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Tue evening from 4pm~6pm, Koji made a social distant tour for Anchal. We were present around the PSL/AS/ETMX tables.

Is it better than Luxor? https://labcit.ligo.caltech.edu/~jharms/luxor.html

The two ITM spares and two ETM spares are together stored in the optic storage (B110) at Downs. c/o Liyuan and GariLynn

The AC cord from the PSL HEPA variac to the junction box was replaced.
Now the HEPA is running at 70%

Showed up at the 40m at 7pm

Preparation

• Closed the PSL shutter.
• Closed the innolight shutter
• Turned off the HEPA mains switch
• Checked the HEPA fan rating: 115V 4.5A.
• Brought the thickest power cord from the wall stock: the rating is 125V 15A. This should sufficiently hold two HEPAs.

Cable Replacing

• Rechecked the wire connection. The new cord has green/black/white wires. And the colors agree with the color of the wires in the junction box.
• Removed the existing cord.
• Attached the new cord.
• Checked the variac AC plug. The terminals in the plug look normal and the AC plug looked sufficiently rigid.
• Checked the connection again. = OK

Testing

• Turned on the HEPA mains switch
• VairAC turned to 70%
• Checked the air flow - The HEPA fans are sucking the air = OK

Closing the work

• Closed the junction box.
• Cleaned up the roof
• Opend the innolight shutter
• Opened the PSL shutter
• Locked the PMC
• Locked the IMC  - found the transmission was ~80% of the pre-work due to misalignment of the PMC
• Aligned the PMC - this recovered the IMC REFL of ~5.2 when the IMC was unlocked

Leaving the 40m at 9:30pm

Memo: 40m wiring/Mask/Camera/Red Pitaya/Particle Counter

I'll bring a file binder "40m wiring diagram" to home at the next chance.
There is another one on the shelf in the control room.

(I thought I put it in my bag, but it looks like that I left it somewhere around the fax area)

Alaska M7.5 20:54UTC https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000c9hg/executive

I looked at the suspensions. The watchdogs have not been tripped.

IMC was locked but continually shaken. (and occasional unlock)

I set up an action cam (DJI OSMO Pocket) and brought it back to the 40m. The kit is now placed in the control room cabinet together with the Canon DSLR.

I might have left the USBC chaging cable at home this time. Will bring it back next time.-> The cable was returned to the kit on Oct 23rd.

[Koji, Rana]

We wanted to track down the excess noise seen in MC_F and other places (see the previous report by Gautam)

Setup1: The IMC was locked and MC_F signal between 500 and 1500Hz was observed. The DTT template was saved as /users/Templates/MC/MCF_noise_201023.xml

- Suspected mech resonance/jitter coupled with clipping or any other imperfections. Poked the various optics and optomechanics on the table. Basically no change. If we tap the laser chassis and the optics close to the laser source, we occasionally unlocked the IMC

- When we touched (lifted) the Innolight controller box from the shelf, for the first time we saw a significant change in the shape of the noise spectrum. The peak around the 700Hz shited towards lower frequency by a few %. Other peaks have no obvious change in the shapes and the heights.

- While observing the MC_F signal on the laptop, we went to the back of the laser controller. Placing a hand close to the fan clearly changes the peak frequency lower. By temporarily disconnecting the fan from the power supply for a short moment, the 700Hz peak could be eliminated. We also tried to see the noise level with the slow thermal servo and diagnosis DB cable disconnected, but we didn't see any significant change of the noise level.

Setup 2: Using the ALS phase tracker, we can observe the relative freq noise of the PSL laser and the ETMY AUX laser without any servo involved. This way we can freely disconnect any cables from the lasers. The measurement template for DTT was saved as /users/Templates/ALS/Y_ALS_FINE_PHASE_OUT_102320.xml

- Noise spectrum before disconnecting the cable (REF0, RMS REF1)

- The Fast PZT input to the PSL was disconnected => This made all the peaks (including the 700Hz) disappeared (REF2, RMS REF3)

- The Fast PZT input was restored as before, then the chain was disconnected at the input of the HV PZT driver (Thorlabs) => Again, this made the peaks disappeared (REF4, RMS REF5)

- The chain was disconnected at the input of the TTFSS box => Again, this made the peaks disappeared (REF6, RMS REF7)

- Disconnected the demod input and the AO cables from the IMC servo board => This made the peaks came back (REF8)

- Disconnected all the input/peripheral cables from the IMC servo board except for the connection to the TTFSS box => Still the excess noise was observed  (REF9)

- In addition to the above, the cable to the FSS box was disconnected but the ground was still touching the MC servo board => This made the peaks disappeared (REF10)

The conclusion is that the noise is injected from the main circuit of the IMC servo board.

