| 0940 | Fed Cricket 3 pellets. |
| 0945 | Filled LN2 cold trap. |
| 1025 | Turned on mixing chamber heater to 10 mW. |
| 1614 | Recovered 695 mbar of mixture. Closing V6. Turned of mixing chamber heater. Start 1 K pot. |
| 1625 | 1 K pot temperature: 1.8 K |
| 1628 | Start condensing mixture manually. |
| 1638 | Mixture left in dump: 394 mbar. |
| 2005 | Most of the mixure has condensed. Mixing chamber temperature 2.5 K. Start automated circulation procedure. |
| 2240 | Mixing chamber temperature reached 124 mK before rising again. The mixing chamber temperature has reached 163 mK and is still rising. Still themometer reads 4.1 kΩ and cold plate thermometer yields 9.5 kΩ. Pressures in P1, G1 & G2 are 0.017 mbar, 37 mbar and 47 mbar respectively. The 1 K pot temperature is 1.8 K. |
| | The still thermometer and P1 pressure would indicate that the still is dry and we should add more mixture. It's difficult to tell how much we are adding. As long as we do not exceed a pressure of 0.1 mbar in the still line, we should be fairly confident that we have not overfilled the still. |
| | Stop automated circulation procedure. |
| | Bleed mixture out of dump. Pressure in G2 reaches 222 mbar before falling. We may have extracted too much. Time will tell… |
| 2305 | Fill N2 cold trap full. |