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Category |
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Text |
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4256
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Mon Feb 7 10:37:28 2011 |
josephb | Update | Computers | Temporarily removed cronjob for rsync.backup | The backup appears to have finished on
nodus, and I've put the rsync job back in
the crontab. |
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4255
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Sun Feb 6 02:29:28 2011 |
rana | Update | Electronics | Analog MFD: longer cable | I swapped over to a 3x longer cable (old
65 ft. Pasternak cable from ancient 40m days).
The old one was 6m, the new one is 18.2 m. |
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4254
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Sat Feb 5 23:03:04 2011 |
rana, koji | Summary | Electronics | Analog Frequency Discriminator: splitter + mixer + long cable | This diagram shows the setup |
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4253
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Fri Feb 4 23:39:56 2011 |
rana, koji | Update | LSC | mixer based FD set up for noise test | We set up the mixer based FD to check
out its noise performance.
It is being acquired as C1:GCV-XARM_FINE_OUT_DAQ. |
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4252
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Fri Feb 4 18:58:19 2011 |
rana | Update | Computers | Temporarily removed cronjob for rsync.backup |
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4251
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Fri Feb 4 15:03:20 2011 |
josephb | Update | Computers | Modified cshrc.40m | Removed
some lines from the PATH environment variable
since they point to old codes which no longer |
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4250
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Fri Feb 4 13:45:25 2011 |
josephb | Update | Computers | Temporarily removed cronjob for rsync.backup | <p>I removed the rsync backup from nodus'
crontab temporarily so as to not have multiple
backup jobs running. The job I started |
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4249
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Fri Feb 4 13:31:16 2011 |
josephb | Update | CDS | FE start scripts moved to scripts/FE/ from scripts/ | All start
and kill scripts for the front end models
have been moved into the FE directory under |
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4248
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Fri Feb 4 11:10:27 2011 |
Suresh | Update | Green Locking | VCO PLL Frequency noise | This measurement pertains to the BL2002
VCO PLL unit.
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4247
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Thu Feb 3 17:25:03 2011 |
josephb | Update | Computers | rsync script was not really backing up /cvs/cds | So today,
after an "rm" error while working
with the autoburt.pl script and burt restores |
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4246
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Thu Feb 3 16:45:28 2011 |
josephb | Update | CDS | General CDS updates | Updated
the FILTER.adl file to have the yellow button
moved up, and replaced the symbol in the |
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4245
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Thu Feb 3 16:08:06 2011 |
Aidan | Update | Computer Scripts / Programs | RCG VCO frequency error | Joe and I were looking at the RCG VCO algorithm
to determine if we could adapt it to run
at a faster rate (you can currently change |
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4244
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Thu Feb 3 11:13:52 2011 |
Koji | Update | Electronics | POY Shot Noise and Dark Spectrum | I wonder why POY11 has the dark noise level
of 90nV/rtHz that is 5 times larger than
that of POX (18nV/rtHz) |
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4243
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Thu Feb 3 04:43:58 2011 |
Suresh | Update | Electronics | Added two new DAQ channels | [Suresh, Joe]
We added the following two new DAQ
channels into the c1:GCV model. The |
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4242
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Thu Feb 3 01:46:54 2011 |
Kevin | Update | Electronics | POY Shot Noise and Dark Spectrum | [Koji and Kevin]
I measured the shot noise of POY
and fit the data to determine the RF transimpedance |
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4241
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Wed Feb 2 15:07:20 2011 |
josephb | Update | CDS | activateDAQ.py now includes PEM channels | [Joe, Jenne]
We
modified the activateDAQ.py script to handle |
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4240
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Wed Feb 2 12:55:34 2011 |
Koji | Summary | Green Locking | Freq fluctuation measured by the freq divider and Rana's analog PFD | I found that some flakiness of the beat
signals comes from the RF components for
the beat detection. |
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4239
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Wed Feb 2 10:44:26 2011 |
Koji | Summary | Green Locking | Freq fluctuation measured by the freq divider and Rana's analog PFD | The freq fluctuation of the beat note
has been measured with the following condition
The IR beam only locked |
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4238
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Wed Feb 2 09:56:55 2011 |
Koji | Summary | Green Locking | Installed the freq divider and Rana's PFD | - The freq divider and Rana's PFD were
hooked up to the ADCs. (Attachment 1)
(I leave the analog PFD not explained |
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4237
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Wed Feb 2 03:27:20 2011 |
Koji | Summary | Green Locking | 85MHz Freq divider | The freq divider was built and installed
in the beat detection path.
Attachment 1: Circuit diagram |
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4236
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Tue Feb 1 17:34:21 2011 |
Jenne | Update | SUS | ETMX and PRM watchdogs tripped | I sat down in the control room to find
that ETMX and PRM's watchdogs had been tripped.
I don't know how long they've been crazy, |
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4235
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Tue Feb 1 15:09:41 2011 |
Koji | Omnistructure | General | Projector - fixed | The projector in the controls room has
been fixed the orange blinking of the status
LED. |
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4234
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Mon Jan 31 18:25:25 2011 |
Aidan | Update | Green Locking | DFD - results from the new filters (and running with AWG) |
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4233
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Mon Jan 31 16:12:11 2011 |
steve | Update | VAC | Vertex crane upgrade shorth coming |
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4232
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Mon Jan 31 12:40:38 2011 |
rana, joe | Update | Green Locking | DFD - medm screen | This is a plot showing the old filters
and the new ones we added this morning.
