I'm working on to improve the quality of the enclosure.

The short comings are: more cable feedthroughs needed, latches to anchor top covers air tight and posts to support bending bridges.

Red triangles are compression latches at 10 places to hold the top air tight on surgical tubing

Green lines represent 4  posts of Al 1" OD to support the covers and maximize their eigenfrequencies.

Black crosses are 4 spring loaded push-bottom quick release pins to anchor the top covers to the bridges. This connection will  not be air tight.

(quarter-turn wing head fastener have the same problem) I'm thinking of some solution to minimize the leak.    

Violet _ steel plate (1" wide, 15" long, 0.125" thick)  between the two posts will anchor the quick release pins and make bridge rigid.

Blue rectangle is an other cable feedthrough exiting on the chamber side.

Planning to substitute window with soft - air tight ( Aluminized thin wall hose )  connection to vacuum view port where white circle is representing the Al adaptor ring.

Updated after Wednesday meeting 4-24-2013

We'll follow LIGO policy:
Our policy is to use first contact within 1 year of purchase for use in the interferometers.  For inspection use I am comfortable with out-of-date use.

GaryLinn offered their indate First Contact for use.

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.

 During the process, they had also removed the power cable to the ITMY camera. Steve and I fixed this...so the camera is back.

IN VACUUM beam heights are ALL 5.5"  This is measured from the top of the optical table to the center of all TMs, mirrors and other optical components. This beam is ~36" above the floor.

PSL (inside of enclosure) main-output  beam: PMC, MZ, RC and ISS  are at 3" heights. IOO Angle & Position, MC-Trans and RFAM qpds are at 4"

ALL OTHER beam heights at atmosphere and  different ISCT (interferrometer sensing, control optical table)s are at 4"

 The Napa earth quake magnitude 6 did not have any effect on the suspensions.

 The Goy phase upgrade was done nicely. The IOO pointing did not change. Credit owned to Nick and Andres.

  IFO is locked right on.

This is the third morning in a row that the MC2 was tripped.  Would you look at it Koji?

This may be cause by the impact of crazy WFS signal after the lock loss.
The auto locker is not fast enough to shut the WFS down before the mirrors are kicked.

Jenne and I discussed the issue and agreed that this can be solved by implementing
the same triggering algorithm as the LSC triggers.

Give us a bit more time to work on this.

 MC2 was tripped again. I think the answer is that watchdog's critical value was too small C1:SUS-MC2_PD_MAX_VAR = 10, so seismic could trip MC2. I've changed the value to 100.

Konecrane Fred was early this morning. He diagnosed the ETMY crane horizontal drive gear box dead and left just before the film crew showed up.

New gear box should be here by the end of this week for installation.

The lab air quality is high ~20,000 counts of particles of 0.5 micron.  Keep an eye on this before you open the chamber.

I think we can put ø2mm × 10mm long magnetic material inside 4 holes with actuation magnets. Then magnetic field on the other side of the mirror will be close to one produced by actuation magnet. Magnetic cylinder center of inertia will be in the vertical plane where mirror's center of inertia is. So this should not change alignment significantly. Eddy current dumping will be applied to the end of the magnetic cylinder opposite to the magnet using aluminium disks, we have them in the clean room.

 I've tested this approach. As we do not have required cylinders with high magnetic permittivity, I replaced them with magnets simular to actuator magnets ø2mm × 3mm long. Using them and aluminium disks from other TT I've made a "pitch dumping" construction.

Pitch Q reduced but not that much as I could expect. I did a ringdown test. 

Plots:

yaw ringdown using original construction     |  yaw ringdown with added pitch damping

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pitch ringdown using original construction   |  pitch ringdown with added pitch damping

 From this data I've estimated Q factor for yaw (135 vs 88) and pitch (192 vs 77) (original vs added pitch damping). Thess results diverges with the ones obtained by designes. They measured Q~40-50 for original construction. Pitch and yaw have 2 close resonances so this time domain method can not be very precise. I've measured the same with SR785.

In these comparison plots excitation was not the same as coils are not plugged in yet, but resonance Q factors can be compared.

 I've made a more precise measurement of pitch damping using spectrum analyzer.

Measurements confirm that damping using small actuation magnets reduces pitch Q by a factor of 4 and is not enough.

 I've tested the idea to use coils as eddy current dampers. I terminated them with a wire and measured Q factor during the ringdown test. Sadly, I did not see any significant damping and Q was ~150. We need stronger magnets if we want eddy current dumping down to Q~1.

 I've inserted 10mm * 10mm magnets to the 4 corner holes on the front side of the mirror frame according to actuation magnets polarity. I realigned TT and measured Q factor for pitch and yaw, it was 5-10.

I was able to do it for 1 TT only, because others have smaller (~0.1 mm) hole diameter and magnets can't go inside. I tried to warm holes up to 850 F but still was not able to insert a magnet.

Too bad - I thought it would at least give a little damping. Since we want the viscous-like energy loss to be ~49x larger, we need to have the field modulation in the damper (not dumper) increase by ~7.

 I've made SolidWorks models of damping bracket and eddy current disk. They will me manufactured and used instead of old ones. New bracket will be mounted in exactly the same place where the old one was. Drawings might not be complete but all dimensions are in the models so we can fix drawing tomorrow before going to machine shop.

