I went through the optics list (in the BHD procurement google spreadsheet) and summarized how to build them.

The red ones are what we need to purchase. Because of the strange height of the LMR mounts, the post needs to have none half-integer inch heights.

They need to be designed as the usual SS posts are not designed to be vac compatible (not because of the material but the design like screw hole venting).

We also need to check how many clean forks we have.
-> The components were ordered except for the custom posts.
 

Late update. We got 2 modified side blocks from Jordan a few days ago. Yesterday, I glued a side magnet to one of the modified side blocks.

I took the opportunity to reglue some magnets that were knocked off from the adapters. I did this for 2 adapters only since w need 4 shallow adapters and we already had 2 complete ones.

Today, Jordan gave us the rest of the modified side blocks clean and baked. We are ready to suspend a mirror today.

Koji found out that the stock for BIO Acromag modules is very low and that the lead time for ordering new ones is ~ 1-year X-o.

We figure we might need to minimize the number of modules but still keep the Acromag chassis functional.

Looking at the new C1AUXEY feed-throughs spreadsheet one can see that we actually normally need only 1 BIO (not 2) module since there are 16 suspensions related bios + 1 green shutter which is unrelated to SUSAUX so there is no room to cut back here.

There are 16 analog input channels, 5 for PDMONs and 5 VMONs, and 6 spares which require 2 ADCs. Removing the spares and 2 monitoring channels will be enough to get us to 1 ADC.

{Yehonathan, Tega}

We glued some magnets onto modified side blocks. We followed pretty much the same procedure form last time. The music wires were clamped on the side blocks away from the optic adapter. The clamps were screwed down using the low profile screws the Jordan obtained from UC components to allow maximum clearance for the coils (Attachment 2).

The modified side blocks with wires already clamped in them were screwed onto the adapter. We put the adapter on the EQ stops and do rough adjustments, making sure the side magnet is roughly on the center of a coil we inserted to the side. The wires were threaded through the wire clamp on the suspension block and clamped on the winches. We realigned the Oplev beam such that it is parallel to the table using the quad photodiode.

We balanced the height of the adapter. This time we used a camera facing the adapter. The tilt of the camera was set by drawing a straight line (red line in attachment 1) such that the bottom clamps on the SOS are parallel to it.

Then, we adjusted the winches such that the screws on the side blocks are on the same green line on attachment 1.

Once the height was adjusted, we clamped the wire on the suspension block and cut it at the winches.

We balanced the optic. We had to take out the front counterweight to get the balance (attachment 3).

We checked whether the wire is touching anything. We confirmed that it doesn't. The wire goes nicely through the new hole on the side blocks (attachment 4, 5).

We measure the resonance frequency for both yaw (attachment 6) and pitch (attachment 7). They both seem to be sub-Hz. The pitch trace also shows that the oscillations are centered around 0 meaning the optic is balanced.

There's still the issue of what to do with the lower back EQ stop not touching the adapter.

I installed OSEMs on the LO1 SOS. To my surprise, the side magnet is not in the center of the side OSEM. It completely misses the LED as can be seen in the attachment.

Looking at the CAD model, it turns out the position of the OSEM on the left side plate is different from the position of the OSEM on the right side plate in the SOS tower.

We need to take the optic down, swap the right and left side blocks, and resuspend it.

There is not enough 🤦🏻‍♂️in the world

{Yehonathan, Tega}

We took the optic out of the SOS tower and removed the side blocks. We mounted new side blocks with wires already clamped in them in the reverse order.

The Adapter was placed back into the SOS and the wires were threaded through the wire clamp and suspended on the winches. The roll of the optic was balanced using a camera (attachment 1).

The pitch was balanced. this time I used 2 counterweights instead of 1 in order to not have to take so much of the weight out.

The mechanical resonances were measured by taking a 100 sec time series of QPD readout and doing PSD estimation (attachment 2). The mirror motion was damped as much as possible before taking the measurement.

