I turned off/on the power to the accelerometers in order to re rout their connections. I found cable connector body-nut  #3 loose to Accelerometer 2X This connector should be checked for solid performance.

When I said "MC1/MC2 accelerometers," I meant the entire three-axis accelerometer set at each point.

All accelerometers are now at the table behind 1X4, cables are near readout box.

 All of the PEM channels seem to be okay right now.  The accelerometers didn't turn out to have any differences in the traces when we put both XYZ triplets right next to each other, so we put them back where they belong.  Gur2 seismometer was showing a few problems, especially with Gur2_X, as Rana posted in elog 2079.  This was solved by tightening the cable screws which hold the Dsub end of the Guralp cable to the front panel of the Guralp box.  All is now well.

Objective:  measure the noise floor on the optical table and the floor so we can decide if the table needs better anchoring before swapping in

                   the larger optical table

The accelerometrs labeled as MC1 ( just north east  of IOO chamber floor ) and MC2 ( north east leg of MC2 table floor ) were moved:

MC1 to the floor at the north west leg of optical table.

MC2 is in the north east corner of the optical table

Atm2 was taken after table leg bolts were tighed at 40 ft/lb

The spectrum looks similar to ETMY     (Guralp for below 3 Hz )  except  the Z direction 

ETMY  .

 Wilcoxon 731A seismic accelerometers and Guralp CMG-40T-old seismometer at magnitude 5 and 4 erthquakes

 24" diameter clear acetate access connector is in place. The 0.01" thick plastic is wrapped around twice to insure air and bug tight barrier for the MC to lock overnight. The acetate transmission for 1064 nm is 90 % This was measured at 150 mW   2.5 mm beam size.

 Aluminum sheet as shown will replace the acetate. Side entries for your arms and "window" on the top will be covered with acetate using double- sided removable-no residue tape 3M 9425

Attached is an example script showing how to access 40m data remotely. The only two nonstandard python modules you need are the nds2 client module and astropy (used for time conversion). For mac users, both of these are available via macports (nds2-client and, e.g. py27-astropy). Otherwise, check out their websites:

https://www.lsc-group.phys.uwm.edu/daswg/projects/nds-client.html

https://github.com/astropy/astropy

Have fun!

Finally we got the cold cathode gauge working. IFO pressure 7e-6 Torr-it, vacuum normal valve configuration with all 4 ion pump gate valves closed at ~ 9e-6 Torr.  The cryo pump was also pumped yesterday to remove the accumulated outgassing build up.

The accidental vent was my mistake; made when I was replacing the battery pack of the UPS. The installed pack measured 51 V without any load. The "replace battery" warning light did not go out after the batteries were replaced. 

I then mistakenly and repeatedly pushed the "test" button to reset this, but I did not wait long enough for the batterries to get fully charged. The test put the full load on the new batteries and their charging condition got worse. I made the mistake when trying to put the load from the battery to online and pushed "O" so the power was cut and the computer rebooted to the all off condition. On top of this, I disconnected the wrong V1 cable to close V1.  As the computer rebooted it's interlock closed V1 at 17 Torr.

Never hit O on the Vacuum UPS !

Note: the " all off " configuration should be all valves closed ! This should be fixed now.

In case of  emergency  you can close V1 with disconnecting it's actuating power as shown on Atm3 if you have peumatic pressure 60 PSI 

Microphone preamp box had a low-pass filter at 2kHz, Ayaka changed it to 20 kHz by replacing 100pF capacitor with a 10pF.

We've measured frequency response of the box. Signal from the microphone was split into two. One path went to the box, while another was amplified by the gain 20 (and bandpass filter 1Hz - 300kHz) and sent to spectrum analyzer. Coherence and frequency response were measured using box output and amplified input. Low-pass filter in the box does not limit our sensitivity.

Acoustic noise significantly decreases at frequencies higher then 2kHz. So we need to modify the circuit by adding whitening filter.

