{Yehonathan, Tega}

We took the free-swinging spectra of the OpLev in the X and Y direction.

To make the motion of the optic quiet we turned off the airflow on the optical bench and moved the QPD close to the SOS so that the laser beam stays more or less within the QPD sensitive area.

In the process, we realized that the cleanroom HeNe went bad. It turned off after a few minutes after turning it on. The behavior repeated with another power supply. We replaced the HeNe and realigned it coarsely.

The data was taken using an oscilloscope while the optic was swinging freely. The PSD was calculated afterward (attachment 1).

Surprisingly, the pitch has a resonance frequency of ~ 2.5 Hz. And this is after we removed the back counterweight.

Additionally, we aligned the tilt of the optical table. Using a spirit bubble we adjusted the tilt by using a wrench on the table legs. As we suspected, the table was slightly tilted in the north-south direction.

2.5Hz is surprising. Can you move it down to sub 1Hz by adding a socket cap screw at the top instead of the set screw for the Teflon piece? How much mass do you need to add?

Big Gluing Day

Today I glued the magnet+dumbell assemblies on the optics adapters.

Unlike magnet gluing on a 3" optic where one can use a magnet gluing fixture, here I had to position the magnets manually. There is a complication though: the magnet is much heavier than the dumbell making it almost impossible gluing the dumbell side down onto the adapter since it is very unstable in this position. A workaround is to put the magnets on some paramagnetic sheet so that the magnets stick to it and then flip it over and glue it on the adapter dumbell sides down.

The problem here is that I need to position the magnets relatively accurately on the metal sheet. To make things slightly easier I printed some drawings of the positions of the magnet, laminated them, and cleaned them to have a decent starting point (attachment 1).

For each adapter:

1. I applied glue to the 4 circular grooves at the back of the adapter.

2. I picked 4 magnets (2 north, 2 south). Trying to match their strength.

3. Made a note of which magnets I picked for which adapter in the magnet+dumbell spreadsheet.

4. Clean the dumbells' surfaces when necessary.

5. Put the magnets on a laminated magnet-positions-drawing on a metal sheet that was precleaned in the right order.

6. Flip the metal sheet and position it on the adapter such that the dumbells go as precisely as possible into the circular grooves on the adapater.

7. Adjust the magnets' positions by pushing them slightly with a non-magnetic tip.

Attachment 2 shows the numbering on the adapters for future tracking.

I also glued some magnets and aluminum rods to side blocks. Next gluing session I will glue magnets to the aluminum rods. Probably some dumbells will not stick well to the adapters. These will have to be cleaned and reglued as well.

The gluing was mostly successful. Only two magnets didn't stick (see attachment).

{Tega, Yehonathan}

First attempt at the suspension of a Lambda Optic mirror

We found the box with the 2" Lambda Optic mirrors in the cleanroom. We choose to suspend a mirror with a ROC = 5m, probably LO1.

The mirror was put inside an adapter that was prepared beforehand, put the mirror in place by tightening the Teflon rod, and then clamp it using the clamping pads.

We decided to cut two wires and clamp them to the side blocks of the adapter, while it sits on the EQ stops. The wires were threaded through the winches' clamps, through the wire clamp on the suspension block, and through the side blocks' wire clamps. We adjusted the wire position while pulling on it. The wire was made to sit inside the wire grooves on the side blocks. While tightening the clamp on the side block with the magnet, the LN key fell knocking off two magnets from the back of the adapter.

Next time we think it might be a better idea to do all the adapter wire clamping on the table instead of on the SOS tower.

In the meanwhile, here are some pictures from today.

{Tega, Yehonathan}

Another attempt at the suspension of a Lambda Optic mirror

The lambda mirror was removed from the adapter whose magnets were knocked off. We tried to mount the mirror on a different adapter but we knocked off magnets from two adapters . We succeeded in mounting the mirror at the third attempt (Adapter number 6). In the meanwhile, Tega threaded wires through side blocks separated from the adapter. He positioned the wires inside the grooves of the side block under a microscope (attachment 1). This procedure is much more accurate and pain-free than doing it on the suspended mirror.

We took the adapter and put it on the EQ stops. The wires were threaded through the wire clamp on the suspension block and clamped at the winches.

The adapter was rotated until the side magnet was roughly at the center of the side OSEM port. We then, as before, put coils in OSEM ports and try to adjust the height of the side magnet and the magnet groove on the other side block such that they are roughly at the center of the coil. We used the winches for fine adjustment.