3 peaks below 1.5Hz can be seen with frequencies of 755mHz (Yaw), 942mHz, 1040mHz (Pitch + Pos). The pitch/pos peaks are a bit close to each other, I bet if we go back to 1 counterweight the situation will be better.

While inserting the side OSEM I realized I didn't check the overall height of the adapter. The magnet was too high. I will fix it tomorrow and repeat the roll balancing.

[Paco, Anchal]

We have completed modifications and testing of the HAM Coil driver D1100687 units with serial numbers listed below. The DCC tree reflects these changes and tests (Run/Acq modes transfer functions).

** A fix had to be done on the DC power supply for these. The units' regulated power boards were not connected to the raw DC power, so the cabling had to be modified accordingly (see Attachment #1)

{Yehonathan, Paco}

I fixed the overall height of the adapter (attachment 1). I put an OSEM next to the side magnet. I positioned a camera in front of the SOS and connected it to my laptop for live streaming. I painted a line indicating the height of the OSEM plates and a line in between with the mean height. I discarded the wire clamp on the suspension block I released the wires from the winches and pulled on them until the magnet was roughly in the right position. I clamped the wires back on the winches and adjusted them until the magnet was on the middle line. I also verified that the roll of the adapter is aligned as before by making sure that the horizontal features on the adapter are parallel to the horizontal features on the SOS tower.

The wires were clamped to the suspension block using a new wire clamp.

I Found that locking the counterweight setscrew changes the alignment. Today we verified this effect. We released the setscrew and pre-compensated by adjusting the counterweight such that when the setscrew was locked the mirror was aligned.

We measured mechanical resonances (attachment 2). This time the yaw motion was very quiet so we got a smaller peak for the yaw. The peaks are the same as before. Y readout has peaks around the pitch and pos resonances that don't appear in the X readout. I'm not sure what they are. Maybe coming from the QPD electronics.

We locked the adapter using the EQ stops. We made sure the alignment stays close to ideal.

We installed OSEMs on the SOS. We chose suboptimal OSEMs because LO1 will only be used for steering. I made a spreadsheet copying the OSEM catalog into it. There we mark which OSEM goes where.

I cleaned the optic using the ion gun with a pressure of 30 PSI.

The next steps are:

1. Engrave the SOS tower.

2. Cut the wire at the winches and remove the winch adapter plate.

3. Wrap the SOS with foil.

4. Install the SOS in the vacuum chamber.

[Paco]

Two coil drivers have been installed on 1Y0 (slots 6, 7, for LO1 SOS). All connections have been made from the DAC, AI board, DAC adapter, Coil driver, Sat Amp box. Then no SOS load installed, all return connections have been made from Sat Amp box, ADC adapter, AA board, and to ADC. We will continue this work tomorrow, and try to test everything before closing the loop for LO1 suspension.

[Anchal, Yehonathan, Paco]

Today we opened ITMX chamber and removed the following optics and placed them in the Xend flow bench (see attachment 1):

• POPM1
• POPM2

Yehonathan brought his first SOS baby next to ITMX chamber. The suspension was carried by hands throughout. He gave me the suspension over the IMC beam tube from where I placed it on the table. I checked through the OSEMs and the face magnets were still on. I could not verify the side magnet but nothing seemed out of place.

I then moved LO1 near its planned place. I had to bolt it at 1 inch North and 0.5 inch West of its planned position because the side OSEM on ITMX is long and protrudes out of the base footprint. Even if it was small, the current layout would make the OSEM pins of the side OSEMs of ITMX and LO1 very near each other. So we can not place LO1 closer to ITMX from current position. This means the layout needs to be redesigned a bit for the modified position of LO1. I believe it will significantly shift and turn the beam from LO1 to LO2, so we might need to change the beam upstream from TT2 onwards. More discussion is required.

Unfortunately, what I thought was clicking photos was just changing modes between video and image mode, so I have no photos from today but only a video that I recorded in the end.

Photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/23kpCknP3vz7YVrS

If ITMX already has another side magnet, we can migrate the side OSEM of ITMX to the other side. This way, the interference of the OSEMs can be avoided.

