SAES Getters reps, Yev and Russ, were on site today to commission the newly installed prototype HV1600-10 NexTorr NEG pump on BSC6 at EY. We first collected a baseline RGA scan (RGA also mounted to BSC6) with main volume at ~5e-7 Torr. Then we activated the pump but made the mistake of not valving it out first. The RGA was running and captured the damage, including scans during activation and after closing the isolation gate valve. It was valved into the main volume for about a minute, and unexpectedly released some non-vacuum friendly gases during that period. We continued activation by pumping with hung turbo+pump cart on NEG housing, heating up to 500C, with a 60 min. ramp up and held for another ~one hour (because we had the luxury over a long lunch filled with meetings). We let it cool down to 200C (<1hr) and then switched to conditioning mode for nominal operation of 180C. NEG is running overnight. We will valve it into main volume tomorrow. The 10 l/s ion pump is also on. The pressure response is immediate and non-negligible when the ion pump is turned OFF.