Next time we will check if the backplane connection is doing something wrong. Also, we'll test if the presence of the RF signals does something bad to the IMC board via EMI and RFI.

We have reverted the connection and tested if we lock the IMC and Y arm. ==> We saw at least they were locked for a short period. The things are still stabilizing, but left them turned on so they keep trying to lock automatically for the night.

The particle counter on the 40m PSL was removed. The package was made together with the OMC lab particle counter (see the packing list below).

The kit was picked up by Radhika for a python code to read out the numbers.

=== Packing List ===

• MET ONE 227A particle counter
  • used at the 40m. It has the particle reading and the temperature reading.
• Power supply adapter (AC/DC) for 227A
  • Caution: It is not compatible with GT-321.
• MET ONE GT-321
  • I found another type of particle counter in West Bridge.
• Power supply adapter (AC/DC) for GT-321. (Labeled "for GT-321")
  • Caution: It is not compatible with 227A.
• DB9 cable for GT-321
• Air Filter G3111
  • When you run a particle counter attach this filter instead of the dust collecting cup to keep the air in take of the particle counter clean. This should keep the particle level down to zero.
     

In fact, the problem was the grounding issue (presumably on the IOO racks).
A temporary differential receiver at the TTFSS side was built using an SR560 and a few ponoma cables. This removed the structures ~850Hz.

The MC Servo Output was disconnected from the TTFSS box and monitored with SR785. The 850Hz structure was kept visible no matter what cables, including all the acromag DB cables, were removed. This made me suspicious about the measurement setup. The SR785 was connected to an AC power strip under the SP table and this was too far from the IOO rack.

The SR785 was connected to the AC power strip on 1X2, and now the difference becomes clear. No matter if the acromag cables are connected or not, the connection (particularly ground connection) between the MC servo module and the TTFSS box causes the MC servo output contaminated. (Comparison between Blue and Orange of Attachment #1). During the measurement, the EPICS switch for the fast path was disengaged (=no signal) and the VCO gain (...so called. It's just the MC Servo Gain) was set to be 0dB.

To test if the differential receiving of the MC Servo Output at the PSL helps to reduce this noise, I've built a simple (hacky) differential receiver using an SR560. (Attachment #2)
This kept the noise level same as the disconnected case (Comparison between Green and Orange of Attachment #1, I don't think the difference between them is not significant), while the IMC is locked as before.
Note that we can see that the 36kHz line was significantly reduced. Did we remove this annoying noise?

After talking with Gautam, we decided to leave this configuration while the SE-Diff cable was replaced with a more robust one. (See Attachment #3)

The PSL laser frequency performance was evakluated in the following two ways as we did last week:
1) Use the beat frequency of the free running PSL and the Y-end laser (Attachment #4). The PSL shutter was closed and thus the IMC was not locked.
2) Use the IMC MCF while the IMC was locked. (Attachment #5)

For both cases, the improvement was confirmed.

I also tried to check the reported issue by Gautam on this elog. He used 1Hz BW, but I cheated with 16Hz BW and 10x12.8kHz span PSDs. (Attachment #6)

For the measurement, IN1 GAIN of the IMC Servo was set to be 0dB and the OUT2 was switched to monitor the IN1 noise, while IN1 was terminated by a 50Ohm.

As I mentioned above, the AC power of SR785 was taken from a 1X2 power strip. Is this the reason for the power line forest look less severe compared to the previous case???
Anyway, I tried to use the same differential receiving technique (but with gain of x100) to see if this helps. The differential receiver helped to reduce the structure above 50kHz. The floor noise level was observed to be higher. I didn't pursue this any further, but the forest of the power line looked like a part of the measurement noise. This is indicative that the grounding condition on 1X2 is really not great and we need to review the configuration of the acromag grounding.

I'm starting the model restarts from remote. Then later I'll show up in the lab to do more hard resets.
==> It seems that the RFM errors are gone. Here are the steps.