I used the Canon camera to make sure the side blocks are leveled (attachment 2). I used the macro lens for that purpose. I set up a live stream from the Canon camera using these instructions only that I use OBS instead of CamTwist. I painted a semi-transparent green rectangle to annotate the position of the side magnet socket (attachment 3). I did this several times to confirm the repeatability of the results. Again using the winches for fine adjustments.

Once the height of the side magnets was confirmed to be leveled. I clamped the wires to the suspension block and cut them above it.

I tried to balance the optic but again I see that the suspensions are hysteretic. I check to see whether the wire is touching anything and indeed it touches the corner of the side block (attachments 4, 5).

Yehonathan told me that the wires are touching between the clamps! I went back to the CAD and confirmed it is really happening. Sad.

The distance of the wires at the upper clamp is 17.018mm.
The distance of the lower clamps is 74.168mm
The vertical drop of the wire is 251mm
--> The wire angle from the vertical line is 0.114 rad

The lower wire block has a step of 1.016mm with the vertical extension of the piece by 11.684mm
--> The angle clearance of the lower clamp is 0.087 rad

So the clearance was not enough.

If we cut the top center of the wire block more than 2.77mm, we can make the wires free.
For safety, we can cut 0.25" = 6.35mm. This will give 0.4mm clearance between the block and the wire at the closest point.

I did this modification on the 3D model and modified the 2D drawing too, so that we can find the machine shop to do it quickly.

Late update. We got 2 modified side blocks from Jordan a few days ago. Yesterday, I glued a side magnet to one of the modified side blocks.

I took the opportunity to reglue some magnets that were knocked off from the adapters. I did this for 2 adapters only since w need 4 shallow adapters and we already had 2 complete ones.

Today, Jordan gave us the rest of the modified side blocks clean and baked. We are ready to suspend a mirror today.

{Yehonathan, Tega}

We glued some magnets onto modified side blocks. We followed pretty much the same procedure form last time. The music wires were clamped on the side blocks away from the optic adapter. The clamps were screwed down using the low profile screws the Jordan obtained from UC components to allow maximum clearance for the coils (Attachment 2).

The modified side blocks with wires already clamped in them were screwed onto the adapter. We put the adapter on the EQ stops and do rough adjustments, making sure the side magnet is roughly on the center of a coil we inserted to the side. The wires were threaded through the wire clamp on the suspension block and clamped on the winches. We realigned the Oplev beam such that it is parallel to the table using the quad photodiode.

We balanced the height of the adapter. This time we used a camera facing the adapter. The tilt of the camera was set by drawing a straight line (red line in attachment 1) such that the bottom clamps on the SOS are parallel to it.

Then, we adjusted the winches such that the screws on the side blocks are on the same green line on attachment 1.

Once the height was adjusted, we clamped the wire on the suspension block and cut it at the winches.

We balanced the optic. We had to take out the front counterweight to get the balance (attachment 3).

We checked whether the wire is touching anything. We confirmed that it doesn't. The wire goes nicely through the new hole on the side blocks (attachment 4, 5).

We measure the resonance frequency for both yaw (attachment 6) and pitch (attachment 7). They both seem to be sub-Hz. The pitch trace also shows that the oscillations are centered around 0 meaning the optic is balanced.

There's still the issue of what to do with the lower back EQ stop not touching the adapter.

I installed OSEMs on the LO1 SOS. To my surprise, the side magnet is not in the center of the side OSEM. It completely misses the LED as can be seen in the attachment.

Looking at the CAD model, it turns out the position of the OSEM on the left side plate is different from the position of the OSEM on the right side plate in the SOS tower.

We need to take the optic down, swap the right and left side blocks, and resuspend it.

There is not enough 🤦🏻‍♂️in the world

{Yehonathan, Tega}

We took the optic out of the SOS tower and removed the side blocks. We mounted new side blocks with wires already clamped in them in the reverse order.

The Adapter was placed back into the SOS and the wires were threaded through the wire clamp and suspended on the winches. The roll of the optic was balanced using a camera (attachment 1).

The pitch was balanced. this time I used 2 counterweights instead of 1 in order to not have to take so much of the weight out.

The mechanical resonances were measured by taking a 100 sec time series of QPD readout and doing PSD estimation (attachment 2). The mirror motion was damped as much as possible before taking the measurement.

