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2021/12/14 (Tuesday)

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  • Lab in-personnel: Matt, Himangshu
Status Run 75 in progress
Setup Tower Faces 5/3/2 → Cables 2/1/3 → nothing/diverter_board/nothing → DCRC55(1)/DCRC50(3)/DCRCx(4)
1030 Goldman/Tower/MC/Coldplate = 51.1/118/37.0/221 mK, Still = 1.71±0.05 K / 0.130 mbar / 0 mW, G1/G2= 181/167 mbar, 1K Pot = 1.64 K / 27±2 mbar. MB = 69.8%
Coldplate and Still thermometers are still reading high, still thermometer reading not very stable.
1035 Fill LN2 cold trap bath.
1050 Yesterday's IbIs on DCRC3pA railed high. I took another look. The peak seems to be around 160 uA. Baseline was near 1V there. I went to 350 uA then went down and it did indeed rail. I readjusted the Driver Offset so that at several points between 350 and 160 it isn't railed. That's D.O. of -0.3, previously was -0.5.
1056 Start automated IbIs on DCRC3pA. 350 to 50 uA step -2.
1135 Make new directory in /byseries and move the QB_scan files from /livedata to the new directory.
1140 Adjust DCRC3pB driver offset so that IbIs peak (QET bias around 175) is near top of output scale (around 1V).
1142 Start automated IbIs on DCRC3pB. 350 to 50 uA step -2.
1216 Make new directory in /byseries and move the QB_scan files from /livedata to the new directory.
1231 Adjust DCRC3pC driver offset so that IbIs peak (QET bias around 240) is near top of output scale (around 1V at DO -0.7).
1235 Start automated IbIs on DCRC3pC. 450 to 150 uA step -2.
1320 Make new directory in /byseries and move the QB_scan files from /livedata to the new directory.
1500 Look at the dead channel for a bit, DCRC3pD. Changing QET bias from 0 to 1000 uA causes a fall in baseline of only 0.0048 V. That's an Is change of only 0.185 uA. Naively that suggests Rtes of 43 Ohm.
1520 Start DAQ programs with only DCRC4 enabled
1525 Adjust DCRC4pA driver offset so that IbIs peak (QET bias around 230) is near top of output scale (around 1V).
1531 Start automated IbIs on DCRC4pA. 400 to 100 uA step -2.
1605 Make new directory in /byseries and move the QB_scan files from /livedata to the new directory.
1610 Adjust DCRC4pB driver offset so that IbIs peak (QET bias around 175) is near top of output scale (around 1V).
1613 Start automated IbIs on DCRC4pB. 350 to 50 uA step -2.
Something went wrong with the 1531 data sequence. First, the data series stop at 208 uA rather than going all the way down to 100 uA. Second, the data is somehow unreadable. Both the pulse dump code and BatViewer segfault when trying to read it.
Actually I can't get BatViewer to work on older data either, although the pulsedump code works. I thought I got BatViewer working earlier…

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