I've plugged in PMC length channel into PEM board CH15 through and amplifier (gain=200) that is AC coupled to avoid ~2.5 DC V coming from PMC servo.  I measured coherence with microphone that was located ~30 cm higher. Measurements show contribution of acoustic noise to PMC length in the frequency range 20-50 Hz. In this range PMC length / MC length coherence is ~0.5.

Acoustic noise couples to PMC length in a non-stationary way. 5 minutes after the first measurement I already see much higher contribution. This was already discussed here. I've made C1:X02-MADC3_TP_CH15 a DQ channel at 64kHz. This a fast PMC length channel.

Next step will be to use several microphones located around PMC for acoustic noise cancellation.

 Blue Bird Mic is suspended close to PMC now and outputs ~10 counts when pre-amp gain is 8 dB. This means that the mic outputs ~2.42 mV. Its sensitivity is 27 mV/Pa => acoustic noise is ~0.1 Pa or ~75 dB SPL.

If we buy Panasonic WM61A with their sensitivity -35 dB => they will output ~1.7 mV. We can amplify this signal without adding significant noise. For WM61A S/N ratio is given to be 62 dB. This is for some standard signal that is not specified. For Blue Bird mic it is specified according to IEC 651. So I assume SPL of the standard signal = 94 dB => noise level of WM61A is 32 dB (pretty bad compared to 7 dB-A of Blue Bird). But in our case for PSL S/N ratio is ~43 dB that is not too bad. PSL is noisy due to HEPA, acoustic noise level close to MC2 stack will be less. So we may want to consider Primo EM172/173 where the noise level is claimed to be 18 dB less. I think we should buy several WM61A and EM172.

Mic in the PSL showed that fluctuations in the MCL in the frequency range 10 - 100 Hz are due to acoustic noise. I've measured MCL, MCL / PSL mic coherence 2 times with interval 300 seconds.

Surprisingly, acoustic noise level did not change but MC sometimes is more sensitive to acoustic noise, sometimes less.

We've subtracted acoustic noise from PMC using 1 EM 172 microphone. We applied a 10 Hz high-pass filter to PMC length signal and 100,200,300:30,30 to whiten the signal.We used ~10 minutes of data at 2048 Hz as we did not see much coherence at higher frequencies.

We were able to subtract acoustic noise from PMC length in the frequency range 10-700 Hz. In the range 30-50 Hz error signal is less by a factor of 10 then target signal.

Good going Johannes!

[Lydia, Johannes]

We're waiting on the last couple electrical components to arrive that are needed to complete the acromag chassis, but it is essentially operational. Right now it is connected to the PSL Mephisto's diagnostics port, for which only a single XT1221 A/D unit is needed. We assigned the IP address 192.168.113.121 to it. For the time being I'm running a tmux session on megatron (named "acromag") that grabs and broadcasts the epics channels, with Lydia's original channel definitions. Since the chassis is 4U tall, there's not really any place in the rack for it, so we might want to move it to the X-end before we start shuffling rack components around. Once we finalize its location we can proceed with adding the channels to the frames.

For the eventual gradual replacement of the slow machines, we need to put some thought into the connectors we want in the chassis. If we want to replicate the VME crate connectors we probably need to make our own PCB boards for them, as there don't seem to be panel-mount screw terminal blocks readily available for DIN 41612 connectors. Furthermore, if we want to add whitening/AA filters, the chassis may actually be large enough to accomodate them, and arranging things on the inside is quite flexible. There are a few things to be considered when moving forward, for example how many XT units we can practically fit in the chassis (space availability, heat generation, and power requirements) and thus how many channels/connectors we can support with each.

Steve: 1X3 has plenty of room

We set up the chassis in 1X7 today. Steve is ordering a longer 25 pin cable to reach. Until then the PSL diagnostic channels will not be usable.