3 peaks below 1.5Hz can be seen with frequencies of 755mHz (Yaw), 942mHz, 1040mHz (Pitch + Pos). The pitch/pos peaks are a bit close to each other, I bet if we go back to 1 counterweight the situation will be better.

While inserting the side OSEM I realized I didn't check the overall height of the adapter. The magnet was too high. I will fix it tomorrow and repeat the roll balancing.

{Yehonathan, Paco}

I fixed the overall height of the adapter (attachment 1). I put an OSEM next to the side magnet. I positioned a camera in front of the SOS and connected it to my laptop for live streaming. I painted a line indicating the height of the OSEM plates and a line in between with the mean height. I discarded the wire clamp on the suspension block I released the wires from the winches and pulled on them until the magnet was roughly in the right position. I clamped the wires back on the winches and adjusted them until the magnet was on the middle line. I also verified that the roll of the adapter is aligned as before by making sure that the horizontal features on the adapter are parallel to the horizontal features on the SOS tower.

The wires were clamped to the suspension block using a new wire clamp.

I Found that locking the counterweight setscrew changes the alignment. Today we verified this effect. We released the setscrew and pre-compensated by adjusting the counterweight such that when the setscrew was locked the mirror was aligned.

We measured mechanical resonances (attachment 2). This time the yaw motion was very quiet so we got a smaller peak for the yaw. The peaks are the same as before. Y readout has peaks around the pitch and pos resonances that don't appear in the X readout. I'm not sure what they are. Maybe coming from the QPD electronics.

We locked the adapter using the EQ stops. We made sure the alignment stays close to ideal.

We installed OSEMs on the SOS. We chose suboptimal OSEMs because LO1 will only be used for steering. I made a spreadsheet copying the OSEM catalog into it. There we mark which OSEM goes where.

I cleaned the optic using the ion gun with a pressure of 30 PSI.

The next steps are:

1. Engrave the SOS tower.

2. Cut the wire at the winches and remove the winch adapter plate.

3. Wrap the SOS with foil.

4. Install the SOS in the vacuum chamber.

{Paco, Yehonathan, Anchal}

I cut the wires from the winches and removed the winch adapter plate. I engrave  'LO1' on the SOS tower. Me and Paco wrapped the SOS with foil and transported it to Anchal who put it inside the ITMX chamber.

The transportation seems to be successful. Nothing broke. However, we found that even with the short side OSEM the LO1, as it is now, cannot sit in its designed position since ITMX's side OSEM stands in its way.

If there are magnets on both ITMX sides we can move its side OSEM to the other side. Another option is to resuspend LO1 with a side magnet on its left side.

Today I glued magnets onto the new 3/4" mirror adapters. I also took the opportunity to make some more side magnets assemblies.

Yesterday I mounted PR3/SR2 3/4" thick mirror onto one of the new adapter. There seem to be no issues for now.

I started the process of suspending AS1 (E2000226-A). The Lambda Optic mirror with the closest specs has Rc = 2 m. I attached side blocks with clamped wires onto adapter number 7 - side block with a magnet on the right.

I then took one of the Lambda Optic mirrors and tried mounting it in the adapter. It was quite difficult to get it right. Unfortunately, I chipped the edge of the substrate (attachment 1) 🤦🏻‍♂️. I put the mirror back in the box and decided to use the spare mirror. I successfully mounted it into the adapter but when I put the clamping screws one of them fell on the mirror 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️. There is no visible damage though. I took some pictures (attachment 2-4).

I and Anchal then started suspending the mirror but then we found that one of the wires is dented in the middle 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️. I'm burned out for today.

Late update: one nice thing that I found yesterday is that the glue is viscous enough to hold the dumbells without a metal sheet from above holding the magnets. This greatly simplifies the gluing process.

I threaded a new wire through a different side block with a magnet and clamped it under a microscope. It was hard, but eventually, I was able to do it by holding the wire on both sides of the side block with weights.

The dented wire was discarded and the side block that was mounted on the AS1 adapter was put aside. I mounted the side block with the new wire on the AS1 adapter.

Anchal and I hanged the AS1 adapter and clamped the wires on the winches of an SOS tower. I balanced the roll and adjusted the height of the magnet with respect to a side OSEM using a camera (attachments 1 & 2).

