Arriving at work, parking garage gate won't open, control center can't do anything about it, cryostat ran out of helium, colleague tested positive for Covid...
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Arriving at work, parking garage gate won't open, control center can't do anything about it, cryostat ran out of helium, colleague tested positive for Covid...
Did all the Mondayness just get moved to Tuesday?! Gawd...
Urrgh... The glovebox is full of O2, but hasn't run out of argon, and was under pressure? How?? What? The circulation fan also sounds very bad... We power-cycled it just to do the standard IT solution, then the vacuum pump failed to start?! Turns out: The switch broke, one phase was missing. Feck.
Time for really bad temp fixes.
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Urrgh... The glovebox is full of O2, but hasn't run out of argon, and was under pressure? How?? What? The circulation fan also sounds very bad... We power-cycled it just to do the standard IT solution, then the vacuum pump failed to start?! Turns out: The switch broke, one phase was missing. Feck.
Time for really bad temp fixes.
@StripeyYena sounds like a heck of a late monday for you today o.o
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Urrgh... The glovebox is full of O2, but hasn't run out of argon, and was under pressure? How?? What? The circulation fan also sounds very bad... We power-cycled it just to do the standard IT solution, then the vacuum pump failed to start?! Turns out: The switch broke, one phase was missing. Feck.
Time for really bad temp fixes.
@StripeyYena I think Argon is particularly vulnerable to sneak attacks like this when circulation is bad. Oxygen collects at the top, then it finally reaches a threshold, it looks like Oxygen suddenly went through the roof, when actually it’s been building for months.
This is my working theory, since I’ve had this exact scenario. Everything seems fine, then suddenly Oxygen is crazy for no obvious reason. I really need a fan in the box.
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@StripeyYena I think Argon is particularly vulnerable to sneak attacks like this when circulation is bad. Oxygen collects at the top, then it finally reaches a threshold, it looks like Oxygen suddenly went through the roof, when actually it’s been building for months.
This is my working theory, since I’ve had this exact scenario. Everything seems fine, then suddenly Oxygen is crazy for no obvious reason. I really need a fan in the box.
@Extra_Special_Carbon Huh, I never considered this! I'm not sure whether it applies to our case, as the inlet and exhaust are at different heights in the box, with the inlet being near the top, so I'd hope it would cause sufficient intermixing, apart from interdiffusion... And the fact that we do quite a lot of flailing in it during use (as the mostly used load lock also sits at the top). But I don't have an alternative explanation for our sudden issue, admittedly.
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Urrgh... The glovebox is full of O2, but hasn't run out of argon, and was under pressure? How?? What? The circulation fan also sounds very bad... We power-cycled it just to do the standard IT solution, then the vacuum pump failed to start?! Turns out: The switch broke, one phase was missing. Feck.
Time for really bad temp fixes.
Yes, you really need a PhD for this.
*waves hose around*
Exciting.
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Yes, you really need a PhD for this.
*waves hose around*
Exciting.
@StripeyYena yes, but it's a peer reviewed hose. Hence the PhD.
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@StripeyYena yes, but it's a peer reviewed hose. Hence the PhD.
@LewisWorkshop Professional hose Dimwit.
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Yes, you really need a PhD for this.
*waves hose around*
Exciting.
@StripeyYena What does your PhD qualify you to do Sam? "Well mostly manual labor and cleaning stuff"
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@StripeyYena What does your PhD qualify you to do Sam? "Well mostly manual labor and cleaning stuff"
@SRLevine I'm quite good at cleaning! You should see how neat the coffee corner looks now!
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Yes, you really need a PhD for this.
*waves hose around*
Exciting.
Taki casually asks, "Why do you even use argon in your glovebox? Can't you just use nitrogen? It's a lot cheaper."
And I'm like "...bwuh?"
Yeah, why do we use argon? A clear case of "It was like this when I got here," and "I didn't stop to think."
I'll need a new FLASCHENANSCHLUSSWENDEL for this.