[Lydia, Johannes]

We connected and powered up the Acromag chassis today. It lives in 1X4 and is powered by the Sorensen +20V power supply in 1X5 via the fuse rail on the side of 1X4. For this we had to branch off the 20V path to the dewhitening and anti-image filter crate of the c1:susaux driven SOS optics. After confirming that none of the daughter modules in the crate draw from the 20V line, we added a wire leading to a new fuse we added for this unit and ran a power cable from there.

The diagnostic connector of the PSL laser is now connected to the unit and a tmux session was created on megatron that interfaces with the chassis and broadcasts the EPICS channels. We need to watch out in the coming days for epics freezes/outages, as in the past these seemed to occur around the same times we were toying with the Acromags.

These are things need to be done for demonstrating PRFPMI using ALS.
All of these should be done before March 8!

CDS:
    - Fix c1iscex -JAMIE (done Feb 19: elog #8109)
    - Is ASS and A2L working? -JENNE
    - Are all whitening filters for PDs toggling correctly? -JENNE, JAMIE

PRMI locking:
    - Adjust I/Q rotation angles for error signals -JENNE, YUTA
    - Adjust filters -JENNE, YUTA
    - Coil balancing for BS (and ITMs/ETMs) -YUTA

PRC characterization in PRMI:
    - Measure PR2 loss from flipping -MANASA
    - Measure mode matching ratio -JENNE, YUTA
    - Measure finesse, PR gain -JENNE, YUTA
    - Calibrate PRM and/or ITM oplevs -MANASA, YUTA
    - Measure g-factor by tilting PRM or ITMs -JAMIE, YUTA
    - Calculate expected mode matching ratio and g-factor -JAMIE
    - Calculate expected finesse, PR gain -JENNE
    - Align aux laser into AS port? -ANNALISA?

ALS:
    - What's the end green situation? Optical layout changed? Laser temperature in CDS? -MANASA
    - What's the PSL green situation? Green trans cameras/PD? -JENNE, MANASA
    - Make ALS handing off to DARM/CARM LSC script -JENNE, YUTA
    - Demonstrate FPMI using ALS -JENNE, YUTA
    - Phase tracker characterization -YUTA, KOJI

PRFPMI:
    - Measure mode matching between PRC and arms -JENNE, YUTA
    - Measure PR gain -JENNE, YUTA
    - Calculate expected finesse, PR gain -JENNE

Others:
    - Update optical layout CAD after PR2 flipping -JAMIE, MANASA
    - AS55 situation? -YUTA
    - Look into PMC drift -JENNE, MANASA
    - Measure RFAM contribution to error signals -YUTA

Please fix, add or update if you notice anything.

 CDS:
    - Check out ASS and A2L working -JENNE
    - Are all whitening filters for PDs toggling correctly? -JENNE, JAMIE

PRMI locking:
    - Adjust I/Q rotation angles for error signals -JENNE, YUTA
    - Adjust filters -JENNE, YUTA
    - Coil balancing for BS (and ITMs/ETMs) -YUTA

PRC characterization in PRMI:
    - Measure PR2 loss from flipping -MANASA
    - Measure mode matching ratio -JENNE, YUTA
    - Measure finesse, PR gain -JENNE, YUTA
    - Calibrate PRM and/or ITM oplevs -MANASA, YUTA
    - Measure g-factor by tilting PRM or ITMs -JAMIE, YUTA
    - Calculate expected mode matching ratio and g-factor -JAMIE
    - Calculate expected finesse, PR gain -JENNE
    - Mode match and align aux laser into AS port -EVAN

ALS:
    - What's the end green situation? Optical layout changed? Laser temperature in CDS? -MANASA
    - What's the PSL green situation? Green trans cameras/PD? Design better layout -ANNALISA
    - Make ALS handing off to DARM/CARM LSC script -JENNE, YUTA
    - Demonstrate FPMI using ALS -JENNE, YUTA
    - Phase tracker characterization -YUTA, KOJI

PRFPMI:
    - Measure mode matching between PRC and arms -JENNE, YUTA
    - Measure PR gain -JENNE, YUTA
    - Calculate expected finesse, PR gain -JENNE

Others:
    - Update optical layout CAD after PR2 flipping -MANASA
    - IMC REFL demod phase rotation -EVAN, ANNALISA
    - Look into PMC drift -JENNE, MANASA
    - Measure RFAM contribution to error signals -YUTA

We should focus our work both on PRMI and ALS-FPMI (elog #8250).