I shoot the Hene laser on the optic and look at the reflection. I align the laser beam to be as close as possible to the center of the mirror. The OpLev needs to be realigned.

To my surprise, the ghost beam shoots up above the reflected beam! See attachment 3. I check to see that the arrow which marks the thinnest side of the mirror is horizontal (attachment 4). WTF?!

Also, now I realize that the marking on the Lambda optics are pencil markings 😵😵😵.

We @40m do the convention of the arrow at the thinnest side & pointing the HR side, but nobody says Lambda does the same.

We can just remount the mirror without breaking the wires and adjust the pitching if you do it carefully.

Does this mean that the LO1 also likely to have the wedge pointing up? Or did you rotate the mirror to have the wedge reflection to be as horizontal as possible?

I specifically checked the specification before mounting the mirror. It says clearly "Arrow at the thinnest location pointing towards Side 1". I guess they just ignored it.

As for LO1, I mounted it without noticing the location of the arrow. Later, I checked and the ghost beam was horizontal so I left it as it is. Yeah, I guess I will remount the mirror. Also, what do we do with the pencil markings? It's not vacuum-compatible.

Sad... We just need to check the wedge direction everytime, unfortunately.

Pencil: can you try to gently wipe it off with solvent & a swab? (IPA / Acetone)
If it does not come off in the end, it's all right to leave. Do we want to scribe the arrow mark? You need a diamond pen.

LO1: No need to remove the pencil mark for the damping test. Until we see serious contamination on the LO1 optic, we don't need to take the optic off from the mount and clean it. If there is a chance of rehanging (because of a broken wire/etc), we do wipe the pencil mark.

Other optics: wipe the pencil mark as much as possible.

{Yehonathan, Anchal}

I released the AS1 wires from the winches, removed the adapter from the SOS tower, and removed the Lambda optic from the adapter. Attachment 1 shows the pencil markings on the optic before cleaning. I cleaned the pencil marking from the side of the optic with acetone using swabs until there were no pencil residues on the swab (attachment 2 shows the swab I used next to an unused swab). I was not able to remove the markings completely though (attachment 3).

I remounted the optic with the arrow rotated by 90 degrees counterclockwise.

We hang the adapter on the winches and adjust the height of the magnet and the adapter roll using the winches. We monitor the height of the adapter using a live stream from the Cannon camera. The camera's tilt was adjusted using straight features on the SOS tower. When we ran out of winch travel we adjust the height using the lower EQ stops and pull tight the wires. Attachment 4 shows the alignment of the side magnet with respect to the SOS tower and a side OSEM.

We checked the ghost beam trajectory and it looks much better (attachment 5)

We started realigning the OpLev. We realize that the height of the beam should be 5+14/32" = 5.437 by measuring the height of the screw holding the side OSEM from the table. The real height from the schematics is 5.425 We make the beam parallel with the table first using an iris and then the QPD.

Today, I balanced the counterweight. First using an iris, then by placing a QPD close to the SOS measuring the reflection from AS1. I locked the counterweight's set screw and the QPD Y readout looks good. Attachment 6 shows the QPD y readout near the beat node between pitch and pos. The node comes very close to zero which indicates that the pitch is balanced.

I measured the free-swinging motion using the QPD x and y axes. Attachment 7 shows the spectra of that motion. The major peaks are at 755mHz, 953mHz, and 1.05Hz.

I locked the EQ stops while retaining the XY alignment on the QPD and installed 5 green OSEMs. AS1 is ready for transfer into the vacuum chamber.

{Paco, Yehonathan, Anchal}

Today we suspended AS4 (E2000226-B). Anchal mounted Lambda Optic mirror with an RoC closest to AS4 in a thin optic mount. He noted that this optic as well as AS1 don't have a wedge angle. The specs claim that the wedge angle is 2 degrees what should have been clearly seen by inspecting the optic with a naked eye. All the ghost beam deflections probably come from the curvature of the mirror.

We did all the height and roll balancing using a camera (Attachment 1,2). We balanced that pitch of the adapter using a QPD not before we realigned the OpLev setup.

We measured the motion spectra (attachment 3). Major peaks are found at 755 mHz, 964 mHz, and 1.062Hz. I locked the counterweights setscrew and observed that the pitch balance doesn't change. I locked the EQ stops such that the alignment of the mirror remained the same by monitoring the QPD signals. I clamped the suspensions wires to the suspension block.

