port:
[-.619328,.91256,-3.44056]
fitting to high power (0.1-2 MW) resulted in much different
coefficients than low power. The function cannot fit a range from
0.01-2 MW without a more complicated expression.
calculated new MW coef from 007 for E-port:
[-.736524,.622806,-2.83363]

012 plasma
ST1:581 PS1:416 ST2: 2276 PS2: 1022
D port no power output.

013 low power on #1 - recalculate coefficients because the voltage
appears too low from the Bira
***** NOTE ABOUT THE rf_power_done event: in the tree, the action
\top.antenna.RF_POWER_S was waiting for when the rf_power_e and
rf_power_d processes were done, but it was looking on SONIC. They
have been changed to MHERTZ. And since we had "set noon" (set no
error messages on) the synchronize command couldn't find it and
just went on, assuming it was already done. Thus the seteven
rf_power_done was being set prematurely. It should now be fixed. ****

014 low power on #1 again - operator error
good power on #2

015 plasma good separate RF pulses ~900 kW each

016 no EF3
ST1: 582 PS1: 423 ST2: 2324 PS2: 1045
overlap #1 and #2 with #1 coming on 100 msec earlier

Summary:

After a rough start due to a CAMAC problem, the RF power was increased
up to 3 MW for about 40 msec within a few shots. The performance then
degraded and power needed to be reduced. The system resumed running
cleanly at lower power before the run was terminated by a blown EF3
fuse. New MW_coefficients and DC2 and stub calibration factors for D
and E-port were obtained. We also seem to have an intermittant CAMAC
problem which need some attention. The RF system is not yet reliable.

Physics Operator Summaries
Entered: Jul 7 2004 04:36:59:973PM
Author: To Be Determined
Physics operator summary for run 990203.

MP 214 -- ICRF conditioning

SL: S. Wukitch
PO: R. Granetz (asst: R. Parker; no show)

The goal for today:

Condition both the D and E antennas to get 2.5 MW total for 0.5 s.

Summary: Today was a breeze for the physics operator. There was plasma on
every shot until EF3 blew a fuse on shot 16. Most shots lasted well
into rampdown. BETWEEN-SHOT ECDC IS NOT NEEDED !! Some progress was
made on antenna conditioning (see session leader's summary), but the
H/D ratio was very high all day, so no heating was seen.

Problems: cooling was slow today. Wait times of 15 minutes were the
norm. The RF camac wasn't working initially, and a long break for
cell access was required to check it out. It took a very long time
to bring the O2 levels up in the cell. EF3 blew a fuse on shot 16,
which terminated the run prematurely.

Note: the visible bremsstrahlung is still being used to control the
density.

Scorecard: 15 plasmas
0 fizzles
1 dud (due to power supply fault)
0 tests
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16 total

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Engineering Setup for Wednesday, 990203

Load from 990202026 (last shot yesterday):

Overnight ECDC in D2

TF under hybrid control

Gas setup - fill B-top with 6 psi of D2 Hybrid enabled
fill B-side lower with 1 psi of Ar Hybrid enabled
fill B-side upper with 24 psi of He for between-shot ECDC
fill C-side with 30 psi of D2 Hybrid enabled

The following gate valves should be enabled, assuming no vacuum problems:

ECE only

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Run Plan for 990203:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

RF conditioning requires many fiducial-like plasmas (0.8 MA to start with).
Start from 990202026. The outer gap feedback signal will not be used today.
Don't know about the TCI for density feedback yet. Currently the visible
bremsstrahlung is being used for density control. We will try the first 5
shots without between-shot ECDC. If we get more than 2 fizzles in those first
5 shots, we'll enable ECDC between all remaining shots.

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Hybrid coldstart done; no errors found
($set default cmod$models:[hybrid.tcl]
$@hybinit_dispatch
$@show_bitbus_log
Use editor search to verify no occurrences of "error" nor
"not respond")
Reload 990202026 (last shot from yesterday)
Confirm that RF feedback on RCUR is turned off (RF_LOAD_E = 0.0)

Shot 01 -- Plasma. Short, disruptive. Terminated at 0.40 s. Vloop=4 V.
NL_04=1.0e20 m-2. Vibrations on TCI are too big to use for
feedback (we were using VB anyway).

Next shot: no changes, no between-shot ECDC

Shot 02 -- Plasma. Short. Got to 0.8 MA, then hit by brick.
Terminated at t=0.41 s. Vloop got down to 2 volts.
OH1 faulted due to disruption.

Next shot: no changes, no between-shot ECDC

Shot 03 -- Plasma. Good shot, but no RF...should have been on. Ip=0.8 MA.
Duration=1.37 s. NL_04=1.0-1.2e20 m-2. Right gap=1.0 cm.

Next shot: no changes. Not even thinking of between-shot ECDC any
more.

