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Date |
Author |
Type |
Category |
Subject |
Text |
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16817
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Thu Apr 28 11:53:10 2022 |
Anchal | Summary | BHD | POP_SM4 and POP_SM5 Assembly | POP_SM4
I
tried out this stack today and found some
change of plans. |
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16816
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Thu Apr 28 09:12:18 2022 |
Anchal | Update | BHD | Restoring arm alignment | This would be a daily first task in the
morning. We'll need to check the status
of arm alignment and optimize it back to |
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16815
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Wed Apr 27 16:28:57 2022 |
Anchal | Summary | BHD | BHD Upgrade - Retreiving arm cavity alignment | [Anchal, Paco, JC]
We had to open ITMY, ETMY chamber
doors to get the cavity aligned again. Once |
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16814
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Wed Apr 27 10:05:55 2022 |
JC | Update | Coil Drivers | Coil Drivers Update | 18 (9 pairs) Coil Drivers have been modified.
Namely ETMX/ITMX/ITMY/BS/PRM/SRM/MC1/MC2/MC3.
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16813
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Tue Apr 26 16:23:22 2022 |
Tommy | Update | Electronics | RFSoC2x2 MTS | We connected a 8 MHz signal generator to
the device in order to sync up the ADCs and
DACs and hopefully get phase data. |
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16812
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Mon Apr 25 18:00:03 2022 |
Ian MacMillan | Update | Upgrade | Cable supports update | I have designed new cable supports for
the new ribbon cables running up the side
of the tables in the vacuum chambers. |
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16811
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Mon Apr 25 17:24:06 2022 |
Anchal | Update | CDS | DAQ still down | I investigated this issue today. At first,
it seemed that only new suspension testpoints
are inaccessible. I was able to use diaggui |
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16810
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Mon Apr 25 16:57:57 2022 |
Anchal | Update | BHD | Cable post installation | [Anchal, Tega, JC]
We installed cable posts in ITMY,
BS, and ITMX chambers for all the new suspensions. |
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16809
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Mon Apr 25 14:49:02 2022 |
Koji | Update | General | Nitrogen Tank | For your (and mine) info:
N2 pressure can be monitored on
the 40m summary page: https://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:30889/detcharsummary/day/20220425/vacuum/ |
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16808
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Mon Apr 25 14:19:51 2022 |
JC | Update | General | Nitrogen Tank | Coming in this morning, I checked on the
Nitrogen tanks to check the level. One of
the tanks were empty, so I went ahead and |
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16807
|
Sun Apr 24 13:17:08 2022 |
Tommy | Update | Electronics | New RFSoC2x2 Overlay | We recieved an overlay from Chris Stoughton
which he used for a ZCU11 board. The overlay
is supposed to be compatible with the RFSoC |
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16806
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Fri Apr 22 14:14:33 2022 |
Jordan | Update | VAC | TP3 Forepump tip seal replacement | Jordan, JC
While the pumpspool is vented,
I thought it would be a convenient time to |
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16805
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Fri Apr 22 12:15:08 2022 |
Anchal | Update | BHD | Cable post installation | If someone gets time, let's put in
all the cable posts and clean up our cable
routing on the tables. |
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16804
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Fri Apr 22 12:09:51 2022 |
Anchal | Update | Coil Drivers | Please update DCC pages | Nice. Please put this information on the
DCC pages of the coil driver units. You'll
find links to all the units in this document |
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16803
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Fri Apr 22 12:03:09 2022 |
Tega | Update | BHD | AS1 UR OSEM problem localized in the chamber | [JC, Tega, Ian, Paco]
We found that the UR cable was
clamped to the table by one of the ITMY OPLEV |
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16802
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Fri Apr 22 07:01:58 2022 |
Jc | Update | Coil Drivers | Adding Resistors and Reinstalling | [Koji, JC]
Coil Drivers LO2, SR2, AS4, and
AS1 have been updated a reinstalled into |
8x |
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16801
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Thu Apr 21 20:33:31 2022 |
Koji | Update | BHD | AS1 UR OSEM problem localized in the chamber | Tega and Paco reported that the UR OSEM
of AS1 lost the response.