1. Shutdown all the watchdogs
2. login to c1iscex. Shutdown all the realtime models: rtcds kill --all
3. login to c1iscey. Shutdown all the realtime models: rtcds kill --all
4. run scripts/cds/rebootC1LSC.sh on pianosa
5. reboot c1iscex
6. reboot c1isxey
7. Wait until all the machines/models are up by the script
8. restart c1iscex models
9. restart c1iscey models
10. some IPC errors are still visible on the CDS status screen. Lauch c1daf and c1oaf

1. Two arms / BS / PRM / SRM were aligned. (Attachment 1)
2. IMC was aligned by WFS and the WFS offsets were offloaded.
3. Suspension Status Snapshot (Attachment 2)
4. Oplevs are aligned (Attachment 3)
5. Xarm green was aligned in the daytime. Xarm green refl DC (C1:ALS-X_REFL_DC_OUTPUT) was 620 (aligned) ~1300 (drifted). When unlocked, it was 3750.
6. Yarm green: I saw no flash. We don't have functional PZT alignment since the ASY M2 PZT got broken. I went to the Yend. Something funky is going on with the Yend green. I struggled to have any flash of the cavity. The apertures were not so precise. I finally got TEM00 locked, but the modematching seems exteremely low (like 1/1000?). Basically I saw no power reduction of the refl when the cavity is locked. So at least the cavity was locked but we might need to revisit when we open the chamber
   ==> Gautam thinks it was not like that. So he will check the green alignment tomorrow (Thu).
7. Item checking: I familialized myself with the yend crane operation. Today I learned that there is a power switch on the wall (Attachment 4). The yend has two heavy door storages (Attachments 4/5). The slings to lift the heavy door are in the crane cabinet along with the y arm (Attachment 6). I didn't yet try to find the "hammer" to hit the door if the o-ring stuck too strong, although that's optional.
8. We want to reduce the PSL power. But Gautam wants to use the arm locking with the nominal power, it will be done tomorrow by him.
    
9. The last thing is to check the green trans power. I noticed that the green trans beams are blocked by an HWP for the BHD LO path on the PSL table. (Attachment 7)
   The HWP was moved and the process was recorded in the movie (Attachment 8). The fiber output was monitored by the BHD DC (aka AS110 DC) with the AS path blocked. The fiber output of 22.6mV (offset -2.5mV) was improved tio 29.1mV after the HWP move and the alignment adjustment.
10. Now the green transmissions are visible by the green PDs. Attachment 9 shows the trans and ref of each green beams with and without locking to TEM00. The questionable green TRY was ~0.3. If we compare this with the histrical data (Attachment 10), it is about 1/4 of the value in the past. It's not too crazy but still quite low.

At this point, I'm leaving the lab. All the suspensions (incl SRM) are aligned. PSL/GRX/GRY shutters were left open.

I believe the mirror next to IM1 is for the green beams to be delivered to the PSL table. I think we still want to keep it. Otherwise, the plan looks fine.

> I didn't bother to align the green beams to the arm cavities or re-center the Oplevs - is this necessary? It is a step in the pre-close up checklist, so maybe we should do it... The green transmission does reach the PSL table...

I don't think so. The beam is reaching the PSL, so we have no motivation to change the green alignment. Regarding the oplev, the green refl should come back to the PDH PD and this gives us additional beam reference. As soon as we find the green resonance after the pumping, we can tweak the green axis so that the spots on the mirrors become reasonable (as well as the green trans CCD on the PSL table).

Main volume pressure as of 11:30AM 2020/11/10

Yes. The datasheet has a recommendation circuit with 10uF caps. Companies are careful to show reproducible, reliably functional circuit examples on datasheets. So, if the caps are there you should try to replicate the design.

Basically, they repeated our specs and showed the coating performances for HR/AR for 10deg P and PR/AR for 45deg P. There is no RoC measurement by the vendor.
Nevertheless, their RoC (paper) specs should be compared with our request.

Last week and this week I've been working on the characterization of the Q3000 QPDs. The QPDs were named 81, 82, 83, and 94.

• Dark current [OMC LAB ELOG 402]: All the segments looked similar and acceptable except for the seg1 of #82. It has a smaller reverse breakdown voltage (~6V) but even this is an acceptable level.
• Impedance [OMC LAB ELOG 403]: All the segments showed a ~300pF junction capacitance with no reverse bias. This looks quite normal.
• Dark noise [OMC LAB ELOG 404]: All the segments showed ~5pA/rtHz dark noise above 1Hz.

