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2012/04/16

0942 Pump out N2 exchange gas.
0949 Re-opened V6 progressively back to 13.7% to clean mixture.
G1 and G2 were fine up to 13.4%. When increasing up to 13.7% and stepping away, a minute later G2 had jumped to 600 mbar and cold trap began to ice. Closed V6 back to 12%
0953 Slowly opened back up to 13.4% Leaving it there.
1154 Filled LN2 cold trap.
1430 Cleaned LN2 cold traps.
1512 Recommence mixture cleaning with V6 @ 13%.
1813 Background leak rate: 2E-9 mbar l/s. Blowing out nitrogen produced a leak rate of 5E-6 mbar l/s. Going to do a test to make sure the leak is really there.
1900 Yup. There is definitely a leak. 1.7E-5 mbar l/s