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05/07/11

1245 Tower temperature at about 500 mk. 1K pot at ~ 5.1 K. Found that at 8:45 am tower temperature began to rise.
1315 Tower temperature fluctuating between 770 mK and 950 mK. LHe level ~ 55%. G1 ~ 915 mbar, G2 ~ 850 mbar. Closed valves 13a and 1 and opened 9 and 5 to pour mixture into dump.
1335 Filled LN2 cold trap. Tower temperature ~ 680 mK. 1K pot ~ 2.2 K. G1 = 0 mbar, G2 ~ 415 mbar.
1600 Isolate cold trap 1 by closing valve 12a. Close valve 5, open valve 1. Monitor pressure rise in G1.
1620 No pressure rise in G1. Pressure in G2 430 mbar. Tower temperature just under 800 mK. Looks like there is some mixture still in the fridge, but it likely that it has been condensed.
1630 Open 1 K pot needle valve. Its temperature drops to 1.5 K.
Feed mixture into cold trap 2. Start condensing mixture from dump manually.
1924 Close condenser line speedi-valve, V6 and V13B; open V9 and V5. Pump out helium cold trap and N2 cold trap 2
1927 G1=14mbar, dropping. G2 = 51.4mbar. P1=0.14mbar.
2023 G1=0.4 mbar and plateaued. This is the lowest pressure I can get. Open V2 to pump the mixture trapped in the lines out.
2122 Pull the He cold trap out.
2150 Heated the He cold trap; Closed 1k pot speedivalve; Could have closed needle valve, but didn't. Opened 5A, 2A, 7 to send contaminants to He4 pump.
2313 Put the He cold trap back into the dump. Tower temperature stays at ~800mK and fluctuates a lot. There seems to be other blockages. I unplugged the two DCRC boards to make sure they are not heating the fridge.