My recommendation is to use #81 and #84 as they have similar dark current characteristics between the segments. But basically, all the QPDs look fine.

The actual junction capacitance and the RF dark noise should be characterized by the actual WFS head circuit.

The QPD packages were labeled and returned to Gautam to be implemented in the WFS heads.

gautam: S/N #84 was installed as the AS WFS QPD. The remaining 3 are stored in the clean cabinet at EX (where the rest of the RF photodiodes are).

I got a bit confused by your description.

The demod board claims that the nominal power at each LO port is 10dBm. So we want to give at least 16dBm to the (external?) 4way power splitter, but we only have 15dBm. As you said, the actual LO power reaching the FET mixier (PE4140) is the level of ~20dBm. But you said the requirement for the mixer is -7dBm. So are you proposing to reduce the LO level (slightly) than the LIGO recommendation because the minimum for PE4140 is -7dBm?
If that's the message, then I can say "yes". We supply 8~9dBm to the LO ports instead of 10dBm. I suppose the mixers don't care about this level of reduction.

Looking at my original post [40m ELOG 11817], the necessary modification is much larger than you have indicated in your post (as yours is the modification of my modification plan.)
If you do your modification you have to deal with the components rearrangement in the chassis. I think you can still accomplish it as you are going to remove an amplifier and gain the space from it.

The main RF line still has 5dBm Attn. How about to insert another 3dB power splitter there and create a spare 55MHz port for the future use?

Before doing any modification you should check how much the distributed powers are at the ports.
Also your modification will change the relative phase between 11MHz and 55MHz.
Can you characterize how much phase difference you have between them, maybe using the modulation of the main marconi? And you might want to adjust it to keep the previous value (or any new value) after the modification by adding a cable inside?

Let's use RG405 for better shielding. It is not too stiff. The bending  (just once) does not break the cable.

Are you going to full replacement of the 55MHz system? Or just remove the 7dBm and then implement the proposed modification for the 55MHz line?

1. That's true. But we are already in that regime with the Var attn at 0dB, aren't we? We can reduce the input to the amp by 1-2dBm sacrificing the EOM out by that amount (we can compensate this for the demo out by removing the 1dB attn).

2. Not 100% sure but one possible explanation is that we wanted to keep the Marconi output large (or as large as possible) to keep the SNR between the signal and the noise of the driver in Marconi. The attenuator is less noisy compared to the driver noise.

3. My guess is that theoretically we were supposed to have 13dBm input and 20dBm output in design. However, the actual input was as such.  We can restore it to the 13dBm input.

I checked the backplane connection for IMC WFS2  and found that the cables for IMC WFS2 and the IMC demod were swapped during my IMC noise hunting activities. I reverted it just now.

But we need to check if this damaged anything such as the WFS2 head, the WFS2 demod, etc, once the IMC locking is back.

I have the setup built for the AA/AI board testing around the PD testing area. Please let me leave it like that for a week or so.

12/4 TF Tested 5 PCBs
12/6 TF Tested 19 PCBs (12min/PCB) - found 1 failure (S2001479 CH1) -> Fixed 12/11
12/8 TF Tested 16 PCBs (12min/PCB)
       PSD Tested 4 PCBs (11min/PCB)
12/11 TF Tested 10 PCBs + 1 fixed channel (All channels checked)
       PSD Tested 10 PCBs (11min/PCB)
12/14 PSD Tested 4 PCBs (6.5min/PCB) fixed noise issue of 2 ch, TF issue of 1 ch
12/15 PSD Tested 32 PCBs (6.5min/PCB) fixed noise issue of 1ch
Temp dependence measurement
Crosstalk measurement
 

Our favorite (flexible) RF cable is Belden's 1671J (Jacketed solder-soaked coax cable). It is compatible RG405. I'm not sure if there is off-the-shelf SMA cables with 1671J.

I wanted to check the functionality of the IMC WFS. I just turned on the WFS servo loops as they were. For the past two hours, they didn't run away. The servo has been left turned on. I don't think there is no reason to keep it turned off.

