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2011/09/10

1720 Mixing chamber temperature 77.1 K. Pump out exchange gas.
1855 Fill N2 cold trap full.
1945 Found QET A ret had unexpected high resistance in break-out box and cable. Need to fix this.
1946 Pump mixture into dump.
2018 Throughput test 20mbar/min. IVC He BG 1.1e-7cc/s. The room background was 8e-8cc/s. Hard to tell any leak. Pump the mixture into dump again.
2030 Throughput test ~40mbar/min. No leak seen at BG 1.2e-7cc/s. Pump out mixture.
2033 Start blowing out liquid N2. He gas pressure ~1.5psig.
2227 Liquid N2 is out. IVC He 1.6e-7cc/s. Found needed to use ~340 mbar at G3 to blow all the N2 out.
2237 G3 reads 76mbar at atmos pressure.
2257 It took 4min for P2 to drop from 1000mbar after start pumping the bath.