John Wong wrote:

Laura Lambert wrote:  Tuesday, February 16, 2016, 14:19 coated with TaC yesterday and let dry overnight. wrapped with one long Ta heat shield - wrapped around tube 3x, with Ta wire to offset Ta foil away from container loaded into evap2 and currently pumping down.  Wednesday, February 17, 2016, 10:51 HS water valves opened, no leaks detected. Tapped up manually to 35A. Waited ~20min, vacuum stable. IGP1 = 5.9e-7 Torr. Initiating auto-ramp at 0.2A/min to a final setpoint of 400A. Final desired temperature = 1900C  Thursday, February 18, 2016, 09:16 IGP1 = 6.6e-7 Torr. TGHT = 303A, 4.3V OMEGA = 1311C Increasing ramping rate to 1.0A/min.    Thursday, February 18, 2016, 13:10 TGHT reached to 450A, temp at 1800C.  Stepped up TGHT 490A, temp measured at ~1900C.

Thursday, February 18, 2016, 17:21

TGHT remained at max setpoint for 4hrs.

IGP1 = 6.6e-7 Torr.

OMEGA = 1913C

Initiating auto-cool for TGHT at 2.0A/min.

 Friday, February 19, 2016, 14:17

evap2 vented and opened up this morning.

container looks good.