How about resurrecting the PSL table green beat for the X arm to see if the non-fiber setup shows the same level of the freq noise (e.g. the PDH locking became super noisy due to misalignment etc).

If the sensing noise level of the end PDH degraded for some reason, it'd make the out of loop stability worse without making the end pdh error level degraded.
It's just speculation.

You can remove the components of the optical table enclosure (black ones) and use the optical table as your working area too.

I worked around the racks and the feedthru flanges this afternoon and evening. This inevitably crashed c1lsc real-time process.
Rebooting c1lsc caused multiple crashes (as usual) and I had to hard reboot c1lsc/c1sus/c1ioo
This made the "DC" indicator of the IOPs for these hosts **RED**.

This looked like the usual timing issue. It looked like "ntpdate" is not available in the new system. (When was it updated?)

The hardware clock (RTC) of these hosts are set to be PST while the functional end host showed UTC. So I copied the time of the UTC time from the end to the vertex machines.
For the time adjustment, the standard "date" command was used

> sudo date -s "2021-02-03 07:11:30"

This made the trick. Once IOP was restarted, the "DC" indicators returned to **Green**, restarting the other processes were straight forward and now the CDS indicators are all green.

controls@c1iscex:~ 0$ timedatectl
      Local time: Wed 2021-02-03 07:35:12 UTC
  Universal time: Wed 2021-02-03 07:35:12 UTC
        RTC time: Wed 2021-02-03 07:35:26
       Time zone: Etc/UTC (UTC, +0000)
     NTP enabled: yes
NTP synchronized: no
 RTC in local TZ: no
      DST active: n/a

NTP synchronization is not active. Is this OK?

With the recovered CDS, the IMC was immediately locked and the autolocker started to function after a few pokes (like manually running of the "mcup" script). However, I didn't see any light on the AS/REF cameras as well as the test mass faces. I'm sure the IMC alignment is OK. This means the TTs are not well aligned.

So, burtrestored c1assepics with 12:19 snapshot. This immediately brought the spots on the REFL/AS.

Then the arm were aligned, locked, and ASSed. I tried to lock the FP arms. The transmissions were at the level of 0.1~0.3. So some manual alignment of ITMY and BS were necessary. After having the TRs of ~0.8, I still could not lock the arms. The signs of the servo gains were flipped to -0.143 for X arm and -0.012 for Y arm, and the arms were locked. ASS worked well and the ASS offsets were offloaded to the SUSs.

Really!? I didn't reboot the machines between "sudo date" and "rtcds start c1x0*". I tried rtcds. If it didn't work, it used date. Then tried rtcds. (repeat) The time was not synched at all wrt the time zones and also the time. There were 1~3 sec offset besides the TZ problem.

Testing the satellite amp i.e.  PD driver
- To test the noise of the PD transimpedance amps: Leave the PD input open (do not short the terminal goes to the PD)
- To test the current noise of the LED drivers: Short the output with an appropriate Rs to have the nominal current.
- To test the overall noise level together with the LED/PD pair: Connect the dummy OSEM module.

Testing the coil drivers
- Short the output with an appropriate Rs.

The curie temp of SmCo seems about x2 (in K) of the one for NdFeB. i.e. 600K vs 1000K. So I believe 177degC = 450K is not an issue. Just make sure the curie temp, referring the specific property for the magnets from this company. (You already know the company from the procurement doc). It'd be great if you upload the doc on the 40m wiki.

Note from today's meeting:

1. Can we adjust the thickness of the cylindrical hole for the mirror to move the COM in the plane of the wires. (We should be able to do that)

and

2. Please check how much we can displace the COM by the bottom dumbbell.

For your planning:

Yeah, it's really inconsistent. You had 35mA LED drive and the current noise of the noisy channel was 5e-7 A/rtHz at 1Hz. The RIN is 1.4e-5 /rtHz. The approx. received photocurrent is 30uA as we discussed today and this should make the noise around 4e-10 A/rtHz at 1Hz. However, the readout noise level is better than this level. (well below 1e-10 A/rtHz)

BTW, the IMC seemed continuously locked for 5 hours. Good sign.

Todd provided us a bunch of electronics. I went to Downs to pick them up this afternoon and checked the contents in the box. Basically, the boxes are pretty comprehensive to produce the following chassis

• 8 HAM-A coil driver chassis
• 7 16bit Anti-Aliasing chassis
• 4 18bit Anti-Imaging chassis
• 5 16bit Anti-Imaging chassis

Some panels are missing (we cannibalized them for the WFS electronics). Otherwise, it seems that we will be able to assemble these chassis listed.
They have placed inside the lab as seen in the attached photo.

