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16957   Tue Jun 28 17:07:47 2022 AnchalUpdateCalibrationAdded Beatnote channels in demodulation of c1cal

I added today demodulation of C1:LSC-BEATX/Y_FINE_I/Q in the c1cal demodulation where different degrees of freedom can be dithered. For McCal (formerly soCal), we'll dither the arm cavity for which we can use any of the DOFs (like DARM) to send the dither to ETMX/ETMY. Then with green laser locked as well, we'll get the calibration signal from the beatnotes in the demodulaed channels. We can also read right after the mixing in c1cal model and try differnt poles for integration .

I've also added medm screens in the sensing matrix part of LSC screen. These let you see demodulation of beatnote frequency signals.

11793   Fri Nov 20 15:44:12 2015 KojiSummaryPSLAdded 17.5kHz LPF to the PMC servo

As a final tune of the PMC servo, I've added 1nF cap at the error signal amplification stage. The diagram has been updated and uploaded to DCC. https://dcc.ligo.org/D1400221

It should be noted that this modification yielded the error signal to have 17.5kHz roll off.

The openloop TF after the modification has been measured. (Attachment 1)

With the new nominal gain of 9dB, almost the same gain margin for the 28kHz peak has been realized.
=> We have 6dB (factor of 2) more gain at low frequency. Currently, the feature at 8kHz causes the oscillation when the gain is further increased.

Here is the model function for the OLTF.

function cmpOLTFc = PMC_OLTF_model(freqOLTFc)

cmpOLTFc = -9.5e5*pole1(freqOLTFc,0.162).*zero1(freqOLTFc,491)... % from the circuit diagram     .*pole1(freqOLTFc,17.5e3)... % Newly implemented input filter => GBW pole was replaced with this     .*zero2(freqOLTFc,12.5e3,100)... % eye-fit     .*pole2(freqOLTFc,12.2e3,6)... % eye-fit     .*pole2(freqOLTFc,28.8e3, 12)... % eye-fit     .*pole1(freqOLTFc,150e3)... % Mixer LPF estimated from Circuit Lab Simulation     .*pole1(freqOLTFc,11.3)... % Output Impedance + PZT LPF     .*pole1(freqOLTFc,3e4); % Unknown    end

The free-running round-trip displacement (roundtrip) / frequency noise is shown in Attachments. There we compare the spectra with and without IMC locked.

i.e. When the IMC is not locked, we are measuring the laser frequency noise with the sensor (PMC cavity) that is noisy due to the PMC displacement.
When the IMC is locked, the laser frequency is further stabilized while the sensor (PMC) noise is not changed.

- Without IMC locked

Can we see the laser freq noise? It seems that it is visible above 100Hz.
The red curve is the measured noise level. The NPRO (although it is LWE NPRO) noise level from S. Nagano's thesis (see our wiki) is shown there.

- With IMC locked

When the IC is locked, we see the increase of the noise between 1~4Hz. It means that the IMC is not only noisier than the laser, but also noisier than the PMC cavity.
Sounds reasonable. And the PMC is capable to handle this motion.

The reduction of the frequency noise is seen from 100Hz to 30kHz.

The interesting point is that we can see the noise increase above 30kHz when the IMC is locked.
I believe that the phase correction EOM is shared with the PMC modulation. i.e. PMC sees the corrected laser frequency.

We expect that the frequency noise is reduced at this frequency. But in reality not.

In addition, there is a sharp peak at ~35kHz. I wonder If this is caused by the IMC servo. It is worse to investigate.

11855   Mon Dec 7 10:40:09 2015 yutaroUpdateComputer Scripts / ProgramsAdded 1 line to UNFREEZE_DITHER.py

I added 1 line to one of the ASS scripts, UNFREEZE_DITHER.py like this:

L29>   ez.cawrite('C1:ASS-'+dof+'_GAIN', 0)

The reason why I added this is: without this line, C1:ASS-'+dof+'_GAIN become larger that 1.0, which is nomial value, if you UNFREEZE DITHER when the dither is already running or C1:ASS-'+dof+'_GAIN is not 0.0.

5738   Tue Oct 25 20:04:40 2011 MirkoUpdateAdaptive FilteringAdaptive filter witness and EP SNR

We currently have the code running for all DOFs using all witness channels. By default nothing is applied. C-Code parameters can be changed via the respective EPICS variables. Sanity checks in the C-Code make sure the code doesn't crash when nothing / zeros are fed to the code. Let's look into applying FF to one DOF only as a starting point. We start with MCL.

Remember there are two possible signals to look into MC-F and MC-Servo. See page 5695 http://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:8080/40m/5695

### Dark noise: MC-F over MC-Servo which is unconnected in this measurement:

=> At least 20dB SNR. ADC noise should not be an issue. Of course more is always better.

### Coherence of seismometers to MCL:

STS1 is located at the vertex. x-axis along the x arm.
GUR1 is located at the IMC MC2 mirror. Same orientation.

=> 1. Only the x-direction has good coherence (to be expected)
2. Only good coherence at 1.5-4Hz (huh?)

So probably other noise sources are dominating. Let's look into noise projections. Remember IMC autoalignment is off.

A quick adaptive filter run with only the GUR1 and STS1 witnesses applied only to MCL didn't really do anything. Some more thought needs to be invested into the AA and shaping filters.

5740   Tue Oct 25 21:49:13 2011 DenUpdateAdaptive FilteringAdaptive filter witness and EP SNR

 Quote Coherence of seismometers to MCL: STS1 is located at the vertex. x-axis along the x arm. GUR1 is located at the IMC MC2 mirror. Same orientation. => 1. Only the x-direction has good coherence (to be expected)      2. Only good coherence at 1.5-4Hz (huh?) So probably other noise sources are dominating. Let's look into noise projections. Remember IMC autoalignment is off. A quick adaptive filter run with only the GUR1 and STS1 witnesses applied only to MCL didn't really do anything. Some more thought needs to be invested into the AA and shaping filters.

Indeed, only GUR1_X is reasonable. Static Wiener filtering (length = 2500) of MCL with witness channels GUR_1_X, GUR_1_Y, GUR_1_Z proves your measurements.

