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12239
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Fri Jul 1 17:51:28 2016 |
Praful | Summary | Electronics | Replacing DIMM on Optimus | There has been an ongoing memory error
in optimus with the following messages:
controls@optimus|~ |
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12238
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Fri Jul 1 15:48:10 2016 |
Steve | Update | VAC | vent 78 at 710 Torr | I just disconnected the 6th instrument
grade air cylinder from the vacuum envelope
at 720 Torr. Now it will reach equilibrium |
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12237
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Fri Jul 1 09:20:44 2016 |
Steve | Update | VAC | vent 78 | VENT
OBJECTIVES:
1, Fix ETMX sus "jump issue" |
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12236
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Fri Jul 1 01:52:54 2016 |
Aakash | Update | General | Seismometer Enclosure Development | SURF 2016 | I have transferred most of the temperature
measurement stuff from the front area to
seismometer at the end of Y-arm. While |
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12235
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Thu Jun 30 21:24:36 2016 |
ericq | Update | General | Vent Prep | Steve has ordered some teflon parts to
take the place of the metal parts in his
acetone-soaking jig. They should arrive tomorrow. |
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12234
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Thu Jun 30 16:21:32 2016 |
gautam | Update | COC | Sideband HOMs resonating in arms | [EricQ, gautam]
Last night, we set about trying
to see if we could measure and verify the |
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12233
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Thu Jun 30 16:11:57 2016 |
ericq | Update | General | Vent Prep | I have updated
the vent
prep checklist on the wiki. Gautam and |
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12232
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Thu Jun 30 14:31:02 2016 |
Chemistry | Update | SUS | NO | |
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12231
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Thu Jun 30 10:03:16 2016 |
Steve | Update | SUS | how to remove epoxy from optics | Proposed Acetone soak dish for SOS epoxy
softening.
It has good acces through 5" |
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12230
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Wed Jun 29 16:05:47 2016 |
ericq | Update | SUS | ETMX suspension readiness | I've gone through the SOS suspension
document (E970037)
and some old elogs to get an idea of all |
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12229
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Wed Jun 29 16:02:29 2016 |
Steve | Update | SUS | ETMX beam baffle | In the attached photo from 2012, one can
see the installed black glass baffle. According
to the drawings (LIGO-DNNNXXX) this one has |
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12228
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Wed Jun 29 15:34:00 2016 |
Steve | Update | safety | SURF 2016 safety | Praful Vasiceddy received 40m specific
basic safety training.
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12227
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Wed Jun 29 14:32:22 2016 |
Steve | Update | SUS | how to remove epoxy from optics |
Hi Steve -
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12226
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Wed Jun 29 08:20:04 2016 |
Steve | Update | SUS | First Contact shelf life |
We'll follow LIGO policy:
Our
policy is to use first contact within 1 year
of purchase for use in the interferometers. |
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12225
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Wed Jun 29 00:09:36 2016 |
Aakash | Update | General | Things from past | SURF 2016 | I have taken out the heaters and temperature
sensors from the enclosure which was made
by Megan last summer. Soon I will test and |
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12224
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Tue Jun 28 22:54:43 2016 |
Aakash | Update | General | Seismometer Enclosure Development | SURF 2016 | The existing enclosure for seismometer
at LIGO 40m lab is a cylindrical stainless
steel can placed upside down over the seismometer. |
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12223
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Tue Jun 28 20:43:23 2016 |
Koji | Summary | COC | First Contact cleaning practice | Made a dry run of the in-situ cleaning
for a 3inch optic.
Attachment 1: The Al dummy mass |
7x |
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12222
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Tue Jun 28 17:11:27 2016 |
Praful | Update | General | EM172 Microphones | Found 60 EM172 microphones. Previous elog
with details: 7777. |
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12221
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Tue Jun 28 16:10:49 2016 |
Praful | Update | General | Bluebird Microphones | Found 1 out of 2 bluebird microphones in
the 40m. |
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12220
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Tue Jun 28 16:09:41 2016 |
Praful | Update | General | 40m Summary Pages | Set up gwsumm on optimus and generated
summary pages from both L1 and C1 data. Still
a few manual steps need to be taken during |
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12219
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Tue Jun 28 16:06:09 2016 |
gautam | Update | COC | RC folding mirrors - further checks | Having investigated the mode-overlap as
a function of RoC of the PRC and SRC folding
mirrors, I've now been looking into possible |
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12218
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Tue Jun 28 09:14:27 2016 |
Steve | Update | SUS | ETMX optics preparation to be rehanged | Given the effect on the contrast defect,
the consensus at the meeting Wednesday 6-22
was that we should continue to use the existing |
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12217
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Mon Jun 27 15:47:17 2016 |
Steve | Update | General | QPR clean room gloves | I got some
QPR Nitrile gloves. They are LIGO approved.White
nitrile gloves are naturally anti-static- |
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12216
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Mon Jun 27 15:26:03 2016 |
Steve | Omnistructure | ALARM | fire alarm test | The fire alarm came on around 15:05
for about 2-3 minutes. We all left
the lab and counted heads. I called |
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12215
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Mon Jun 27 15:12:09 2016 |
varun | Update | CDS | DAFI update: stereo output | Using an RC to BNC connector from the inner
drawer, I have added a second output cable
