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Mon Aug 26 20:13:17 2013 |
rana | Configuration | Electronics | putting together a 110 MHz LSC demod board for AS |
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I have modified one of the spare demod boards that was sitting above the electronics bench (the one which was unlabeled - the others say 33MHz, 55MHz and 165MHz) to be the new AS110 demod board. In place of the T1 coil, and the C3 and C6 resistors, I have put the commercial splitter PSCQ-2-120+. In place of U5 (the low pass for the PD input) I have put an SCLF-135+.
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OK, but what kind of filter should we be actually using? i.e. what purpose the 135 MHz low pass serve in contrast to a PHP-100+ ? |
9093
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Mon Sep 2 03:51:14 2013 |
rana | HowTo | General | How To Coil Cables |
http://youtu.be/pEd7ru24Vx0 |
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Wed Sep 4 20:39:23 2013 |
rana | Update | SUS | MC2 tickler turned OFF |
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[Jenne, Manasa]
While we were trying to relock the MC after Jenne put back the RF box, we found there was some mysterious motion in MC2. After spending time trying to figure out where this was coming from, the source was found to be at LOCKIN2 of MC2 suspension "The MC TICKLER" that was left enabled. This was turned OFF and MC locked just fine after that.
EDIT JCD: The Tickler should be disabled, if the autolocker is disabled.
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Sounds like this was just incidental, since the MC locked fine also with the tickler enabled for weeks.
The tickle is disabled by the down script, but there's no way to correctly handle all possible button pushes. If you want to disable the autolocker for some reason you should run mcdown before trying to lock. This will set up things with the correct settings. |
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Thu Sep 5 00:40:33 2013 |
rana | Update | SUS | MC2 tickler turned OFF |
You're right - down turns it on. Still, the fact that the same tickle recently causes a problem and didn't make 20% power fluctuations until now tells me that its not that the tickle amplitude is too large. Whatever changed recently is the problem. |
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Mon Sep 16 14:11:47 2013 |
rana | Update | LSC | MICH calbration |
There doesn't seem to be any coherence among the different directions of ground motion (as expected from seismic theory), so I am suspicious of such a low MICH noise. |
Attachment 1: Screen_Shot_2013-09-16_at_2.10.31_PM.png
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Attachment 2: Screen_Shot_2013-09-16_at_2.18.47_PM.png
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Mon Sep 16 19:41:01 2013 |
rana | Configuration | Computer Scripts / Programs | cdsutils checked out into /opt/rtcds |
controls@rosalba:~ 0$ cdsutils Traceback (most recent call last): File "/ligo/apps/cdsutils/lib/cdsutils/__main__.py", line 7, in <module> from cdsutils import CMDS File "/ligo/apps/cdsutils/lib/cdsutils/__init__.py", line 4, in <module> from servo import servo File "/ligo/apps/cdsutils/lib/cdsutils/servo.py", line 1, in <module> from epics import PV ImportError: No module named epics controls@rosalba:~ 1$
Mon Sep 16 19:40:32 2013 |
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Thu Sep 19 18:48:24 2013 |
rana | Update | Computer Scripts / Programs | PMC locker |
In May of 2013 Den wrote a PMC Autolocker because he ignored / didn't want to read anyone else's code. Later that year Yuta also wrote another one from scratch for the same reasons.
I tried to use both today, but neither one runs. Yuta's one doesn't run because he was using a bunch of private yuta library stuff in the yuta directory. That kind of programming style is pretty useless for us since it never works after some time.
So I re-activated and tested the PMCAutolock bash script (it is actually a symbolic link called "PMCAutolock" which points to AutoLock.sh). These scripts are all basically the same:
They turn off the loop (or turn down the gain) and then scan the PZT, look for a resonance, and then activate the loop.
One problem with the logic has been that turning off the loop makes the gain so low that the peak flashes by too fast. But leaving the loop ON and just sweeping with the gain turned down to -10 dB is also not good. That only reduces the UGF from 1 kHz to ~100 Hz. What we want is more like a 10 Hz UGF while scanning the length. SO, I edited the script to turn down the modulation depth on the EOM by that factor. After acquiring lock, it returns all settings to the nominal levels as defined on the PSL_SETTINGS screen.
I've tested it a few times and it seems to work OK. You can run it from the yellow shabang button on the PMC screen.
