Tuesday, March 02, 2021, 11:26 

Ta tube was coated with TaC and wrapped with Ta heat-shields (3 layers)

Initial weight including heat-shields = 433.8 g

Desired temperature = 1900 C (expected TGHT ~430 A), TBHT will be set fixed at 230A (max).

Evap 2 will be pumped down over night.

Good vacuum = 3.00 e-5 Torr

Bad vacuum = 5.00 e-5 Torr

Wednesday, March 03, 2021, 13:28

IGP1 = 4.0 e-7 Torr

Start ramping @ 1A/min to 20A on both TGHT and TBHT

Wednesday, March 03, 2021, 15:03

Start ramping @1/min to 60A on Both TGHT and TBHT

Wednesday, March 03, 2021, 22:42

TGHT = 60A, TBHT = 60A

IGP1= 4.2 e-7 stable

Start ramping to 400A @ .5A/min for TGHT and @0.5A/min for TBHT to 230A

Thursday, March 04, 2021, 11:56

TGHT = 400 A, TBHT =230A

IGP1= 1.9e-6 Torr

OMEGA = 1695 C

Continue ramp up @0.5A/min to 430A on TGHT

Thursday, March 04, 2021, 14:02

IGP1 = 1.87e-6 Torr

TGHT = 434 A , 7.2 V

OMEGA = 1787 C

Will tap up manually 450A @ on TGHT and leave at that current for ~4 hours

Thursday, March 04, 2021, 19:35

After ~ 5 hours at 1829 C max OMEGA reading

OMEGA = 815 C 

Start ramp down at 1A/min on TGHT and 0.8A/min for TBHT

IGP1= 1.2e-6 Torr