The manual gate valve scan was clean. Atm1 TP1 was pumping on it overnight.
Pumpdown continued to hand over the pumping to TP1 maglev turbo
V1 was opened at P1 400 mTorr with manual gate at 3/4 turn open position as Magev at 560 Hz rotation.
Two aux fans on to hold tubo temps TP1 & TP3 . Atm3
This is the first time we pumping down from atm with ONE small "beer can" turbo and throttled gate valve to control load on small turbo forepump
The 70 l/s turbo is operating at 50k RPM, 0.7 A and 31 C, pumping speed ~ 44 mTorr/h at 200-400 mTorr range with aux drypump in the foreline of TP3
Watching foreline pressures and current one can keep opening gate valve little by little the so the load is optimized. It is working but not fast.
Let's keep small turbo at 0.8 Amp and 32 C max at this pumpdown.
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10:20PM
- Opened VM2 to pump down the RGA section with TP1
- Stopped rotary roughing pumps
- Manually closed RV1
- Closed V3
- Stopped RP1 and RP3
- Vented the RP hose
The P1 pressure is 380mTorr. I allowed Gautam to use the full PSL power (~1W).
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