I also changed the .bashrc aliases for the MEDM command so that if you type medm_good at the command line you get MEDM screens with scalable fonts. So you can stretch the screens. |
Attachment 1: pmc.png
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Thu Sep 19 21:15:44 2013 |
rana | Update | Computer Scripts / Programs | PMC locker |
I used a script (~PSL/PMC/testAutoLocker.sh) to unlock the PMC and run autlocker ~100 times to see how robust the new autlocker is.
It failed to grab it 2 out of 137 times. During those times it just went on trying to ramp the PZT even after it had gone to a rail. Once someone resurrects Rob's 'trianglewave' script we should be OK. Even so, I think this is good enough. Please try this out via the yellow button next time the PMC needs to be locked.
It usually takes 10-30 seconds to lock, depending upon where the fringe is compared to the upper voltage rail. Good enough. |
Attachment 1: Untitled.pdf
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Thu Sep 19 21:42:18 2013 |
rana | Update | SUS | Optical Lever Trend for 90 days: ETMX and PRM are the bad ones |
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Attachment 1: OLtrend_2013.png
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Fri Sep 20 20:14:52 2013 |
rana | Summary | General | /home/cds nearly full |
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One of the reasons that our disk is getting full is due to the scripts_archive directory. A backup script runs on op340m and makes a tar.bz2 file of the scripts directory and puts it in scripts_archive every morning at 6 AM.
On Oct 7, 2011, Koji fixed this script to point at our new scripts directory instead of the old /cvs/cds/caltech/scripts directory. Since then, however, no one has fixed the exclude file to NOT back up the junk that's in that directory. Its a 1.6 GB directory so its full of it.
I've deleted a bunch of junk from the scripts directory: this directory is for scripts, not for your personal home movies or junk data files. Put those in your USER directory. Put temporary data files in /tmp/. I've also added a few more patterns to the exclude file so that less .mpg, .png, .pdf, .dat, etc get stored every day. The new daily .tar.bz2 file wil be ~25 MB instead of 770 MB.
(also fixed the backup script to use 'env' to setup the perl environment and removed the hard-coded path to tar)
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OUr disk was getting full again. Turned out my "fix" to 25 MB was only a fix to 250 MB. Since we were getting disk full warnings on our Ubuntu workstations, I deleted some COMSOL.dmg files from users/zach/ and then started deleting every other tarball from the scripts_archive directory. ~221 GB are now free. Still need to fix the exclude file for scripts better. |
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Fri Sep 20 20:27:18 2013 |
rana | Update | IOO | mode cleaner not locking |
I used our procedure from this entry to set the IMC board offset as well as the FSS board offset.
I found this afternoon that the MC was having trouble locking: the PC path was railing as soon as the boost was engaged. Could be that there's some misalignment on the PSL which has led to some RAM having to be canceled by this new offset. Let's see if its stable for awhile. |
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Sun Sep 22 21:03:15 2013 |
rana | Configuration | SUS | Tuned bounce and roll mode of ETMY suspension |
Today I noticed that there was a lot of noise at the Bounce and Roll eigenfrequencies for ETMY. I found that the bandstop filter were set at completely the wrong frequencies, so I've remade them.
The filters were last tuned by Leo in May of 2011. Even so, he left the frequencies at the frequencies of the old MOS suspensions which had f_bounce ~ 12 Hz.
The FOTON plot shows the OLD ones versus the NEW ones. The DTT spectra shows the oplev error signals in the usual state. I have also copied these over to the SUSPOS,PIT,YAW, and SIDE filter banks and turned them all ON.