We need to callibrate seimometers. I think that now we see velocity, not displacement. It might be useful to amplify the seimometer singal before ADC to make sure that our signal is not ADC noise.

5777   Tue Nov 1 18:16:50 2011 DenUpdateAdaptive FilteringAdaptive filter witness and EP SNR

Quote:

### Coherence of seismometers to MCL:

STS1 is located at the vertex. x-axis along the x arm.
GUR1 is located at the IMC MC2 mirror. Same orientation.

=> 1. Only the x-direction has good coherence (to be expected)
2. Only good coherence at 1.5-4Hz (huh?)

So probably other noise sources are dominating. Let's look into noise projections. Remember IMC autoalignment is off.

A quick adaptive filter run with only the GUR1 and STS1 witnesses applied only to MCL didn't really do anything. Some more thought needs to be invested into the AA and shaping filters.

The possible explanation to this effect is the following:

Seismic noise mainly consists of the Love and Rayleigh surface waves. In the simulations we've taken 2 perpendicular Love waves and 2 perpendicular Rayleigh waves that interfere under the test mirrors. This interference produces both translational and tilt movements. Then we can see the coherence between translational motion and cavity length.

1. The coherence at big frequencies is small due to the passive isolation.

2. The coherence at 1 Hz is 0 due to the wire resonance.

3. The coherence between 1 and 10 Hz is reasonable. At the real 40m's measurements we can see only good coherence for gur1_x and sts1_x but this is the matter of adjusting seismic waves amplitude and direction. In the simulation we've assumed that all waves are of the same amplitude. The really interesting thing is that

4. The coherence below 0.8 Hz began to grow. We don't see this in real measurements.

But let's simulate the seismometer measurements. It measures not only translational motion but also tilt and with amplitude proportional to g / omega^2. On the Figure below the spectrum of translation motion, tilt and tilt as seen by seismometer is presented. We can see that at low frequencies tilt begins to dominate over the translational motion. We assumed the speed of waves in the region 30 - 60 m/sec.

Let's now plot the coherence between the cavity length and seismometer signal.

We can see that the coherence between seismic signal from measured by seismometer and cavity length is gone below 1 Hz where tilt becomes important.

Now let's try to filter out the seismic noise from the cavity length using both static Wiener filtering and adaptive Mfxlms algorithm. For both filters we've used AA filter before the filters and also AI filter after adaptive filter. The downsampling ratio was 4, the sample frequency 256. We can see that nothing is really subtracted due to the pollution of the seismometer signal due to tilt motion.

Assume we do the same computational experiment but with the seismometers that measure only ground translational motion and tilt do not affect on them. Then we have a reasonable subraction of seismic noise at low frequencies even with the filters of the length 100 as shown on the figure below.

Let's look through an order of magnitude analysis. Assume ground motion consists of only one wave with amplitude A and only vertical movement:  z(t) = A*sin(2 pi 0.1 t). So the frequency of the wave is 0.1 Hz. If A = 10-6 m => the amplitude of the suspended mirror motion is also approximately 10-6 m, as we have no isolation at low frequencies. The tilt angle has the amplitude alpha = 2*pi*A/lambda, where lambda - wavelength of the ground wave, lambda = v/f = 40/0.1 = 400 m, v - speed of the wave, f - frequency. Then alpha = 10-8 rad. If the distance between ground and mirror suspension point is 1 m, then mirror motion amplitude due to tilt is B = 10-8 m << A.
It turns out that tilt does not effect much on the cavity length compared to the ground translational motion, but it affects a lot on the seismometer signals, that are used as witness signals in the filtering. For that reason we need tiltmeters to filter seismometer signals in order to obtain pure translational ground motion.
704   Mon Jul 21 09:52:05 2008 SharonUpdate Adaptive code changes
Thanks to Alex, we now save the coefficients of the adaptive filter every cycle. When we choose ENABLE: OFF on the MEDM screen, suppressing the signal to the MC1, we stop and save the last coefficients. When enabling it again, it starts from the last coefficients saved. I will take some measurements today to check how this contributes to the adaptation rate. If you change the number of taps or the number of AUX channels, the coefficients are again set to zero.
563   Wed Jun 25 09:46:45 2008 SharonUpdate Adaptive Filters
I have been learning about different methods for applying adaptive filters to improve the Mode Cleaner lock in specific, and other LIGO systems in general.
Finding the exact number of coeffs we would like to apply for our FIR adaptive filter is very important to the efficiency of the filter. Getting this number higher might improve the accuracy of the filter, but costs time we do not have. Another important number to find is the step size. The step size is the variable that controls how far back we want to look into our data for finding the new coeffs. To understand more about the step size it is necessary to learn about the standard deviation of our input and output signals. By getting the step size too big, we are considering long term behavior, but might be missing out on a short term one.
In the near future I will be learning about the meanings of these variables and their contribution to the over all accuracy of our filters.
Results will be posted.
387   Thu Mar 20 17:45:36 2008 ranaSummaryASSAdaptive Filtering in the ASS system
Over the past couple weeks we (Matt, Alex, Rob, me) have worked on getting an adaptive filter
system working. We wanted to load this system into c1ass to use this processor. The dither alignment
system hasn't been employed here for awhile and so we have just used this box.

The signals are acquired in the PEM ADCU. Alex modified the code there to send the signals over to
the new system. We also get the SUS-LSC_OUT signals from each of the suspensions so that we can
try to minimize them.

The outputs of the adaptive filter go into the unused SUS-MCL inputs of all the suspensions (except
for MC2). In the current setup, we have 6 accelerometers and 1 seismometer around the MC to be used
to demonstrate the principle of the whole thing.