The only thing remaining is inserting the OSEMs.

{Paco, Yehonathan}

Today we suspended LO2 (E1800089) which Anchal has loaded into the thick optic adapter. Attachments 1,2 show the height and roll balance adjustments.

I realigned the opLev setup and balanced the suspended mass. We figured that if we use 2 counterweights we will be 1 short. We decided to use 1 mass at the back of the adapter. This has the additional advantage that the Viton tip on lower back EQ stop can touch it and act normally. The optic was successfully balanced in this way. Attachment 3 shows the motion spectra on the QPD. There are major peaks at 712 mHz, 854 mHz, 876 mHz, and 996 mHz. As expected using only 1 counterweight raised the center of mass and lowered the pitch resonance frequency. The optic was locked keeping the alignment fixed on the center of the QPD, OSEMs were inserted and the SOS tower was engraved.

We should apply some glue to the counterweight to prevent it from spinning on the setscrew.

[yehonathan, paco, anchal]

We continue suspending PR3 today. Yehonathan and Paco suspended the thick optic in its adapter. After fixing some nominal height and undoing any residual roll angle (see Attachments 1,2 for pictures), we noticed a problem with the pitch angle, so we insert the counterweights all the way in. Nevertheless, we soon found out that we needed to shift one of the two counterweights to the back of the adapter side (so one on each side) in order to tare the pitch angle. This is a newly experienced maneuver that may apply for further thick optics.

After taring the pitch angle roughly, we noted another issue. The wedge (~ 1 deg) on the optic made it such that the protruding socket heads on the thick side bumped against the lower clamp (not the earthquake stop tip itself). Attachments #4,5 show the before/after situation which was solved provisionally by replacing the socket head screws with lower profile (flat) head screws in situ. Again, this operation was highly delicate and specific to wedged thick optics, so for future SOS we should keep it in mind.

Another issue that we had with the new thick optic adapters is that for some reason there is a recession in the upper backside of the adapter (attachment coming soon). This makes the upper back EQ stop too short to touch the adapter. We replaced it with a longer screw. When inserted it doesn't really hit the back of the adapter. Rather, it touches the corner of the recession, stoping the optic with friction.

While all this was happening, Anchal started mounting AS4 on its adapter. After one of the magnets broke off, he switched to another one and succeeded. This is the next target for suspension. We still need to check the orientation of the wedge. Furthermore, we started a gluing session in the afternoon to prepare as much as possible for further SOS during the week. 3 side magnets were glued to side blocks. 3 magnets were glued to 3 adapters that were missing 1 magnet each.

In the afternoon, Yehonathan and Paco set up the QPD and did all the usual balancing, and then Anchal took the data of which the result is shown in Attachment #3. The major peaks are located at 723mHz, 953mHz, and 1.05Hz. Very similar to the case of the thin optic adapters.

Anchal progressed with OSEM installation, and engraving and yehonathan glued the counterweight setscrew in place. After securing the EQ stops, and wrapping the wires in foil, we declare PR3 is ready to be installed.

I handed the Peek parts we got from McMaster to Jordan for C&B.

{Yehonathan, Paco}

{Paco, Yehonathan}

Today we suspended SR2 (E1800089) which Anchal has loaded into the thick optic adapter. Attachments 1,2 show the height and roll balance adjustments.

I realigned the opLev setup and balanced the suspended mass. Attachment 3 shows the motion spectra on the QPD. There are major peaks at 723 mHz, 832 mHz, and 996 mHz. I inserted OSEMs and tightened them in place. I adjusted the OSEM plates to make sure the magnets are at the center of the OSEMs, then I tightened the OSEM plates to the SOS tower.

The optic was locked keeping the alignment fixed on the center of the QPD.

Again, we should apply some glue to the counterweight to prevent it from spinning on the setscrew. Is there a glue other than EP30 that we can use?

Related: Peek nuts, screws and washers were ordered from Mcmaster.

Vacseal in the freezer. It could have been expired sooooo many years ago, We need some cure testing.

Can you release the part numbers of the ordered components (and how/where to use them), so that we can incorporate them into the CAD model?

Yes,

For the thin optics adapter design, we want Peek 1/4-20 screw (part # 98885A131) to replace the lower back long EQ stop. On it, we will have a Peek washer (part # 93785A600) fastened between two Peek nuts (part #98886A813).