I also turned OFF and deleted the 3 Hz RG filter that was there. There's no such peak in the error signal and even if one wanted to compensate for the stack mode, it should be a low Q filter, not this monster. |
Attachment 1: etmy-error.png
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Attachment 2: notches.pdf
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Sun Sep 22 21:28:53 2013 |
rana | Update | SUS | set OL T RAMP values (they are not visible on the OL screens) |
controls@rosalba:/opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/SUS 0$ ./setOLtramps
Old : C1:SUS-ETMX_OLPIT_TRAMP 0
New : C1:SUS-ETMX_OLPIT_TRAMP 2
Old : C1:SUS-ETMX_OLYAW_TRAMP 0
New : C1:SUS-ETMX_OLYAW_TRAMP 2
Old : C1:SUS-ETMY_OLPIT_TRAMP 2
New : C1:SUS-ETMY_OLPIT_TRAMP 2
Old : C1:SUS-ETMY_OLYAW_TRAMP 2
New : C1:SUS-ETMY_OLYAW_TRAMP 2
Old : C1:SUS-ITMX_OLPIT_TRAMP 0
New : C1:SUS-ITMX_OLPIT_TRAMP 2
Old : C1:SUS-ITMX_OLYAW_TRAMP 0
New : C1:SUS-ITMX_OLYAW_TRAMP 2
Old : C1:SUS-ITMY_OLPIT_TRAMP 0
New : C1:SUS-ITMY_OLPIT_TRAMP 2
Old : C1:SUS-ITMY_OLYAW_TRAMP 0
New : C1:SUS-ITMY_OLYAW_TRAMP 2
Old : C1:SUS-BS_OLPIT_TRAMP 0
New : C1:SUS-BS_OLPIT_TRAMP 2
Old : C1:SUS-BS_OLYAW_TRAMP 0
New : C1:SUS-BS_OLYAW_TRAMP 2
Old : C1:SUS-PRM_OLPIT_TRAMP 0
New : C1:SUS-PRM_OLPIT_TRAMP 2
Old : C1:SUS-PRM_OLYAW_TRAMP 0
New : C1:SUS-PRM_OLYAW_TRAMP 2
Old : C1:SUS-SRM_OLPIT_TRAMP 0
New : C1:SUS-SRM_OLPIT_TRAMP 2
Old : C1:SUS-SRM_OLYAW_TRAMP 0
New : C1:SUS-SRM_OLYAW_TRAMP 2
Done setting TRAMPs |
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Sun Sep 22 22:05:10 2013 |
rana | Update | SUS | oplev XY-plots reflect new calibration |
The ETMX oplev signal looks kind of dead compared to the ETMY. It has no features in the spectra and the SUM is pretty low.
I noticed that the cal fields are still set to 1. To get it close to something reasonable, I calibrated it vs. the SUSPIT and SUSYAW values by giving it a step in angle and using 'tdsavg' plus some arithmetic.
OLPIT = 45 urads/ count
OLYAW = 85 urads / count
These are very rough. I don't even know what the accuracy is on the OSEM based calibration, so this ought to be redone in the way that Jenne and Gabriele did before.
The attached image shows the situation after "calibration" of ETMX. This OL system needs some noise investigation. |
Attachment 1: noise.png
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Sun Sep 22 22:54:28 2013 |
rana | Update | IOO | mode cleaner not locking |
Having trouble again, starting around 1 hour ago. No one in the VEA. Adjusted the offset -seems to be OK again. |
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Sun Sep 22 23:04:52 2013 |
rana | Update | PEM | Guralp needs recentering |
After seeing all of these spikes in the BLRMS at high frequency for awhile, I power cycled the Guralp interface box (@ 10:21 PM) to see if it would randomly recenter in a different place and stop glitching.
It did - needs to be better centered (using the paddle). Plot shows how the Z channel gets better after power cycle. |
Attachment 1: seis.pdf
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Tue Sep 24 10:55:45 2013 |
rana | Update | PSL | PMC re-aligned |
After relocking the PMC at a good voltage, Steve and I re-aligned the beam into the PMC by walking the last two steering mirrors. After maximizing the power, we also aligned the reflected beam by maximizing the PMC_REFL_DC with the unlocked beam.
Transmission is back to 0.84 V. We need Valera mode matching maintenance to get higher I guess. Maybe we can get a little toaster to keep the PMC PZT more in the middle of its range? |
Attachment 1: psl-trend.png
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Wed Sep 25 17:07:08 2013 |
rana | Frogs | Treasure | Free Green Mango Juice in fridge |

its an acquired taste, but its a must since we're sending an interferometer to India |
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Wed Sep 25 19:34:51 2013 |
rana | Update | SUS | Problems with ETMY Optical Lever |
I went down to investigate the issue with the extra noise that I found in the ETMY optical lever yesterday. There were several problems with the optical layout down there - I'm not sure if I remember them all now.
- Beam reflected from OL QPD not dumped.
- OL QPD set normal to the steering mirror so that the back reflection goes into the vacuum chamber.
- HeNe laser mount only dogged with 2 dogs. Needs 3. Looks like some said "Aw, that's not goin' nowhere. Let's just leave that there pard!"
- First lens downstream of the laser had 2 screws and washers, but neither was even finger tight! They were loose by more than 1 full turn.
- Second lens was clipping. Beam was so far off center that this lens was being used to steer the beam by a few inches on the QPD.
