The spare M126N-1064-700,  sn 5519 of Dec 2006 rebuilt  NPRO's power output

 measured   750mW at DC2.06A with Ohpir meter.

Alberto's controller  unit 125/126-OPN-PS,  sn516m was disconnected from lenght measurment NPRO on the AP table.

5519 NPRO  was clamp to the optical table  without heatsink and it was on for 15 minutes.

This morning, MC alignment was gone and MC wasn't lock.

We checked old value of pitch, yaw, and position offset of each MC mirror, and found they were jumped.

We don't know the reason of this jump, but we restore each offset value and MC backed to lock.

I modified the Video.db file used by c1aux located in  /cvs/cds/caltech/target/c1aux.

I added the following channels to the db file, intended for either read in or read out by the digital camera scripts.

C1:VID-ETMY_X_COM
C1:VID-ETMY_Y_COM

C1:VID-ETMY_X_STDEV

C1:VID-ETMY_Y_STDEV

C1:VID-ETMY_XY_COVAR

C1:VID-ETMY_EXPOSURE

C1:VID-ETMY_GAIN

C1:VID-ETMY_X_UL

C1:VID-ETMY_Y_UL

C1:VID_ETMY_X_SIZE

C1:VID_ETMY_Y_SIZE

A better naming scheme can probably be devised, but these will do for now.

The ndsproxy tcl task on nodus was eating up all the CPU and making the elog slow. I killed it and restarted it.

It looks like it hasn't been making a log file since January. Someone who has some skill in decoding the cryptic csh stdout redirection

syntax should look into this (its in target/ndsproxy/)

On Monday evening, I ran this command: trianglewave C1:IOO-MC_REFL_OFFSET 0 4 120 600;ezcawrite C1:IOO-MC_REFL_OFFSET 1.76

which I thought (from the syntax help) would move that offset slider with a period of 120 seconds for 600 seconds. In actuality, the last argument is the

run time in number of periods. So the offset slider has been changing by 8 Vpp for most of the last day. Oops. The attached image shows what effect

this had in the MC transmitted power (not negligible). This would also make the locking pretty difficult.

In the second plot you can see the zoom in view for ~30 minutes. During the first part, the MCWFS are on and there are large fluctuations

in the transmitted power as the WFS offset changes. This implies that the large TEM00 carrier offset we induce with the slider couples into

the WFS signals because of imbalances in the quadrant gains - we need someone to balance the RF gains in the WFS quadrants by injecting

an AM laser signal and adjusting the digital gains.

Since there is still a modulation of the MC RFPD DC with the WFS on, we can use this to optimize the REFL OFFSET slider. The third plot

shows a 8 minute second trend of this. Looks like the slider offset of zero would be pretty good.

This morning there was a confliction of tpman running on fb40m and kami1. Alex fixed it temporary but Rana suggested it was better to move both PCs outside martian. We moved both PCs physically to the control room and connected to general network with a local router. I believe it won't conflict anymore but if you guess these PC might have trouble please feel free to shutdown.

Today's work summary:

 *connected expansion chassis to bscteststand

 *obtained signals on dataviewer, dtt for both realtime and past data on bscteststand with 64kHz timing signal

Questions:

Excitation channels are not shown, only "other" is shown.

qts.mdl should run with 16kHz but 16kHz timing causes a slow speed on dataviewer and failing data aquisition on dtt. We are using 64kHz timing but is it really correct?

 The tdscntr.pl in the new tds was probably the one from LLO, which is actually the version I sent to Tobin. It had paths and channel names defined for the LLO. So I copied back my original 40m version.

The seisBLRMS has been running on megatron via an open terminal ssh'd into there from allegra with matlab running. This

is because I couldn't get the compiled matlab functionality to work.

Even so, this running script has been dying lately because of some bogus 'NDS' error. So for today I

have set the NDS server for mDV on megatron to be fb40m:8088 instead of nodus.ligo.caltech.edu. If this seems to fix the problem

I will make this permanent by putting in a case statement to check whether or not the mDV'ing machine is a 40m-martian or not.

Because of the network interference we've had from the CLIO system for the past 3-4 days, I asked the guys to remove

the test stand from the 40m lab area. It is now in the 40m control room. Since it needed an ethernet connection to get out

for some reason we've let them hook into GC. Also, instead of using a real timing signal slaved to the GPS, Jay suggested

just skipping it and having the Timing Slave talk to itself by looping back the fiber with the timing signal. Osamu will enter

more details, but this is just to give a status update.

Yoichi, Alberto

this afternoon we centered the optical levers for all the optics.

To do that we first ran the alignment scripts for all the cavities.

We confirmed that new tds(/cvs/cds/caltech/apps/linux/tds_090304/) works well on linux 64, and replaced it to /cvs/cds/caltech/apps/linux/tds/

The old /cvs/cds/caltech/apps/linux/tds is put in /cvs/cds/caltech/apps/linux/tds.bak

I tested new tdsdata and found it was working well.

