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Date |
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Subject |
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Fri Dec 15 14:03:02 2023 |
Aiden | HowTo | VAC | Vacuum Chamber Opening | [Aiden]
1. Turn off the RGA filament
and disconnect it.
2. Record the pressure
and then close the angle valve and gate valve |
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293
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Sun Dec 17 19:43:18 2023 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | Vac Heating Update | [Aiden]
I measured the temperature of
the flanges where some of the electronics
will go and I found that the RGA flange was |
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295
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Mon Dec 18 15:51:49 2023 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | VAC System Heating Update | After letting the chamber cool down I put
the electronics back on and turned the RGA
element back on. No data has been taken yet |
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296
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Tue Dec 19 15:45:05 2023 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | Vacuum Chamber Baking Update | Took RGA data for the macor parts inside of
the chamber. With the Ar open the HC levels
read 30 torrl/s which is around where it |
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299
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Mon Jan 8 20:24:53 2024 |
Aiden | Update | General | | [Jon, Aiden]
Installed the heater elements
into their fixture and prepped the cables
by twisting the wires into pairs. We also |
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301
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Tue Jan 9 16:35:09 2024 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | VAC System Leak and Heating | [Luis, Luke, Aiden]
Leak tested each
flange and weld and only found two flanges
to have noticeable leaks with the electron |
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306
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Tue Jan 16 16:11:41 2024 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | | [Aiden,Luis]
Below is the data for the
most recent bake. I believe the chamber is
cleaner than it is actually showing as the |
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307
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Wed Jan 17 15:47:49 2024 |
Aiden | Update | General | Resistors for Heater Elements | Power Res (Ohm) RTD Res (Ohm)
Heater
1= 73.6; 81.8
Heater 2= 70.4; 82.1
Heater
3= 71; 84.5
Heater 4= 71.5; 80
Heater |
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308
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Thu Jan 18 15:13:37 2024 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | VAC Heating System Update | [Aiden]
Took more data today and the
chamber and elements are showing an even
lower HC level than we have gotten before. |
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314
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Fri Feb 2 19:08:20 2024 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | 1st Hot Element RGA Scan | Here are the measurements for the RGA scan
of the elements while on at around 160C.
The pressure of the chamber during the test |
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316
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Mon Feb 5 14:17:52 2024 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | Heater Element RGA Scan | Here are the new RGA scans for the powered
Heater elements. The pressure at the time
of taking data was 2.88 e-8 torr. The HC |
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319
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Thu Feb 8 17:37:48 2024 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | Heater Element RGA Scan | Took more RGA data now that the heaters are
powered by 18V. The pressure of the system
during the data taking was 3.8 e-8 torr. |
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320
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Mon Feb 12 17:35:47 2024 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | Heater Element RGA Scan | Took more RGA data before and after increasing
the heater elements to 300 degC and before
heating them up.
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325
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Tue Feb 13 12:34:04 2024 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | VAC Heating System Update | Here is an overlay with for all the heating
steps done with the heater elements. |
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328
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Mon Feb 19 14:17:50 2024 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | Heater Element RGA Scan | Three days after the completion of Bake 11,
the Heater elements RGA scan looks much cleaner.
The HC level is back down to 33 e-10 torrl/s |
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332
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Tue Feb 20 18:08:24 2024 |
Aiden | Update | General | Degassing the RGA | I took an RGA measurement before and after
degassing the RGA. Both data was taken with
the Argon open. The pressure before taking |
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340
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Mon Feb 26 15:15:39 2024 |
Aiden | Update | General | Vacuum Chamber Baking Update | Started Bake 12 on Wednesday Feb. 21 and turned
the bake off on Saturday Feb. 24. This was
a normal low temp bake with the PID controllers |
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348
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Fri Mar 15 16:58:55 2024 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | Vacuum Chamber Frosti Testing | [Luke, Luis, Aiden]
On Thursday, March
14 - Took preliminary RGA scans of the empty
chamber to compare later on. Vented the chamber |
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350
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Tue Mar 19 15:22:27 2024 |
Aiden | Update | Clean & Bake | FROSTI Legs Clean and Bake | [Aiden, Luke]
Cleaned and baked the
Cal Tech FROSTI legs and showed Luke the
procedure on how to clean parts. |
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352
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Sun Mar 24 11:49:27 2024 |
Aiden | Update | General | FROSTI RGA Scan | Took RGA data 1 day after the conclusion of
Bake 13. Bake 13 ended on Saturday March
23, the RGA data shown was taken on Sunday |
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353
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Sun Mar 24 11:50:37 2024 |
Aiden | Update | Clean & Bake | Cal Tech FROSTI Parts | Bagged the FROSTI legs and feet after the
conclusion of the clean and bake. They are
double bagged and sitting in the flow bench. |
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367
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Mon May 13 14:48:27 2024 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | New Vacuum Chamber Design | I created a new model for the vacuum chamber
based on the ideas from last week's meeting.
It
should be noted that we can not have the |
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372
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Mon Jun 3 09:24:48 2024 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | Vacuum Chamber Rendering | Here is a new render of the vacuum chamber
that includes the 2.75 tee to place the Argon
leak right next to the RGA. The conical reducer |
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87
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Mon May 1 17:10:25 2023 |
Julian, Cao | Physics | VAC | Installing Pirani gauge and RGA probe onto to vacuum chamber | [Julian, Cao]
03:00 pm: Particle
count
: Zone 3
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