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2013/08/17

1230 Filled LN2 cold traps.
1300 Conducted electrical check at 77.7K. Everything seems fine, but DIB 1 had found FET Tsense+/FET Heater- open at room temperature, but it has a potential of 1.08V now. This was not seen on any of the other DIBs.
1725 IVC pressure 8.6E-6 mbar. Open line to leak checker and isolate turbo pump. Background helium leak rate 3.2E-9 mbar l/s. Commence blow out of nitrogen.
1830 Nitrogen blow out complete. Helium leak rate 4.4E-9 mbar l/s: no gross leak.
1850 Evacuate main bath & 1 K pot, and overpressurise with He-4 gas. Background helium leak rate 7E-9 mbar l/s; no change witnessed after main bath was overpressurised, therefore no gross leak.
1855 Open line to turbo pump and isolate leak checker.
2005 Fill IVC with 0.063 mbar He-4 exchange gas. Commence first helium transfer.
2350 Mixing chamber temperature drops below 10 K. Start pumping He-4 exchange gas out of IVC.