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2021/11/03 (Wednesday)

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  • Lab in-personnel: Matt, Derek, Giulia, Himangshu
Status Beginning Run 75.
1K Pot isolated. MB in pit. Cryostat vacuum jacket (CVJ) pumped out.
Leak checked IVC yesterday, looks good. Pumping IVC overnight. Electrical checks good.
1450 Store clean tent in pump alley
1510 Raise main bath
1515 Turbo on IVC = 54 nbar. With Turbo valved out for 1 minute, IVC = 630 nbar.
1525 Check contents of warm LN2 Trap 1: 9.7 mbar. Pump out with Scroll Pump.
1545 Start cryocleaning mixture through LN2 Cold Trap 2, V6 = 12.5%
1555 Increase V6 → 12.8% to restart flow
1600 G2 peaked at 750 then fell a bit, but then started rising again, approached 1000 mbar so we closed V6, will start over.
1605 Set V6 → 12.7% to reestablish flow
1725 Stop cleaning through Trap 2 after 80 min. G2 flow pressure was 560-880 mbar. Pump mixture to dump.
Removed 15.7 mbar.

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