going from the output Fibox in the control |
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12214
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Sun Jun 26 15:27:28 2016 |
rana | Frogs | IOO | PMC /MC lopced | Found PMC unlocked for many hours so I
relocked it. IMC relocked by itself, but
the input switch seems to be flickering to |
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12213
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Thu Jun 23 17:24:32 2016 |
ericq | Update | General | Tweaks | I spent some time this afternoon reviving
some of my CESAR/ESCOBAR shenanigans on the
Y arm. I found it neccesary to adjust a few |
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12212
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Wed Jun 22 14:03:42 2016 |
Varun | Update | Electronics | Anti-Aliasing Filter circuit schematic | I found an anti-aliasing circuit on the
40m wiki. It consists of A differential LPF
made using THS4131 low noise differential |
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12211
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Wed Jun 22 10:15:45 2016 |
varun | Update | CDS | DAFI update: stereo output | I have updated the DAFI with the following
changes:
1) Separated both the channels |
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12210
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Wed Jun 22 08:40:42 2016 |
rana | Update | LSC | Y arm @ 30kHz UGF w/POY, AO | Below 100 Hz, I suppose this means that
the X arm is now limited by the quadrature
sum of the X and Y arm seismic noise. |
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12209
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Tue Jun 21 14:12:10 2016 |
Steve | Update | PEM | vacuum envelope wiped | I wiped down the cranes with wet towel
and Mario our janitor did the chamber tops
with the tubes. |
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12208
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Tue Jun 21 11:49:29 2016 |
ericq | Frogs | CDS | medm command not working | The workstations' .bashrc
is a symbolic link to /users/controls/.bashrc
In it, someone commented out the |
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12207
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Tue Jun 21 11:26:42 2016 |
varun | Frogs | CDS | medm command not working | "medm: command not
found" error when run through |
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12205
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Tue Jun 21 04:01:09 2016 |
ericq | Update | LSC | Y arm @ 30kHz UGF w/POY, AO | With the newly amplified POY signal, locking
the mode cleaner to the Y arm at ~30kHz bandwidth
was quite straightforward. The offset jumps |
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12204
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Mon Jun 20 18:07:15 2016 |
gautam | Update | COC | Contrast as a function of RoC of ETMX |
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12203
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Mon Jun 20 16:33:09 2016 |
Varun | Update | Electronics | Anti-Aliasing Filter circuit schematic | Summary: The aim is to
design an analog anti-aliasing (AA) filter
placed before the ADC, whose function is |
8x |
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12202
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Mon Jun 20 14:03:04 2016 |
jamie | Configuration | CDS | EndRun GPS receiver upgraded, fixed | I
just upgraded the EndRun Technologies Tempus
LX GPS receiver timing unit, and it seems |
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12201
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Mon Jun 20 11:19:41 2016 |
jamie | Configuration | CDS | GPS receiver not resetting properly |
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12200
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Mon Jun 20 11:11:20 2016 |
Steve | Configuration | CDS | GPS receiver not resetting properly | I called https://www.endruntechnologies.com/pdf/USM3014-0000-000.pdf
and they said it's very likely just needs
a software update. They will email Jamie |
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12199
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Mon Jun 20 09:36:10 2016 |
Steve | Update | SUS | EQ 3.1 m Big Bear Lake, CA | No suspention lost damping.
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12198
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Mon Jun 20 08:26:56 2016 |
Steve | Update | PSL | AOM pictures | Good job Johannes and Subham.
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12197
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Mon Jun 20 01:38:04 2016 |
rana | Update | COC | Contrast as a function of RoC of ETMX | So, it seems that changing the ETMX for
one of the spares will change the contrast
defect from ~0.1% to 0.9%. True? Seems like |
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12196
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Fri Jun 17 22:36:11 2016 |
Johannes | Update | PSL | AOM installation | Subham and I have placed the AOM back into
the setup right in front of the PMC.
Steps undertaken: |
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12195
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Fri Jun 17 15:22:31 2016 |
gautam | Update | VAC | N2 supply line restored after retiling |
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12194
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Thu Jun 16 23:02:57 2016 |
gautam | Update | COC | Contrast as a function of RoC of ETMX |
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12193
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Thu Jun 16 18:42:12 2016 |
rana | Update | COC | Contrast as a function of RoC of ETMX | That sounds weird. If the ETMY RoC |
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12192
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Thu Jun 16 18:08:57 2016 |
Johannes | Update | PSL | Before the AOM installation | There was only one razor blade beam dump
labeled for atmospheric use left, but that's
all we need. Steve is working on restocking. |
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12191
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Thu Jun 16 16:11:11 2016 |
jamie | Update | CDS | upgrade aborted for now | After poking at the new configuration more,
it also started to show instability.
I couldn't figure out how to make test |
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12190
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Thu Jun 16 15:57:46 2016 |
gautam | Update | COC | Contrast as a function of RoC of ETMX | Summary
In a previous elog, I demonstrated
that the RoC mismatch between ETMX and |
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12189
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Thu Jun 16 12:06:59 2016 |
ericq | Update | LSC | RF Amp installed at POY11 RF output | I have installed a ZFL-500LN on the RF
output of POY11. This should reduce the effect
of the CM board voltage offsets by increasing |
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