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2012/07/15

1255 Fed Cricket 3 pellets.
1340 Fill N2 cold trap with last night's reminants from 5 l dewar: not full.
1350 Start helium transfer. Helium liquid level 9.5%.
1430 Stop helium transfer. Helium liquid level 94.9%.
1445 Fill N2 cold trap full.
2030 Temperature started rising about 2 hours ago and reached 69 mK. Rate of increase was sharper than what would be considered a fluctuation. Reduced pressure in main bath, which seemed to help. Additionally, stopped recovery from helium dewar. Not sure if the latter helped, but temperature has decreased back to 63 mK. Ressume playing around with phonon channels.
2335 Fill N2 cold trap full.
2355 Fed Cricket 4 pellets.