Shot 04 -- Plasma. Good shot, but still no RF...they're scratching their
heads. Wait a minute, there was RF, but their recording CAMAC
has a problem. About 1.25 MW? ECE and x-ray sawteeth get bigger
around the time the RF is ostensibly on.

Cell access required for RF camac, and Thomson camac.

Next shot: no changes.

The cell access required an extended break due to O2 levels. RF camac was
made to work, but preceding problems are not understood. There was about 1.5
hours between shots 4 and 5.

Shot 05 -- Plasma. Good shot. Prf=1 MW, from E antenna. Ip=0.8 MA,
nl_04=1.0e20 m-2, outer gap=1.0 cm. Still using VB for density
feedback.

Next shot: no changes

Shot 06 -- Plasma. Good shot. Prf=1.9 MW. No heating, no H-modes. Soft
x-rays increase, most likely due to RF impurity generation.
H/D ratio surpasses 50%, which may explain the lack of heating.

Next shot: no changes

Shot 07 -- Plasma. Good shot, except disrupted at 1.19 s, just after start of
rampdown. Prf surpassed 2.5 MW, but with multiple faults. Soft
x-rays clearly affected by the RF, including the dropouts. But
still no sign of heating or H-mode.

Next shot: no changes

Shot 08 -- Plasma. Good shot. Max Prf=2.8 MW. It's starting to tickle the
sawteeth. Outer gap is still 1.0 cm.

Next shot: increase argon puff from 25 to 30 ms (at t=0.3 s)

Shot 09 -- Plasma. Good shot. Only E antenna coupled. Prf=1 MW. Big
effect on soft x-rays, almost nothing on ECE

Next shot: no changes

ECDC in helium for 5 minutes between shots 9 and 10, at Jim Terry's request
(for diagnostic check out)

Shot 10 -- Plasma, disrupted at t=0.81 s. Prf=2.4 MW, and it causes the
density to take off. Big, sudden increase in SXR also. Vloop
begins to climb too.

Next shot: no changes

ECDC in helium for 5 minutes between shots 10 and 11, at Jim Terry's request
(for diagnostic check out)

Shot 11 -- Plasma, but boy was it ugly. Disrupted at 0.66 s. Density trace
shows multiple injections starting at 0.46 s. Very large x-ray
emission early in the shot.

Next shot: no changes, no ECDC

Shot 12 -- Plasma. Good shot. Prf=1-2 MW, with lots of faulting. H/D still
starts at 40% and climbs to 60+%. No signs of heating.

Next shot: no changes.

Shot 13 -- Plasma. Good shot. Prf=1 MW (from E only). Power room access
required to check D amplifier. H/D down a couple of % from previous
shots, but still huge. No heating.

Next shot: no changes

Shot 14 -- Plasma. Good shot. Prf=0.9 MW. H/D ratio is still creeping down,
it's now at 34% before the RF.

Next shot: no changes. D-port antenna should work better next shot.

Shot 15 -- Plasma. Good shot. Prf=0.9 MW from each antenna, but not
simultaneously (on purpose).

Next shot: no PCS changes. D and E antennas should have substantial
overlap on the next shot.

Shot 16 -- Dud. No EF3.

Next shot: extend flattop to 1.4 s to help Jim Terry debug a
diagnostic problem. This entails extending nearly every active
wire (except density) by 0.2 s, and extending TF current programming
by 0.2 s, and changing all PLC invert times by 0.2 s.

Between shots 16 and 17, a long power room access was required to work on the
EF3 supply.

Repairs to EF3 necessitate cancelling the remainder of the run.

Changes to PCS (i.e. lengthening flattop to 1.4 s) have been saved in the
pcs$data area as shot 990204000 (since John Goetz/Spencer Pitcher want this
for tomorrow's run as well). Note: PLC invert times still need to be extended.