- I have checked the LED MON (left) |
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16800
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Thu Apr 21 18:42:47 2022 |
Tega | Update | BHD | Part V of BHR upgrade - Align LO and AS beams to BHD BS | [Tega, Yuta, Paco]
We tried aligning the LO and AS
beams on to the BHD beamsplitter. During |
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16799
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Thu Apr 21 18:18:42 2022 |
yehonathan | Update | BHD | POX Alignment | {Yehonathan, Paco}
BS, ITMX and ETMX were aligned
to get flashing in the X arm. |
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16798
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Thu Apr 21 17:32:35 2022 |
Ian MacMillan | Summary | SEI | Seismic Study of Buildings and Caltech Campus | [Rana, Ian]
We built a power supply for the
accelerometer shown in Attachment 1 based |
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16797
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Thu Apr 21 16:49:01 2022 |
Paco | Update | BHD | Part V of BHR upgrade - BS Oplev + LO1 offset | [Paco, JC, Yuta]
We aligned the BS oplev using the
new BSOL mirror pair. The main change is |
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16796
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Thu Apr 21 16:36:56 2022 |
Tega | Update | VAC | cleanup work for vacuum git repo | git repo - https://git.ligo.org/40m/vac
Finally incorporated the FRGs into
the main modbusIOC service and everything |
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16795
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Thu Apr 21 15:22:44 2022 |
Koji | Update | SUS | Outpur resistors updates for SR2, LO2, AS1, and AS4 done | [JC Koji]
Quick report: JC has done all the
mods for the coil driver circuit in the morning |
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16794
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Thu Apr 21 11:31:35 2022 |
JC | Update | VAC | Gauges P3/P4 | [Jordan, JC]
It was brought to attention during
yesterday's meeting that the pressures |
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16793
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Thu Apr 21 10:35:23 2022 |
Koji | Update | CDS | DAQ seemed down | Yesterday, when I worked on the damping
servo, I found that any of the daqvtools
(ndscope, dtt, dataviewer,...) is not available. |
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16792
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Wed Apr 20 18:50:03 2022 |
Koji | Update | BHD | Part V of BHR upgrade - PR2 weirdness | It seemed that it comes from the servo
oscillation. This does not happen when the
output limitters were set to be 100-ish. |
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16791
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Wed Apr 20 16:11:08 2022 |
Koji | Update | SUS | Outpur resistors updated for LO1 coil drivers / for SR2, LO2, AS1, and AS4 in progress | [JC Koji]
To give more alignment ranges for
the SUS alignment, we started updating the |
6x |
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16790
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Wed Apr 20 14:56:06 2022 |
Tommy | Update | Electronics | RFSoC 2x2 board -- setup for remote work & BALUN saga | Here are a few options for replacement
BALUNs from Mini Circuits and specs:
Current. TCM1-83X+, 10-8000 MHz, |
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16789
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Wed Apr 20 08:20:22 2022 |
Paco | Update | BHD | Part V of BHR upgrade - PR2 weirdness | Yesterday, I tried tuning the PR2 damping
gains by increasing the gain until the damping
gave the ~5 oscillations (by watching the |
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16788
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Tue Apr 19 18:10:10 2022 |
Paco | Update | BHD | Part V of BHR upgrade - POX11 path, LO path, and ITMX Oplev | [Yuta, Paco]
We set up POX11 beam path from
ITMX chamber to the ITMX in-air table. To |
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16787
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Mon Apr 18 23:22:39 2022 |
Koji | Update | General | Tool box and Work Station Organization | Whoa! Thanks! |
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16786
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Mon Apr 18 17:53:45 2022 |
Paco | Summary | BHD | Part IIa of BHR upgrade - POY11 debugging | [Paco, Ian]
We aligned the X-arm IR laser
First fix pointing on the |
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16785
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Mon Apr 18 16:09:07 2022 |
Yehonathan | Update | BHD | BHD Readout simulation | I'm planning on simulating the BHD
readout noise in a manner very similar to
the ALS noise model using Simulink. I've |
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16784
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Mon Apr 18 15:17:31 2022 |
Jancarlo | Update | General | Tool box and Work Station Organization | I cleaned up around the 40 m lab. All the
Laser Safety Glasses have been picked up
and placed on the rack at the entrance. |
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16783
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Mon Apr 18 14:52:47 2022 |
Ian MacMillan | Summary | SEI | Seismic Study of Buildings and Caltech Campus | [Ian, JC]
I want to take measurements of
seismic noise at different places on Caltech's |
7x |
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16782
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Fri Apr 15 11:59:16 2022 |
Yehonathan | Update | IOO | IMC completely misaligned | Came this morning, opened the PSL and there
was not even a beam on the MC REFL.