The new ones have a Cheby for AC |
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4231
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Mon Jan 31 10:31:30 2011 |
josephb | Update | WienerFiltering | Improvement in H1 Wiener FF prediction by using weights and taps | Rossa is a rather beefy machine. It effectively
has 8 Intel i7 Cores (2.67 Ghz each) and
12 Gigs of ram. Megatron only has 8 |
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4230
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Mon Jan 31 07:41:23 2011 |
Aidan | Update | Green Locking | DFD - medm screen | I added an MEDM screen for the DFD to the
GREEN screen. It is displayed in the attached
screen shot. |
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4229
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Mon Jan 31 07:03:59 2011 |
Aidan | Summary | Green Locking | DFD - noise spectra |
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4228
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Sun Jan 30 19:26:03 2011 |
Koji | Summary | Green Locking | Prototype freq divider | A prototype freq divider has been made
which works up to ~40MHz.
74HC4060 (14bit binary ripple counter) |
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4227
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Sun Jan 30 17:15:09 2011 |
Aidan | Summary | Green Locking | Digital Frequency discriminator - frequency noise | I've had a go at trying to estimate the
frequency noise of the digital frequency
discriminator (DFD). I input a 234.5Hz (0.5Vpp) |
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4226
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Sat Jan 29 03:13:44 2011 |
rana | Update | WienerFiltering | Improvement in H1 Wiener FF prediction by using weights and taps | (Jenne, Rana)
Tonight we noticed that there
were significant improvements to be had in |
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4225
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Sat Jan 29 00:31:05 2011 |
Suresh | Update | General | Vertex crane upgrade completed | The
Vertex crane is smarter and safer now. |
6x |
4224
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Fri Jan 28 18:19:21 2011 |
Jenne | Update | IOO | WFS2 has some kind of oil on it | Mystery solved!
I removed WFS2 from the AP table
(after placing markers so I can put it back |
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4223
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Fri Jan 28 15:50:44 2011 |
Jenne | Configuration | PSL | The PSL has a name! | Back in the days when we were talking about
getting a new 2W PSL, I was given naming
rights by Rana for this new laser. |
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4222
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Fri Jan 28 13:07:31 2011 |
Jenne | Update | IOO | Beam is back on the WFS | The MC WFS have had beam dumps in front
of them for the past ~2 weeks, until I could
find the appropriate optic to put in the |
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4221
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Fri Jan 28 13:05:56 2011 |
Koji | Configuration | Computers | script path fixed | We had some issues in terms of the script
paths. I have fixed it by replacing /cvs/cds/caltech/scripts
to /cvs/cds/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts |
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4220
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Fri Jan 28 12:15:58 2011 |
josephb | Update | CDS | Updating conlog channel list/ working on "HealthCheck" script | I've updated
the scan_adls script (currently located in
/cvs/cds/caltech/conlog/bin) to look at new |
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4219
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Fri Jan 28 11:08:44 2011 |
josephb | Update | Green Locking | no transmission of ALS signals | As you've
correctly noted, the source of the C1:GCV-SCX_ETMX_ALS
channels is in the c1gcv model. The first |
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4218
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Fri Jan 28 10:27:46 2011 |
Aidan, Joe | Summary | Green Locking | Digital Frequency Discriminator - calibration | One more thing ... we can calibrate
the output of the LP filter to give a result
in Hz with the following calibration: |
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4217
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Fri Jan 28 09:03:38 2011 |
Aidan | Summary | Green Locking | Digital Frequency Discriminator |
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4216
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Thu Jan 27 23:21:50 2011 |
rana | Summary | Green Locking | Digital Frequency Discriminator | That's some pretty fast work! I
thought we would be taking up to a week to
get that happening. I wonder what's the right |
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4215
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Thu Jan 27 21:43:37 2011 |
Koji | Update | Green Locking | no transmission of ALS signals | No signal is transmitted from C1:GCV-SCX_ETMX_ALS
(on c1gcv) to C1:GCV-SCX_ETMX_ALS (on c1scx)
I can't find RFM definition for ALS |
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4214
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Thu Jan 27 21:10:47 2011 |
Osamu | Update | 40m Upgrading | Calibrated noise of green | I calibrated noise spectrum of green lock.
1. Measurement of conversion factor
of ADC input from V to ct: |
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4213
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Thu Jan 27 17:12:02 2011 |
Aidan, Joe | Summary | Green Locking | Digital Frequency to Amplitude converter | Joe and I built a very simple digital frequency
to amplitude converter using the RCG. The
input from an ADC channel goes through a |
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4212
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Thu Jan 27 15:16:43 2011 |
josephb | Update | CDS | Updated generate_master_screens.py | I modified
the generate_master_screens.py script in
/opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/medm/master/ to handle |
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4211
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Thu Jan 27 11:04:27 2011 |
Koji | Update | Green Locking | beat freq scan | Experiment in the night of Jan 26.
o The arm was locked for the IR beam
and was aligned for it. |
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4210
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Thu Jan 27 03:24:56 2011 |
Kevin | Update | Electronics | POY Optical Transfer Function | [Rana and Kevin]
I measured the optical transfer function
of POY and fit the data using LISO. The fit |
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4209
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Wed Jan 26 14:49:48 2011 |
Aidan | Update | Environment | Turned on Control room AC | 80 degrees is too uncomfortable in the
control room so I turned on the AC. The set
point is 74F. |
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4208
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Wed Jan 26 12:04:31 2011 |
josephb | Update | CDS | Explanation of why c1sus and c1lsc models crash when the other one goes down | So apparently
with the current Dolphin drivers, when one
of the nodes goes down (say c1lsc), it causes |
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4207
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Wed Jan 26 12:03:45 2011 |
Koji | Update | CDS | Front End multiple crash | This is definitely a nice magic to know
as the rebooting causes too much hustles.
Also, you and I should spend an hour |
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