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2011/03/06

0030 Stop data series 07110305_2101 on file 25. Put Cf-252 source back in safe.
Start unshielded background run; data series: 07110306_0028.
0858 Stop the run at file 67. Tower temperature is at 81mK and keeps going up. The phonon signal will disappear soon. No point of keep running. He level 3.0%.
0925 Temperature went down to 80.6mK
1028 Tower temperature 72mK He 2.8%. Pump mixture out of fridge and stop the 1K pot. Warm up fridge. unplug DCRC.
1620 Drop the dewar, use plastic wrap the fridge to reduce water condensing on the surface. Blow warm air into dewar to warm it up. Put in 0.16mbar He4 exchange gas into IVC at ~30K to warm it up faster. It's useful to have a plastic bag to wrap the fridge when do a rapid warm up.
1723 Start to pump the dewar