Session Leader Comments
Feb 3 1999 11:43:31:250AM990203003Steve Wukitch003 plasma - no RF trigger
Feb 3 1999 11:43:47:107AM990203004Steve Wukitch004 plasma - offset in RF data (that which we collected).
RF power measured in the power room.
Feb 3 1999 11:44:14:467AM990203005Steve Wukitch005 RF ran with poor match on #1 but #2 ramped to 1 MW
plasma
Feb 3 1999 11:59:20:170AM990203006Steve Wukitch006 ST1: 557 PS1: 439 ST2: 2239 PS2:936
increased power to 1 MW
both ran with few faults to about 1 MW
Feb 3 1999 01:05:36:043PM990203007Steve Wukitch007 plasma
ST1: 573 PS1: 423 ST2: 2239 PS2:936
increased power to 1.5 MW and had several faults in #1
HV overload on FMIT#1
Feb 3 1999 02:11:21:687PM990203008Steve Wukitch008 plasma good ramp
changed timing to: D-port: ramp .5-1. and E-port: ramp .5-1.
Feb 3 1999 02:11:38:450PM990203009Steve Wukitch009 changed timing so D and E port ramp together
D-port did not run at all
Feb 3 1999 02:12:01:310PM990203010Steve Wukitch010 plasma - early disruption
moved D-port before E and lowered the power
Feb 3 1999 02:12:40:233PM990203011Steve Wukitch011 early disruption
lowered RF power
Feb 3 1999 04:19:37:653PM990203012Steve Wukitch012 plasma
ST1:581 PS1:416 ST2: 2276 PS2: 1022
D port no power output.
Feb 3 1999 04:23:00:483PM990203013Steve Wukitch013 low power on #1 - recalculate coefficients because the voltage
appears too low from the Bira
Feb 3 1999 04:23:18:030PM990203014Steve Wukitch014 low power on #1 again - operator error
good power on #2
Feb 3 1999 04:27:44:280PM990203015Steve Wukitch015 plasma good separate RF pulses ~900 kW each
Feb 3 1999 04:27:58:357PM990203016Steve Wukitch016 no EF3
ST1: 582 PS1: 423 ST2: 2324 PS2: 1045
overlap #1 and #2 with #1 coming on 100 msec earlier

Physics Operator Comments
Feb 3 1999 08:20:50:543AMRobert GranetzEngineering Setup for Wednesday, 990203

Load from 990202026 (last shot yesterday):

Overnight ECDC in D2

TF under hybrid control

Gas setup - fill B-top with 6 psi of D2 Hybrid enabled
fill B-side lower with 1 psi of Ar Hybrid enabled
fill B-side upper with 24 psi of He for between-shot ECDC
fill C-side with 30 psi of D2 Hybrid enabled

The following gate valves should be enabled, assuming no vacuum problems:

ECE only
Feb 3 1999 08:21:21:590AMRobert GranetzRun Plan for 990203:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

RF conditioning requires many fiducial-like plasmas (0.8 MA to start with).
Start from 990202026. The outer gap feedback signal will not be used today.
Don't know about the TCI for density feedback yet. Currently the visible
bremsstrahlung is being used for density control. We will try the first 5
shots without between-shot ECDC. If we get more than 2 fizzles in those first
5 shots, we'll enable ECDC between all remaining shots.
Feb 3 1999 08:23:33:357AMRobert GranetzHybrid coldstart done; no errors
Shot 990202026 re-loaded from yesterday into PCS.
NL_ZMETER currently being used for density feedback.
RF feedback confirmed off.
Feb 3 1999 09:35:31:403AM990203001Robert GranetzShot 01 -- Plasma. Short, disruptive. Terminated at 0.40 s. Vloop=4 V.
NL_04=1.0e20 m-2. Vibrations on TCI are too big to use for
feedback (we were using VB anyway).

Next shot: no changes, no between-shot ECDC
Feb 3 1999 09:35:50:640AM990203002Robert GranetzShot 02 -- Plasma. Short. Got to 0.8 MA, then hit by brick.
Terminated at t=0.41 s. Vloop got down to 2 volts.
OH1 faulted due to disruption.

Next shot: no changes, no between-shot ECDC
Feb 3 1999 09:51:56:090AM990203003Robert GranetzShot 03 -- Plasma. Good shot, but no RF...should have been on. Ip=0.8 MA.
Duration=1.37 s. NL_04=1.0-1.2e20 m-2. Right gap=1.0 cm.

Next shot: no changes. Not even thinking of between-shot ECDC any
more.
Feb 3 1999 10:11:29:857AM990203004Robert GranetzShot 04 -- Plasma. Good shot, but still no RF...they're scratching their
heads. Wait a minute, there was RF, but their recording CAMAC
has a problem. About 1.25 MW? ECE and x-ray sawteeth get bigger
around the time the RF is ostensibly on.

Cell access required for RF camac, and Thomson camac.

Next shot: no changes.
Feb 3 1999 11:45:44:513AM990203005Robert GranetzThe cell access required an extended break due to O2 levels. RF camac was
made to work, but preceding problems are not understood. There was about 1.5
hours between shots 4 and 5.
Feb 3 1999 11:51:09:750AM990203005Robert GranetzShot 05 -- Plasma. Good shot. Prf=1 MW, from E antenna. Ip=0.8 MA,
nl_04=1.0e20 m-2, outer gap=1.0 cm. Still using VB for density
feedback.

Next shot: no changes
Feb 3 1999 12:18:37:357PM990203006Robert GranetzShot 06 -- Plasma. Good shot. Prf=1.9 MW. No heating, no H-modes. Soft
x-rays increase, most likely due to RF impurity generation.
H/D ratio surpasses 50%, which may explain the lack of heating.

