Thursday, April 13, 2017, 12:01

Pellets made this morning and weighed.

Placed in a graphite boat which is placed inside a previously TaC coated boat.

Boat is wrapped with 3x Ta heat shields.

Loaded into evap2.

Chamber currently pumping down.

 Tuesday, April 18, 2017, 13:53

HS water valves were opened this morning, no leaks detected.

Tapped up manually to 100A, 1.28V

Vacuum stable.

IGP1 = 3.63e-6 Torr.

Initiating auto ramp at a rate of 1.0A/min to 150A

Final desired temperature of 1100C

 Tuesday, April 18, 2017, 14:57

TGHT = 150A, 2.08V

Still no temperature reading on OMEGA.

Vacuum stable, IGP1 = 1.16e-6 Torr.

Initiating auto ramp at the same rate of 1.0A/min up to 200A.

 Tuesday, April 18, 2017, 15:56

TGHT = 200A, 2.91V

OMEGA = 990C

IGP1 = 8.59e-7 Torr

Tapping up manually to 1100C...

 Wednesday, April 19, 2017, 08:34

TGHT = 235A, 3.47V

OMEGA = 1090C

IGP1 = 1.6e-7 Torr.

Has remained at ~1100C since 16:30 yesterday.

Intitiating auto-cool at 2.0A/min

 Thursday, April 20, 2017, 08:40

Vented in air and taken out yesterday.

Pellets look good.

No obvious colour change.