Much more documentation and description of everything is necessary. We'll try to get Matt, Rob, and Alex
to use the elog.
384   Mon Mar 17 18:30:48 2008 mevansConfigurationPEMAdaptive Filtering
It seems that adaptive filtering can achieve results similar to those of the MISO FIR Wiener (entry 369). The adaptive code simulates real-time operation, but uses the same data used by Rana for the Wiener filter. I ran the adaptive filter over the data 100 times to ensure that it was well trained... maybe too well.
5811   Fri Nov 4 15:24:13 2011 MirkoUpdateAdaptive FilteringAdaptive FF on the MC doesn't make sense

[Den, Jenne, Mirko]

Here is the story:

1. High gain
The control loop has a high gain at the interesting frequencies. The error point (EP) before the servo is approx. zero and the information how much the mirror would move is in the feedback point (FB) behind the servo. The mirror doesn’t actually move because of the high gain. This is the case of the grav. wave detectors and medium frequencies (> approx. 50Hz, <<1kHz). Adding feed-forward (FF) to this doesn’t actually keep the mirror quieter. In fact if you look into the FB and subtract the seismic you make the mirror move more. Yes this is the case we have for the mode cleaner, doesn’t make sense.
In a real GW detector FF however isn’t totally useless. The FB tells you how much the mirror moves, due to GWs, seismic etc. When you record the FB and subtract (offline) the seismic you get closer to the real GW signal.

2. Low gain
When you, for technical reasons, can’t have a high gain in your control loop the EP contains information of how the mirror actually moves. You can then feed this into the adaptive filter and add its output to the FB. This will minimize the EP reducing the actual mirror motion. This is the case we will have for most or all other degrees of freedom in the 40m.

The reason we have so much gain in the mode cleaner length control is that we don’t actually move mirrors around. We change the frequency of the incoming laser light. You can do that crazy fast with a big amplitude. This gives us a high UGF and lots of gain in the 1Hz range we are interested in.

We now change the adaptive filter to look at the EP for all DOFs except for the MC. We calculate the effect of the FF on the MC length signal without ever applying the FF to the MC length control.

6163   Tue Jan 3 20:42:05 2012 Leo SingerUpdateGeneralActuators for Stewart platform

I checked on the two single-axis shakers that are present at the 40m that Steve pointed out:

• Brüel & Kjær type 4809, rated for 45 N peak, and
• Brüel & Kjær type 4810, rated for 10 N peak.

Neither of these meet the force requirement of 2.04 kN peak.

6165   Wed Jan 4 02:43:40 2012 ranaUpdateGeneralActuators for Stewart platform

 Quote: I checked on the two single-axis shakers that are present at the 40m that Steve pointed out: Brüel & Kjær type 4809, rated for 45 N peak, and Brüel & Kjær type 4810, rated for 10 N peak. Neither of these meet the force requirement of 2.04 kN peak.

Do we really need 40 microns at 500 Hz? Or perhaps should there be a frequency dependent displacement requirement?

17285   Fri Nov 18 16:58:39 2022 yutaSummaryBHDActuator calibrations for MICH BHD

As there is some confusion in actuator calibration, we have done the measurement again from scratch.
Results are the following.
New values for LO1, LO2, AS1, AS4 are obtained from free swinging ITMY-LO, so it should be more robust.

BS   : 26.54e-9 /f^2 m/counts ITMX :  4.93e-9 /f^2 m/counts ITMY :  4.90e-9 /f^2 m/counts LO1  : 26.34e-9 /f^2 m/counts LO2  :  9.81e-9 /f^2 m/counts AS1  : 23.35e-9 /f^2 m/counts AS4  : 24.07e-9 /f^2 m/counts

BS, ITMX, and ITMY actuator calibration:
Followed the procedure in 40m/16929.
Calibrated AS55_Q using X-Y plot to be 9.72e8 counts/m (Attachment #1), locked MICH with UGF of 10 Hz, and measured the transfer function from C1:LSC-BS,ITMX,ITMY_EXC to C1:LSC-AS55_Q_ERR.
The result is Attachment #2. They are consistent with 40m/16929.

LO1, LO2, AS1, and AS4 actuator calibration:
Followed similar steps with ITMY-LO fringe.
Calibrated BH55_Q using X-Y plot to be 7.40e9 counts/m (Attachment #3), locked ITMY-LO with UGF of ~15 Hz (Attachment #4), and measured the transfer function from C1:SUS-LO1,LO2,AS1,AS4_LSC_EXC to C1:LSC-BH55_Q_ERR.
The result is Attachment #5. They are inconsistent with 40m/17284, but this one should be more robust (see discussions below).

LO1, LO2, AS1, and AS4 actuator calibration by taking the ratio between ITMY:
We have also followed the steps in 40m/17206 to calibrate BHD actuators.
This method does not depend on BH55_Q optical gain calibration, but depends on ITMY calibration.
Measured OLTFs for ITMY-LO fringe locking is Attachment #6, and actuator ratio with respect to ITMY is Attachment #7. In this measurement, Bandstop filter at 96.7 Hz for AS4 was turned off, and gain was lowered by a factor of 2 to avoid AS4 oscillating.
This gives

LO1  : 116.81e-9 /f^2 m/counts LO2  :  51.69e-9 /f^2 m/counts AS1  : 101.48e-9 /f^2 m/counts AS4  : 117.84e-9 /f^2 m/counts

These are not consistent with 40m/17284, and larger by a factor of ~2-3.
These are also not consistent with the values from free swinging measurement, and are larger by a factor of ~4-5.
I guess there are some gains missing when comparing ITMY loop in c1lsc and other loops in c1hpc.

16978   Thu Jul 7 18:22:12 2022 yutaUpdateLSCActuator calibration of MC2 using Yarm

(This is also a restore of elog 40m/16971 from Jul 5, 2022 at 17:36)

MC2 actuator calibration was also done using Yarm in the same way as we did in 40m/16970 (now 40m/16977).
The result is the following;
MC2 : -14.17e-9 /f^2 m/counts in arm length (-2.9905 times ITMY) MC2 :   5.06e-9 /f^2 m/counts in IMC length MC2 :  1.06e+05 /f^2 Hz/counts in IR laser frequency

What we did:
- Measured TF from C1:LSC-MC2_EXC to C1:LSC-YARM_IN1 during YARM lock using ETMY (see Attachment #1). Note that the sign of MC2 actuation and ITMY actuation is flipped.
- Took the ratio between ITM actuation and MC2 actuation to calculate MC2 actuation. For ITM actuation, we used the value measured using MICH (see 40m/16929). The average of the ratio in the frequency range 70-150 Hz was used (see Attachment #2).
- The actuation efficiency in meters in arm length was converted into meters in IMC length by multiplying it by IMCLength/ArmLength, where IMCLength=13.5 m is half of IMC round-trip length, ArmLength=37.79 m is the arm length.
- The actuation efficiency in meters in arm length was converted into Hz in IR laser frequency by multiplying it by LaserFreq/ArmLength, where LaserFreq=1064 nm / c is the laser frequency.