For the thick optics adapter design, we want Peek 1/4-20 screw (part # 98885A131) to replace both the upper and lower back EQ stop. On the upper stop, we need a single Peek nut (part #98886A813).

I will cure-test the Vacseal.

 Green welding glass 7" x 9"   shade #14 with 40 mm hole and mounting fixtures are ready to reduce scatter light on SOS

PEEK 450CA shims and U-shaped clips  will keep these plates damped.

For the upcoming vent, we'd like to rotate the SOS towers to correct for the large YAW bias voltages used for DC alignment of the ITMs and ETMs. We could then use a larger series resistance in the DC bias path, and hence, reduce the actuation noise on the TMs. 

Today, I used the calibrated Oplev error signals to estimate what angular correction is needed. I disabled the Oplev loops, and drove a ~0.1 Hz sine wave to the EPICS channel for the DC yaw bias. Then I looked at the peak-to-peak Oplev error signal, which should be in urad, and calibrated the slider counts to urad of yaw alignment, since I know the pk-to-pk counts of the sine wave I was driving. With this calibration, I know how much DC Yaw actuation (in mrad) is being supplied by the DC bias. I also know the directions the ETMs need to be rotated, I want to double check the ITMs because of the multiple steering mirrors in vacuum for the Oplev path. I will post a marked up diagram later. 

Steve is going to come up with a strategy to realize this rotation - we would like to rotate the tower through an axis passing through the CoM of the suspended optic in the vertical direction. I want to test out whatever approach we come up with on the spare cage before touching the actual towers.

Here are the numbers. I've not posted any error analysis, but the way I'm thinking about it, we'd do some in air locking so that we have the cavity axis as a reference and we'd use some fine alignment adjust (with the DC bias voltages at 0) until we are happy with the DC alignment. Then hopefully things change by so little during the pumpdown that we only need small corrections with the bias voltages.

Some remarks:

1. Why the apparent difference between ITMs and ETMs? I think it's because the bias path resistors are 400 ohms on the ETMs, but 100 ohms on the ITMs. 
2. If we want the series resistance for the bias path to be 10 kohm, we'd only have ~800 urad actuation (for +10V DC), so this would be an ambitious level of accuracy. 

The SOS centering target is 1.9 mm lower than it should be! 

The hole is 10mm for the  ~6 mm beam

The SOS coil drivers (Atm2) were moved from 1X1 to 1Y2 location. Is this the best place to locate the  IOO Tip-Tilt steering that will replace the PJ-PZT ?

See 40m wiki T-T

One of the possibilities that we see a large low-frequency digital noise is due to Foton. I've checked the SOS coefficients that saves Foton with a Matlab coefficients. I used a 3 order low-pass cheby1 filter cheby1("LowPass",3,0.1,3) 

In matlab I generated SOS model using 3 approaches 

[A,B,C,D]=cheby1(3,0.1,3/1024) % create SS form

[sos,g]=ss2sos(A,B,C,D)  % convert to SOS form

[z, p, k]=cheby1(3,0.1,3/1024) % create ZPK form

[sos,g]=zp2sos(z,p,k)  % convert to SOS form

[b, a]=cheby1(3,0.1,3/1024) % create TF form

[sos,g]=tf2sos(b,a)  % convert to SOS form

As this is a 3 order filter, in the SOS representation we'll get 2 by 6 SOS - matrix. It is presented below. In each matrix place there 4 numbers - from the Foton file and obtained using these 3 methods.

GAIN

1.582261654653329e-07

1.582261654653329e-07

1.582261654653329e-07

1.582261655030947e-07

SOS-MATRIX

1              1.0000000000000000      #           0                                              #       1      #         -0.9911172660954457     #       0

1              1.0005663179617605      #           0                                              #       1      #         -0.9911172660954457     #       0

1              1.0000000000000000      #           0                                              #       1      #         -0.9911172660954457     #       0

1              0.9999894976396830      #           0                                              #       1      #         -0.9911172660997303     #       0

############################################################################################################

1              2.0000000000000000      #          1.0000000000000000         #       1      #        -1.9909750803252266      #      0.9911175825477769

1              1.9994336820732397      #          0.9994340026283055         #      1       #       -1.9909750803252262       #     0.9911175825477765

1              2.0000000000000000      #          1.0000000000000000         #      1       #       -1.9909750803252262       #     0.9911175825477765

1              2.0000105023603174      #          1.0000105024706190         #      1       #       -1.9909750803209423       #     0.9911175825434912

It seems that smth analog to zp2sos is used in Foton. We can see that due to representation error we have derivations in the 4 and 6 digits for SS and TF forms. This means that a pretty big mistake can run due to digital transforms even using double precision as in the Matlab test.