CDS:
    - Check out ASS and A2L working -JENNE (ALS done, ASS on going elog #8229)
    - Are all whitening filters for PDs toggling correctly? -JENNE, JAMIE (POX11 was OK, elog #8246)

PRMI locking:
    - Adjust I/Q rotation angles for error signals -JENNE, YUTA (coarsely done elog #8212)
    - Adjust filters -JENNE, YUTA (coarsely done elog #8212)
    - Coil balancing for BS (and ITMs/ETMs) -YUTA (done elog #8182)
    - Calculate sensing matrix for PRMI and convert them into physical units -JENNE, JAMIE
    - Measure sensing matrix for PRMI -JENNE, MANASA
    - Measure 55 MHz modulation depth -KOJI

PRC characterization in PRMI:
    - Measure PR2 loss from flipping -MANASA (on going elog #8063)
    - Measure mode matching ratio -JENNE, YUTA
    - Measure finesse, PR gain -JENNE, YUTA (done elog #8212)
    - Calibrate PRM and/or ITM oplevs -MANASA, YUTA (done elog #8221)
    - Measure g-factor by tilting PRM or ITMs -JAMIE, YUTA (coarsely done elog #8235, use other methods to check)
    - Simulate intra-cavity power dependance on PRM tilt -JAMIE (see elog #8235)
    - Calculate expected finesse, PR gain -JENNE
    - Mode match and align aux laser from POY -ANNALISA (on going elog #8257)

ALS:
    - Prepare for installation of new end tables on next vent -MANASA
    - Install green DC PDs and cameras on PSL table -JENNE, MANASA
    - Make ALS handing off to DARM/CARM LSC script -JENNE, YUTA
    - Demonstrate FPMI using ALS -JENNE, YUTA
    - Phase tracker characterization -YUTA, KOJI (bad whitening elog #8214)
    - better beatbox with whitening filters -JAMIE, KOJI

Others:
    - Update optical layout CAD after PR2 flipping -MANASA
    - IMC REFL demod phase rotation -EVAN, ANNALISA (done elog #8185)
    - Look into PMC drift -JENNE, MANASA
    - Measure RFAM contribution to error signals -YUTA
    - Look into TT2 drift -JENNE, MANASA

[Joe, Jenne]

We modified the activateDAQ.py script to handle the C1PEM.ini file (defining the PEM channels being recorded by the frame builder) in addition to all the optics channels.  Jenne will be modifying it further so as to rename more channels.

> Also the BS is missing its DAQ channels again (JAMIE !) so we can't diagnose it with the free swinging method.

I'm not sure why the BS channels were not being acquired.  I reran the activateDQ script, which seemed to fix everything.  The BS DQ channels are now there.

I also noticed that for some reason there were SUS-BS-ASC{PIT,YAW}_IN1_DQ channels, even though they had their acquire flags set to 0.  This means that they were showing up like test point channels, but not being written to frames by the frame builder.  This is pretty unusual, so I'm not sure why they were there.  I removed them.

there were a zillion processes trying to activate (this is the initial activation after the initial installation) matlab 2015b on megatron, so I killed them all. Was someone logged in to megatron and trying to run matlab sometime in 2020? If so, speak now, or I will send the out-of-control process brute squad after you!

the main laser noise coupling for a Michelson is because of the RIN, not the frequency noise. You can measure the RIN, in MC trans or at the AS port by getting a single bounce beam from a single ITM.

