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2018/06/18 (Monday)

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overnight: Tower temp rose from 37 mK to 40 mK during transfer yesterday. Has stayed around 40.6 mK since then with a few small transient spikes of 0.5-1 mK. 1K pot has been stable at 1.45 K / 4.0 mbar
1013 Tower/MC/Coldplate = 40.6/40.4/184 mK, Still = 1.10 K / 0.055 mbar, G1/G2 = 252/232 mbar, 1K Pot = 1.45 K / 4.0 mbar. MB = 69.6%
1018 Fill LN2 cold trap full.
1032 Let's try and start up the DCRCs. Restart MIDAS. Power on DCRCs. Tower briefly spikes to 180 mK then starts to settle.
1044 Tower = 44.6 mK and slowly falling. Start DCRC programs. Start Pulse Viewer. Can see pulses on all channels except DCRC1PB. Its offset is staying out of range of the driver offset.
1050 Tower = 44.0 mK
1052 Start 119-minute background data series at HV = 0V, Driver Gains = 2x, QET biases = (290/270/315)/(140/315/310) uA, Front-End Gains = 10, 1000 initial randoms, trigger on DCRC3pB/C/D threshold = 16/70/50
1251 Starting at 1115, Tower started rising, now at 94 mK. Stop the run and turn off DCRCs.
1308 Tower = 88.5 mK and falling.
1423 Tower = 43.8 mK and still settling. Power DCRCs again. Tower spikes to 180 mK and falls back to 43 mK over 30 min.
1504 Start 7-minute SC noise data series at HV = 0V, Driver Gains = 2x, QET biases = (0/0/0)/(0/0/0) uA, Front-End Gains = 10, 1000 initial randoms, 5 Hz randoms
1512 Tower = 45.5 mK and rising, stop data series.
1524 Tower = 49.5 mK and rising, stop DCRC programs.
1532 Tower = 55.2 mK and rising, power down DCRCs.
1630 Tower = 44.7 mK and cooling.
1631 Fill LN2 cold trap full.

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