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Thu Aug 14 10:26:45 2008 |
steve | HowTo | SUS | sus cable pin cheater for out of vac damping | The 40m D25 vacuum feed troughs give you a
mirror image pin count.
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867
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Thu Aug 21 17:55:14 2008 |
rana | HowTo | IOO | MC WFS DC Offsets | I ran the McWFS_dc_offsets script to trim
out the DC offsets on the MC WFS DC signals.
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875
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Mon Aug 25 10:23:53 2008 |
steve | HowTo | General | cable killer | Rack 1Y7 double violation:
BNC cables left to be jammed by door
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882
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Mon Aug 25 17:45:34 2008 |
rana, josephb, rob | HowTo | PEM | Accelerometer range | Joe shows us by jumping up ~15" in the control
rom that the accelerometers are set with
not enough gain.
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889
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Tue Aug 26 19:07:37 2008 |
Yoichi | HowTo | Computers | Reading data from Agilent 4395A analyzer through GPIB from *Linux* machine | I succeeded in reading data from Agilent 4395A
analyzer, who's floppy is crappy, through
GPIB from a Linux machine using
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890
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Wed Aug 27 10:55:35 2008 |
Yoichi | HowTo | Computers | Annoying behavior of the touch pads of the lab. laptops is fixed | I was sick of the stupid touch pad behavior
of the lab. laptops, i.e. firefox goes back
and forth in the history when the cursor |
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904
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Fri Aug 29 18:24:48 2008 |
rana | HowTo | PSL | PMC: PZT Calibration | I calibrated the PMC PZT at DC by using 'trianglewave'
to drive the DC offset slider
and reading back PMC_PZT and PMC_TRANSPD_F |
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966
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Thu Sep 18 18:38:14 2008 |
Yoichi | HowTo | Computers | How to compile an SNL code for VxWorks | Dave Barker guided me through how to compile
an SNL code into a Motorola 162 CPU object.
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977
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Mon Sep 22 16:51:27 2008 |
Yoichi | HowTo | Computers | Network GPIB | I was able to make the wireless connected
GPIB interface work with SR785.
Now you can download data from SR785 through |
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983
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Tue Sep 23 00:47:24 2008 |
Yoichi | HowTo | Computers | Network GPIB | [quote]
I wrote a new script called "netgpibdata.py"
which works similarly as "getgpibdata.py".
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1125
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Mon Nov 10 11:06:09 2008 |
rob | HowTo | IOO | mode cleaner locked |
I found the mode cleaner unlocked, with (at
least) MC1 badly mis-aligned. After checking |
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1132
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Thu Nov 13 11:33:25 2008 |
Alberto | HowTo | Treasure | Making (good) Matlab figures | Just a little summary of some useful ways
to change plot settings in Matlab that I
wanted to share and remember for the future:
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1139
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Mon Nov 17 11:01:15 2008 |
Alberto | HowTo | Electronics | Calibrating the Frequency Standard of the Marconi | I locked the [COLOR=purple][I]SRS Rubidium
Frequency Standard FS275[/I][/COLOR] to the
the 1pps from the GPS. The specs from the |
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1150
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Fri Nov 21 16:03:50 2008 |
rana | HowTo | General | Recharging Batteries | I found some black & red "Ninja" alkaline
AA batteries in the battery charger. [COLOR=red]This
is dangerous.[/COLOR] Please
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1181
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Fri Dec 5 20:40:38 2008 |
Yoichi | HowTo | Computers | Elog multi-keyword search | The current Elog search allows you to look
for only one keyword in the text.
You cannot search for two keywords by simply |
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1226
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Wed Jan 14 09:22:43 2009 |
steve | HowTo | VAC | N2 supply pressure lowered for vac valves | [quote]I've been replacing the N2 bottles
recently.
I noticed that the consumption is too high. |
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1238
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Mon Jan 19 15:10:37 2009 |
Yoichi | HowTo | Computers | loadLIGOData a GUI for mDV | I installed loadLIGOData, a product of my
weekend project, in /cvs/cds/caltech/apps/loadLIGOData.
This is a Matlab GUI for getting data from |
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1247
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Thu Jan 22 23:36:50 2009 |
pete | HowTo | oplevs | arm cavity oplev calibration | calibrated the y-arm oplevs. the procedure
is contained in a matlab script. the whereabouts
of this script will be revealed in a future |
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1342
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Thu Feb 26 20:09:32 2009 |
Yoichi | HowTo | Computers | SR785 python scripts now produce plots | I updated the python scripts to remotely perform
measurements with an SR785.
Now these scripts can plot the results immediately |
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1464
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Thu Apr 9 20:56:12 2009 |
Yoichi | HowTo | General | Restore the alignment. Write elog entries. | I often find that the mirrors are left mis-aligned
(like in X-arm mode) when I come in for the
locking, including tonight.
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1496
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Sun Apr 19 11:34:33 2009 |
josephb | HowTo | Cameras | USB Frame Grabber - How to | To use the Sensoray 2250 USB frame grabber:
Ensure you have the following packages
installed: build-essential, libusb-dev |
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1517
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Fri Apr 24 16:02:31 2009 |
steve | HowTo | VAC | cryo pump interlock rule | I tested the cryopump interlock today.