I excited C1:SUS-ITMY_SUSPIT_EXC with tdssine, and get data from C1:LSC-TRY_OUT (testpoint) and C1:SUS- ITMY_OPLEV_PERROR (recorded point) with new and old tdsdata.

With old tdsdata (/cvs/cds/caltech/apps/linux/tds/bin/tdsdata), I found some jumps of datapoint, which is a same problem with before (Attachment 1).

With new tdsdata (/cvs/cds/caltech/apps/linux/tds_090304/bin/tdsdata), there looks to be no jumps (Attachment 2; taken about 10 minutes after Attachment 1).

The problem of old tdsdata looks to be remaining even for recordedpoints.

You should use /cvs/cds/caltech/apps/linux/tds_090304/bin/tdsdata.

After the boot-fest, the nightly backup to Powell-Booth failed, and an automatic email got sent to me. I restarted the ssh agent, following the instructions in /cvs/cds/caltech/scripts/backup/000README.txt .

Matt logged in and rebuilt the TDS stuff for us on Mafalda in /cvs/cds/caltech/apps/linux/tds_090304.

He says that he can't build his stuff on 64-bit because there's not a sanctioned 64-bit build of GDS yet.

This should have all the latest fixes in it. I tried using both the old and new code from allegra and they both are fine:

./tdsdata 16384 2 C1:IOO-MC_F > /users/rana/test.txt

I loaded the data I got with the above command and there were no data dropouts. Possibly the dropout problem is only

associated with testpoints and so we have to wait for the TP fix.

fb:controls>./tpman &
[1] 1037
fb:controls>VMIC RFM 5565 (0) found, mapped at 0x2868c90
VMIC RFM 5579 (1) found, mapped at 0x2868c90
Could not open 5565 reflective memory in /dev/daqd-rfm1
16 kHz system
Spawn testpoint manager
Channel list length for node 0 is 4168
Test point manager (31001001 / 1): node 0

restartFE c1lsc

restartFE c1lsc c1asc c1susvme1

restartFE all

The power supply of a lock-in amp, which is on the Y-arm side of PSL clean room, was pulled out by my mistake.

Then I reconnected it, but I don't know whether it is re-adjusted properly.

I'm sorry about this. If you are using that amp, it should be checked.

I found that tdsdata doesn't work.

When I star tdsdata, he takes a few ~ 10 seconds of data, and he dies with a message "Segmentation fault".
I tried to get data for some times and some channels, and this problem was observed everytime.
I also tried tdsdata on allegra, op440m and mafalda, and it didn't work on all of them.

Yesterday, I got a new version of tdsdata (which modified the problem of Message ID: 1328) and tried to build 
thme on my directory (/cvs/cds/caltech/users/kakeru.....)
This may have some relation to this problem.

I added the following repos which I found on allegra to megatron and then did a 'yum install sshfs' on both machines:

allegra:yum.repos.d>l
total 28
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  428 Feb 12 16:47 rpmforge.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  684 Feb 12 16:47 mirrors-rpmforge
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1054 Feb 12 16:47 epel-testing.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  954 Feb 12 16:47 epel.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  626 Feb 12 16:47 CentOS-Media.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1869 Feb 12 16:47 CentOS-Base.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  179 Feb 12 16:47 adobe-linux-i386.repo

This also required me to import the rpmforge GPG key:

sudo rpm --import http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt

>> mcc -v -m -R -nojvm seisBLRMS.m
Warning: Duplicate directory name: /cvs/cds/caltech/apps/linux/matlab/toolbox/local.
Compiler version: 4.6 (R2007a)
Processing /cvs/cds/caltech/apps/linux/matlab/toolbox/matlab/mcc.enc
Processing /cvs/cds/caltech/apps/linux/matlab/toolbox/signal/mcc.enc
Processing /cvs/cds/caltech/apps/linux/matlab/toolbox/control/mcc.enc
Processing /cvs/cds/caltech/apps/linux/matlab/toolbox/filterdesign/mcc.enc
Processing /cvs/cds/caltech/apps/linux/matlab/toolbox/shared/controllib/mcc.enc
Processing /cvs/cds/caltech/apps/linux/matlab/toolbox/ident/mcc.enc
Warning: an error occurred while parsing class FilterDesignDialog.AbstractEditor:
Undefined function or variable 'DAStudio.Object'.

> In /cvs/cds/caltech/apps/linux/matlab/toolbox/shared/filterdesignlib/@FilterDesignDialog/@CoeffEditor/schema.p>schema at 9
Warning: an error occurred while parsing class FilterDesignDialog.CoeffEditor:
Invalid superclass handle.

Processing /cvs/cds/caltech/apps/linux/matlab/toolbox/fixedpoint/mcc.enc
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'ApplicationRedefinedException*'
Abort (core dumped)
"/cvs/cds/caltech/apps/linux/matlab/bin/mcc" -E "/tmp/fileRnU5Qj_31324": Aborted
??? Error executing mcc, return status = 134.