Files:
- Measurement files live in https://git.ligo.org/40m/measurements/-/tree/main/LSC/YARM
- Script for calculation lives at https://git.ligo.org/40m/scripts/-/blob/main/CAL/ARM/ETMActuatorCalibration.ipynb

Summary of actuation calibration so far:
BS   : 26.08e-9 /f^2 m/counts (see 40m/16929)
ITMX :  5.29e-9 /f^2 m/counts (see
40m/16929)
ITMY :  4.74e-9 /f^2 m/counts (see
40m/16929)
ETMX :  2.65e-9 /f^2 m/counts (0.5007 times ITMX) ETMY : 10.91e-9 /f^2 m/counts (2.3017 times ITMY)
MC2 : -14.17e-9 /f^2 m/counts in arm length (-2.9905 times ITMY) MC2 :   5.06e-9 /f^2 m/counts in IMC length

NOTE ADDED by YM on July 7, 2022

To account for the gain imbalance in ETMX, ETMY, MC2, LSC violin filter gains were set to: C1:LSC-ETMX_GAIN = 4.12 C1:LSC-MC2_GAIN = -0.77 This is a temporary solution to make ETMX and MC2 actuation efficiencies from LSC in terms of arm length to be the same as ETMY 10.91e-9 /f^2 m/counts.

I think it is better to make C1:LSC-ETMX_GAIN = 1, and put 4.12 in C1:SUS-ETMX_TO_COIL gains. We need to adjust local damping gains and XARM ASS afterwards. As for MC2, it is better to put -0.77 in LSC output matrix, since this balancing depends on LSC topology.

16981   Fri Jul 8 16:18:35 2022 ranaUpdateLSCActuator calibration of MC2 using Yarm

although I know that Yuta knows this, I will just put this here to be clear: the NNN/f^2 calibration is only accurate abouve the pendulum POS eiegenfrequency, so when we estimate the DC part (in diaggui, for example), we have to assume that we have a pendulum with f = 1 Hz and Q ~5, to get the value of DC gain to put into the diaggui Gain field in the calibration tab.

16977   Thu Jul 7 18:18:19 2022 yutaUpdateLSCActuator calibration of ETMX and ETMX

(This is a complete restore of elog 40m/16970 from July 5, 2022 at 14:34)

ETMX and ETMY actuators were calibrated using single arm lock by taking the actuation efficiency ratio between ITMs. Below is the result.

ETMX :  2.65e-9 /f^2 m/counts (0.5007 times ITMX)
ETMY : 10.91e-9 /f^2 m/counts (2.3017 times ITMY)

Motivation:
- ETMX and ETMY actuators seemed to be unbalanced when locking DARM (see 40m/16968)

What we did:
- Reverted to C1:LSC-ETMX_GAIN = 1
- XARM was locked using POX11_I_ERR (42dB whitening gain, 132.95 deg for demod phase) with ETMX and C1:LSC-XARM_GAIN=0.06
- YARM was locked using POY11_I_ERR (18dB whitening gain, -66.00 deg for demod phase) with ETMX and C1:LSC-YARM_GAIN=0.02
- OLTFs for each was measured to be Attachment #1; UGF was ~180 Hz for XARM, ~200 Hz for YARM.
- Measured TF from C1:LSC-(E|I)TM(X|Y)_EXC to C1:LSC-(X|Y)ARM_IN1 (see Attachment #2)
- Took the ratio between ITM actuation and ETM actuation to calculate ETM actuation. For ITM actuation, we used the value measured using MICH (see 40m/16929). The average of the ratio in the frequency range 70-150 Hz was used.

Files:
- Measurement files live in https://git.ligo.org/40m/measurements/-/tree/main/LSC/XARM and YARM
- Script for calculation lives at https://git.ligo.org/40m/scripts/-/blob/main/CAL/ARM/ETMActuatorCalibration.ipynb

Discussion:
- ETMX actuation is 4.12 times less compared with ETMY. This is more or less consistent with what we measured in 40m/16968, but we didn't do loop-correction at that time.
- We should check if this imbalance is as expected or not.

Summary of actuation calibration so far:
BS   : 26.08e-9 /f^2 m/counts (see 40m/16929)
ITMX :  5.29e-9 /f^2 m/counts (see 40m/16929)
ITMY :  4.74e-9 /f^2 m/counts (see 40m/16929)
ETMX :  2.65e-9 /f^2 m/counts (0.5007 times ITMX) ETMY : 10.91e-9 /f^2 m/counts (2.3017 times ITMY)

16929   Fri Jun 17 16:22:21 2022 yutaUpdateLSCActuator calibration of BS. ITMX, ITMY, updated MICH displacement spectra from c1cal

Following what we have done in 2013 (40m/8242), actuator calibration was done using MICH.

AS55_Q in MICH : 9.74e8 counts/m
BS   : 26.08e-9 /f^2 m/counts
ITMX : 5.29e-9 /f^2 m/counts
ITMY : 4.74e-9 /f^2 m/counts

Optical gain is 25% lower than the measurement in June 6 (40m/16892), probably because our estimate was too rough then and also we now have ~15% lower IMC transmission.
Actuator gains are 2-30% higher than the measurement in 2013.