Looking at the big monitor it seems |
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16781
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Thu Apr 14 18:39:13 2022 |
Paco | Summary | BHD | Part IIa of BHR upgrade - POY11 debugging | [Paco]
In reply to Koji's questions;
Q1: What is the product number |
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16780
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Thu Apr 14 18:34:51 2022 |
Paco | Summary | BHD | ITMY Oplev reinstalled (Re: 2 in oplev mirrors incompatible with LMR2V) | [Paco, Yehonathan]
We installed ITMYOL1 and ITMYOL2
on the ITMY chamber. We aligned the ITMY |
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16779
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Thu Apr 14 11:52:57 2022 |
yehonathan | Summary | BHD | Part IIa of BHR upgrade - POY11 debugging | {JC, Paco, Yehonathan, Ian}
POY lens was moved to infront of
the POY steering mirror to make the POU beam |
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16778
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Thu Apr 14 10:18:35 2022 |
Paco | Summary | BHD | 2 in oplev mirrors incompatible with LMR2V | [Paco, JC]
We realized the 2 in oplev mirrors
(Thorlabs BB2-E02) for ITMYOL, SRMOL, and |
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16777
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Thu Apr 14 09:04:30 2022 |
Jordan | Update | VAC | RGA Volume RGA Scans | Prior to venting the RGA volume on Tuesday
(4/12/2022) I took an RGA scan of the volume
to be vented (RGA+TP1 volume+Manual Gate |
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16776
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Wed Apr 13 18:55:54 2022 |
Koji | Update | Cameras | Camera Battery Test | I believe that the Nikon has an exposure
problem and that's why we bought the
Canon. |
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16775
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Wed Apr 13 16:23:54 2022 |
Ian MacMillan | Update | General | Smell in 40m | [Ian, Paco, JC]
There is a strange smell in the
40m. It smells like a chemically burning |
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16774
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Wed Apr 13 15:57:25 2022 |
Ian MacMillan | Update | Cameras | Camera Battery Test | Tested the Nikon batteries for the camera.
they are supposed to be 7V batteries but
they don't hold a charge. I confirmed |
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16773
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Wed Apr 13 12:50:07 2022 |
Tega | Update | VAC | New Pressure Gauge Install/Pump Spool Vent | [Jordan, JC, Tega]
We have installed all the FRGs
and updated the VAC medm screens to display |
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16772
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Tue Apr 12 09:05:21 2022 |
Jordan | Update | VAC | New Pressure Gauge Install/Pump Spool Vent | Today, Tega and I would like to vent the
pump spool an dinstall the new FRG-400 Agilent
Pressure Gauges (per elog 15703). The attached |
6x |
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16771
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Mon Apr 11 21:44:14 2022 |
Koji | Summary | BHD | Part IIa of BHR upgrade - POY11 debugging | We took out the right most PD interface
board D990543 and removed the 74LS04 chips.
In fact two out of 4 were already replaced |
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16770
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Mon Apr 11 21:13:21 2022 |
Paco | Summary | BHD | Part IIa of BHR upgrade - POY11 debugging | [Paco, Koji]
I asked Koji for some advice regarding
closing the loop on YARM using POY11. A few |
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16769
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Mon Apr 11 11:00:30 2022 |
Jancarlo | Update | VAC | C1VAC Reboot and Nitrogen tanks | [Paco, JC, Ian, Jordan, Chub]
Checking in the morning, I walked
over to the Nitrogen tanks to check the levels. |
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16768
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Fri Apr 8 17:21:31 2022 |
Ian MacMillan | Summary | BHD | Part IIa of BHR upgrade - IR laser alignment on Yarm | [Ian, Paco, Tega]
Paco and I opened the ETMY and
ITMY chamber to work on yesterdays efforts |
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