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Subject |
Text |
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14774
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Thu Jul 18 22:03:00 2019 |
Kruthi | Update | Cameras | MC2 and cameras | [Kruthi, Yehonathan, Gautam]
Today evening, Yehonathan and I
aligned the MC2 cameras. As of now there |
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14775
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Thu Jul 18 22:34:40 2019 |
Koji | Summary | CDS | iscaux electronics modifications | The whitening filter modules have been
restored to the crates. The SMA cables have
been restored and fastened by a spanner. |
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14776
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Fri Jul 19 12:50:10 2019 |
gautam | Update | SUS | DC bias actuation options for SOS | Rana and I talked about some (genius)
options for the large range DC bias actuation |
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14777
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Fri Jul 19 15:51:55 2019 |
gautam | Update | General | Projector lightbulb blown out | [chub, gautam]
Bulb replaced. Projector is back
on. |
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14778
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Fri Jul 19 15:54:47 2019 |
gautam | Update | General | Control room UPS Batteries need replacement | The control room UPS started making a beeping
noise saying batteries need replacement.
I hit the "Test" button and the |
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14779
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Fri Jul 19 16:47:06 2019 |
Milind | Update | Cameras | CNNs for beam tracking || Analysis of results | I did a whole lot of hyperparameter tuning
for convolutional networks (without 3d convolution).
Of the results I obtained, I am attaching |
7x |
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14780
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Fri Jul 19 17:42:58 2019 |
gautam | Update | General | rossa Xdisp bricked | For some reason, rossa's Xdisplay won't
start up anymore. This happened right after
the UPS reset. Koji and I tried ~1.5 hours |
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14781
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Fri Jul 19 19:44:03 2019 |
gautam | Update | CDS | Database file test | Summary:
The database files for C1ISCAUX
seem to work file - the exception being the |
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14782
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Fri Jul 19 22:48:08 2019 |
Kruthi | Update | | Dataviewer error | I'm not able to get trends of
the TM adjustment test that Rana had
asked us to perform, from the dataviewer. |
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14783
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Sat Jul 20 01:03:37 2019 |
gautam | Update | | Dataviewer error | What channels are you trying to read?
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14784
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Sat Jul 20 11:24:04 2019 |
gautam | Update | General | rossa bricked | Summary:
SnapPy |
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14785
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Sat Jul 20 11:57:39 2019 |
gautam | Summary | CDS | P2 interface board | The boards arrived. I soldered on a DIN96
connector, and tested that the goemetry will
work. It does |
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14786
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Sat Jul 20 12:16:39 2019 |
gautam | Update | Cameras | CNNs for beam tracking || Analysis of results |
Make the MSE a subplot on the same
axes as the time series for easier interpretation.
Describe
the training dataset - what is the pk-to-pk |
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14787
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Sat Jul 20 14:43:45 2019 |
Milind | Update | Cameras | CNNs for beam tracking || Analysis of results | <Adding details>
See Attachment #2.
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14788
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Sun Jul 21 02:07:04 2019 |
Kruthi | Update | Loss Measurement | MC2 loss map | I'm running the MC2 loss map scripts
on pianosa now. The camera server is throwing
an error and is not grabbing snapshots :( |
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14789
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Sun Jul 21 12:54:18 2019 |
gautam | Update | Loss Measurement | MC2 loss map | Can you please be more specific about what
the error is? Is this the usual instability
with the camera server code? Or was it something |
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14790
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Sun Jul 21 12:55:38 2019 |
gautam | Update | CDS | CM board Latch Enable test script | DATED, SEE |
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14791
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Sun Jul 21 17:17:03 2019 |
Kruthi | Update | Loss Measurement | MC2 loss map | The camera server keeps throwing the error:
failed to grab frames. Milind suggested that
it might a problem with the ethernet cable, |
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14792
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Sun Jul 21 19:27:25 2019 |
Milind | Update | Loss Measurement | MC2 loss map | I think ezca.Ezca().write() takes the string
"CAM-ETMX_SNAP" as an argument
and not C1:CAM-ETMX_SNAP. See this, |
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14793
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Sun Jul 21 20:23:35 2019 |
rana | Update | IOO | MC locked | I found the MC2 face camera disabled(?)
and the MC servo board input turned off.
I turned the MC locking back on but I don't |
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14794
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Sun Jul 21 22:16:34 2019 |
rana | Update | General | rossa Xdisp bricked | "bricked" is to mean that it
has the functionality of a brick and can
be tossed. But rossa seems to have just gotten |
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14795
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Mon Jul 22 07:21:13 2019 |
gautam | Update | CDS | painosa messed with | Somebody changed the settings on painosa
without elogging anything about it. Why does
this keep happening? I thought the point |
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14796
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Mon Jul 22 12:57:35 2019 |
Kruthi | Update | Loss Measurement | MC2 loss map | In my script I have used "CAM-ETMX_SNAP"
only; while entering it in the elog
I made a mistake, my bad! |
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14797
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Mon Jul 22 13:26:41 2019 |
Kruthi | Update | IOO | MC locked | The MC2 has 2
GigE cameras right now. I'll
put back the analog asap. |
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14798
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Mon Jul 22 13:32:55 2019 |
Kruthi | Update | SUS | Test mass pitch adjustment test | [Kruthi, Milind]
On Friday, Milind and I performed
the pitch adjustment test Rana had asked |
6x |
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14799
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Mon Jul 22 21:04:40 2019 |
rana | Update | Computers | making rossa great again |
copied over /etc/fstab lines from
pianosa sothat the NFS mounts work correctly
added
symlinks so that the NFS dirs mount in the |
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14800
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Mon Jul 22 23:53:16 2019 |
gautam | Update | ALS | IR ALS locking attempt | Summary:
My goal tonight was to lock the
PSL frequency to be resonant in the |
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14801
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Tue Jul 23 21:59:08 2019 |
Jon | Update | Cameras | Plan for GigE cameras | This afternoon Gautam and I assessed what
to do about restoring the GigE camera software.