It is touchy. I do not have full confidence
in it. |
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1529
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Tue Apr 28 16:36:24 2009 |
rob | HowTo | Locking | setting the RF CARM demod phase | To set the demod phase for RF CARM, sensed
at REFL2 (REFL 166I), it suffices to set
the demod phase for REFL2 to be the optimal |
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1530
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Tue Apr 28 17:51:13 2009 |
rob | HowTo | Locking | setting the RF CARM demod phase |
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1532
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Wed Apr 29 10:20:14 2009 |
steve | HowTo | VAC | cryo pump interlock rule is waved |
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1550
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Wed May 6 02:39:20 2009 |
Yoichi | HowTo | Locking | How to go to DC readout | I wrote a script called DC_readout, which
you can find in /cvs/cds/caltech/scripts/DRFPMI/bang/nospring/.
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1589
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Fri May 15 14:05:14 2009 |
Dmass | HowTo | Computers | How To: Crash the Elog | The Elog started crashing last night. It
turns out I was the culprit, and whenever
I tried to upload a certain 500kb .png picture, |
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1657
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Fri Jun 5 16:45:28 2009 |
rob, pete | HowTo | Computers | tdsavg failure in cm_step script |
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1701
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Thu Jun 25 10:28:58 2009 |
steve | HowTo | VAC | Cryopump is regenerated | The Cryopump's VC1 valve to IFO was closed
yesterday.
The compressor
Helium pressure was 235 PSI. The cold head |
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1799
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Mon Jul 27 19:55:19 2009 |
Koji | HowTo | IOO | Lens selection: plano-convex? or bi-convex? | Q. When should we use plano-convex lenses,
and when should we use bi-convex?
As I had the same question from Jenne |
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1898
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Thu Aug 13 11:20:43 2009 |
janosch | HowTo | PEM | three-channel self-noise estimation | There are two new Matlab files on the svn
in /mDV/extra/C1. 'mycsd.m' is to calculate
the cross-spectral density between two channels, |
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1906
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Fri Aug 14 15:32:50 2009 |
Yoichi | HowTo | Computers | nodus boot procedure | The restart procedures for the various processes
running on nodus are explained here:
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1910
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Sat Aug 15 10:36:02 2009 |
Alan | HowTo | Computers | nodus boot procedure | [quote]The restart procedures for the various
processes running on nodus are explained
here:
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1931
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Thu Aug 20 09:16:32 2009 |
steve | HowTo | Photos | Control Room Workstation desks lowered to human height |
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1937
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Mon Aug 24 16:48:57 2009 |
steve | HowTo | VAC | new UPS installed |
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1998
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Thu Sep 24 19:35:20 2009 |
rana | HowTo | Photos | 40m Google account | I've created a 40m Google account. Please
post all the 40m related photos to this site.
If you don't already have it, download Picasa |
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2062
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Wed Oct 7 06:26:09 2009 |
rana | HowTo | IOO | MC_L calibration + some DTT lore | I drove MC2 in POS and used the
resulting response in MC_F to calibrate the
IOO-MC_L channel. |
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2091
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Wed Oct 14 15:48:26 2009 |
Mott | HowTo | General | Phase Noise measurement | I have gotten the hang of the procedure
for measuring phase noise on the AOMs.
Koji suggested I right up a short |
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2115
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Mon Oct 19 11:00:52 2009 |
steve | HowTo | SAFETY | 40m safety training | Kiwamu, Alex and Zach are practicing mandatory
IR-safety scan at the 40m-PSL
40m specific safety indoctrination |
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2164
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Fri Oct 30 09:24:45 2009 |
steve | HowTo | MOPA | how to squeeze more out of little |
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2242
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Wed Nov 11 18:43:57 2009 |
rana, koji | HowTo | Photos | Illuminated Paintbrush Technique | |
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2403
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Sat Dec 12 07:36:56 2009 |
rana | HowTo | Electronics | How to Measure the Length of a Cable: Interferometry | Need to measure the length |
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2427
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Thu Dec 17 09:30:08 2009 |
Alberto | HowTo | Computers | Nodus sluggish | The elog has been quite slow for the last
two days. The cause is nodus, that has been
slowing down the access to it. |
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2429
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Thu Dec 17 19:03:14 2009 |
Alberto | HowTo | Computers | Nodus sluggish |
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2540
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Thu Jan 21 17:23:30 2010 |
josephb,alex,koji | HowTo | Computers | RCG code fixes | In order to see the Contec DO-32L-PE
Digital output PCIe card with the new
controls, we had to add the CDO32 part to |
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2559
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Tue Feb 2 13:14:09 2010 |
Koji | HowTo | IOO | Anatomy of New Focus Resonant EOM | Joe let me use the resonant EOM for GigE
phase camera for a while.
Then, I immediately started to open |
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2598
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Fri Feb 12 14:19:28 2010 |
rana, steve | HowTo | lore | International Fax | Steve showed me how to send an international
fax today:
Load paper.
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2729
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Mon Mar 29 15:26:47 2010 |
Mott | HowTo | Computers | New script for controlling the AG4395A | I just put a script in the /cvs/cds/caltech/scripts/general/netgpibdata/
directory to control the network analyzer
called AG4395A_Run.py . A section |
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2734
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Tue Mar 30 11:16:05 2010 |
josephb | HowTo | Computers | ezca update information (CDS SVN) | I'd like to try installing an updated multi-threaded
ezca extension later this week, allowing
for 64-bit builds of GDS ezca tools, provided |
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2738
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Wed Mar 31 03:45:49 2010 |
Mott | HowTo | Computers | New script for controlling the AG4395A |
I took data for the 2 NPRO PLL using
the script I wrote for the AG4395, but it |
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