Alex Ivanov said that he'll fix that single precision problem and in the 2.5 release we won't have any FLOAT variables. Though we still do not understand how that variables declared as FLOAT can cause filter calculations. 

Atm 1, It's right arm is perfect.

Atm 3-4, The left one has bended (dropped) end.

Atm 2, Our ruby wire stanoffs will fit the jig. Ruby OD 1.27 mm vs. old Aluminum OD 1.0 mm. Length ruby 6.4 mm vs Al 4.8 mm

Atm 5, The fixture translation stages are a bit loooose. Careful use of the micrometer is needed to be precise

Betsy agreed that the 40m will keep SOS fixtures.

[Yehonathan, Paco]

We put away most items used / involved in SOS assembly and characterization. Many were stored in the left-most cabinet in the clean area. The OpLev test setup and optics were stored in the upper cabinets above the microscope area, and several screws and other general components were collected in clean bags or wrapped in foil, labeled and put away.

I opened the packages send from Syracuse.

- The components are not vacuum clean. We need C&B.
- Some large parts are there, but many parts are missing to build complete SOSs.

- No OSEMs.
- Left and right panels for 6 towers
- 3 base blocks
- 1 suspension block
- 8 OSEM plates. (1 SOS needs 2 plates)

- The parts looks like old versions. The side panels needs insert pins to hold the OSEMs in place. We need to check what needs to be inserted there.

- An unrelated tower was also included.

Two SOS suspensions for the ETMs were disassembled and packed for cleaning and baking by Bob.

These suspensions have been stored on the X end flow bench long years, and looked quite old.

They have some differences to the modern SOSs.

- The top suspension block is made of aluminum and had dog clamps to fix the wires.
- The side bars are not symmetric: the side OSEM can only be fixed at the right bar (left side in the picture).
- EQ stops were made of Viton.
- One of the tower bases seems to have finger prints (of Mike Zucker?).

I found that the OSEM plates had no play. We know that the arrangement of the OSEMs gets quite difficult
in this situation. Therefore the holes of the screws were drilled with the larger drill.

We decided to replace all of the screws to the new ones as all of the screws are Ag plated and got corroded
by silver sulfide (Ag₂S). I checked our stock in the clean room. We have enough screws.

Important note: Use stainless screws in aluminum / Silver-plated screws in stainless
There exists some study about galling: LIGO-G020394-00-D

Stress Relieved 0.0017"  Music Wire  CFW P/N: CFW2035025,   Made 08-17-2016                                

GBL (grams breaking load )         

UTS (ultimate tensile strength)                                 

YTS (yield tensile strength) 

ELONG (elongation)  

0.0017" OD., 500ft steel music wire ordered. Pictures of the existing roll are below. It will be on 8" OD. spool too.

The wire will arrive in 1-2 weeks. It is a new production. Brad Snook of Ca Fine Wire was suprised that we are still using the 13 years old wire.  Oxidation is an issue with iron contained steel wire.

He would not give me a shelf life time on it. He recommended to check the strenght of it before usage. It passed with safety factor of 2 just recently.

In the future we'll store the new spool in oxigen free nitrogen environment..

We have indeed seen numerous tarnished/rusty points along the wires, and just tried to choose lengths free of any of these. I wonder if this can explain the brittleness/ease with which we've been breaking it. My feeling is that we should use the newer wire if feasible.

Not really true that it passed. That's just an arbitrary margin. Best to throw away all the old wire. We have no quantitative estimate of what the real torque should be. Its just feelings.

[Jenne, Diego]

The EPICS freeze that we had noticed a few weeks ago (and several times since) has happened again, but this time it has not come back on its own.  It has been down for almost an hour so far. 

 So far, we have reset the Martian network's switch that is in the rack by the printer.  We have also power cycled the NAT router.  We have moved the NAT router from the old GC network switch to the new faster switch, and reset the Martian network's switch again after that.

We have reset the network switch that is in 1X6.

We have reset what we think is the DAQ network switch at the very top of 1X7.

