Optics from the car were placed into glass door cabinet E0

 I'm planning to remove the ETMY optical table enclosure and move it over to CES Shop 8am Thursday morning.

We'll install spring loaded lathes, hooks and quick release pins.

The bridge will be reinforced with steel plate to support release pins on posts.

There will be an other cut out for cable feedtrough as it is shown on elog #8472

Let me know if this timing does not fit your work.

 I positioned the fiber loaded protecting tubing and anchored them so they can do their job.

However, the area needs a good clean up.

I tested On-Track (from LLO) OT 301  amp with PSM2-10 qpd. It was responding. Jenne will calibrate it.  The 12V DC ps input is unipolar.

The one AC to DC adapter that Jenne tried was broken.

All ETMY optical table electronics- lasers-pds turned off, disconnected in order to remove enclosure.

 It  will arrive around 10 am Monday morning.

 The bridge support posts were shimmed today. Surgical tubing 402R - o - rings were glued togeather with " instant krazy glue "

Atm2  Carey CH-3540 latches are compressed ~2.5 mm in the clamped position.

Atm3 is showing the captured quick release pin in the steel reinforced bridge that is supported by the post. It works great. The post screw is sealed by o-ring. The quick-pin is sealed by an epoxy attached copper cap.

Atm4 Enclosure is on it's back. Bottom o-ring can be seen. The hole reinforced bridge structure is visible.

Now I'm working on the window connection to the chamber. I'm very close leak checking this box.

In case of leaking around the top tubing seals we have two options:

a, cut down on the cover rim by 0.040"  or b, increase tubing diameter

 Temporary oplev in place. The spot on the qpd is still big. My two lens solution did not work.

I will finalize optical component position of the oplev after the the arm transmitted and green beam optics in place. They have priority.

 Oplev spot size on qpd ~ 1 mm 

PS: I realized it later that the returning beam is going through a lens for TRY. This is a nono.

      This beam path will be relayed again as the TRY, green beam and IP-ang get there place.

 Vacuum normal condition at pumdown day 100

The PI pzt holders are back from the shop. They are numbered 1, 2 & 3 and machined to match.

Tapered black delrin opener is to gauge the gap if it is too small to fit pzt. This is to prevent holder to be opened too much.

Our early bird surf student Gautem has received 40m specific basic safety training today.

Thank you Ben Abbott forwarding this information:

 QPD Amplifier D990272 https://dcc.ligo.org/cgi-bin/private/DocDB/ShowDocument?.submit=Number&docid=D990272&version= at the X-end.  It plugs into a Generic QPD Interface, D990692, https://dcc.ligo.org/cgi-bin/private/DocDB/ShowDocument?.submit=Number&docid=D990692&version= according to my drawings, that should be in 1x4-2-2A.

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 Thin wall connector from McMCarr#55275K25 was tested in 150 mW, 1 mm beam size of 1064 nm  overnight. It did not show any degradation.

  Red-green laser pointers added to the depleted stock of 2011

The two pointers output measured 4.4 mW green and 2 mW red

Office work benches were cleaned up yesterday. Anti-image filter boards were moved to north wall of the control room. Koji's pd- electronics box  placed next to water dispenser.

The removed ETMY optical table: TMC 4' x 2' x  4" with Aluminum enclosure was placed on table in the east arm.

The 3 Panasonic Ceramic Kits Books, 1206 NPO, SMT are well stocked. The 4 th one needs to be refilled at some values.

I labeled them on the cover for fast access. See Atm1

The Metalized Polyester Film Book with through holes mount are in good shape also. Atm2

The AVX Ceramic 1206,  Garrett cab, range: 1pF - 22 microF 50V...... 67 values

Note here: that the value of dielectric, capacitance / voltage will vary

NPO: 1 pF - 1 nF /  50V .......37 values

X7R : 1 nF -  0.082 microF /  50V,  0.1 microF /  100V.......27 values

Y5V:  4.7 microF / 6.3 V,  10 microF / 10V,  22 microF / 6.3V.........3 values 

 Alex Cole and Craig Cahillane received 40m specific,  basic safety training last week.

 We had the same problem yesterday. However the Vacuum Dedicated laptop worked with fewer disconnects. Christian is coming over this after noon to look at this issue.

This happened a few weeks ago and it recovered misteriously. Jamie did not understand it.

 Particle counts were measured inside the PSL enclosure at 40VAC variac setting.

Directly under HEPAs, on the east half of the optical table : 0.3 micron    20  particles / cu ft,       0.5 micron     0  p / cu ft,      0.7 micron        0 p / cu /ft

Away from the HEPAs, on the west edge of the op table:     0.3 micron   960  particles / cu ft,      0.5 micron    50 p / cu ft,       0.7 micron      20 p / cu ft

We may want to increase the RPM a little bit.

Checked our counters against recently calibrated Met One GT-526:

#1 is right on, #2 measured 25% less (it will go for calibration)

Flow bench at the south end :   zero particle for all 3 sizes

IOO chamber particle logging  measures  0.5 and 1 micron.  Chamber opening limit is set to 10,000 particles max of 0.5 micron

At 10,000 p of 0.5 micron means ~100,000 - 180,000 p of 0.3 micron

We may have to lower the limit.

