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2013/07/21

0130 Nitrogen level meter reads 1.33 kΩ. Nitrogen transfer complete. Attach ping-pong ball.
0830 Fill N2 cold trap full.
1135 Mixing chamber temperature 79.2 mK. Start pumping out N2 exchange gas.
1300 Performed electrical check at 78K. Everything looks good.
1515 Pump mixture into dump in preparation for nitrogen cold trap cleaning.
1715 Isolate dump and commence nitrogen cold trap cleaning.
1735 Finished first round of LN2 cold trap cleaning.
1830 Finished second round of LN2 cold trap cleaning.
1930 Restarted cryocleaning mixture.
Began LN2 blow out. Background leak rate 3.63E-9 mbar l/s.
2015 Nitrogen blown out. Helium leak rate rose gradually to 5.9E-9 mbar l/s: no gross leak.
2130 Evacuate main bath and 1 K pot. Background helium leak rate 6.9E-9 mbar l/s. Overpressurise main bath with He-4 gas. Helium leak rate rose to 7E-9 mbar l/s: no gross leak.
Fill IVC with 4.6E-2 mbar He-4 exchange gas.
2210 Commence first helium transfer.