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2013/09/04

0020 Mixing chamber temperature 5.8 K. Turn off mixing chamber heater.
0115 Pressure of mixture in dump 848 mbar. Close condenser line speedivalve and gate valve to isolate fridge. Stop mixture recovery. Start cryocleaning mixture through nitrogen cold trap 2.
1020 Mixture still flowing, wait an hour.
1100 Filled LN2 cold trap full.
1125 Begin pumping mixture to the dump.
1305 Mixing chamber temp at 6.779K. G2 at 692.9mbar, and P1 at 0.015mbar. To begin collecting mixture from the fridge close V6. Open gate valve, P1 shot above 1000mbar. Open V6, G2 increases from 692.9mbar to 703.2mbar. Opening V1 and condenser speedivalve increases G2 to 703.6mbar.
1715 Begin He3 leak check (leak checker uncalibrated). Background leak rate of 2.9E-9 mbar*l/s. Opening valve to IVC results in leak rate drop to 4.6E-10 mbar*l/s and dropping as the IVC was acting as a cryopump. The mixing chamber temperature is currently 7.233 K.
1822 Evacuated cold trap 2 in preparation for cleaning it.