Here's what I propose: |
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14802
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Wed Jul 24 00:22:24 2019 |
gautam | Update | ALS | PSL frequency locked to XARM length using ALS | Summary:
I succeeded in locking the PSL
frequency to the XARM cavity length, with |
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14803
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Wed Jul 24 02:06:05 2019 |
Kruthi | Update | Cameras | HDR images | I have been trying a couple of HDR algorithms,
all of them seem to give very different results.
I don't know how suitable these algorithms |
6x |
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14804
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Wed Jul 24 04:20:35 2019 |
Kruthi | Update | Calibration-Repair | MC2 pitch and yaw calibration | Summary: I calibrated MC2
pitch and yaw offsets to spot position in
mm. Here's what I did: |
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14805
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Wed Jul 24 12:24:43 2019 |
Milind | Update | IOO | unstick.py and ifotest | Moved the unstick.py code to the ifotest
repository here.
It now handles signals like those generated |
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14806
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Wed Jul 24 16:45:32 2019 |
Jon | Update | Cameras | Upgraded Pylon from 5.0.12 to 5.2.0 | I upgraded Pylon, the C/C++ API for the
GigE cameras, to the latest release, 5.2.0.
It is installed in the same location as before, |
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14807
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Wed Jul 24 20:05:47 2019 |
Milind | Update | Cameras | CNNs for beam tracking || Tales of desperation | At the lab meeting today, Rana suggested
that I use the Pylon app to collect more
data if that's what I need. Following |
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14808
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Wed Jul 24 20:23:52 2019 |
gautam | Update | Cameras | Upgraded Pylon from 5.0.12 to 5.2.0 | Since there are multiple SURF projects
that rely on the cameras:
I moved the new installs |
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14809
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Thu Jul 25 00:26:47 2019 |
Milind | Update | Cameras | Convolutional neural networks for beam tracking | Somehow I never got around to doing the
pixel sum thing for the new real data from
the GigE. Since I have to do it for the presentation, |
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14810
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Thu Jul 25 09:19:32 2019 |
Jon | Update | Cameras | Upgraded Pylon from 5.0.12 to 5.2.0 | I'll keep developing the camera server
on a parallel track using the "new_..."
directory naming convention. One thing I |
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14811
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Thu Jul 25 12:25:56 2019 |
gautam | Update | ALS | IR ALSX noise | Summary:
There are some broad peaks
in the ALS out-of-loop noise, centered at |
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14812
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Thu Jul 25 14:28:03 2019 |
gautam | Configuration | Computers | firewalld disabled for EPICS CA | I think rana did some more changes to this
workstation to make it useful for commissioning
activities - but the MEDM screens were still |
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14813
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Thu Jul 25 20:08:36 2019 |
gautam | Update | Computers | Solidworks machine | I brought one CPU (Dell T3500) and one
28" monitor from Mike Pedraza's
office in Downs to the 40m. It is on Steve's |
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14814
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Fri Jul 26 19:53:53 2019 |
Jon | Omnistructure | Cameras | GigE Camera Server | I've started setting up the last
new rackmount SuperMicro as a dedicated server
for the GigE cameras. The new machine is |
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14815
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Mon Jul 29 13:32:56 2019 |
gautam | Update | Loss Measurement | Loss measurement PD installed in AS path | [yehonathan, gautam]
we placed a PDA520 photodiode in
the AS beampath, so AS110 and AS55 no longer |
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14816
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Mon Jul 29 19:08:55 2019 |
yehonathan | Update | Loss Measurement | Reviving loss measurement by reflection | 1. X arm is totally misaligned in order
to measure the Y arm loss using the reflection
method. Each measurement round consists of |
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14817
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Tue Jul 30 09:13:31 2019 |
gautam | Update | PSL | c1psl keyed, Agilent setup cleared |
IMC would not lock. c1psl EPICS
channels were unresponsive. I keyed the crate
and went through the usual burtrestore/PMC-relocking |
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14818
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Tue Jul 30 20:11:12 2019 |
rana | Summary | IMC | IMC ASC: thoughts and hopes | One of the
biggest challenges in LIGO is reducing the
alignment control noise. |
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14819
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Wed Jul 31 09:41:12 2019 |
gautam | Update | BHD | OMC cavity geometry | Summary:
We need to determine the geometry
(= round-trip length and RoC of curved mirrors) of |
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14820
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Wed Jul 31 14:44:11 2019 |
gautam | Update | Computers | Supermicro inventory | Chub brought the replacement Supermicro
we ordered to the 40m today. I stored
it at the SW entrance to the VEA, |
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14821
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Wed Jul 31 17:57:35 2019 |
Koji | Update | BHD | OMC cavity geometry | 4 deg is not an optimized number optimized
for criteria, but to keep the cavity short
width to 0.1m. But the justification of 4deg |
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14822
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Thu Aug 1 13:55:34 2019 |
Duo | Bureaucracy | Equipment loan | Gpib module taken to QIL lab | vanna --> QIL.
gautam
20190804: The GPIB module + power supply |
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14823
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Fri Aug 2 11:37:38 2019 |
gautam | Update | ALS | EY IR ALS Assay | Summary:
I'd like to confirm that the
IR ALS scheme will work for locking. The |
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