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2021/01/26 (Tuesday)

Previous Day

  • Lab in-person: Matt
  • Virtual partner: Derek
Run 74 prep. Need to deinstall tower because it failed its electrical checkout on Friday.
1030 Matt enters the lab
1045 Attach tower stand to ring and tower, support with threaded rods. Then remove screws from adapter/30mK can and continue tower deinstallation.
1125 Complete tower removal, bring tower into clean room.
1140 Remove adapter ring, then remove side coax from DIB1
1145 Do electrical check on DIB1, no problems found. Neither channel is shorted and continuity seems fine.
Also check side coax ST-3-3. No problems seen.
Reattach side coax.
1215 Completed tower electric check. Results are consistent with those from January 13th
1230 Reassemble tower. Double check connections.
1230 Due to failure of communication, Ruiren removed all the kapton tape from the tower thermometer connector and the fridge wire connector, rather than just the piece necessary to unplug it. I noticed that one thermometer wire came loose from the connector. Resoldered it, then used Kapton tape to cover the wires leading up to the connector, taping it to the connector.
1235 Begin installing tower again
After attaching the tower to the 30mK can and removing the tower stand, did another electrical check at the tower. All looks good - all 5 electrodes show continuity and no shorts seen, both motor coils still read 700ish kOhm.
1340 Finish torquing 30mk can screws, connect thermometer connector to fridge wiring (after applying new Kapton tape to the fridge plug), checked the thermometer at the LakeShore bridge - looks good - then taped the thermometer wire down around the 30mK can.
1345 Matt exits lab

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