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Thursday, November 03, 2011

If there is no gas load, what is the lowest of the cryotorr 8 cryo-pump?

Following the previous post, you have installed a new cryo pump cryotorr 8 from Brooks Automation, P/N 8033170. However, the lowest temperature you get after the bake is ~13K, which is almost the same you've reached with the previous cryo-pump.
Shouldn't be lower?
Talking to the technical support, GUTS, the cryo-pump temperature of the second stage should be ~11K. However,  it could be easily 1K off and even up to 2K because the silicon diode thermometer is not calibrated. There is no clear-cut reason for a ~13K reading instead of ~11K. It could be due to the calibration curve, or it could be due to a tiny leak. I strongly recommend you to rule out the last possibility by performing an extensive leak-check.
 In the case of the second option,  where you do not have a calibration curve for the  thermometer, it is important how you read the temperature. Brooks automation recommends using a Brooks temperature indicator, P/N 8043459G001; it comes with a "standard" calibration curve. If you are using a Lakeshore 211 temperature controller, it has three different standard calibration curves corresponding to dt470, dt670 and CTI silicon diodes. You can test the display reading of a Brooks temperature indicator against the Lakeshore 211; when the Lakeshore 211 using the CTI calibration curve displays 13.4K, the Brooks temperature indicator will display 12.9K.

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