- Extra reflections from ingoing beam (I don't know which surfaces) randomly landing on green & red optics.
- Lenses for the HeNe mode matching are coated for 1064 nm. HeNe is 633 nm, so these lenses must be replaced to reduce the reflections.
The main noise issue, however, appears to be not a layout issue at all. Instead its that the laser intensity noise has gone through the roof. See attached spectra of the quadrants (this is the way to diagnose this issue).
I'll ask Steve to either heal this laser or swap it out tomorrow. After that's resolved we'll need another round of layout fixing. I've done a couple of hours today, but if we want a less useless and noisy servo we'll have to do better.
NOTE: by looking at the OL quadrants, I've found a noisy laser, but this still doesn't explain the excess noise in the ETMX. That was the one that has a noisier error signal, not ETMY. By the coherence in the DTT, you can see that the ETMY OL is correctly subtracting and normalizing out the intensity noise of the laser. Seems like the ETMX electronics might be the culprit down there. |
Attachment 1: ETMY-BadHeNe.pdf
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Thu Sep 26 21:55:08 2013 |
rana | Update | SUS | Problems with ETMY Optical Lever |
Not so fast! We need to plan ahead of time so that we don't have to repeat this ETMY layout another dozen times. Please don't make any changes yet to the OL layout.
Its not enough to change the optics if we don't retune the loop. Please do buy a couple of JDSU (and then we need to measure their intensity noise as you did before) and the 633 nm optics for the mode matching and then we can plan about the layout. |
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Thu Sep 26 23:02:40 2013 |
rana | Update | LSC | FPMI noise caused by ARM locking |
Hidden in Nakano-kun's previous entries was that the phase margin of the X-Arm was only 9 degrees!! This extremely close to instability and makes for huge gain peaking. The feedback loop is increasing noise above 100 Hz rather than suppress. After some tweaks of the LSC filters we got a much more stable loop/.
So we today started to examine the sources of phase lag in the arm cavity sweeps. There were a few unfortunate choices in the XARM LSC filter bank which we tuned to get less delay.
Then I wrote a bunch of detail about how that worked, but the ELOG ate my entry because it couldn't handle converting my error signal noise plot into a thumbnail. Then it crashed and I restarted it. We also have now propagated the changes to the Y arm by copy/paste the filters and the result there is pretty much the same: low phase margin is now 38 deg phase margin. Noise is less bad.
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Attachment 1: Xarm_sweep_130926.pdf
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Attachment 2: lsc.pdf
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Attachment 3: err.png
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Mon Sep 30 11:33:15 2013 |
rana | Update | LSC | LSC calibration screen |
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I fixed the XARM and YARM real time calibration servo.
I also change the C1CAL_MICH_A servo. Now the actuator response and the suspension TF are combined together and that filter name is BS_act. C1CAL_XARM_A and C1CAL_YARM_A have same kind of filters, ETMX_act and ETMY_act.
There are AI filter in each A servo and inv_AA, inv_DAA filters in CINV servo, but it's doesn't work correctly yet.
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These aren't servos. What he means is that he's changed some filters in the real time calibration screens so as to make the actuation and sensing parts more accurate, but the inversion of the AA filters is not accurate yet. |
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Tue Oct 1 09:51:10 2013 |
rana | Update | Green Locking | ALS autolocker flowchart |
I think we can use the IMC autolocker to start with getting this started. Once Jamie fixes the NDSSERVER environment variable bug, we should be able to use his more slick automation code to make it auto lock. |
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Tue Oct 1 11:24:02 2013 |
rana | Update | PEM | particle counts |
Probably more important is to establish quantitatively how particle counts affects the lock acquisition or noise in the interferometer.
We don't want to adopt a "Sky is Falling" mentality as was done previously in LIGO when people were trying to outlaw burritos and perfume.
Dust monitor counts and human noses do not correlate well with the interferometer's nose.

When the vacuum system is closed, we might check to see if particle counts correlate with losses in the PMC or excess scatter on the ISC tables. If not, we should move on to other concerns. |
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Tue Oct 1 14:12:22 2013 |
rana | Summary | CDS | svndumpfilter on linux1 makes NFS slow |
Yesterday and this morning's slow NFS disk access was caused by 'svndumpfilter' being run at linux1 to carve out the Noise Budget directory. It is being moved to another server; I think the disk access is back to normal speed now. |
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Tue Oct 1 19:42:19 2013 |
rana | Summary | CDS | megatron upgrade |
Max and I started upgrading megatron to Ubuntu 12.NN today. We were having some troubles with getting latest python code to run to support the Summary pages stuff.