MICH error signal calibration:
C1:LSC-AS55_Q_ERR was calibrated by taking data with C1:LSC-ASDC_OUT, when Michelson was aligned and free swinging (Attachment #1).
AS55_Q and ASDC were X-Y plotted and fitted with ellipse to get an amplitude of AS55_Q to be 82.51 counts (Attachment #2).
4*pi*A/lambda gives you 9.74e8 counts/m, where meters are in terms of difference between BS to ITMX length and BS to ITMY length.
Jupyter notebook: https://git.ligo.org/40m/scripts/-/blob/main/CAL/MICH/MICHOpticalGainCalibration.ipynb

Openloop transfer function for actuator calibration:
C1:LSC-MICH_GAIN was lowered to -1 (instead of -6), and some of filters are turned off to make the MICH UGF to be ~10.
Also, ellip("LowPass",4,1,40,50) was added to C1:LSC-MICH_A filter bank to cut the feedback above 50 Hz, so that the loop does not suppress the measurement.
The configuration is in Attachment #3.

Actuator calibration of BS, ITMX, ITMY:
With this MICH OLG, transfer functions from C1:LSC-BS,ITMX,ITMY_EXC to C1:LSC-AS55_Q_ERR were measured.
AS55_Q was calibrated to meters using the calibration factor above, and fitted the transfer function with 1/f^2 in 70-150 Hz range to get the actuator efficiency mentioned above (Attachement #4).
Thus, meters in this calibration is in terms of ITM POS motion (not in BS POS motion).
Jupyter notebook: https://git.ligo.org/40m/scripts/-/blob/main/CAL/MICH/MICHActuatorCalibration.ipynb

MICH displacement noise:
Measured values were added to c1cal model as follows.
C1:CAL-MICH_CINV FM2: 1/9.74e8 = 1.03e-9
C1:CAL-MICH_A FM2: 2.608e-8 (it was 2.07e-8 from 2013!)
C1:CAL-MICH_A_GAIN = 0.5 to take into account of C1:LSC-OUTPUT_MTRX_8_2=0.5 in the LSC output matrix for BS
Spectrum of C1:CAL-MICH_W_OUT (now calibrated in nm) with configuration in Attachment #5 was taken.
Attachement #6 is the result. I also took the spectrum with PSL shutter off to measure the sensing noise. The sensing noise limits our sensitivity above ~40 Hz at 5e-11 m/rtHz.

14558   Fri Apr 19 16:19:42 2019 gautamUpdateSUSActuation matrix still not orthogonal

I repeated the exercise from yesterday, this time driving the butterfly mode [+1 -1 -1 +1] and adding the tuned PIT and YAW vectors from yesterday to it to minimize appearance in the Oplev error signals.

The measured output matrix is $\begin{bmatrix} 0.98 & 0.64 & 1.5 & 1.037 \\ 0.96 & 1.12 & -0.5 & -0.998 \\ 1.04 & -1.12 & 0.5 & -1.002 \\ 1.02 & -0.64 & -1.5 & 0.963 \end{bmatrix}$, where rows are the coils in the order [UL,UR,LL,LR] and columns are the DOFs in the order [POS,PIT,YAW,Butterfly]. The conclusions from my previous elog still hold though - the orthogonality between PIT and YAW is poor, so this output matrix cannot be realized by a simple gain scaling of the coil output gains. The "adjustment matrix", i.e. the 4x4 matrix that we must multiply the "ideal" output matrix by to get the measured output matrix has a condition number of 134 (1 is a good condition number, signifies closeness to the identity matrix).

 Quote: let us have 3 by 4, nevermore so that the number of columns is no less and no more than the number of rows so that forevermore we live as 4 by 4
14559   Fri Apr 19 19:22:15 2019 ranaUpdateSUSActuation matrix still not orthogonal

If thy left hand troubles thee

then let the mirror show the right

for if it troubles enough to cut it off

it would not offend thy sight

13746   Wed Apr 11 01:34:31 2018 gautamUpdateIOOActivities today

[kevin, gautam]

activities done today - details/plots/data/evidence tomorrow.

1. Checked XARM loop shape. Updated NB code to fetch POX data from NDS and undo loop shape rather than using calibration filter bank.
2. Checked POX loop calibration (m/ct). Number I was using was 8e-13. Tonight we measured 9e-13. Updated filter bank.
3. Tried to get Y arm green ALS going.
• Improved GTRY from ~0.05 to 0.3.
• Tried to improve mode matching onto BBPD on PSL table to see a green beat.
• But we were unsuccessful.
• I think I got the near and far field alignment right, and the EY laser temp is set such that I can see an IR beat @~30MHz (so green beat should be at 60 MHz).
• But I couldn't see anything with scope or with HP spec analyzer.
• More tomorrow. Motivation to get green ALS working is to get some more confidence that the excess noise is indeed on the PSL light.
3917   Sun Nov 14 16:40:46 2010 JenneUpdateTreasureActivities related to OSEM measurement

[Valera, Jenne]

We pondered the idea of clamping the PRM optic to measure the OSEM noise.  So we opened up the BS tank to give this a try.  We rediscovered that Jenne is too short to reach the other side of the PRM tower, so we couldn't fully clamp the optic (when is Jaime coming again? He's kind of tall...)  If we only did the back 2 EQ stops, the optic would still be able to rock, and thus defeat the purpose of clamping anyway.  So we didn't go for it.

While we were in there we saw that the SRM OSEMs were just hanging out on the table, and decided to go with them.  See Valera's elog for details on our measurement.  We closed up the tank without making any changes to anything.

In other news, we still need to figure out how to change up the connectors to get those OSEMs over to the ITM table.  This needs to happen pretty soonish.

5696   Wed Oct 19 12:25:58 2011 SureshUpdate40m UpgradingActive Tiptilts from LLO moved to clean shelf along X arm

I have moved the active tip tilts that we brought over from LLO to the Clean Bureau along the X arm (closest to the ETMX). There are two tip tilts and a pack of spare parts.

5697   Wed Oct 19 13:45:11 2011 SureshUpdate40m UpgradingActive Tiptilts from LLO moved to clean shelf along X arm

I have moved the active tip tilts that we brought over from LLO to the Clean Bureau along the X arm (closest to the ETMX). There are two tip tilts and a pack of spare parts.  I am sure that the tip tilts are clean, packed in the clean room at LLO.  I am not sure whether the spares are clean.  I have kept them together for now.

We need to open one of the Tip tilt packages to be sure what we have got.

