Greetings All,
Just came in from my first evaporation attempt and everything went perfect! :)
I shot some images of the filament wiring, some more glow discharge phenomenon,
and finally an image of the system evaporating Al :) Images available here:
Only complaint at the moment is it takes 90 minutes to evacuate the chamber!
Fortunately, this seems to make sense as the old small chamber took 10 minutes,
the new chamber is ~9 times the volume, so it takes 9 times as long to
evacuate..
On the upside I think my bottle neck is the little HVAC rough pump. Perhaps it
is time to upgrade to a real Rough pump :)
Take Care,
James Lerch
(My telescope construction,testing, and coating site)
"Anything that can happen, will happen" -Stephen Pollock from:
"Particle Physics for Non-Physicists: A Tour of the Microcosmos"
" Press on: nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance.
Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. "
Calvin Coolidge