Its also a nice test to see what CDS tools fail on there, before we upgrade the workstations to Ubuntu 12.
Since its Linux, none of the usual upgrading commands worked, but after an hour or so of reading forums we were able to delete some packages and all the 3rd party packages and get the upgrade to go ahead. We'll have to re-install the LSC, GDS, LAL repos to get it back into shape and get NDS2 working. The upgrade is running in a 'screen' command on there.
Wed Oct 02 14:50:16 2013
Update #1: The upgrade asks a couple dozen questions so it doesn't proceed by itself. I've been checking in to the 'screen' every couple hours to type in 'Yes' to let it keep going.
Update #2: It finished a few hours ago:
controls@megatron:~ 0$ uname -a
Linux megatron 3.2.0-54-generic #82-Ubuntu SMP Tue Sep 10 20:08:42 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
controls@megatron:~ 0$ date
Wed Oct 2 18:33:41 PDT 2013
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Wed Oct 2 23:21:54 2013 |
rana | Update | Computer Scripts / Programs | pianosa can't find Jamie PPA |
Message on 'pianosa':
Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/drgraefy/nds2-client/ubuntu/dists/lucid/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz 404 Not Found
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Thu Oct 3 02:46:58 2013 |
rana | Metaphysics | PEM | USGS Furlough |

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Fri Oct 4 14:36:44 2013 |
rana | Update | SUS | Replaced the laser for Optical Lever of ETMY |
That's good, but please no more Oplev work. We want to do all of it at once and to make no more changes until we have all the parts (e.g. dumps and correct lenses) in hand and then talk over what the new design will be. I don't want to tune the beam size and loop shape every week. |
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Sun Oct 6 17:05:49 2013 |
rana | Summary | IOO | MC ASC problems |
MC unlocked over the weekend and also got severely mis-aligned. It all started around midnight on Saturday.
At first I thought that this was due to the MCS CPU meter being railed at 60 us, so I deleted a bunch of filters in MC1,2,3 that are unused and left over from Den's quantization noise investigations. This reduced the CPU load somewhat, but didn't make any real improvements. Turning on the ASC filter banks in the MC SUS still mis-aligned the MC.
With the MC WFS and MC ASS turned off, there is still some digital junk coming in and misaligning things. Plot attached.
Similar stuff coming in on ITMX, but not ITMY.
Tried restarting various FEs, but there was no effect. Also tried rebooting c1lsc, c1ioo, & c1sus. Finally did 'shutdown -r now' on all 5 computers on the CDS overview screen and simultaneously (almost) pressed the reset button on the RFM switch above the old c1pem crate. Everything came back OK except for c1oaf (I had to manually button his BURT button) and now the ASC inputs on all the SUS are zero when they should be and MC is well locked and aligned.
Rob and I used to do this trick when he thought that a cosmic ray had corrupted a bit in the RFM network. |
Attachment 1: mcasc.pdf
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Sun Oct 6 18:37:43 2013 |
rana | Update | SUS | Replaced the laser for Optical Lever of ETMY |
I centered the ETMY OL today and found that the UGF was around 3-4x too LOW after the laser swap and re-alignment. That's why the Y arm has been shaking so much today.
NO more OL work without loop measurements and noise measurements.

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Sun Oct 6 20:55:08 2013 |
rana | Summary | ASC | MC WFS Limits set based on 40 days of trends |
MC3 watchdog gets tripped sometimes when lock is lost. I noticed that there were no limits set in the MC WFS drive. The attached plot shows that over 40 days, the OUT16 channels from the WFS don't exceed 1000 counts. So I've set the limit to be 2000 in all 6 of the MC ASCPIT/YAW filter banks. Please don't turn them off.
OUT16 is really not the right way to measure this, but for some reason, we don't have any DQ channels from the MC WFS screen ??? So we're not able to measure the trend of the high frequency drive signal.
So I added the WFS(1,2)_I_(PIT,YAW)_OUT_DQ and WFS(1,2)_(PIT,YAW)_OUT_DQ channels to the c1ioo.mdl at 2048 Hz. I used Jamie's excellent 'rtcds' utility to build and install:
1) after making the edits to c1ioo.mdl I saved the file/
2) sshing to c1ioo
3) rtcds stop c1ioo
4) rtcds make c1ioo
5) rtcds install c1ioo
6) rtcds start c1ioo
7) telnet fb 8087
8) daqd> shutdown
That seemed to do it OK.