3690   Mon Oct 11 17:31:44 2010 yutaUpdateCDSActivation of DAQ channels for 8 optics

(Joe, Yuta)

Background:
We need DAQ channels activated to measure Q-values of the ringdowns for each DOF, each optics with the Dataviewer.

What we did:
1. Activated the following DAQ using daqconfig (in /cvs/cds/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts).
C1:SUS-XX_AASEN_IN1
C1:SUS-XX_SUSBBB_IN1
C1:RMS-YYY_AASEN_IN1
C1:RMS-YYY_SUSBBB_IN1
C1:MCS-ZZZ_AASEN_IN1
C1:MCS-ZZZ_SUSBBB_IN1
(XX=BS,ITMX,ITMY  YYY=PRM,SRM  ZZZ=MC1,MC2,MC3  AA=UL,UR,LR,LL,SD  BBB=POS,PIT,YAW)

2. Set datarate to 2048 for each DAQ.

3. Restarted fb(frame builder).

Result:
We succeeded in making DAQ channels appear in the Dataviewer signal list, but we can't start the measurement because c1mcs is still flaky.

Note:
We found that c1mcs crashes everytime when turning off all the damping servo (using "Damp" buttons on the medm screen).
It doesn't crash when all the filters are off.

3691   Mon Oct 11 20:52:00 2010 ranaUpdateCDSActivation of DAQ channels for 8 optics

Bah!  We tried to get some data but totally failed. It seems like there is some rudimentary functionality in the FE process of the MC, but no useful DAQ at all.

Neither Dataview or DTT had anything. We looked and the NDS process and the DAQD process were not running on FB.

I restarted them both (./daqd -c daqdrc) & (./nds pipe > nds.log) but couldn't get anything.

There's a bunch of errors in the daqd.log like this:

CA.Client.Exception...............................................
Warning: "Identical process variable names on multiple servers"
Context: "Channel: "C1:SUS-MC1_SUSPOS_INMON", Connecting to: c1susdaq:57416, Ignored: c1sus.martian:57416"
Source File: ../cac.cpp line 1208
Current Time: Mon Oct 11 2010 18:25:15.475629328
..................................................................
CA.Client.Exception...............................................
Warning: "Identical process variable names on multiple servers"
Context: "Channel: "C1:SUS-MC1_SUSPIT_INMON", Connecting to: c1susdaq:57416, Ignored: c1sus.martian:57416"
Source File: ../cac.cpp line 1208
Current Time: Mon Oct 11 2010 18:25:15.475900124

15945   Fri Mar 19 15:26:19 2021 AidanUpdateComputersActivated MATLAB license on megatron

15946   Fri Mar 19 15:31:56 2021 AidanUpdateComputersActivated MATLAB license on donatella

5524   Thu Sep 22 22:53:06 2011 SureshUpdateComputer Scripts / ProgramsActivated DAQ channels in C1IOO model and restared fb

To look at the WFS servo signals I was using test points in the servo filter banks.  This is not recommended for regular operation since acquiring the testpoint data at 16k loads the fb. Instead, I ran the daqconfig script from the scripts directory and activated the IN1_DQ, IN2_DQ and OUT_DQ channels in all the six servo filter banks (at 2048 Hz sampling rate) and then restarted the fb.   However the c1ioo Sun machine stopped responding after this.  Koji and I went in to see what was going on and the machine was not reponding to a keyboard plugged directly into the machine.  The screen display showed no reponse to our key press.  So we did a hardware reboot with the tiny switch in front of the machine.  It came up okay and all the c1ioo models were back in action.

I then checked with the dataviewer to make sure that I can see the trends on the newly activated DQ channels.  They were all fine.

6210   Wed Jan 18 12:38:44 2012 steveUpdatePEMAcrylic plexiglass transmittance

Transparent- clear plexyglass from tree different sources were measured in 1064 and 532 nm light.

Samples: a, clear Acrylic-GP 0F00  from Ridout Plastics in thickness 0.7" ,  made by  Evonic Ind

b, clear cast acrylic from Mc Master Carr in thickness 0.94" , likely  made by Reynolds-Cast

c, clear cell cast  plexyglass from Delvie's Plastics - Utah in thickness  0.93" , maker not known

PMC reflected beam was used at 92 mW and 6 mm diameter at incident angle 0-25 degrees.

All tree samples agreed on Transmittance of ~90%, Reflectivity ~3-4% and calculated Adsorption ~6-7%

Transparent Colored Acrylic orange-amber #2422   from www.eplastics.com in 0.12" thickness gave  T 96%,  R 1% and  Ab-calc ~3% in the beam of 92 mW 1064  nm at 6 mm diameter.

Transparent , colored   Light Red #26 thin film filter   policarbonate-polyester   0.002" thick   from Roscolux measured T 81% of 115 mW 1064 nm

Now I changed power meter FieldMate to Ophir and the light source to laser pointer 2.2 mW  ~532 nm  with 1-2 mm beam diameter.

Orange - amber #2422  sample, 0.12" thick,  T 1% ,  R 4%  and  Ab-calculated ~95%, estimated visibility  ~50% It does cut out the green at this low power level.

Light red #26  sample  T 0.5%  at 2.5 mW of 532 nm . The transparent green is not visible.  The softening point of this sandwiched polycarbonate-polyecter filter is 160C. Estimated VLT of this film ~40%

SUMMERY:

Clear and colored acrylics'  @ 1064 nm  transmittance 90% or higher  regardless of thickness. Softenig point 115 degrees C

Colored acrylic and colored policarbonate film are adsorbing the low power green and they  transmit the 1064nm beam.

Options to consider: a, acrylic laser safety shield liner of  0.125" thick inside of 1" thick clear acrylic  box, OD +5 @1064 and OD +4 @ 532nm,  amber color VLT 27%,  150\$/sqft

b, thin metal liner for 1" wall acrylic box, VLT 0%

15760   Tue Jan 12 08:21:47 2021 anchalHowToCDSAcromag wiring investigation

I used an Acromag XT1221 in CTN to play around with different wiring and see what works.  Following are my findings:

### Referenced Single Ended Source (Attachment 1):

• If the source signal is referenced single ended, i.e. the signal is only on the positive output and the negative side is tied to GND on the source side AND this GND is also shared by the power supply powering the Acromag, then no additional wiring is required.
• The GND common to the power supply and the source is not required to be Earth GND but if done so, it should be at one point only.
• RTN terminal on Acromag can be left floating or tied to IN- terminal.