I measured the RIN by taking the spectrum of C1:MC_TRANS_SUMFILT_OUT and dividing it by the mean count on that channel (~13800 cts). Attachment 1 shows the result.

I updated the MICH AS55 noise budget but got a very low contribution (gold trace in attachment 2).

It seems too low I think. What could've gone wrong? Finesse calculates that the transfer function from laser amplitude modulation to AS55 is ~ 1.5e-9 at DC. If I turn off HOMs I get 1e-11 at DC, so this coupling is a result of some contrast defect. Should I include some RMS imbalances in the optics to account for this? Should I include it as a second-order effect due to MICH RMS deviation from zero crossing?

You should measure the coupling by noise injection. Noise budgeting does not need any modeling:

1) Measure the power spectrum density of the target signal (i.e. DARM) and the source noise (i.e. RIN this case)

2) Calibrate both using a calibration peak to convert 1) into the physical units (m/rtHz, 1/rtHz, etc)

3) Measure the transfer function from source to target using the noise injection. (i.e. RIN injection this case and look at the injection to RIN and injection to DARM)

4) Measure open-loop transfer functions if necessary. (i.e. DARM control open-loop transfer function to convert the error signal into the free running noise level)

Primarily, these are measured noise levels and noise couplings there is no room to involve a model there.
Once the noise budget was done, you can compare it with the model and say "the coupling is big/small/comparable".
 

Also, why don't you use C1:MC_TRANS_SUMFILT_IN1_DQ instead? Your _OUT signal seems affected by the bunch of comb notch filters to artificially remove the 60Hz harmonics. It's not a fair RIN measurement.

The HIGH and LOW channels are added into the burt request file "/target/c1losepics/autoBurt.req".

These values are used to colorize the alarm texts in the "C1DRIFT_MONITOR.adl" like a threshold. (the screenshot attached)

Hereafter these values will be automatically restored by the burt.  Happy !

[Vacuum gauge sensors]

Paco informed me that the FRG sensor EPICS channels are not available on dataviewer, so I added them to slow channels ini file (/opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/chans/daq/C0EDCU.ini). I also commented out the old CC1, CC2, CC3 and CC4 gauges. A service restart is required for them to become available but this cannot be done right now because it would adversely affect the progress of the upgrade work. So this would be done at a later date.

[Jim Ryan]

The PEM model has been modified now to include a block called 'JIMS' for the JIMS(Joint Information Management System) channel processing. Additionally I added test points inside the BLRMS blocks that are there. These test points are connected to the output of the sqrt function for each band. I needed this for debugging purposes and it was something Jenny had requested.

The outputs are taken out of the RMS block and muxed, then demuxed just outside the JIMS block. I was unable to get the model to work properly with the muxed channel traveling up or down levels for this. Inside the JIMS block the information goes into blocks for the corresponding seismometer channel.

For each seismometer channel the five bands are processed by comparing to a threshold value to give a boolean with 1 being good (BLRMS below threshold) and 0 being bad (BLRMS above threshold). The boolean streams are then split into a persistent stream and a non-persistent stream. The persistent stream is processed by a new library block that I created (called persist) which holds the value at 0 for a number of time steps equal to an EPICS variable setting from the time the boolean first drops to zero. The persist allows excursions shorter than the timestep of a downsampled timeseries to be seen reliably.

The EPICS variables for the thresholds are of the form (in order of increasing frequency):

C1:PEM-JIMS_GUR1X_THRES1

C1:PEM-JIMS_GUR1X_THRES2

etc.

The EPICS variables for the persist step size are of the form:

C1:PEM-JIMS_GUR1X_PERSIST

C1:PEM-JIMS_GUR1Y_PERSIST

etc.

I have set all of the persist values to 2048 (1 sec.) for now. The threshold values are currently 200,140,300,485,340 for the GUR1X bands and 170,105,185,440,430 for the GUR1Y bands.

The values were set using ezcawrite. There is no MEDM screen for this yet.

PEM model was restarted at approx. 11:30 Mar. 7 2012 PST.

