We  stopped pumping just short of 3 hours at 320 Torr.  Pumping speed was 2.7 Torr / min with partially closed RV1 and butterfly valve/

RP1&3 roughing pump hose is disconnected. Butterfly valve removed. The vac envelope is closed. 

 I can not understand what really happened here with CC1 gauge or there was really a pressure glitch.

attachment 1,  pump down day 3 with 4th of July fireworks in the lab

attachment 2,  before and after vent in 9 days

I stopped puming at 9:30 PM and the pressure in P1 is at 450 mtorr.

I followed exactly he procedure that Steve noted on his elog entry.

Here is a plot of the histroy of our pumping today.

 IFO P1= 1mTorr,   CC1 = 5e-4 Torr.  The IFO is ready for work. Be free to open the shutter and turn on HV

Jenne will double check the MC -REFL path for 1W power.  There is a manual block on the PSL table.

Atm1,  Pirani gauge at 9 h 10 min

Atm2, Pump configuration of pd#73 at 9h 35 min

 The new cold cathode gauge CC1 is in place. We were at atmosphere for 28 days ......more later

 cc1 = 2.3e-5 Torr at day 6 vacuum normal

Vacuum status:  " vacuum normal"   CC1 pressure 5e-5 Torr

Slow roughing through butterfly valve took 11 hours at 1-2 Torr/min speed.  We had a leak at the metal hose connecting o-ring  that became visible  at 200 Torr.

The vacuum envelope pressure rose to 500 mTorr from 450 mTorr  This is 50 mTorr leak plus outgassing over 11 hrs  over night stop =  5  mTorr /  hr

Atm2, Maglev pumpdown details. P2 and P3  are in the foreline of the Maglev. The pressure peaks at 4 Torr beacause the 3 drypumps have  little pumpimg speed at this range.

            External fan is turned on during this one hour period to prevent  Maglev turbo from overheating.

            Same things are  happenning with the two small TP2 and TP3 pumps under load. Their foreline pressure peak at 1 Torr.  They slow down to 45 K RPM from 50K RPM  and warm up to 36-39 C

Precondition: 36 days at atm

 We are pumping down. The annuloses are below 10 mTorr

The vacuum gauges are not communicating with the medm so there is no plot available.

The main volume pumping is stopped at P1 = 220 Torr  ( New SuperBee 174 Torr ) for overnight.

note: SuperBee was reading 791 Torr at atm and it was not set to 760 !

P1 IFO pressure is 1 mTorr, valve configuration: vacuum normal, annulosses are pumped, RGA is off, not pumped.

THANKS to Chris !

The shutters can be opened with high power.

No communication error message still exist.

I will reboot c1vac1 and c1vac2 to get gauge communication with medm tomorrow.

The pumpdown started at 9-12-2016

The IFO is at 5e-5 Torr vacuum normal after 73 day at atm.

ITMX needed to be freed and ETMY-UL is still misbehaving occasionally.

New pirani   and cold cathode gauges added at this vent. They were baked at 100 C for 6 hrs under vacuum.

Go to the Vac Rack to read IFO pressure from the gauge itself when Vac. Monitor is blank as it is now !

IFO pressure 3.7e-5 Torr at new cold cathode InstruTech - Hornet

New items in vacuum:

1, ETMX sus tower with new baked sus wire, EP30-2 epoxied magnets, same at different locations also........ ..........  and 2 ruby wirestandoffs.

2, First Contact cleaned arm test masses only. This technic was a 1st time use in our vacuum system.

3, 50 mm ID green glass baffles at the ends

4, witness mirrors at ETMX and ITMY (old oplev mirrors) We observed a very dusty system: sides of optics, towers and tables were wiped. Hepa tents used at Y arm and BS

5, new pirani, cc gauge and 1.5" right angle valve

The manual gate valve scan was clean. Atm1     TP1 was pumping on it overnight.

                                                Pumpdown continued to hand over the pumping to TP1 maglev turbo

V1 was opened at P1 400 mTorr  with manual gate at 3/4 turn open position as Magev at 560 Hz rotation.

