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chandra.romel@LIGO.ORG - posted 17:29, Tuesday 02 January 2018 - last comment - 14:25, Wednesday 03 January 2018(39952)
hot cathode gauge behavior

Noticed that the two relatively new full-range, hot cathode ion gauges on corner volume exhibit strange behavior at a pressure between 5e-6 and 6e-6 Torr. Last Friday PT-180 suddenly fell in pressure (no one on site making changes to vacuum systems). Today when cycling turbo valves (for leak checking), PT-170 suddenly dropped in pressure. Kyle noted something peculiar with PT-525 at EX on Aug. 31, 2017 after TMDS discharge activity (https://alog.ligo-wa.caltech.edu/aLOG/index.php?callRep=38471). Will contact Inficon for an explanation.

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chandra.romel@LIGO.ORG - 09:54, Wednesday 03 January 2018 (39963)
chandra.romel@LIGO.ORG - 14:25, Wednesday 03 January 2018 (39966)


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