We found that the MC REFL image was no longer round and that the MCWFS DC quadrant spots were mostly
in one quadrant. So we re-centered the MCWFS beams in the following way:

1) We unlocked the MZ and adjusted the PZT voltage to keep the beam on the WFS from saturating.
2) Re-aligned the black hole beam dump to center its beam in its aperture.
3) centered the beam on the MCWFS optics and MCWFS QPD displays.
4) Relocked MC.

Below is the image of the IOO Strip tool. You can see that the MC REFL DC is now more flat. The
MC pointing has also been changed (see the MC TRANS HOR & VERT channels). The MC transmitted
light is also now more stable and higher.

We tried to center the QPD, and we found that there were a few hundred mV of dark offset for each 
quadrant of QPD. We adjusted them with this scripts:
/cvs/cds/caltech/scripts/MC/WFS/McWFS_dc_offsets

I made the following change to correct the sign of the 126MON channel:

allegra:c1aux>ezcawrite C1:PSL-126MOPA_126MON.EGUF -410
C1:PSL-126MOPA_126MON.EGUF = -410
allegra:c1aux>ezcawrite C1:PSL-126MOPA_126MON.EGUL 410
C1:PSL-126MOPA_126MON.EGUL = 410
allegra:c1aux>

#!/bin/csh -f
setenv POSIXLY_CORRECT
while (! { ezcawrite.bin $* })
      echo "Retry $0 $*"
end

I've updated the digital camera python code as well as changed the network topology.

At the moment, both cameras are connected to a small gigabit switch which only talks to Ottavia.  This means all camera servers must be run on Ottavia, allow camera output is still UDP multicast so any machine capable of running gstreamer can pick up the images.

The server and client programs now have the ability to read a configuration file for the setup of the cameras.  They default to pcameraSettings.ini, but this can default can be changed with a -c or --config option

For example, "serverV3.py --config pcam1.ini" will run the server using the pcam1.ini settings file.  Similarly, "client.py --config pcam1.ini" will also take the IP settings from the config file so that it knows at which port and IP to listen.

These programs and .ini files have been placed in /cvs/cds/caltech/apps/linux64/python/pcamera/

I've updated the cshrc.40m aliases so that it uses the new configuration file options, so now pcam1 calls "client.py -c pcam1.ini" in the above directory.

So to start a client use pcam1 or pcam2 (for the 32223 camera in PSL looking at MC trans or 44026 looking at an analog moniter in the control room respectively).  These can be run on Allegra, Rosalba or Ottavia at the moment.

To start a server, use pserv1 or pserv2.  These *must* be run on Ottavia.

I've also added a -n or --no-gui option at Yoichi's request, one which just starts up and plays, with no graphical gui.

Lastly, I've made some changes to the base pcamerasrc.py file, which should make display more robust.  After a failed transmission of an image from the camera to Ottavia, it should re-attempt up to 10 times before giving up. I'm hoping this will make it more robust against packet loss.  The change in network topology has also helped this, allowing 640x480 to be transmitted on both cameras before tens of minutes before a packet loss causes a stop.

 Both the Upgrade and the Old40m's signals look anomalous since the zero-crossing point does not change with the demodulation phases.

I suspect there's is a problem with the optickle model of the 40m.

 Kiwamu and I brought 2 SUPER MICRO PCs from Willson house into 40m.

Both PCs are hooked up into Martian network. One is named as bscteststand for BSC which has been set up by Cds people and another one is named kami1 for temporary use for CLIO which is a bland new, no operating installed PC. This bland new PC will be returned Cds or 40m once another new PC which we will order within several days arrives.

IP address for each machine is 131.215.113.83 and 131.215.113.84 respectively.

We have installed CentOS5.2 into the new PC.

The c1lsc has been unstable since last night. Its status on the DAQ screen was oscillating from green to red every minute.

Yesterday, I power recycled it. That brought it back but the MC got unclocked and the autolocker could not get engaged. I think it's because the power recycling also turned c1iscaux2 off which occupies the same rack crate.

Killing the autolocker on op340 e restarting didn't work. So I rebooted also c1dcuepis and burt-restored almost all snapshot files. To do that, as usual, I had to edit the snapshot files of c1dcuepics to move the quotes from the last line.

After that I restarted the autolocker that time it worked.

This morning c1lsc was again in the same unstable status as yesterday. This time I just reset it (no power recycling) and then I restarted it. It worked and now everything seems to be fine.

Today I checked out the SR560 around the lab. I confirmed that the one with the label "channel A noisy" is effectively mulfuctioning.

It was coonected to the lock-in amplifier set up for the drum mode peak readout.

I repleaced that with a working one.

Could not get past arm power of ~11 or so.  I was suspicious of the transmon high-gain/low-gain PD handover, so I ran the matchTransMon scripts, but that did not help.  I also removed the line in the cm_step script that increased the CM gain by 18dB at an arm power of 4.  The gain of the CM servo will increase naturally as the power in the IFO builds up, so it may not be good to crank it right away.  I tried several other CM gains, and watched the DARM loop, but still could not get past an arm power of ~10-11.  I'm not sure what's wrong, but it may be that mysterious CM-servo/McWFS conspiracy, so we can try turning down the McWFS gain next time.