Unfortunately, all of the instructions that we have in the Wiki for adding channels and model building are misleading and don't mention any of this. There are a few different methods listed which all instruct us to do the whole make and make install business in a bunch of non existent directories.  |
Attachment 1: mcwrfs_trend.png
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Sun Oct 6 22:27:35 2013 |
rana | Frogs | Electronics | MC3 LL sensor cable was loose |
I noticed that the MC3 LL sensor was apparently dead according to its suspension screen. Since it was only the fast ADC channel and not the SLOW PDmon, I could tell that it was just in the ADC cabling. I pushed in a few of the MC3 sensor cables on the front and back of the PD whitening board and it came back OK. According to this trend of the past 40 days and 40 nights, it started slipping on this past Wednesday morning.
Was anyone walking near MC2 or the suspension electronics racks before noon on Wednesday (Oct. 2nd)? |
Attachment 1: MC3_LL.png
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Sun Oct 6 23:43:07 2013 |
rana | Update | IOO | WFS debugging |
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Tried a bunch of stuff, but eventually just turned off the TRANS_QPD loops and loops are stable. Needs more debugging.
- Modified the on/off scripts so that the Integrators are no longer toggled. No reason to turn them off since we are clearing the filter bank histories.
- With QPD feedback OFF, I have lowered the overall gain by 15x so that its just drift control.
- Deleted unused / bad filters from the main filter banks.
- Gautam is going to debug the QPD with a red laser pointer and then elog.
- Jamie is checking out the MC Coil dewhitening logic to see if that's in a funny state.
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Back around June 18, Jamie was debugging some Guardian code here to replace our MC autolocker. Afterwards our MC WFS stopped working. We never figured out what went wrong, but at the time we turned off the feedback from the MC trans QPD and it stabilized the response at DC.
Today, I noticed that the trans QPD feedback is on. Did anyone do this on purpose?
Its problem causing behavior is slow, but you can catch it if you wait. With the nominal WFS gain of 0.4 the control signal ramps up monotonically at a rate of ~100 counts/minute. Depending upon the static alignment of the MC, this could let it take 10 minutes or a few hours before it rails the MC SUS actuators and breaks the lock. Very sneaky. Don't turn this loop back on without making sure its working and not breaking. I would trend it for you, but the SLOW channels associated with the TRANS QPD servo are not trended --- does anyone know how to get them in the channel list? |
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Sun Oct 6 23:50:14 2013 |
rana | Configuration | SUS | MC filters adjusted |
- Found the low pass filters OFF in a couple of the MC SUS damping loops. This allows injection of OSEM noise all the way up to ~100 Hz. I deleted unused ones and turned on the 'Cheby' for all SUS DOFs: cheby1("LowPass",2,0.1,3)cheby1("LowPass",6,1,12)gain(1.13501)
- Tuned the Bounce/Roll filters to catch the bounce and roll modes for all 3 MC SUS (based on the Mech Res Wiki page). These are now engaged on ALL MC SUS DOFs. They have been deleted from the ASCPIT/YAW filter banks and moved into the WFS screen into the MC1,2,3 filter banks there to be more in line with our knowledge of multi loop instability from notches in individual loops:ellip("BandStop",4,1,40,15.9,17.2)ellip("BandStop",4,1,40,23.5,24.7)gain(1.25893)
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Sun Oct 13 13:29:09 2013 |
rana | Update | LSC | New lockin / sensing matrix screens |
I think that we always drive above the UGF for sensing matrix measurements since we like to put notches in the servo. In principle, we could drive within the control band and then take out the effect by measuring the control signal and undoing the gain in the digital filters. But that seems pretty complicated for any MIMO system. |
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Wed Oct 16 02:39:24 2013 |
rana | Update | LSC | PRMI + 2 arm attempt |
that's some hot stuff
its time to get the CM servo hardware turned back on. We're going to want to switch it on when we're about ~1/50th of the way up the CARM fringe.
A good way to re-commission it is to lock it to the single arm, using a Pomona box filter to move the arm pole down to the coupled cavity pole frequency.
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Tue Oct 22 18:55:55 2013 |
rana | Update | CDS | Workstation swap: Rosalba to ??? |
We got a new computer from Xi computer corp. I am currently installing Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on to it to start with and then will move on to 12 if we can figure out a way to test it besides "I guess it should work?"