I added a new ADC channel for a DC signal from the X end green PD.

It is called C1:GCX-REFL_DC and connected to adc_0_1, which is the second channel of ADC_0.

By the way, when I tried connecting it to an ADC I found that most of the channels on the AA board on 1X9 were not working.

Since the outputs form the board are too small the circuits may have benn broken. See the picture below.

In addition to that  I realized that the signal from the PDH box for the temperature actuation is limited by +/- 2V due to the range of this AA board.

In fact the signal is frequently saturated due to this small voltage range.

We have to enlarge the range of this AA board like Valera did before for the suspensions (see this entry).

I added an EPICS monitor to the input of the LSC_TRIGGER part, to allow monitoring the signal used for the trigger.  I then added the monitors to the C1LSC_TRIG_MTRX screen (see below).  This should hopefully aid in setting the trigger levels.

[Joe and Kiwamu]

We added some more DAQ channels on c1sus.

We wanted to try diagonalizing the input matrices of the ITMX OSEMs because the motion of ITMX looked noisier than the others

So for this purpose we tried adding DAQ channels so that we can take spectra anytime.

After some debugging, now they are happily running.

(DAQ activation code)

There is a code which activates DAQ channels written by Yuta in this October.

       /cvs/cds/rtcds/caltech/c1/chans/daq/activateDAQ.py

If you just execute this code, it is supposed to activate the DAQ channels automatically by editing C1AAA.ini files.

However there were some small bugs in the code, so we fixed them.

Now the code seems fine.

(reboot fb DAQ process)

When new DAQ channels are added, one has to reboot the DAQ process running on fb.

To do this, log in to a certain port on fb,

          telnet fb 8088

     shutdown

Then the process will automatically recover by itself.

After doing the above reboo job, we found tpman on C1IOO got down.

We don't fully understand why only C1IOO was affected, but anyway rebooting of the c1ioo front end machine fixed the problem.

When you do this measurement with oscilloscope, take care two things:

1. set y-range of scope as to every signal fits in display: otherwise the data sent from scope would be saturated.
2. set y-position of scope to the center and don't change it; otherwise some offset would be on the data.

I adjusted filters of ALS to give more phase margin.
RMS of stabilized X/Y arm length is 97 pm and 65 pm respectively.

X arm ALS:
- Openloop transfer function
UGF ~160 Hz, phase margin 30 deg
1600 usec delay (LSC-XARM had 1800 usec delay)     500 usec delay (LSC-XARM had 570 usec delay) - Edited by Yuta on July 9



- Arm length spectra
   Red is the free run spectrum. Measured using C1:ALS-BEATX_FINE_PHASE_OUT. Calibration factor is 1.32 nm/deg.
   Green is the out-of-loop spectrum. Measured using C1:LSC-POX11_I_ERR. Calibration factor is 3.8e12 counts/m.
   Blue is the in-loop spectrum. Measured using C1:ALS-BEATX_FINE_PHASE_OUT.
   Black is the expected spectrum from openloop transfer function, such as (free run)/|1+G|.



   Out-of-loop estimation of RMS during X ALS is 97 pm.
   RMS mostly comes from 1 Hz and 3.3 Hz peak.
   Out-of-loop and in-loop agrees at around 10-20 Hz.

Y arm ALS:
- Openloop transfer function
UGF ~130 Hz, phase margin 20 deg
2400 usec delay (LSC-XARM had 1800 usec delay)     760 usec delay (LSC-XARM had 570 usec delay) - Edited by Yuta on July 9



- Arm length spectra
   Red is the free run spectrum. Measured using C1:ALS-BEATY_FINE_PHASE_OUT. Calibration factor is 1.30 nm/deg.
   Green is the out-of-loop spectrum. Measured using C1:LSC-POY11_I_ERR. Calibration factor is 1.4e12 counts/m.
   Blue is the in-loop spectrum. Measured using C1:ALS-BEATY_FINE_PHASE_OUT.
   Black is the expected spectrum from openloop transferfunction, such as (free run)/|1+G|.


