The door was not locked this morning.

Please do not use this door if you can not close it!

Last person leaving the lab should check that the latch is cut by the strike plate.

It was requested this morning.

Control room to outside door was realigned.

                                                   It is self closing now.

Control room to IFO door lock optimized to soft closing.

All other doors lubricated by Alex of the key shop.

The old control room AC  has been stick in heating mode for about 2 months. It's thermostate and fan belt  was finally replaced. It was calibrated and set to 71 F ( just behind 1X6 on west wall ) around 1pm.

Out belt; sad inside 

at 4 pm Rana cried

It must be too tight.

No change.

We should be able to connect to this station

Gautam and Steve,

It is hanging in the midle of the PSL enclosure. Wired to 1X1 to get plus and minus 15V through fuse.    It's output is connected to FB c17 input.

GV: C17 corresponds to "MIC 1" in the PEM model. So the output is saved as "C1:PEM-MIC_1_OUT_DQ"

Two day plot of glitching suspentions: MC3, ITMY and ETMX

ETMY He/Ne 1103P  body temp is  ~45 C The laser was seated loosely  in the V-mount with black rubber padding.

The enclosure has a stinky plastic smell from this black plastic. This laser was installed on Oct 5, 2016 See 1 year plot.

Oplev servo turned off. Thermocouple attached to the He/Ne

It will be replaced tomorrow morning.

The 3 pieces of Sapphire v-groove test cuts are back. They look good. The suspension wire 0.0017" ( 43 micron ) is show on some of the pictures.

This AmScope microscope would have 3.5x-180x magnification, calibratable measurement function, 5MP picture and good working distance to work on printed circuit boards.

The bottom 5 cable connections from Sat-Amp to Whittering Filter at 1X5 were clamped today.

                                                                                                                                   received this note: at 4:11pm Tuesday, Feb 7, 2017

**PLEASE POST**

Building:         Campus

Date:             Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Time:             7:30 AM – 8:30 AM  

Contact:          Rick Rodriguez x-2576

Pasadena Water and Power (PWP) will be performing a switching operation of the

Caltech Electrical Distribution System that is expected to be transparent to Caltech,

but could result in a minor power anomaly that might affect very sensitive equipment.

IMPACT: Negligible impact......?

There may be temporary  power interruption tomorrow!

PS:we did not see any effect   

http://www.amscope.com/3-5x-180x-boom-stand-trinocular-zoom-stereo-microscope-with-144-led-ring-light-and-10mp-camera.html will be ordered today.

The actual unit we are getting has lockable zoom for better repeatability after calibration: SM-3NTPZZ-144

Quote: CWQ6-020817

This bulb was blown out on Feb 4, 2017 after 2 months of operation.

The microscope shipped back to the vendor for credit yesterday.

Valve configuration: vacuum normal

Vacuum envelope: 23.5 C

RGA head: 46.6 C

Gautam and Steve,

New JDSU 1103P HeNe oplev laser RIN was measured on the SP table with cover on.

This is the beginning of an effort to improve oplev laser noise.

Gautam and Steve,

Our MCREFL rfpd C30642GH 2x2mm beeing investigated for burned spots.

Atm1,           unused -  brand new pd

Atm2,3,4       MCREFL in place was not moved

More pictures will be posted on 40m Picassa site later. 

The laser got much better at low frequency as it warmed up. This laser is almost as good as the electronics?

Dark noise cal was the same today as it was 2 days ago.

Corrected oplev laser RIN plot at day 3

RXA:

1. to measure RIN, the lever arm should be really short, not long.
2. the beam should be 3x smaller than the active area of the diode
3. the specular beam should be dumped on a razor dump.
4. we need to make a summary page for HeNe laser testing so that we can see 24 hour specgrams of these things for ~3-4 lasers at the same time.
5. We should add specgram stuff for the existing HeNe SUM channels on the active OLs.

GV: The channel the PD Steve is using is hooked up to C1:ALS-FC_X_F_IN. As I found out today, there can be considerable RF pickup between the C1:ALS-FC_X_F_IN and C1:ALS-FC_Y_F_IN channels, which share a common 4-pin LEMO cable - this is because the rise time of the square wave output of the Wenzel dividers is <1us, so suitability of this particular channel for the RIN measurement set up has to be reconsidered. Perhaps we can use one of the six spare PEM channels over at 1X6. 

All 3 cranes inspected by professional Fred Goodbar of Konecranes and load tested with 450 lbs at max reach on Friday, March 3, 2017

16 years old Lightwave NPRO M126-1064-700, sn 415 power output is tripping continously to zero.

The Lightwave Controller 125/126-OPN-POS sn516 was used in this test. Settings were lowered to close to nominal values without any success.

One can not determine what is broken: head or controller. This NPRO head was under Manasa's desk.
 

Property tag found.

Gautam and Steve,

We did the following:

1, switched data channel  from  C1:ALS-FC_X_F_IN to C1:PEM-MIC_1_OUT_DQ   Actual connection at 1X7 rack, input C17

    Tested channel with 1Hz, 100 mV sine wave through DV

2, placed BS into the beam path so the reflected value on the PDA100A 0.1mW,  beam od ~1mm, beam path lenght 11 cm, gain 20dB 3.7Vdc

    The full output of this 1103P 2.8 mW was saturating the PDA100A

Summery :finding it to be too good to be this good

I removed the video monitoring can and replaced it with Olympus SP-570UZ camera. It has no IR blocker. The OSEM light are dominant because I can not zoom in more.

