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2013/01/03

1010 Fed Cricket 4 pellets.
1030 Turned on leak checker.
Pressure in IVC reads 4E-3 mbar. It seems the sensor stopped reading lower pressures again, because yesterday the pressure was able to read ~2E-5 mbar.
1055 Filled LN2 cold trap.
1130 Returned cold traps back to their respective positions. Started cryocleaning through cold trap 2.
Helium cold trap is 6“ out of bath.
1139 Calibrated leak checker. Opened leak checker to IVC and isolated turbo pump. Current background: 1.9E-9 mbar l/s.
1151 Evacuated main bath. Leak rate: 1.9E-9 mbar l/s.
Evacuating line leading to vent and helium gas valve.
1155 Filled main bath with helium gas. Leak rate rose to: 2.1E-9 mbar l/s. No gross leak detected.
1202 Evacuated 1 K pot. Resume turbo pumping on IVC for an hour before entering in N2 exchange gas.
1320 Isolated turbo pump. Entered 5.4 mbar of N2 exchange gas into IVC.
1347 Begin LN2 transfer.
1717 End LN2 transfer.
1737 Filled LN2 cold trap.
Fed Cricket 4 pellets.