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2012/03/06

0945 Begin pumping out N2 exchange gas. Temp ~ 78 K
1110 IVC pressure: 1.9E-6 mbar. Looking good!
1135 Pump mixture to dump in preparation for cleaning cold traps.
1145 Fill N2 cold trap full.
1525 Cleaned nitrogen cold traps. Placed them back in bath. Restart cryocleaning mixture.
Evacuate 1 K pot.
IVC pressure 1.2E-6 mbar.
1540 Start blowing out nitrogen from main bath. Connect leak checker and isolate turbo pump. Helium background leak level 2.5E-9 mbar l/s.
1620 Fill N2 cold trap full.
1645 Nitrogen has been blown out of main bath. Helium leak rate increased to 6.3E-9 mbar l/s: no gross leak.
1700 Evacuate main bath.
1710 Pump mixture into dump in preparation for throughput test.
1735 Throughput tests: 1) 60 mbar/min; 2) 110 mbar/min; 3) 80 mbar/min; 4)55 mbar/min. The last test V1 was opened at ~464 mbar, before stability.
1815 No leak; He leak rate: 6.2E-9 mbar l/s
1910 Pumped and filled main bath with He gas; Evacuated 1K pot; Filled IVC with 0.14 mbar of He gas.
1926 Begin LHe transfer (0%).
2030 Pumping out He exchange gas. Temp was ~ 5 K
2100 Finish helium transfer. Helium liquid level 93.3%.