Rosalba has been removed and put onto the old Jamie desk. Old Jamie desk also has a Mac Mini running on there.
At the meeting tomorrow we need to decide on a new Italian baby girl name for this new machine. |
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Wed Oct 23 11:42:28 2013 |
rana | Update | SUS | ETMY sensors compared to ETMX |
This is not really definitive. The 0.1-0.3 Hz band is not the right one to look for seismic transients - it should be the higher frequency ones.
The other test to do is to turn off the ETMY damping and then look for glitching in the sensors. And then, of course, check to see that no one has bumped the satellite box with a cart or a mop... |
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Wed Oct 23 15:48:06 2013 |
rana | Update | SUS | ETMY sensors compared to ETMX |
I noticed by eye that during one event when ETMY was getting kicked up, its CPU meter (C1:FEC-47_CPU_METER) went RED.
Thinking that this might be a clue I tried to trend this channel. Even though this channel is in the SCY EDCU file and the 'rtcds install' command claims to be 'installing C1EDCU_SCY', many of the channels named in the file are not actually showing up in ur dataviewer SLOW channels list.
I smell a cockroach in our RCG build process, but I can't find the log file for the make-install part of the build nor can I find the Makefile from which the make-install is born. Help us Jamie!

I have deleted a few filters from c1scy to see if that could reduce the CPU time and I have killed the c1tst process to see if that can cool down the entire computer. Next, we can try to open the rack doors and put a fan on there to see if we can shave a couple microseconds. I have a StripTool running on pianosa to see if we see some correlations between FEC47 and the ETMY SUS watchdog RMSs. Don't close it. |
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Wed Oct 23 18:24:56 2013 |
rana | Update | SUS | ETMY sensors compared to ETMX |
While that would be good - it doesn't address the EDCU problem at hand. After some verbal emailing, Jamie and I find that the master file in target/fb/ actually doesn't point to any of the EDCU files created by any of the FE machines. It is only using the C0EDCU.ini as well as the *_SLOW.ini files that were last edited in 2011 !!!
So....we have not been adding SLOW channels via the RCG build process for a couple years. Tomorrow morning, Jamie will edit the master file and fix this unless I get to it tonight. There a bunch of old .ini files in the daq/ dir that can be deleted too. |
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Wed Oct 23 22:11:20 2013 |
rana | Update | CDS | Workstation swap: Rosalba to ??? |
I've finished setting up the fstab on Chiara and the upgrade to Ubuntu 12 seems to have gone well enough. She's fast:

but I forgot to make sure to order a dual head graphics card for it. So we'll order some dual DVI gaming card that the company recommends. Until then, its only one monitor.
Still, its ready for testing control room tools on. If everything works OK for a couple weeks, we can go to 12 on all the other ones. |
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Thu Oct 24 14:14:18 2013 |
rana | Update | LSC | PRMI + 2 ALS arms |
Just in case people were confused, although the PRMI + 2 ALS arms were controlled, we weren't able to bring them in to resonance. They were in some unknown off-resonant state.
We can try to calculate the expected recycling gain (ignoring losses in the PRM) following section F.2.1 of my Manifesto:
T_PRM = 5.6%, R_ARMS ~ 98%, G_PRC ~38.
So the full TRX/TRY powers should be G_PRC/T_PRM = 690.
In our stable configuration, we were sitting at TRX/Y powers of ~5-10. Once in awhile we could get a state where the power was saturating the detectors at ~50 and possibly would have gone up to 100, but it was all oscillation at that point. (we've got to find and notch the ETM violin mode frequencies in the ALS feedback servos.
As we move in towards resonance, we have to now consider all of complications of handing off to various error signals and CARM optical spring compensation and RF saturation that have been discussed in Rob's thesis and Lisa's lock acquisition modeling. |
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Fri Oct 25 01:46:33 2013 |
rana | Update | CDS | fb acquisition of slow channels |
Rather than limp along with a broken SLOW channel system, I fixed it so that the EDCU files made during the RCG build actually get used and added to the channel list (and thereby available in DV and trends).
I first started by adding all of the EDCU files. This completely fails; daqd just doesn't start and gives some weird exceptions.
So I removed a bunch of them and it runs OK now with ~15000 channels. Previously we had ~1500 slow channels.
An in-between config tonight had ~58000 channels and was also running fine, but the connection to the FB would time out when using DV after several minutes. Possibly we can fix this by adding some more RAM to the FB (the DAQD process uses up 45% of the CPU and 39% of the 8 GB of RAM).