{Paco, Yehonathan, Anchal}

I cut the wires from the winches and removed the winch adapter plate. I engrave  'LO1' on the SOS tower. Me and Paco wrapped the SOS with foil and transported it to Anchal who put it inside the ITMX chamber.

The transportation seems to be successful. Nothing broke. However, we found that even with the short side OSEM the LO1, as it is now, cannot sit in its designed position since ITMX's side OSEM stands in its way.

If there are magnets on both ITMX sides we can move its side OSEM to the other side. Another option is to resuspend LO1 with a side magnet on its left side.

Today I found one of the coil driver boards, S2100619 failed the test on CH2. There appears to be an extra phase lag after 10 kHz and some resonant-like feature at 7 kHz. This of course is very high-frequency stuff and maybe we don't care about these deviations. But it could mean something is off with the channel and could potentially lead to failure in the relevant frequency band in the future. I'll need help to debug this. Please see the attachment for details of test failure.

We have completed modifications and testing of the HAM Coil driver D1100687 units with serial numbers listed below. The DCC tree reflects these changes and tests (Run/Acq modes transfer functions).

** A fix had to be done on the DC power supply for these. The units' regulated power boards were not connected to the raw DC power, so the cabling had to be modified accordingly.

Further, Paco fixed the two even serial number units (S2101648, S211650) that failed the test. The issues were minor soldering mistakes that were easily resolved.

Good catch. It turned out that the both + and - side of the output stages for CH2 were oscillating at ~600kHz. If I use a capacitance sticks to touch arbitrarily around the components, it stops their oscillation and they stay calm.
It means that the phase margin becomes small while the circuit starts up.

I decided to increase the capacitances C6 and C20 (WIMA 150pF) to 330pF (WIMA FPK2 100V) and the oscillation was tamed. 220pF didn't stop them. After visually checked the signal behavior with an oscilloscope, the unit was passed to Anchal for the TF test.

The modification was also recorded in the DCC S2100619

S2100619 was fixed by Koji and it passed the test after that.

Today I glued magnets onto the new 3/4" mirror adapters. I also took the opportunity to make some more side magnets assemblies.

Yesterday I mounted PR3/SR2 3/4" thick mirror onto one of the new adapter. There seem to be no issues for now.

I started the process of suspending AS1 (E2000226-A). The Lambda Optic mirror with the closest specs has Rc = 2 m. I attached side blocks with clamped wires onto adapter number 7 - side block with a magnet on the right.

I then took one of the Lambda Optic mirrors and tried mounting it in the adapter. It was quite difficult to get it right. Unfortunately, I chipped the edge of the substrate (attachment 1) 🤦🏻‍♂️. I put the mirror back in the box and decided to use the spare mirror. I successfully mounted it into the adapter but when I put the clamping screws one of them fell on the mirror 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️. There is no visible damage though. I took some pictures (attachment 2-4).

I and Anchal then started suspending the mirror but then we found that one of the wires is dented in the middle 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️. I'm burned out for today.

Late update: one nice thing that I found yesterday is that the glue is viscous enough to hold the dumbells without a metal sheet from above holding the magnets. This greatly simplifies the gluing process.

I threaded a new wire through a different side block with a magnet and clamped it under a microscope. It was hard, but eventually, I was able to do it by holding the wire on both sides of the side block with weights.

The dented wire was discarded and the side block that was mounted on the AS1 adapter was put aside. I mounted the side block with the new wire on the AS1 adapter.

Anchal and I hanged the AS1 adapter and clamped the wires on the winches of an SOS tower. I balanced the roll and adjusted the height of the magnet with respect to a side OSEM using a camera (attachments 1 & 2).

I shoot the Hene laser on the optic and look at the reflection. I align the laser beam to be as close as possible to the center of the mirror. The OpLev needs to be realigned.

To my surprise, the ghost beam shoots up above the reflected beam! See attachment 3. I check to see that the arrow which marks the thinnest side of the mirror is horizontal (attachment 4). WTF?!

Also, now I realize that the marking on the Lambda optics are pencil markings 😵😵😵.

