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2015/08/10 (Monday)

last day of previous run

1145 Status: IVC is evacuated with turbo pumping on it. IVC pumping pressure = 5.4e-6 mbar, isolate from pump, IVC pressure = 7.4e-4 mbar. LN Trap 1 is evacuated, Trap 2 assumed to still have some residual mixture (will clean this with the rest of the mixture).
1200 Pump out main bath with 1KPot Pump. Pump is a little whiny but seems to pump the bath out fine.
1220 Leak detector on IVC, background is 1.2 pbarL/s.
1225 Fill main bath with He gas to 100 mbar overpressure. After a few minutes LD signal increases only a little, to 2 pbarL/s.
1230 Pump out 1KPot, close 1KPot speedivalve, turn off 1KPot pump.
1450 Fill LN2 cold trap Dewar
1455 Let 4.6 mbar He exchange gas into IVC
1510 Room temperature electrical checkout. All looks good.
1515 Begin LN2 transfer. Sorb = 249.9 K, MC(Cernox) = 298.5 K (as read on LabVIEW vi)
1545 MC has dropped to 276 K. IVC has dropped to 3.4 mbar.
1555 Turn on circulation pump. Pump fridge contents and Trap 2 contents to dump. G2 reads 789 mbar. Barometric P = 29.99 “Hg so corrected dump pressure = 791 mbar.
1556 Begin cryocleaning mixture through Trap 2.
1615 MC = 196 K
1740 MC = 109 K. IVC = 1.6 mbar. Sorb = 127 K. Cease LN2 transfer. Attach ping pong ball.

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