   Out-of-loop estimation of RMS during X ALS is 65 pm.
   RMS mostly comes from 1 Hz and 3.3 Hz peak.
   Out-of-loop and in-loop agrees at around 3-40 Hz.

In this LVC meeting I discussed about triple resonant EOMs with Volker who was a main person of development of triple resonant EOMs at University of Florida.

Actually his EOM had been already installed at the sites. But the technique to make a triple resonance is different from ours.

They applied three electrodes onto a crystal instead of one as our EOM, and put three different frequencies on each electrode.

For our EOM, we put three frequencies on one electrode. You can see the difference in the attached figure. The left figure represents our EOM and the right is Volker's.

Then the question is; which can achieve better modulation efficiency ?

Volker and I talked about it and maybe found an answer,

 We believe our EOM can be potentially better because we use full length of the EO crystal.

This is based on the fact that the modulation depth is proportional to the length where a voltage is applied onto.

The people in University of Florida just used one of three separated parts of the crystal for each frequency.

Did you find what is the merit of their impedance matching technique?

 The IOO Angle and IOO Position qpds  were recentered after this entry.

 Suggested corrections in elog entry #9323 are completed:

 1,  last steering mirror mount replaced by Polanski mount

 2,  PSL output shutter mount reconfigured

 IOO qpds are not centered. I failed to connect laptops to 40MARSian network.

Precondition:

1, Pressure gauges had no communication ( NO COMM ) with c1vac2

2, Lost N2 supply on Oct 9 This triggered a normal all valve closed condition. At this point you replace N2 cylinders and manually swich valves to recreate VAC NORMAL configuration in the correct sequential order.

   The very last thing you do is open V1 gate valve.

   a, check TP2 that is the forepump of the Maglev. Foreline pressure to drypump  ~ 10- 100 mTorr, rotation speed 50 Krpm

   b, open V4 if P2 <1Torr

   c, check Maglev rotating at 560 Hz

   d, open V1 if P1 <500 mTorr

   e, check TP3 foreline, rotation speed and open V5 if P3 <1 Torr with VA6 closed

   f, open VA6 if PAN <1 Torr

  g, open annulos valves one by one , like VASE if PASE <1 Torr and so on...........Now the Current State: should read Vac Normal

3, Maglev run for 7 days with V4 closed. This encreased its foreline pressure to estimated few Torrs  and its body temp rose ~30C on the outside.

   So it was sweating and it may be back streamed.

The present RGA data is indicating that it had to be very mild.

The RGA will have better sensitivity with VM1 open and VM2 closed.

The PSL output shutter stayed open during these period is pointing  to IFO pressure stayed P1 <3 mTorr

PROBLEM: P1 and P2 plot should show nothing where there is no communication.http://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:8080/40m/151016_182003/oct16Fpm2015.png

                   How do we check if pressure based software interlocks are working in this no communication condition?

Illuminators and PSL lights turned off.
HEPA filter speed increased from 20 to 100%

Air cond filters checked by Chris. The 400 days plot show 3 bad peaks at 1-20, 2-5 & 2-19

Chris replaced some air condition filters and ordered some replacement filter today.

Jeff has changed our AC filters inside the lab this morning. Now he is checking on the main filters at CES.  He will finish the roof units tomorrow.

Met One #1 counter is on the top of IOO chamber.  It is measuring 1 and 0.5 micron size particles.  One year of lab condition plot below.

 Air conditioning maintenance is scheduled for tomorrow from 8 to 11am

 Jeff checked and  replaced filters  as needed. Job completed this morning.

 IFO air condition maintenance will continue tomorrow morning and it should be finished by 11:30AM

 We have new guys taking over this job: Sal and Chris so it takes longer. The units will be shut down for a bit.

They will not enter the IFO lab. The CES housed units will be worked on.