So far, nothing is working.  EPICS is still frozen, we can't ping any computers from the control room, and new terminal windows won't give you the prompt (so perhaps we aren't able to mount the nfs, which is required for the bashrc).

We need help please!

[EricQ]

EricQ suggested it may be some NFS related issue: if something, maybe some computer in the control room, is asking too much to chiara, then all the other machines accessing chiara will slow down, and this could escalate and lead to the Big Bad Freeze. As a matter of fact, chiara's dmesg pointed out its eth0 interface being brought up constantly, as if something is making it go down repeatedly. Anyhow, after the shutdown of all the computers in the control room, a  reboot of chiara, megatron and the fb was performed.

[Diego]

Then I rebooted pianosa, and most of the issues seem gone so far; I had to "mxstream restart" all the frontends from medm and everyone of them but c1scy seems to behave properly. I will now bring the other machines back to life and see what happens next.

[Diego, Jenne]

Everything seems reasonably back to normal:

Notes:

• the machines in the control room have been rebooted;
• the c1iscey frontend now behaves;
• I saw on nodus, which remained up and running the whole time, a bunch of   nfs: server chiara is not responding, timed out  messages, belonging to the freezing time; it may be that the sync option for the nfs share is too resource demanding, or some other network issue;
• the FSS was doing strange stuff and the MC couldn't recover the lock; the MCautolocker script wasn't running because of the lock loss of the MC and the lack of communication between the machines; so we did a sudo initctl start MCautolocker on megatron and recovered the MC too.

SP table has been a mess because Q and I had let our SURF leave without cleaning up.

I cleaned up the SP table, put things back where they belong and did some sorting. I will put back the optomechanics where they belong sometime later.

For now, check out the SP table next time you are looking for a Y1  or lens or BS.

This morning I found that there was no light on the SPOB PD. I went looking at the photodetector and I found that the shutter in front of it was closed.

I switched the shutter driver from n.c. to n.o. which had the effect of opening it.

I guess we inadvertently closed the shutter with Rana when last week we were tinkering with the ITMY  camera.

The free swinging test was successful. I ran the input matrix diagonalization code (/opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/Git/40m/scripts/SUS/InMAtCalc/sus_diagonalization.py) on theSR2 free-swinging data collected last night. The logfile and results are stored in /opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/Git/40m/scripts/SUS/InMAtCalc/SR2 directory. Attachment 1 shows the power spectral density of the DOF basis data (POS, PIT, YAW, SIDE) before and after the diagonalization. Attachment 2 shows the fitted peaks.

1.09

0.914

0.622

0.798

-0.977

1.249

0.143

-1.465

-0.359

0.378

0.552

-1.314

-0.605

1.261

0.118

0.72

0.403

0.217

0.534

3.871

The new matrix was loaded on SR2 input matrix and this resulted in no control loop oscillations at least. I'll compare the performance of the loops in future soon.

[Jenne, Annalisa]

SR2 is flipped, and reinstalled.  We did that before lunch, and we're about to go in and work on SR3 and PR3.

EDITS / Notes:

I set dog clamps to have a reference position of where the tip tilt was, then I removed SR3 from the chamber.  Once out, I followed the same procedure I used for PR2 during the last vent - I removed the whole suspension (top mount, wires, optic) from the cage, and laid it down flat.  Then I loosened the set screw which pushes on the teflon nudge, removed the mirror, inspected it, and put it back in, with the HR side facing the back side of the ring.  Then I replaced the suspension system in the cage, and put the mirror back into the chamber. 

When I loosened the teflon nudge at the top of the mirror holder ring, the optic seemed to fall down a tiny bit.  I think this implies that the HR surface of the optic did not used to be parallel to the front face of the mirror holder ring.  When I put the suspension back onto the cage, the pitch balancing was very bad.  We checked the level of the table that I had the cage on, and it was miraculously pretty level, so I did the pitch balancing out of the chamber. 

Also, during my quick inspection of the mirror (not thorough, just using room lights), I noticed a small fleck of lint near the edge of the optic on the HR surface.  The HR surface is now on the outside of the SRC, but we should still blow at the optic with the ionized nitrogen to get it off.

I did not think to check the fine-tuning alignment of SR2....Koji did that after lunch (which I will elog about in a separate elog).

After the first flipping, X/Y arms were aligned and locked. Then the ASS aligned the arms.