Two aux fans on to hold tubo temps TP1 & TP3 . Atm3

This is the first time we pumping down from atm with ONE small "beer can" turbo  and throttled gate valve to control load on small turbo forepump

The 70 l/s turbo is operating at 50k RPM, 0.7 A and 31 C,  pumping speed  ~ 44 mTorr/h at 200-400 mTorr range with aux drypump in the foreline of TP3

Watching foreline pressures and current one can keep opening gate valve little by little the so the load is optimized. It is working but not fast.

Let's keep small turbo at 0.8 Amp and 32 C max at this pumpdown. 

IFO P1 6e-4 Torr,  manual gate valve is fully open

The annuloses will be pumped down tomorrow.

Valve configuration: vacuum normal, RGA and annuloses are not pumped

Precondition:  4 days at atm.   Atm5

HEPA tent used during the vent at ETMY  It reduced partical count 10 fold of 0.5 and 0.3 micron particals. Atm6

New items in vacuum:  Clean manual gate valve [Cetec made] from John Worden with 6" id....as it came from Hanford... [ Throttle able gate valve- TGV ] Atm3

                                 ( note: we have 3 more identical in the lab. The original intention was to use them for purging gates )

                                  Optiform Au plated reflector , Induceramics heating elements, similar as existing Cooner cables and related lenses, hardwear. see 14078

                                  OMC related item : none......... 14,110

The pumpdown is at 510 mTorr with RP1 & RP3 still pumping. Koji will shut it down the roughing later tonight. Tomorrow morning I will start the pumping by switching over to TP1 maglev.

Thanks for Koji and Gautam'  help of the installation of the manual gate valve. Atm4  This will allow us to control the load on our Varian foreline D70 turbo TP3

10:20PM

• Opened VM2 to pump down the RGA section with TP1
• Stopped rotary roughing pumps
  • Manually closed RV1
  • Closed V3
  • Stopped RP1 and RP3
  • Vented the RP hose

The P1 pressure is 380mTorr. I allowed Gautam to use the full PSL power (~1W).

[koji, gautam]

As planned, we valved off the main volume and the annuli from the turbo-pumps at ~730 PM PST. At this time, the main volume pressure was 30 uTorr. It started rising at a rate of ~200 uTorr/hr, which translates to ~5 mtorr/day, which is in the ballpark of what Steve said is "normal". However, the calibration of the Hornet gauge seems to be piecewise-linear (see Attachment #1), so we will have to observe overnight to get a better handle on this number.

We decided to vent the IY and EY chamber annular volumes, and check if this made anu dramatic changes in the main volume pressure increase rate, presumably signalling a leak from the outside. However, we saw no such increase - so right now, the working hypothesis is still that the main volume pressure increase is being driven by outgassing of something from the vacuum.

Let's leave things in this state overnight - V1 and V5 closed so that neither the main volume nor the annuli are being pumped, and get some baseline numbers for what the outgassing rate is.

IFO pumped down from 44 mTorr to 9.6e-6 Torr with Maglev  backed with only TP3

Aux drypump  was helping our std drypump during this 1 hour period. TP3 reached 32 C and slowed down 47K rpm

The peak foreline pressure at P2  was ~3 Torr

Hornet cold cathode gauge setting:   research mode, air,

                                                            2830 HV  1e-4A  at 9.6e-6 Torr,

                                                         [  3110 HV  8e-5A at 7.4e-6 Torr one day later ]

Annuloses are at 2 Torr, not pumped

Valve configuration:  vacuum normal, RGA is still off

PSL shutter is opened automatically. Manual block removed.

End IR lasers and doublers are turned on.

NOTE: Maglev " rotation X " on vacuum medm screen is not working! " C1:Vac-TP1_rot " channel was removed.  Use " NORMAL X " for rotation monitoring.

*We removed this (i.e. rotation) field from the MEDM screen to avoid confusion.

 It took 15 days to reach 1e-5 Torr

The RGA was turned on yesterday. The rga scan plotting was not working. Den wrote a Python script to log and plot because the Mathlab had trouble receiving data from our old c0raga.

It turned out that the Joe's log&plot system was working today. Thanks Den and Joe.

Here is the first rga scan.

 We are pumping down with RP1 & RP3 oily roughing pumps at 3 Torr/min speed. The butterfly valve was just removed.

