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2012/08/12

1025 Fed Cricket 5 pellets.
1030 Fill LN2 Coldtrap.
1136 MC X12004=5.3K. Power up Leak checker.
1158 Redid the roughing pump connection and start turbo pumping station to evacuate the NW40 hose.
1201 P1=0.012mbar, G1=1.1mbar, G2=596mbar. G2 has been flat for a long time. The reading is probably the room temperature pressure.
1230 USB to serial port Com4 conflicts with Com which connects to IGH. Had to stop the IGH software.
1240 Leak checker background 2.4e-9cc/s, still slowly dropping. Connects leak checker to the NW40 hose. Leak level 6e-9cc/s with turbo pumping station connected. Still dropping.
1422 NW40 Hose background 6.9e-10 cc/s with turbo pumping station connected.
Disconnect turbo pumping station, NW40 hose background 3.7E-9cc/s.
1428 Open IVC, leak rate jumps to 1.2e-5cc/s. There is a lot of He in IVC. Isolate leak checker and use the turbo pumping station to pump the IVC.
1739 IVC He level: 1.4e-6 with turbo pumping station pumping. Isolate leak checker and pump the IVC longer.
Turn off Leak checker.