Floating Single Ended Source (Attachment 2):

• If the source signal is floating single-ended i.e. the signal is only on the positive output and the negative output is a floating GND on the source, the the IN- should be connected to RTN.
• This is the case for handheld calibrators or battery powered devices.
• Note that there is no need to connect GND of power supply to the floating GND on the source.

Differential Source (Attachment 3):

• If the source is differential output i.e. the signal is on both the positive output and the negative output, then connect one of the RTN terminals on Acromag to Earth GND. It has to be Earth GND for this to work.
• Note that you can no longer tie the IN- of different signals to RTN as they are all carrying different negative output from the source.
• Earth GND at RTN gives acromag a stable voltage reference to measure against the signals coming in IN+ and IN-. And the most stable voltage reference is of course Earth GND.

### Conclusion:

• We might have a mix of these three types of signals coming to a single Acromag box. In that case, we have to make sure we are not connecting the different IN- to each other (maybe through RTN) as the differential negative inputs carry signal, not a constant voltage value.
• In this case, I think it would be fine to always use differential signal wiring diagram with the RTN  connected to Earth GND.
• There's no difference in software configuration for the two types of inputs, differential or single-ended.
• For cases in which we install the acromag box inside a rack mount chasis with an associated board (example: CTN/2248), it is ok and maybe the best to use the Attachment 1 wiring diagram.

Related elog posts:

Edit Tue Jan 26 12:44:19 2021 :

Note that the third wiring diagram mentioned actually does not work. It is an error in judgement. See 40m/15762 for seeing what happens during this.

15761   Tue Jan 12 11:42:38 2021 gautamHowToCDSAcromag wiring investigation

Thanks for the systematic effort.

1. Can you please post some time domain plots (ndscope perferably or StripTool) to clearly show the different failure modes?
2. The majority of our AI channels are "Referenced Single Ended Source" in your terminology. At least on the c1psl Acromag crate, there are no channels that are truly differential drive (case #3 in your terminology). I think the point is that we saw noisy inputs when the IN- wasn't connected to RTN. e.g. the thorlabs photodiode has a BNC output with the shield connected to GND and the central conductor carrying a signal, and that channel was noisy when the RTN was unconnected. Is that consistent with your findings?
3. What is the prescription when we have multiple power supplies (mixture of Sorensens in multiple racks, Thorlabs photodiodes and other devices powered by an AC/DC converter) involved?
4. I'm still not entirely convinced of what the solution is, or that this is the whole picture. On 8 Jan, I disconnected (and then re-connected) the FSS RMTEMP sensor from the Acromag box, to check if the sensor output was noisy or if it was the Acromag. The problem surfaced on Dec 15, when I installed some new electronics in the rack (though none of them were connected to the Acromag directly, the only common point was the Sorensen DCPS. And between 8 Jan and today, the noise RMS has decreased back to the nominal level, without me doing anything to the grounding. How to reconcile this?
15762   Wed Jan 13 16:09:29 2021 AnchalHowToCDSAcromag wiring investigation

I'm working on a better wiring diagram that takes into account multiple power supplies, how their GND is passed forward to the circuits or sensors using those power supplies and what possible wiring configurations on Acromag would give low noise. I think I have two configurations in mind which I will test and update here with data and better diagrams.

I took some striptool images earlier yesterday. So I'm dumping them here for further comments or inferences.

15778   Tue Jan 26 12:59:51 2021 AnchalHowToCDSAcromag wiring investigation

Taking inspiration from SR785 on how it reads differential signal, I figured that acromag too always need a way to return current through RTN ports always. That must be the reason why everything goes haywire when RTN is not connected to IN-. Now for single ended signals, we can always short RTN to IN- and keep same GND but then we need to be careful in avoiding ground loops. I'm gonna post a wiring diagram in next post to show how if two signal sources connect to each other separately, a GND loop can be formed if we tie each IN- port to RTN on an acromag.
Coming to the issue of reading a differential signal, what SR785 does is that it connects 50 Ohm resistance between Earth GND and differential signal shields (which are supposed to signal GND). In a floating GND setting, SR785 connects a 1 MOhm resistor between input shield and Earth GND. This can be used to read a differential signal through a single BNC cable since the shiled can take arbitrary voltages thanks ti the 1 MOhm resistor.

We can do the same in acromag. Instead of shorting RTN to IN- ports, we can connect them through a large resistor which would let IN- float but will give a path for current to return through RTN ports. Attached here are few scenarios where I connected IN- to RTN throguh wire, 820 Ohms, 10kOhms and 1MOhms in two sub cases where RTN was left open or was shorted to Earth GND. In all cases, the signal was produced by a 9V battery outputing roughly 8.16V. It seems that 10kOhm resistor between RTN and IN- with RTN connected to Earth GND is the best scenario noise wise. I'll post more results and a wiring diagram soon.

15779   Tue Jan 26 15:37:25 2021 AnchalHowToCDSAcromag wiring investigation

Here I present few wiring diagrams when using Acromag to avoid noisy behavior and ground loops.

### Case 1: Only single-ended sources

• Attachment 1 gives a functioning wiring diagram when all sources are single ended.
• One should always short the RTN to IN- pin if the particular GND carried by that signal has not been shorted before to RTN for some other signal.
• So care is required to mark different GNDs of different powersupply separately and follow where they inadvertently get shorted, for example when a photodiode output is connected to FSS Box.
• Acromag should serve as the node of all GNDs concerned and all these grounds must not be connected to Earth GND at power supply ends or in any of the signal sources.
• I think this is a bit complicated thing to do.