Next shot: no changes
Feb 3 1999 12:18:46:390PM990203007Robert GranetzShot 07 -- Plasma. Good shot, except disrupted at 1.19 s, just after start of
rampdown. Prf surpassed 2.5 MW, but with multiple faults. Soft
x-rays clearly affected by the RF, including the dropouts. But
still no sign of heating or H-mode.

Next shot: no changes
Feb 3 1999 12:42:43:250PM990203008Robert GranetzShot 08 -- Plasma. Good shot. Max Prf=2.8 MW. It's starting to tickle the
sawteeth. Outer gap is still 1.0 cm.

Next shot: increase argon puff from 25 to 30 ms (at t=0.3 s)
Feb 3 1999 01:03:12:217PM990203009Robert GranetzShot 09 -- Plasma. Good shot. Only E antenna coupled. Prf=1 MW. Big
effect on soft x-rays, almost nothing on ECE

Next shot: no changes

ECDC in helium for 5 minutes between shots 9 and 10, at Jim Terry's request
(for diagnostic check out)
Feb 3 1999 01:36:00:403PM990203010Robert GranetzShot 10 -- Plasma, disrupted at t=0.81 s. Prf=2.4 MW, and it causes the
density to take off. Big, sudden increase in SXR also. Vloop
begins to climb too.

Next shot: no changes

ECDC in helium for 5 minutes between shots 10 and 11, at Jim Terry's request
(for diagnostic check out)
Feb 3 1999 01:47:12:937PM990203011Robert GranetzShot 11 -- Plasma, but boy was it ugly. Disrupted at 0.66 s. Density trace
shows multiple injections starting at 0.46 s. Very large x-ray
emission early in the shot.

Next shot: no changes, no ECDC
Feb 3 1999 02:06:22:500PM990203012Robert GranetzShot 12 -- Plasma. Good shot. Prf=1-2 MW, with lots of faulting. H/D still
starts at 40% and climbs to 60+%. No signs of heating.

Next shot: no changes.
Feb 3 1999 02:23:48:653PM990203013Robert GranetzShot 13 -- Plasma. Good shot. Prf=1 MW (from E only). Power room access
required to check D amplifier. H/D down a couple of % from previous
shots, but still huge. No heating.

Next shot: no changes
Feb 3 1999 02:43:24:077PM990203014Robert GranetzShot 14 -- Plasma. Good shot. Prf=0.9 MW. H/D ratio is still creeping down,
it's now at 34% before the RF.

Next shot: no changes. D-port antenna should work better next shot.
Feb 3 1999 03:03:32:733PM990203015Robert GranetzShot 15 -- Plasma. Good shot. Prf=0.9 MW from each antenna, but not
simultaneously (on purpose).

Next shot: no PCS changes. D and E antennas should have substantial
overlap on the next shot.
Feb 3 1999 03:31:57:090PM990203016Robert GranetzBetween shots 16 and 17, a long power room access was required to work on the
EF3 supply.
Feb 3 1999 03:57:27:653PM990203016Robert GranetzShot 16 -- Dud. No EF3.

Next shot: extend flattop to 1.4 s to help Jim Terry debug a
diagnostic problem. This entails extending nearly every active
wire (except density) by 0.2 s, and extending TF current programming
by 0.2 s, and changing all PLC invert times by 0.2 s.
Feb 3 1999 04:07:21:733PM990203016Robert GranetzRepairs to EF3 necessitate cancelling the remainder of the run.
Feb 3 1999 04:36:30:687PM990203016Robert GranetzChanges to PCS (i.e. lengthening flattop to 1.4 s) have been saved in the
pcs$data area as shot 990204000 (since John Goetz/Spencer Pitcher want this
for tomorrow's run as well). Note: PLC invert times still need to be extended.

Engineering Operator Comments
ShotTimeTypeStatusComment
109:10:20:577AMPlasmaOkNO FAULTS/FIZZEL
209:23:57:653AMPlasmaOkOH1 SELF POWERED CKT. FIRED
309:41:59:483AMPlasmaOkNO FAULTS/PLASMA
409:59:36:733AMPlasmaOkNO FAULTS
511:35:03:233AMPlasmaOkNO FAULTS
611:52:38:060AMPlasmaOkNO FAULTS
712:09:35:903PMPlasmaOkNO FAULTS
812:31:24:607PMPlasmaOkNO FAULTS
912:50:34:857PMPlasmaOkNO FAULTS
1001:11:49:293PMPlasmaOkNO FAULTS
1101:34:38:780PMPlasmaOkNo Faults
1201:50:44:903PMPlasmaOkNo Faults
1302:12:03:060PMPlasmaOkNo Faults
1402:30:54:763PMPlasmaOkNo Faults
1502:54:37:840PMPlasmaOkNo Faults
1603:15:22:857PMPlasmaOkEF3 Overvoltage Fuse Fault