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Daniel Grass - posted 18:47, Monday 15 July 2024 (11742)
Oven Baked out at 200°C

I baked out the oven over the weekend at 200°C for 44 hours. It took 104 minutes to reach 199°C from room temperature. I triggered some internal alarm, maybe because I set the maximum temperature too low. This alarm ended the cycle, so I had to start it again. The maximum temperature reached was 204.5°C. The oven tends to oscillate between 197°C and 203°C. 

Surprisingly, the oven vacuum went from 15 Torr to ~1 Torr. I am not sure if this is because the pump was on for a lot longer than previously, or baking out at 200°C allowed the oven to be evacuated more. 1 Torr is much closer to the pressure we should be able to reach based on the pump out speed, leak rate, and minimum pump pressure (0.2 Torr, the minimum pump pressure).

9 hours after turning the heaters off, the oven is 46.7°C. It will probably take another 4 hours to cool. If you want to use an object, I would set the oven to stop heating ~12 hours before you need it.