The PSL shutter is open to vacuum at ~100  mW 1064 nm. The inter lock should close it at ~5 mTorr.

Rana will shut down pumping tonight.

He will close V3 from screen, close RV1 valve with torque wheel, turn off roughing pumps and disconnect hose between RV1 and roughing pumps.

I will restart pumping early morning tomorrow.

[Rana, Yuta, Koji]

21:05 at the pressure of 10torr
V3 closed. RV1 manually closed. RPs were turned off. And the bellows between RV1 and the rughing pumps are disconnected.

 The ion pumps were vented just before pumpdown and their gate valves were opened.

This is an effort to minimize a possible leak through their gates.

Is there a volunteer who goes home late and would close off the roughing? tonight

 All normal, IFO pressure 1.5e-5 Torr

RGA is pumped by TP-3 in back ground mode.

Vacuum Normal State is reached in 9 hours.  CC1 =  2e-5 Torr

Aux dry pump #3 is still running.  The RGA is not pumped yet.

 IFO   P1 pressure is 1 mTorr.  It is ready for high power light.

The Maglev took over the pumping at 500 mTorr

 Pumpdown completed. IR shutter opened at P1 1 mTorr  The block is still in the beam path.

Remember to protect MCR pd before crack up the PSL power.

The ion pump gate valves were just closed by cc1 triggered interlock

The cry pump was "regenerated" during the vent and it's outgassing rate minimized.

CC3 cold cathode gauge was replaced.

Valve configuration for week end:

1, VA6 disconnected to avoid accidental venting the IFO through the annulos

2, VC2 disconnected to insure that the cryo stays closed

3, RGA is not running, It's pressure limit 1e-5 Torr

 Pump down is restarted after 10.5 hrs stop overnight.

 Atm1, RGA background scan with TP3 pumping at day 7

Atm2,  IFO  CC1 = 1.1e-5 Torr at day 8

 Vacuum valve VM3 closed and VM2 opened, it switched the RGA to IFO scanning mode. CC4 = 3.5e-6 Torr

TP3 is pumping on the annuloses, their pressures are 1-3 mTorr

Vacuum condition reached the state of  Vacuum Normal. The MEDM screen "Current State" channel does not work because we disconnected some valves after the VME swap CAOS

Note: TP1 Maglev performance on Atm2  CC4 = 4e-9 Torr when VM2 valve was open

 The pressure is CC1 3e-4 Torr at 8 hours of pumping.  Status: vacuum normal

The IFO is ready for light

Oplev positions before and after drag wiped arm TMs as of yesterday. Slow-mode pumpdown has started with 3/4 turn opened  RV1 valve at 8am today.

 I'm leaving the lab now for less than 2 hours. I should be back in time for when the pumping is finished so that I can measure the finesse again.

Wait, Wait, Wait. You are moving too fast. Go one by one.

Check the PZTs, the MC, initial pointings, IFO mirrors, some of the partial locks, and maybe some momentary full locks?
Once the recover of the IFO is declared, you can proceed to the measurements.

I hope the grad students can take this precious opportunity to have their fun time for restoring everything by themselves.

Slow pumpdown of rebuilt IFO-mark4 started at 3pm today.

We are at 680Torr at this minute with 1.5 Torr/min speed.

I'm looking for IOO steering mirror power supplies. I found two so far: one at 1Y3 as Kepco  + 75V and one at OMC_North rack -150V

Are there any more? The OMC is off.

ANSWER: only one of the steering PZT can be driven, so see their power supplies

The vacuum system is at 760 torr  All chambers with doors on and their annuloses are pumped down.

PSL output shutter is still closed. We are fully prepared to star slow pump down tomorrow.

The plan is to reach 1 torr ~ in 6 hrs  without a creating a sand storm.

 Pump down is completed. Valve configuration is VACUUM NORMAL. CC1 pressure is in the ~8 e-5 torr   PSL output shutter is opened.

Pd 76 and 77 are compared at 30 days of pumping. We spend 13-14 days at atmosphere  before each.

