Speaker
Brian Holub
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Description
In the spring of 2021 NSLS-II commissioned the project’s first SSA high power transmitter (310 kW CW) to complement the two existing 310 kW klystron-based transmitters which had been in use since 2012. This presentation will present the technical performance of the system as well as detail the hardware and software failures that occurred and the resulting downtime accumulated over the past three years. A comparison of the reliability of the SSA vs the Klystron units will also be shown over this time period. Finally, there will be a discussion on the lessons learned including things we would do differently in the next generation design (See R. Borger et al, these proceedings).
Author
Brian Holub
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
