2018/01/11 (Thursday)
| Status: warming up. All mixture in dump, fridge isolated. LN2 traps warm and pumped out. 1K Pot needle valve open. | |
| 1150 | MC(Cernox) = 255 K. |
| 1155 | Pump out line to IVC with turbo pump, then check IVC pressure. IVC = 5.4 mbar. |
| 1335 | Let about 0.87 bar of N2 gas into IVC. There was an increase in MC temperature of about 0.5 K |
| 1348 | Remove screws on north shield wall. |
| 1520 | Lab = 23.6 C, 22% rel. humid., → dewpoint = 0 C From this and Newton's Law of Cooling/Warming, MC should reach dew point on the morning of the 13th (Saturday). That's good enough - we'll let it warm up without letting gas in the vacuum jacket. |