Wednesday, May 25, 2016, 11:37
Container coated with TaC using 'flushing technique' [cleaned ionizer tube with acetone, so no coating inside ionizer tube]
Wrapped with 2 x Ta heat shields - one full height of Ta foil wrapped around cooling fins twice
Currently pumping down in evap2
Thursday, May 26, 2016, 09:28
Tapped up manually to 40A
IGP1 = 6.6e-7 Torr
Initiating auto-ramp at 0.2A/min and 0.1A/min for the TGHT and TBHT respectively.
Final setpoints for TGHT = 650A and TBHT = 230A
Once max setpoints reached will continue to tap up manually while monitoring temperature to 1900C
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