HAM-A COIL DRIVER (Req Qty 28+8)

- 8 Chassis
- 8 Front Panels
- 8 Rear Panels
- 8 HAM-A Driver PCBs
- 8 D1000217 DC Power board
- 8 D1000217 DC Power board

16bit AA (Req Qty 7)
- 7 CHASSIS
- 6 7 Front Panels (1 missing -> [Ed 2/22/2021] Asked Chub to order -> Received on 3/5/2021)
- 7 Rear Panels
- 28 AA/AI board S2001472-486, 499-511
- 7 D070100 ADC AA I/F
- 7 D1000217 DC Power board

18bit AI (Req Qty 4)
- 4 CHASSIS
- 4 Front Panels
- 4 Rear Panels
- 8 AA/AI board S2001463-67, 90-92
- 4 D1000551 18bit DAC AI I/F
- 4 D1000217 DC Power board
- bunch of excess components

16bit AI (Req Qty 5)
- 5 CHASSIS
- 4 5 Front Panels (D1101522) (1 missing -> [Ed 2/22/2021] Asked Chub to order -> Received on 3/5/2021)
- 3 5 Rear Panels (D0902784) (2 missing -> [Ed 2/22/2021] Asked Chub to order -> Received on 3/5/2021)
- 10 AA/AI board S2001468-71, 93-98
- 5 D1000217 DC Power board
- 5 D070101 DAC AI I/F

Internal Wiring Kit

[Ed 2/22/2021]
Asked Chub to order:
- Qty 12 1U Hamilton Chassis
- Qty 5 x Front/Rear Panels/Internal PCBs for D1002593 BIO I/F (The parts and connectors to be ordered separately)
  -> Front/Rear Panels received (3/5/2021)
  -> PCBs (unpopulated) received (3/5/2021)
  -> Components ordered by KA (3/7/2021)

We want to move the CoM with the adjustment range so that the residual deviation is adjusted by the bottom dumbbell. 0.0003" is well within the range and good enough.

Jordan's screenshot actually shows that the vertical distance (Y) is 0.0000". We want to have the vertical distance of CoM from the wire clamping point to be 0.9mm in the nominal SOS design (this might need to be adjusted to have a similar pitch resonant freq for the different inertia of moment). Let's say it is ~mm ish.

The full range of the bottom dumbbell adjustment gives us the CoM adjustment range of +/-0.002” = +/-50um. This corresponds to an alignment range of +/-50mrad. And we want to set it within +/-500urad.
So we need to adjust the dumbbell position with the precision of 1/100 of the full range (precision of 0.5um).

The groove does not extend to the top of the clamp. The groove shallower than the wire diameter cause the hysteresis of the alignment. Also, the material of the pieces should be stainless steel. Al clamp is softer than the wire and will cause the groove to be dug on the material, causing increased bending friction and hysteresis again.

Saying, all of our suspended masses with Al stand-offs are suffering this issue to some extent. That was the reason to buy the ruby standoffs.

We received currently available sets. We are supposed to receive more coil drivers and sat amps, etc. But they are not ready yet.

I can't obtain a consistent view between the existing drawings/photographs and your pin assignment. Please review the pin assignment again to check if yours is correct.

Looking from the back side and the wires are going down, the left bottom pin is "Coil Start" and the upper right adjacent pin is "Coil End". (See attachment)
So in your picture 1 should be the coil start and 4 should be the coil end, but they are not according to your table.

This is my current understanding of the in-vacuum wiring:
1. Facts

• We have the in-air cable pinout. And Gautam recently made a prototype of D2100014 custom cable, and it worked as expected.
• The vacuum feedthrough is a wall with the male pins on the both sides. This mirrors pinout.
• On the in-vacuum cable stand (bracket), the cable has a female connector.