 Mike and Christian brought over a Mac laptop for surf Alex. 

They power cycled the wireless router of 40Marsh and labtops are working.  Seeing 75-80% signals on all 3 Dell lab top sisters at both end of the lab

I found the south end emergency doors not latched completely. There was a ~ 3/8" vertical gap from top to bottom.

Please pull or push  doors harder if they not catch fully.

Alex, Gautam and Steve,

Single mode fiber 50m long is layed out into cable tray that is attached to the beam tube of the Y arm.

It goes from ETMY to PSL enclosure. It is protected at both ends with " clear- pvc, slit corrugated loom tubing " 1.5" ID

The fiber is not protected between 1Y1 and 1Y4

 Installed 0.5" ID 10 ft long protective tubing at the PSL end of the  ETMY fiber this morning. Here I had to cable tie a bunch of cables at the east side of the PSL enclosure.

They were hanging off the table blocking space were the sliding doors move.

 At the ETMX end of the X-arm fiber received the same protective tubing.

ETMY optical table top was grounded to the ETMY chamber through 1 Mohms this morning. I  also strain releifed relieved a few cables that were pulling on components directly.

There are 4 oscilloscopes left on the AP optical table top.... It's only 25 lbs... Do not leave anything on the optical table tops!

Alex and Steve,

Old halogen chamber illuminator cabling disconnected and potenciometer board removed at 1Y1 in order to give room for pd calibration fibre set up.

 Pumpdown 75, vacuum normal condition at day 144

Keven and Steve,

The 3 cranes tested and  wiped off as preparation for upcoming vent.

Thanks for the good preparation.  IFO pressure P1=20 Torr

 The 40m IFO has reached  atmospher in 5 hours. It is ready to open chamber condition. The RGA is pumped with the maglev.

P1 pirani gauge is contact dependent as you see it on the linear plot It will be replaced during this vent.

The venting speed was 2-4 Torr / min

Atm2 shows how the BS is sensing the venting air cylinder changes. 

The 4th cylinder of instrument  grade air  bump is overlapping with our janitor working at the BS chamber.

 Jenne, Annalisa & Steve

 Manasa, Eric, Evan, Koji and Steve,

Access connector removed in order to complete alignment. Light aluminum with acetate windows AC installed.

Sujan got 40m specific basic safety training this morning.

We have been using Air Liquide Instrument Grade Air for venting the 40m vacuum envelope. It is no longer available.

The replacement is Alphagas 1, total hydrocarbon <0.1% ppm

LINK TO Alphagaz

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 We closed the chambers last night with heavy doors and reopened it today.

 RGA background at day 12 of this vent . The maglev is pumping on the rga through VM2

 The pumpdown has started at 8:38am

Manasa was here to confirm good alignment of the IFO

Inner jam nuts of AC bellow were torqued to 45 ft/lbs and   door nuts were check on opened chambers.

Annulos were roughed down to 500 mTorr

Oplev servos turned off, PSL and green shutters closed before pumpdown started

 IFO  P1=1mT PSL shutter is opened

 Cold cathode gauge CC1 -h (horizontal) just coming on 9.2e-5 Torr

P2 is the fore line pressure of the maglev. One can see the 4 Torr load during switching over to turbo pumping.

CC4  5e-9 Torr is the performance of the maglev pumping on the RGA only.

The annuloses are not pumped  now.  They are closed off to see how much outgassing plus leak they have.

Configuration: vacuum normal, annuloses not  pumped

Condition: normal

Precondition: 14 days at atm, IOO chamber north door was taken off as a new entrance, the ETMX chamber was not opened.

What is new in the vacuum system: new P1 pirani gauge, gold plated clean allen wrench and ..........what else was dropped?

Note: the wireless laptop did not fail once all day yesterday. I want to give credit to the person who is responsible for this.

 TP2's fore line - dry pump replaced at performance level 600 mTorr after 10,377 hrs of continuous operation.

Where are the foreline pressure gauges? These values are not on the vac.medm screen.

The new tip seal dry pump lowered the small turbo foreline pressure 10x

TP2fl after 2 day of pumping 65mTorr

 1, Vacuum envelope grounds must be connected all times!  After door removal reconnect both cables immediately.

 2, The crane folding had a new issue of getting cut as picture shows.

 3, Too much oplev light is scattered. This picture was taken just before we put on the heavy door.

 4, We were unprepared to hold the smaller side chamber door 29" od of the IOC

 5, Silicon bronze 1/2-13 nuts for chamber doors will be replaced. They are not smooth turning.

 Sorrensen ps ouput of +15V at rack 1X9 was current limited to 10.3V @ 2A

Increased threshold to 2.1A  and the voltage is up to 14.7V

Our fluorecent lights became obsolete.  We'll have change fixtures over to some more energy efficient one. Do you have any recommendation regarding to less noise performer unit?

We may go this direction of LED fluorecent lamps ?

Eric and Steve,

 We removed Wilcoxon Accelerometer PS and Amplifier unit under the BS optical tabel yesterday. The six cabels going to DAQ  were labeled and left in place. Gain setting were 100, except channel 3 was 10.

The ~ 40 m long 2 sets of 3 cables were very happy to get their kinks out. Especially the set going just south of ITMX optical  table.

We have to take better care of these cables! Your data will be useless this way.