We @40m do the convention of the arrow at the thinnest side & pointing the HR side, but nobody says Lambda does the same.

We can just remount the mirror without breaking the wires and adjust the pitching if you do it carefully.

Does this mean that the LO1 also likely to have the wedge pointing up? Or did you rotate the mirror to have the wedge reflection to be as horizontal as possible?

I specifically checked the specification before mounting the mirror. It says clearly "Arrow at the thinnest location pointing towards Side 1". I guess they just ignored it.

As for LO1, I mounted it without noticing the location of the arrow. Later, I checked and the ghost beam was horizontal so I left it as it is. Yeah, I guess I will remount the mirror. Also, what do we do with the pencil markings? It's not vacuum-compatible.

Sad... We just need to check the wedge direction everytime, unfortunately.

Pencil: can you try to gently wipe it off with solvent & a swab? (IPA / Acetone)
If it does not come off in the end, it's all right to leave. Do we want to scribe the arrow mark? You need a diamond pen.

LO1: No need to remove the pencil mark for the damping test. Until we see serious contamination on the LO1 optic, we don't need to take the optic off from the mount and clean it. If there is a chance of rehanging (because of a broken wire/etc), we do wipe the pencil mark.

Other optics: wipe the pencil mark as much as possible.

Koji found some 68nF caps from Downs and I finished modifying the last remaining coil driver box and tested it.

With this, all coil drivers have been modified and tested and are ready to be used. This DCC tree has links to all the coil driver pages which have documentation of modifications and test data.

{Yehonathan, Anchal}

I released the AS1 wires from the winches, removed the adapter from the SOS tower, and removed the Lambda optic from the adapter. Attachment 1 shows the pencil markings on the optic before cleaning. I cleaned the pencil marking from the side of the optic with acetone using swabs until there were no pencil residues on the swab (attachment 2 shows the swab I used next to an unused swab). I was not able to remove the markings completely though (attachment 3).

I remounted the optic with the arrow rotated by 90 degrees counterclockwise.

We hang the adapter on the winches and adjust the height of the magnet and the adapter roll using the winches. We monitor the height of the adapter using a live stream from the Cannon camera. The camera's tilt was adjusted using straight features on the SOS tower. When we ran out of winch travel we adjust the height using the lower EQ stops and pull tight the wires. Attachment 4 shows the alignment of the side magnet with respect to the SOS tower and a side OSEM.

We checked the ghost beam trajectory and it looks much better (attachment 5)

We started realigning the OpLev. We realize that the height of the beam should be 5+14/32" = 5.437 by measuring the height of the screw holding the side OSEM from the table. The real height from the schematics is 5.425 We make the beam parallel with the table first using an iris and then the QPD.

Today, I balanced the counterweight. First using an iris, then by placing a QPD close to the SOS measuring the reflection from AS1. I locked the counterweight's set screw and the QPD Y readout looks good. Attachment 6 shows the QPD y readout near the beat node between pitch and pos. The node comes very close to zero which indicates that the pitch is balanced.

I measured the free-swinging motion using the QPD x and y axes. Attachment 7 shows the spectra of that motion. The major peaks are at 755mHz, 953mHz, and 1.05Hz.

I locked the EQ stops while retaining the XY alignment on the QPD and installed 5 green OSEMs. AS1 is ready for transfer into the vacuum chamber.

[Paco, Anchal]

Continue working on 1Y0. Added coil drivers for LO2, AS1, AS4. Anchal made additional labels for cables and boxes. We lined up all cables, connected the different units and powered them without major events.

[Paco, Anchal]

Continued working on 1Y1 rack. Populated the 6 coil drivers, made all connections between sat amp, AA chassis, DAC, and ADC adapters for SR2, PR2, and PR3 suspensions. Powered all boxes and labeled them and cables where needed. Near the end, we had to increase the current limit on the positive rail sorensen (+18 V) from ~ 7 to > 8.0 Amps to feed all the instruments. We also increased the negative (-18 V) current limit proportionally.

We think we are ready for all the new SOS on this side electronics-wise.

Photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/GviuqLQviSPo1M3G6

I used the rejected light from the PBS after the motorized half-wave plate between PMC and IMC injection path (used for input power control to IMC) to measure the transmission of PR2 candidates. These candidates were picked from QIL (QIL/2696). Unfortunately, I don't think either of these mirrors can be used for PR2.

If I remember correctly, we are looking for a 2" flat mirror with a transmission of the order of 1000 ppm. The current PR2 is supposed to have less than 100 ppm transmission which would not leave enough light for LO path.

I've kept the transmission testing setup intact on the PSL table, I'll test existing PR2 and another optic (which is 0.5" thick unfortunately) tomorrow.

[yehonathan, paco, anchal]

We continue suspending PR3 today. Yehonathan and Paco suspended the thick optic in its adapter. After fixing some nominal height and undoing any residual roll angle (see Attachments 1,2 for pictures), we noticed a problem with the pitch angle, so we insert the counterweights all the way in. Nevertheless, we soon found out that we needed to shift one of the two counterweights to the back of the adapter side (so one on each side) in order to tare the pitch angle. This is a newly experienced maneuver that may apply for further thick optics.

After taring the pitch angle roughly, we noted another issue. The wedge (~ 1 deg) on the optic made it such that the protruding socket heads on the thick side bumped against the lower clamp (not the earthquake stop tip itself). Attachments #4,5 show the before/after situation which was solved provisionally by replacing the socket head screws with lower profile (flat) head screws in situ. Again, this operation was highly delicate and specific to wedged thick optics, so for future SOS we should keep it in mind.

Another issue that we had with the new thick optic adapters is that for some reason there is a recession in the upper backside of the adapter (attachment coming soon). This makes the upper back EQ stop too short to touch the adapter. We replaced it with a longer screw. When inserted it doesn't really hit the back of the adapter. Rather, it touches the corner of the recession, stoping the optic with friction.

While all this was happening, Anchal started mounting AS4 on its adapter. After one of the magnets broke off, he switched to another one and succeeded. This is the next target for suspension. We still need to check the orientation of the wedge. Furthermore, we started a gluing session in the afternoon to prepare as much as possible for further SOS during the week. 3 side magnets were glued to side blocks. 3 magnets were glued to 3 adapters that were missing 1 magnet each.

In the afternoon, Yehonathan and Paco set up the QPD and did all the usual balancing, and then Anchal took the data of which the result is shown in Attachment #3. The major peaks are located at 723mHz, 953mHz, and 1.05Hz. Very similar to the case of the thin optic adapters.

Anchal progressed with OSEM installation, and engraving and yehonathan glued the counterweight setscrew in place. After securing the EQ stops, and wrapping the wires in foil, we declare PR3 is ready to be installed.

I tested 2 more optics today, the old PR2 that we took out and another optic I found in QIL. Both these optics are also not good for our purpose.

I'll find thw Y1S optic and test that too. We should start looking for alternate solutions as well.

{Paco, Yehonathan, Anchal}

Today we suspended AS4 (E2000226-B). Anchal mounted Lambda Optic mirror with an RoC closest to AS4 in a thin optic mount. He noted that this optic as well as AS1 don't have a wedge angle. The specs claim that the wedge angle is 2 degrees what should have been clearly seen by inspecting the optic with a naked eye. All the ghost beam deflections probably come from the curvature of the mirror.

We did all the height and roll balancing using a camera (Attachment 1,2). We balanced that pitch of the adapter using a QPD not before we realigned the OpLev setup.

We measured the motion spectra (attachment 3). Major peaks are found at 755 mHz, 964 mHz, and 1.062Hz. I locked the counterweights setscrew and observed that the pitch balance doesn't change. I locked the EQ stops such that the alignment of the mirror remained the same by monitoring the QPD signals. I clamped the suspensions wires to the suspension block.

The only thing remaining is inserting the OSEMs.

[Paco (Vacuum Work), Anchal]

Today we opened the ITMY Chamber and installed suspended AS1 and AS4 in their planned positions. In doing so, we removed the razor or plate mounted on a pico motor at the south end of the table (see 40m/16450). We needed to make way for AS4 to be installed.

Photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/YP2ZZhQ3jip3Uhp5A

We need more dog clamps for installing the suspensions, we have used temporary clamps for now. However, knows where new C&B clamps are, please let us know.

{Paco, Yehonathan}

Today we suspended LO2 (E1800089) which Anchal has loaded into the thick optic adapter. Attachments 1,2 show the height and roll balance adjustments.

I realigned the opLev setup and balanced the suspended mass. We figured that if we use 2 counterweights we will be 1 short. We decided to use 1 mass at the back of the adapter. This has the additional advantage that the Viton tip on lower back EQ stop can touch it and act normally. The optic was successfully balanced in this way. Attachment 3 shows the motion spectra on the QPD. There are major peaks at 712 mHz, 854 mHz, 876 mHz, and 996 mHz. As expected using only 1 counterweight raised the center of mass and lowered the pitch resonance frequency. The optic was locked keeping the alignment fixed on the center of the QPD, OSEMs were inserted and the SOS tower was engraved.

We should apply some glue to the counterweight to prevent it from spinning on the setscrew.

There were several cases where the long EQ stops didn't perform as expected.

In one type of case, we used a counterweight at the front of the adapter but not in the back leaving a recess where the lower back EQ stop should touch.

In the other type, a recess in the thick optics adapter prevented the upper EQ stop from touching the adapter. In the first thick optic, the screw was screw barely scratched the recess' corner. In the second case, it didn't touch it at all.

In the last group meeting, we discussed using Peek screws (made out of plastic) to prevent metal on metal bumping when the EQ can touch the adapter and Peek nuts when it doesn't to increase its impact area.

Mcmaster has 1.5" long 1/4-20 screws (part number 98885A131) that will fit well in the OSEM plates. We can order 20 of those.

The biggest Peek nuts on Mcmaster however are not big enough (7/16" wide) to cover the entire bottom recess area which is 0.5" wide (they are good enough for the top recess area in the thick adapter optic design). Koji suggested that we can use a big Peek washer for that purpose that can be held between nuts. We should then order 10 Peek nuts (98886A813) and 1 package of 10 Peek washers (0.63" OD) (93785A600).

[Anchal, Koji] Part of elog: 40m/16549.

The magnets on the mirror face are arranged in a manner that the overall magnetic dipole moment is nullified faraway. Because of this, the coil output gains in all such optics need to have positive and negative signs in a butterfly mode pattern (eg. UL, LR: +ve and UR, LL: -ve).

In the particular case of LO1, we chose following coil output gains:

This ensures that all damping gains have positive signs. Following damping gain values were chosen:

Having said that, this is a convention and we need to discuss more on what we want to set a convention (or follow a previous one if it exists). My discussion with Koji came up with the idea of fixing the motion response of an OSEM with respect to coil offset by balancing the coil gains across all optics and use same servo gains for all optics afterwards. But it is a complicated thought coming out of tired minds, needs more discussion.

Important notes for suspending the optics:

• Do not insert the OSEMs fully. Leave all of the magnet out of the OSEMs before transportation.
• Tighten the OSEMs completely while adjusting the height of the optic. Adjust height of OSEM holder plate if necessary.
• Ensure the all cage screws are screwed tight completely.

Photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/CJsS18vFwjo73Tzs5

[paco]

Added input filters, input matrix, damping filters, output matrix, coil filters, and copy the state over from LO1 into AS1 screen in anticipation for damping.

Added input filters, input matrix, damping filters, output matrix, coil filters, and copy the state over from LO1 into AS4 screen in anticipation for damping.

[Anchal, Paco]

Yesterday we noticed that one of the ADC channels was overflowing. I checked the signal chain and found that CH3 on PR2 Sat Amp was railing. After a lot of debugging, our conclusion is that possible the PD current input trace is shorted to the positive supply through a finite resistance on the PCB. This would mean this PCB has a manufacturing defect. The reason we come to this conclusion is that even after removing the opamp U3 (AD822ARZ), we still measure 12.5 V at the pins of R25 (100 Ohm input resistance)

Please see the schematic for reference. We also checked the resistance between input of R25 (marked PDA above) and positive voltage rail and it came out as 3 kOhms. While I all other channels, this value was 150 kOhms.