2. From the above facts, the in-vacuum cable is

• DSUB25 female-female cable
• There is no pinout mirroring

Accuglass has the DSUB25 F-F cable off-the-shelf. However, this cable mirrors the pinout (see the datasheet on the pdf in the following link)
https://www.accuglassproducts.com/connector-connector-extension-cable-25-way-female

3. The options are
- ask Accuglass to make a twisted version so that the pinout is not mirrored.
or
- combine Accuglass female-male cable (https://www.accuglassproducts.com/connector-connector-extension-cable-25-way-femalemale) and a gender changer (https://www.accuglassproducts.com/gender-adapter-25d)

4. The length will be routed from the feedthrough to the table via the stacks like a snake to be soft. So, it will require some extra length.

5. Also, the Accuglass cables don't have a flap and holes to fix the connector to a cable post (tower). If we use a conventional 40m-style DSUB25 post (D010194), it will be compatible with their cables. But this will not let us use a DSUB25 male connector to mate. In the future, the suspension will be upgraded and we will need an updated cable post that somehow holds the connectors without fastening the screws...

This is very disappointing. Even with KEPCO linear supply with the improved HV driver circuit, the noise level is significantly higher than the 20kOhm R thermal noise.

What is special with the HP supplies? Can you replace KEPCOs with the HP supply, one by one to specify which one is making the noise bad?

EQs seen on Summary pages
https://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:30889/detcharsummary/day/20210304/pem/seismic_blrms/

A new hybrid splitter (DQS-10-100) was installed. As the amplification of the final stage is sufficient for the input level of 3dBm, I have bypassed the input amplification (Attachment 1). One of the mixer was desoldered to check the power level. With a 1dB ATTN, the output of the last ERA-5 was +17.8dBm (Attachment 2). (The mixer was resoldered.)

With LO3dBm. RF0dBm, and delta_f = 30Hz, the output Vpp of 340mV and the phase difference is 88.93deg. (Attachment 3/4, the traces were averaged)

I made the inspection of the new custom DSub cables (came from Texas).

The shelled version gives us some chance to inspect/modify the internal connections. (good)
The wires are well insulated. The conductors are wrapped with the foils and then everything is in the braid tube shield. The braid is soldered on one of the connectors. (Attachment  3/4 shows the soldering of the conductor by intentionally removing one of the insulations).

It wasn't clear that if the conductors are twisted or not (probably not).

Received additional front/rear panels. Updated the original entry and Wiki [Link]

Missed to note: The IF test was done at TP7 and TP6 using pomona clips i.e. brefore the preamp.

The parts will be ordered by Koji The components for the additional BIO I/F have been ordered.

I believe the aLIGO style invac dsub cables and the conventional 40m ones are incompatible.
While the aLIGO spec is that Pin1 (in-vac) is connected to the shield, Pin13 (in-vac) is the one for the conventional cable. I still have to check if Pin13 is really connected to the shield, but we had trouble before for the IO TTs https://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:8081/40m/7864.
(At least one of the existing end cables did not show this Pin13-chamber connection. However, the cables OMC/IMC chambers indicated this feature. So the cables are already inhomogenious.)

- Which way do we want to go? Our electronics are updated with aLIGO spec (New Sat amp, OMC electronics, etc), so I think we should start making the shift to the aLIGO spec.

- Attachment Top: The new coil drivers can be used together with the old cables using a custom DB25 cable (in-air).

- Attachment Mid: The combination of the conventional OSEM wiring and the aLIGO in-vac cable cause the conflict. The pin1 which is connected to the shield is used for the PD bias.

- Attachment Bottom: This can be solved by shifting the OSEMs by one pin.

Notes:
o The aLIGO cables have 12 twisted pair wires, but paired signals do not share a twisted pair.
   --- No. This can't be solved by rotating the connectors.
o This modification should be done only for the new suspension.
   --- In principle, we can apply this change to any SOSs. However, this action involves the vent. We probably want to install the new electronics for the existing suspensions before the vent.
o ^- This means that we have to have two types of custom DB25 in-air cables.
   --- Each cable should handle "Shield wire" from the sat amp correctly.

Related Links:

Active TT Pin Issue
https://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:8081/40m/7863
and the thread

Hacky solution
https://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:8081/40m/7869

Photo
https://photos.google.com/u/1/album/AF1QipOEDi7iBdS4EHcpM7GBbv9l6FiJx-Tkt1I2eSFA
Active TT Pin Swapping (December 21, 2012)

TT Wiring Diagram (Wiki)
https://wiki-40m.ligo.caltech.edu/Suspensions/Tip_Tilts_IO