I left the camera in place so you can try it. Leave the LEXAN plate on the glass window so no accident can happen. The illuminator is on and you can turn it off-on with the manual switch, close to the camera. Camera manual is on my desk.

Your technique works Koji

The east end AC unit is arching over and running rough at CES. Called for mechanic.......

Both belts were replaced and the unit is running happily.

ETMX oplev laser is dead. It will be replaced this after noon. Sus damping recovered.

We have 50 pieces in the clean cabinet.

This 3 years old HeNe [ JDS 1103P, sn 351889 ]  has been dying for some time or just playing possum at age 1,126 days

I did not replace the ETMX oplev laser because I was unable to bring up the the C1ASC_ETMX_OPTLEV_SERVO  medm screen on laptops.

Finally I see what kicks the sus damping off

JDSU 1103P. sn T8070866, made March 2007, output power 2.7 mW,  on pd 17,750 counts,

GV 17 March 3pm: I found the Innolight NPRO was off when I walked down to the X end earlier, possibly was accidentally tripped during the Oplev laser replacement. I turned it back on.

         March  17,  2017         ETMX laser replaced at LT 3y with 1103P, sn T8070866

Some one turned up the PSL HEPA rotation voltage from 20 V to 33 ( 120V Variac ) and  X-arm AC set temp lowered to 68F

Effects at 12" height from optical table :

                                                            1.0, 0.5 & 0.3 micron particle count  goes to zero and temperature fluctuaion increased

Rotation speed voltage was set to 30V

The X arm air conditioner was not regulating properly. The arm temp was warmer than usual. I requested thermistor calibration.

The mechanic reset the thermostate to 68F last week.  It was 70-71F before.

The ETMX oplev laser now running 4 C lower at 30 C inside the enclousure.

The ETMX optical table top is 5 C cooler  at 21 C

The ETMX concrete wall temp 20 C at 9am with flow bench on.

ETMY conrete wall  temp 23 C at 9am

Three replacement bulbs ordered

Rana can discribe how it happened.

IF A LAMP EXPLODES

The summery pages are working at a slow motion speed. It's response time 12 minutes.

Laser safety glasses cleaned in " Dawn Ultra " mild soap - water solution and measured for 1064 nm transmission at 150 mW
 

Les Guthman interviews  gradstudent Graig.

Main laser emergency shut off was acuated by accident during this fiming. The laser is turned on.

Shipped out for repair.

It is back and running fine witth bulb  4-13-2017

Building:         Central Engineering Services

Date:             Monday, 04/10/17          

Time:             7:00 AM TO 9:00 AM           

Notification:     Crane Activity

Contact:          Ben Smith, X-4190 Brad Nielsen, X-8751

Contractors will be removing the large vaporizer located on the South

side of CES. Vehicle access will be restricted due to crane placement

and operation, but there will be a single traffic lane available. This

work may create minor noise and vibrations.  

ETMX enclosure feedtrouh cabeling corrected.

We are planning to test 3 identical 1103Ps RIN with  continous temp monitoring and control later.

Selected  temp sensor   Platinum RTD 1PT100KN1515CLA   or           RTD-830 

Temp controller  with analoge output 0-10Vdc, CNi854  and external dc pulse driven  relay

Order placed 4-12-17 for sensor  RTD-830,  controller CNi8-5-4 and relay  SSRL240DC25 = ~$500.

Still need: fuse, fuse housing, on/off switch, female  AC receptical, chassy box and AC power cord.

    Jan. 26,  2017              RIN test stared with P947034, made Apr. 2016  

    Apr.  10,  2017              purchased two 1103P from Edmund:  sr P964438 & sr P964431, made 02/2017

Why ITMY UL can not see this earth quake? SRM and PRM are misaligned. ETMX is still not well.

We have to remember to check OSEM - magnet alignment when vented.

Yesterday I failed to take good pictures of ETMY  resonant arm of 1064 nm with Cannon Rebel T3i in RAW 22-27Mp & JPG dual- format. UFRaw file converter worked well. The IR blocker filter seems to be too good.

Today I used Olympus SP-570UZ ( without IR blocker), in raw format of 15Mp, fl 22.4mm, 15s including 2-3s flashlight,  f/8 and auto focus  This is just too much scattered IR for the Olympus.

Overexposed raw picture' jpg is shown  at the PSL with diffraction patter of the camera.

I'll go back using  the Nikon D40 with zoom 55-200mm as this Atm2 of May 2007 : manual focus, 15s, f/4-5.6, ISO 560,  826KB

MC2 ccd camera is replaced by Olympus 570 zoom temporarly.

So as the ETMY ccd camera is replaced by Cannon Rebel.

Both viewport are under Lexan protection and covered by Aluminum foil....still, turn all lighting off if you do not want room light in the IFO

Do not remove Lexan shield!

One is broken, two are ready to steer green and 3 available in un known condition