Another issue in getting this to work was that there were a bunch of channel name conflicts between the old C0EDCU.ini and the sub-system EDCU files that I was trying to add. I went through by hand and deleted all of the duplicates from the old file. The new frame files are 80 MB, the old ones were 66 MB.
I hope that /frames doesn't become full - not sure how that is wiped... |
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Fri Oct 25 19:56:58 2013 |
rana | Update | PSL | laser drift monitor set up |
I went to re-align the beam into the PMC just now. I also tapped all the components between the laser and the PMC; nothing seems suspicious or loose.
The only problem was that someone (probably Steve or Valera) had closed down the iris just downstream of the AOM to ~1-2 mm diameter. This is much too tight! Don't leave irises closed down after aligning. An iris is not to b used as a beam dump. Getting it within a factor of 5-10 of the beam size will certainly make extra noise from clipping/scattering. After opening the iris, the reflected beam onto the PMC REFL camera is notably changed.
Not sure if this will have any effect on our worsening transmission drift, but let's see over the weekend.
I took pictures of this clipping as well as the beam position on Steve's new Retro Position Sensor, but I can't find the cable for the Olympus 570UZ. Steve, please buy a couple more USB data cables of this particular kind so that we don't have to hunt so much if one of the cryo (?) people borrows a cable.
Attachment shows PMC power levels before and after alignment. After alignment, you can see spikes from where I was tapping the mounts in the beamline. We ought to replace the U-100 mount ahead of the AOM with a Polanski
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Sat Oct 26 22:48:55 2013 |
rana | Update | CDS | New/old CDS laptop for X-End |
I made the Yoichi laptop into a CDS laptop called 'asia' a few months ago. Somehow I mistakenly gave it the IP address of our little Acer laptop which is called 'farfalla'. This makes farfalla's network not work. I put the old Dell Aldabella by the PMC where farfalla was and am now upgrading farfalla from CentOS to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 32-bit. I have updated the hostable on linux1 to give farfalla the 230 IP address and let 'asia' keep 225. |
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Sun Oct 27 03:41:06 2013 |
rana | Update | SUS | ETMX violin mode |
I thought it would be enough to notch the fundamental and the first harmonic, but sometime tonight the 2nd harmonic at 1892.88 Hz also got rung up.
I made a "Violin3" stopband filter for it and measured its Q using the ole DTT heterodyne secret handshake. Seems much too high to me - it would be nice if someone else would look at this plot and estimate the Q from it.
Turned the PSL HEPA switch back ON - I think its been off for at least a week. I turned the HEPA's variac to 20 after finishing the alignment on the table. |
Attachment 1: ETMX-Vio3-Ring.png
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Sun Oct 27 23:26:44 2013 |
rana | Update | PEM | Seismometer status |
It would be nice if we could use the existing seismometer cable and place a 2-terminal temperature sensor within the stainless-steel can. A device like the AD590/592 can drive current over a long cable run without pickup issues since its a current source. Inside of the seismometer breakout box we should make a circuit to scale the signal to be close to zero at 25 C and have a slope of 1 V/deg. There are example circuits in the application note - we can just make them on a piece of vector board and glue to the inside of the breakout box (where we connect to the regulated power). |
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Tue Oct 29 22:33:57 2013 |
rana | Update | SUS | ETMY sensors compared to ETMX |
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I've stopped the process of c1tst again to make it get better. At 9:20, I also went and opened the front rack door (the back one was already open). One reason its hot may be that the exhaust vents on the top of c1iscey are blocked by one of the custom multi-pin adaptor boxes. In the morning, we should drop the computer down by 1 or 2 notches in the rack so that it can air cool itself better. Make sure to poweroff the computer from the terminal before moving it though.
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After some torture Masayuki admitted that he and Steve ignored this elog and just turned off the power button. He blames Steve entirely.
to keep from damaging our computers and our data, NEVER DO THAT.

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Tue Nov 5 16:47:19 2013 |
rana | Frogs | LSC | illegal power supply about to expire |
Is this your illegally installed HP bench power supply?

If so, or if not but you care about the signal that passes through these amplifiers, I suggest you remove this temporary power supply and wire the power from the rack power supplies through the fuse blocks and possibly use a voltage regulator.
In 24 hours, that power supply will be disconnected and the wires snipped if they are still there. |