 Pump down 76 was with leaky ion pump gate valve. The ion pumps are not in use for years so they accumulated some higher pressure  PLUS the valve switching caos at computer reboot most likely

increased the ion pumps pressures to about 10-20 torr

I think one of the ion pump gate valve was not sealing well. This leak was holding back pump down speed at pd76

cd /opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/userapps
rm -rf trunk
svn update --depth=files trunk
svn update --depth=empty trunk/{CDS,ISI,ISC,PSL,SUS}
svn update trunk/{CDS,ISI,ISC,PSL,SUS}/{c1,common}

  [Zach and Kiwamu]

 We installed the new ETMY tower and successfully aligned the beam to the center of ETMY.

 Also we finished the final alignment of IP_ANG.

(what we did)

 - took the old ETM out  from the chamber and put it on the flow bench at the X end.

 - with a help from Joe and Osamu, we brought the new ETM and put it roughly on place.

 - did a fine positioning of ETMY.

 - covered the ETM tower with a large peace of aluminum foil in order to see the spot on a video monitor.

 - stoled a compact video monitor that was sitting on the PSL table since we don't have any monitors at the Y end.

 - made a ~1cm hole on the foil as a target for the beam.

 - steered PZT1 in order to correct the beam position on ETMY. This is done by looking at the spot on the video monitor.

 - steered IPANG_SM1 to let the beam hit a steering mirror in the ETMY chamber which Koji installed recently.

     Now we have IP_ANG coming out from the viewport of the ETMY chamber.

(Joe, Yuta)

Summary:
  LOCKIN(consists of oscillator and demodulator) is needed for A2L measurement.
  So, we put LOCKIN to c1ioo model, whose outputs goes to c1mcs ASC.
  After that, I checked the functionality of LOCKIN by directly connecting DAC output for a coil to ADC input for MCL with BNC cable.

What we did:
[Putting LOCKING to c1ioo model]
1. Copied Simulink LOCKIN stuff(cdsOsc, Product, cdsPhase ...) from /cvs/cds/caltech/cds/rward-advLigo/src/epics/simLink/omc.mdl and put it into c1ioo model.

2. Copied MEDM screen file /cvs/cds/caltech/medm/c1/omc/C1OMC_LSC_LOCKIN.adl and modified it for our use.

[Checking LOCKIN]
3. Disconnected MC2_ULCOIL input to SOS Coil driver at 1X4-1-6A and checked the signal from software oscillator at c1ioo is coming.

4. Disconnected the cable labeled "MC OUT1" at 1X2 (which is MCL signal to ADC) and put MC2_ULCOIL output directly using long BNC cable.

5. Checked the functionality of LOCKIN by StripTool.
   The cable wiring did not conflict with my expectation.
   Software mixer is working.(frequency is doubled. X_SIN has offset and X_COS doesn't)

6. Put the cables back.

Result:
  Thanks to c1rfm, c1ioo and c1sus are talking without ADC timeout.
  Also, LOCKIN is working fine.

I started to look into putting together a 110 MHz demod board to be used as POP110 (see #8399).

We have five spare old-skool EuroCard demod boards (LIGO-D990511).  From what I gather (see #4538, #4708) there are two modifications we do to these boards to make them ready for prime time:

• appropriate LP filter at PD RF input (U5 -> MC SCLF-*)
• swap out T1 transformer network with a commercial phase shifting power splitter (MC PQW/PSCQ)

#4538 also describes some other modifications but I'm not sure if those were actually implemented or not:

• removal of the attenuator/DC block/ERA-5 amp sections at the I/Q outputs
• swap ERA-5 amp with "Cougar"(?) amp at LO input.

What we'll need for a 110 demod:

• U5 -> SCLF-135
• T1 network -> PSCQ-2-120

I'll scrounge or order.

This SCPQ-150+, which is surface mount, might also work in place of the PSCQ-2-120, which is through-mount.  Would need to be reconciled with the board layout.

 For the 110 MHz demod boards, we would ideally have a plugin bandpass filter. If you have some specs in mind, you can email mini-circuits or pulsar microwave about making a custom part; its not too expensive usually.

For the meantime, you should remove the onboard one and replace with a combination of low/high pass filters from Mini-Circuits. If you put a SLP-150 and a SHP-100 in series, the insertion loss should be less than 1 dB.

I think the ERA amps are OK for now, but they die with time, so they just need to be tested and replaced if necessary.