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2015/04/30

0950 Perform second room temperature electrical check. Everything appears normal, with small short to ground still apparent on DIB1.
1030 Seal up bottom of IVC.
1040 Commence pumping on IVC with scroll pump. Pumping through both stripline tube and top port.
1110 Switch to turbo pump to pump on IVC, with external pressure sensor reading 8.6E-2 mbar.
1130 Pumping pressure 7.4E-3 mbar (IVC >= 0.1 mbar with pump valved out)
1200 Pumping pressure 6.3E-3 mbar (IVC >= 0.1 mbar with pump valved out)
1230 Pumping pressure 5.4E-3 mbar (IVC >= 0.1 mbar with pump valved out). Leak background 290 E-9mbarL/s with pump valved out.
1300 Pumpout seemed low so did an initial leak check. Discovered that the valve to the check valve used for N2 backfill was not closed - oops. Closed this valve and switched back to turbo pumping.
1315 Pumping pressure 5.4E-4 mbar (IVC 2.5E-2 mbar with pump valved out)
1425 Conduct leak check on IVC and Ebox flanges, with a background leak rate of 3.0E-9 mbarL/s. No significant rise in leak rate was seen, indicating no room temperature leak. Switch back to pumping on IVC with turbo pump.
1500 Unpack G106a and perform electrical check. Elog entry here.
1540 Raise dewar.
1605 External pressure sensor reads 3.0E-4 mbar. Switch from turbo pump back to leak checker.
1610 Pump and flush main bath with He gas while conducting a leak check on IVC. Saw no rise from background leak rate of 2.1E-8 mbarL/s. Pump out 1K Pot.
1615 Start LN2 transfer.
1630 Pump fridge lines to dump
1720 MC (Cernox thermometer) 210 K (-10K/5min), Sorb 250 K, Still 210 K, IVC 1.9 mbar (4.6 mbar @ 300 K → <124 K), level resistor 1.233 kΩ (1Ω/10s)
1740 MC (Cernox thermometer) 180 K (-10K/10min), Sorb 228 K, Still 140 K, IVC 1.9 mbar (4.6 mbar @ 300 K → <124 K), level resistor 1.290 kΩ (1Ω/30s)
1802 MC (Cernox thermometer) 159 K (-10K/10min), Sorb 172 K, Still 108 K, IVC 1.6 mbar (4.6 mbar @ 300 K → <104 K), level resistor 1.320 kΩ (1Ω/60s)
1810 Finish LN2 transfer with level resistor at 1.330 kΩ and MC (Cernox thermometer) at 150 K. With G2=794 mbar and P1=15 ubar, stop pumping on fridge lines by closing gate and condenser line valves.