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2012/12/01

1015 Filled LN2 cold trap.
1035 Attached He recovery hose.
Mixture cleaning seems to have stalled overnight. Increased V6 by 0.1% again to keep cleaning.
1055 Background rate: 1.3E-9 mbar l/s.
1101 Begin blowout of LN2.
1230 End blowout of LN2. Leak rate gradually increased to 4E-9 mbar l/s. No gross leak detected.
1251 Evacuating main bath and preparing for throughput test.
1301 Pump mixture to dump.
1322 Background rate: 5.4E-9 mbar l/s.
1358 Completed throughput tests. The first test we waited too long with letting the mixture stabilize in the lines before closing V3, V14 opening V1, which resulted in a rate of 200 mbar/min for G1. The next tests, the moment the mixture showed signs of stabilizing (~ 569 mbar in G1), we closed V3, V14 and opened V1. Those results produced 77 mbar/min and 50 mbar/min, and the background leak rate stayed around 5.5E-9 mbar l/s. No gross leak detected!
1540 Filled IVC with 0.1 mbar of exchange gas. Pumped and flushed main bath helium gas. Evacuated 1 K pot. Ready to start helium transfer.
1606 Begin cooling of main bath with LHe boil-off.
1949 Temp: 7.5 K. Begin evacuating IVC of He exchange gas.
2018 Re-start mixture cleaning through cold trap 2.
2230 Begin applying external gas pressure to helium dewar to facilitate transfer of liquid.
2300 End LHe transfer (90.4%).
2313 Fed Cricket.
Filled LN2 cold trap.