I would like it if someone else also takes a look at this. We probably would need to change the PCB in this chassis or use a spare chassis.

{Yehonathan, Paco}

{Paco, Yehonathan}

Today we suspended SR2 (E1800089) which Anchal has loaded into the thick optic adapter. Attachments 1,2 show the height and roll balance adjustments.

I realigned the opLev setup and balanced the suspended mass. Attachment 3 shows the motion spectra on the QPD. There are major peaks at 723 mHz, 832 mHz, and 996 mHz. I inserted OSEMs and tightened them in place. I adjusted the OSEM plates to make sure the magnets are at the center of the OSEMs, then I tightened the OSEM plates to the SOS tower.

The optic was locked keeping the alignment fixed on the center of the QPD.

Again, we should apply some glue to the counterweight to prevent it from spinning on the setscrew. Is there a glue other than EP30 that we can use?

Related: Peek nuts, screws and washers were ordered from Mcmaster.

Vacseal in the freezer. It could have been expired sooooo many years ago, We need some cure testing.

Can you release the part numbers of the ordered components (and how/where to use them), so that we can incorporate them into the CAD model?

Leave the unit to me. I can look it at on Mon. For a while, you can take a replacement unit from the electronics stack.

Also: Was this unit tested before? If so, what was the testing result at the time?

Added input filters, input matrix, damping filters, output matrix, coil filters, and copy the state over from ITMX into LO2 screen in anticipation for damping.

The unit was tested before by Tege. The test included testing the testpoint voltages only. He summarized his work in this doc. The board number is S2100737. Here are the two comments about it:
"This unit presented with an issue on the PD1 circuit of channel 1-4 PCB where the voltage reading on TP6, TP7 and TP8 are -15.1V,  -14.2V, and +14.7V respectively, instead of ~0V.  The unit also has an issue on the PD2 circuit of channel 1-4 PCB because the voltage reading on TP7 and TP8 are  -14.2V, and +14.25V respectively, instead of ~0V."

"Debugging showed that the opamp, AD822ARZ, for PD2 circuit was not working as expected so we replaced with a spare and this fixed the problem. Somehow, the PD1 circuit no longer presents any issues, so everything is now fine with the unit."

Note:  No issues were reported on PD3 circuit is is malfunctioning now.

Yes,

For the thin optics adapter design, we want Peek 1/4-20 screw (part # 98885A131) to replace the lower back long EQ stop. On it, we will have a Peek washer (part # 93785A600) fastened between two Peek nuts (part #98886A813).

For the thick optics adapter design, we want Peek 1/4-20 screw (part # 98885A131) to replace both the upper and lower back EQ stop. On the upper stop, we need a single Peek nut (part #98886A813).

I will cure-test the Vacseal.

I used the open light level output of 908 for ITMX side OSEM from 40m/16549 to roughly calibrate cts2um filter module in LO1 OSEM input filters. All values were close to 0.033. As the calibration reduces the signal value by about 30 times, I increased all damping gains by a factor of 30. None of loops went into any unstable oscillations and I witnessed damping of kicks to the optic.

In-loop power spectrum

I also compared in-loop power spectrum of ETMX and LO1 while damping. ETMX was chosen because it is one of the unaffected optics by the upgrade work. ITMX is held by earthquake stops to avoid unnecessary hits to it while doing chamber work.

Attachment 1 and 2 show the power spectrum of in-loop OSEM values (calibrated in um). At high frequencies, we see about 6 times less noise in LO1 OSEM channel noise floor in comparison to ETMX. Some peaks at 660 Hz and 880 Hz are also missing. At low frequencies, the performance of LO1 is mostly similar to EMTX except for a peak (might be loop instability oscillation) at 1.9 Hz and another one at 5.6 Hz. I'll not get into noise hunting or loop optimization at this stage for the suspension. For now, I believe the new electronics are damping the suspensions as good as the old electronics.

