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2015/11/18 (Wednesday)

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Current status: Fridge is warming. Mix is recovered, pumps are off. Main bath Dewar is dropped 6“ with HEPA filter fan blowing on top. Remaining LHe boiled off overnight. MC and Sorb temperatures are pretty flat.
0845 Sorb = 89 K, IVC >1e3 mbar (overpressure?)
0850 Open valve from IVC to high-pressure relief valve. No hiss or anything. Gauge still reads >1e3 mbar.
1000 Ice has built up along the baffle poly so that its stuck to the Dewar. Can't be lowered further. Reposition blower to blow down into top of bath.
1050 MC = 62 K (Cernox), Sorb = 111 K
1155 Worked MB free of ice, lowered it below the IVC. Put plastic bag over fridge and put blower into MB. Sorb and MC heating slopes increase.
1200 Pump out lines to cryostat vacuum jacket port to 6.3e-3 mbar. Open vacuum jacket valve: pressure increases to 0.1 mbar.
1215 MC = 105 K, Sorb = 233 K
1230 Cryostat vacuum jacket pressure has increased to 0.3 mbar now that cryostat is mostly warm.
1235 Begin pumping cryostat vacuum jacket with scroll pump
1310 Begin pumping cryostat vacuum jacket with turbo pump

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