I think we can use ring magnets for passive damping. Then we won't have the vent problem. I've found some at K&J Magnetics, we can get them any time. Magnets are Ni-Cu-Ni (fine for vacuum?) Diameter is 3/8'' with advertised tolerence 0.004'', so they should fit the holes.

 Koji and Steve pointed out that previous design  of a damping bracket was a bit complicated to manufacture. So I made it simpler and also added a tap hole for original yaw damping. We'll give drawing to Mike in the machine shop tomorrow morning.

I've purchased K&J magnets for eddy current damping, they should be here in 2 days. 

 Den mentioned that the disks will have threaded holes, and that he has made a note to that effect on the paper copy of the drawing that he will bring to Mike at the shop.  Also, all threaded holes in the new plate are marked on the paper copy.

Wow... This is even more complicated than the original "Y" design...

 We've received all parts that we need for eddy current damping. I've made an estimate of Q with dirty tip-tilt. It looks fine (Q~1)

We need to check ring magnets for vacuum compatibility. Bob start baking on Friday.

ETMX sus damping recovered.  PSL enclousure is dusty at 20V rotation speed. Rainy days as outside condition.

While moving the RefCav to facilitate the PSL shelf install, I bumped the power cable to the AOM driver. I will re-solder it in the evening after the shelf installation. PMC and IMC have been re-locked. Judging by the PMC refl camera image, I may also have bumped the camera as the REFL spot is now a little shifted. The fact that the IMC re-locked readily suggests that the input pointing can't have changed significantly because of the RefCav move.

Johannes informed me that he touched up the PMC REFL camera alignment. I am holding off on re-soldering the AOM driver power as I could use another pair of hands getting the power cable disentangled and removed from the 1X2 rack rails, so that I can bring it out to the lab and solder it back on.

Is anyone aware of a more robust connector solution for the type of power pins we have on the AOM driver?

Measurements for good fit were made. The new shelf will be installed on next Tuesday at 2pm

The reference cavity ion pump is in the way  so the cavity will be moved 5" westward. The shelf height space will be 10"  Under shelf working height 18" to optical table.

 Pitch damping solution needed! It should be in the machine shop already.

Replaced the batteries successfully in the control room.  We just had to switch the clips from the old batteries to the new one, which we didn't know was possible until now.

Batteries replaced in control room UPS after 3 years from replaceUPSbattery.com

 To take this into account, last night, I reduced the TRY gain by a factor of 2.  This is not exactly correct - when the layout is finalized we need to figure out what the pickoff situation used to be (we think, based on the Xend, that it could have been 0.5*0.9), and do the correct normalization.

This AmScope microscope would have 3.5x-180x magnification, calibratable measurement function, 5MP picture and good working distance to work on printed circuit boards.

http://www.amscope.com/3-5x-180x-boom-stand-trinocular-zoom-stereo-microscope-with-144-led-ring-light-and-10mp-camera.html will be ordered today.

The actual unit we are getting has lockable zoom for better repeatability after calibration: SM-3NTPZZ-144

Quote: CWQ6-020817

The microscope shipped back to the vendor for credit yesterday.

Tilted viewports installed in horizontal position. Atm2

New optical quality BK-7 windows in 2001 [4 substrates ] AR coated R<0.75 % for 630-1064nm " Azury BLue" broadband : TRX, TRY, ITMY-Oplev &  ITMX-Oplev viewports.

The BS-Oplev and PRM-Oplev 10" CF with 5.38" diameter view was coated the same way. The window here is Corning 7056 Borosilicate

5 more BK-7 substrates were coated R <0.1% of 1064 nm "Golden Orange" Their location: IMC-IN, IFO-REF and OMC   The next vent we have to confirm optical quality window locations.

All other conflat flange viewports are 7056 Kovar sealed .

Technical notes of 2001 40m upgrade can be seen at LIGO-T010115- 00- R  ....page 14

These old specs are not so bad. But we now want to get replacements for the TRX and TRY and PSL viewports that are R <0.1% at 532 and 1064 nm.

I don't know of any issues with keeping BK-7 as the substrate.

 Air condition maintenance will be finished by 11:30am tomorrow.

Yesterday, Kelvin mopped with chemicals the whole floor area of the  lab. This was triggered by some  visiting  ants at our PSL last week. It was 6 months since we had the last fully wet mopped IFO floor.

The cleaning- mopping water became   very dirty at the end.

 New gear box installed and tested by Fred KoneCranes.

All 3 cranes inspected by professional Fred Goodbar of Konecranes and load tested with 450 lbs at max reach on Friday, March 3, 2017

Our 3 cranes passed  professional  inspection. Fred Goodbar of Konacrane with 450 lbs load at full extension.

Certificates will be posted in 40m wiki as they arrive.

All 3 cranes inspected by professional and load tested with 450 lbs at max reach.

The south end door leaky weather seals replaced.

The aim is here to get some overpressure inside / outside so the lab partical count would not depend on outside condition.

I powered down 1Y1 and 1Y2 instrument racks of MC and RF-systems this morning.

Both racks, SP table, clean tools-parts boxes and MC2 area are also covered with plastics.

Bertin Bros. Construction, Inc is working on the floor preparation. Their head man is Robby Bertin, cell 626. 831.2264

Today's job:

remove tiles, clean off tile glue, drill for ribbed  steel bars, rough clean- surface for good bounding. paint floor with bounding agent

No obvious sign of damage.

 ~Vancuver, Canada earthquakes: magnitude 6,  5  and more shaking