The issue was present in the cable between the small adapter board and the rear panel. The cable and the Dsub 25 connectors were replaced. The removed parts were resoldered. Did the basic test of the channel.

Attachment 1: I cleaned up the area of the PD3 circuit of S2100556 and checked the voltage when the circuit was energized. The PD photocurrent line from the rear panel had S2100556 even with R25 removed. So the problem was between the rear panel to the outer side of R25. I've started to remove the cables to localize the issue and found that the issue disappeared when the ribbon cable was removed.

Attachment 2: I didn't investigate how the ribbon cable was bad. It was just trashed. The cable and the 25pin Dsub connectors were replaced and the line in question looked normal.

Attachment 3: All the components removed were stuffed again. The I/V-output of the circuit showed a 0.7mV offset but it seemed within the normal range. By touching R25 with a finger made it up to ~10mV as the other channels do. BTW: For 1000pF cap (C10) I used a stock 1000pF cap (KEMET, C330C102JDG5TA, 5%, 1kV, C0G) instead of nominal one (KEMET, C317C102G1G5TA,  2%, 100V, C0G).

Attachment 4: Noticed that the jumpers for shield grounding were missing. So they were installed (Attachment 5). This jumper is connected to Pin13. This line becomes Pin1 of the Dsub25 sat-amp cable because of the adapter board D2100148. The sat amp cable is D2100675. Hmm. In fact, this line does not touch the shield anywhere (unlike the aLIGO case). So only the chassis provides the cable shielding, no matter how the jumpers are connected or not connected.

Attachment 6: Final state of the circuit

We found that there was a small offset (~300 mV) at TP6 and TP8, in PD2 circuit (CH2 of the board). I replaced U3 AD822ARZ but did not see any affect. I disconnected the adaptor board in the back and saw that the offset went away. This might mean that the cable had some flaky short to a power supply pin. However, when I just reinserted the adaptor board back again, there was no offset. We could not find any issue with the board after that to fix, so we left it as it is. If this board gives offset issues in the future, most probably the ribbon cable would be the suspect.

Now all ADC channels are showing no offset or overflows in C1SU2 chassis.

I tested 2 more optics found by Paco and Yehonathan in QIL.

I would like someone to redo the second test. I'm not sure what was happening but I could not find the transmitted beam at all on my card even with all lights out. This is either too good a coating and not useful for us or I did something wrong while measuring it.

V6-704, V6-706 mirror seemed like a good candidate as the paper with it said it would be a 200 ppm mirror. But I measured a lot more transmission than that. Now that I see that paper more carefully, it is a 45 degree s-pol mirror, probably that's why it had so much transmission for p-pol at near-normal incidence.

LO1 is set to go through a free swinging test at 1 am tonight. We have used this script (scripts/SUS/InMatCalc/freeSwing.py) reliably in the past so we expect no issues, it has a error catching block to restore all changes at the end of the test or if something goes wrong.

To access the test, on rossa, type:

Then you can kill the script if required by Ctrl-C, it will restore all changes while exiting.

I handed the Peek parts we got from McMaster to Jordan for C&B.

The frree swinging test was successful. I ran the input matrix diagonalization code (scripts/SUS/InMAtCalc/sus_diagonalization.py) on the LO1 free swinging data collected last night. The logfile and results are stroed in scripts/SUS/InMatCalc/LO1 directory. Attachment 1 shows the power spectral density of the DOF bassis data (POS, PIT, YAW, SIDE) before and after the diagonalization. Attachment 2 shows the fitted peaks.

0.12

0.137

0.338

0.321

0.004

1.282

1.087

-0.57

-0.375

-0.843

1.07

-0.921

-1.081

0.91

0.098

-0.042

0.383

0.326

-0.099

0.857

The new matrix was loaded on LO1 input matrix and this resulted in no control loop oscillations at least. I'll compare the performance of the loops in future soon.