### Case 2: Some single and some differential sources

• Connect all single ended sources same as above keeping care of not building any ground loops.
• The differential source can be connected to IN+ and IN- pins, but there should be a high resistance path between IN- and RTN. See Attachment 2.
• Why this is the case, I'm not sure since I could not get access to internal wiring of Acromag (no response from them). But I have empirically found this.
• This helps IN- to float with respect to RTN according to the negative signal value. I've found that 10kOhm resistance works good. See 40m/15778.
• If RTN is shorted to nearby Earth GND (assuming none of the other power supply GNDs have been shorted to Earth GND) shows a reduction in noise for differential input. So this is recommended.
• This wiring diagram carries all complexity of previous case along with the fact that RTN and anything connected to it is at Earth GND now.

### Case 3: Signal agnostic wiring

• Attachment 3 gives a wiring diagram which mimics the high resistance shorting of RTN to IN- in all ports regardless of the kind of signal it is used for reading.
• In this case, instead of being the node of the star configuration for GND, acromag gets detached from any ground loops.
• All differences in various GNDs would be kept by the power supplies driving small amounts of current through the 10 kOhm resistors.
• This is a much simpler wiring diagram as it avoids shorting various signal sources or their GNDs with each other, avoiding some of the ground loops.

Edit Wed Jan 27 13:38:19 2021 :

This solution is not acceptable as well. Even if it is successfull in reading the value, connecting resistor between IN- and RTN will not break the ground loops and the issue of ground loops will persist. Further, IN- connection to RTN breaks the symmetry between IN-  and IN+, and hence reduces the common mode rejection which is the intended purpose of differential signal anyways. I'll work more on this to find a way to read differential signals without connecitng IN- and RTN. My first guess is that it would need the GND on the source end to be connected to EarthGND and RTN on acromag end to be connected to EarthGND as well.

15785   Fri Jan 29 17:57:17 2021 AnchalHowToCDSAcromag wiring investigation

I found a white paper  from Acromag which discusses how to read differential signal using Acromag units. The document categorically says that differential signals are always supposed to be transmitted in three wires. I provides the two options of either using the RTN to connect to the signal ground (as done in Attachment 3) or locally place 10k-100k resistors between return and IN+ and IN- both (Attachment 2).

I have provided possible scenarios for these.

### Using two wires to carry differential signal (Attachment 1):

• I assume this is our preferential way to connect.
• We can also assume all single-ended inputs as differential and do a signal condition agnostic wiring.
• Attachment 3 show what were the results for different values of resistors when a 2Hz 0.5V amplitude signal from SR785 which as converted to differential signal using D1900068 was measured by acromag.
• The connection to RTN is symmetrical for both inputs.

### Using three wires to carry differential signal (Attachment 2):

• This is recommended method by the document in which it asks to carry the GND from signal source and connect it to RTN.
• If we use this, we'll have to be very cautious on what GND has been shorted through the acromag RTN terminals.
• This would probably create a lot of opportunities for ground loops to form.

Using an acromag card without making any connection with RTN is basically not allowed as per this document.

13434   Fri Nov 17 16:31:11 2017 aaronOmnistructureComputersAcromag wired up

# Acromag Wireup Update

I finished wiring up the Acromags to replace the VME boxes on the x arm. I still need to cut down the bar and get them all tidy in the box, but I wanted to post the wiring maps I made.
I wanted to note specifically that a few of the connections were assigned to VME boxes but are no longer assigned in this Acromag setup. We should be sure that we actually do not need to use the following channels:

### Channels no longer in use

• From the VME analog output (VMIVME 4116) to the QPD Whitening board (no DCC number on the front), 3 channels are no longer in use
• From the anti-image filter (D000186) to the ADC (VMIVME 3113A) 5 channels are no longer in use (these are the only channels from the anti-image filter, so this filter is no longer in use at all?)
• From the universal dewhitening filter (D000183) to a binary I/O adapter (channels 1-16), 4 channels are no longer in use. These are the only channels from the dewhitening filter
• From a second universal dewhitening filter (D000183) to another the binary I/O adapter (channels 1-16), one channel is no longer in use (this was the only channel from this dewhitening filter).
• From the opti-lever (D010033) to the VME ADC (VMIVME 3113A), 7 channels are no longer in use (this was all of the channels from the opti lever)
• From the SUS PD Whitening/Interface board (D000210) to a binary I/O adapter (channels 1-16), 5 channels are no longer in use.
• Note that none of the binary I/O adapter channels are in use.

13435   Fri Nov 17 17:10:53 2017 ranaOmnistructureComputersAcromag wired up

Exactly: you'll have to list explicitly what functions those channels had so that we know what we're losing before we make the switch.

13473   Thu Dec 14 00:32:56 2017 johannesUpdateASSAcromag new crate; c1auxex2 configured as gateway server for acromag

This splicing in of fast binary channels we discussed at yesterday's and today's meetings is getting messy with the current chassis. Cleaning up the cable mess was a key point, so I got a 4U height DEEP chassis from Rich and drew up a front panel for a modular approach that we can use at the other 40m locations as well. The front panel will have slots for smaller slot panels to which we can mount the breakout boards as before, so all the wiring that I've done can be transfered to this design. If some new connector standard is required it will be easy to draw a new slot panel from a template, for now I'll make some with two DSub37 and IDC50. Since this chassis is so huge it will have ample space for cross-connects.

I also moved the communication of c1auxex2 with the Acromag units off the martian network, connecting them with a direct cable connection out of the second ethernet port. To test if this works I configured the second ethernet port of c1auxex2 to have the IP address 192.168.114.1 and one of the acromag units to have 192.168.114.11, and initialized an IOC with some test channels. Much to my surprise this actually worked straight out of the box, and the test channels can be accessed from the control room computers without having a direct ethernet link to the acromag modules. huzzah!

Steve: it would be nice to have all plugs- connectors lockable

14892   Tue Sep 17 23:43:34 2019 KojiSummaryCDSAcromag logic checker

For the investigation of the latch logic issue for the CARM CM board, I have made the LED logic checkers with DB breakout boards. They require the pull up voltage supply of +15V because the acromag digital out is a open corrector (well... open "source") output.

The logic from Pin1 to Pin16 of DB37 can be monitored. The DB15 connector is only for monitoring the latch enable logic.

What Gautam and I found with the logic outputs was that the latch logic works fine but occasionally we found that the top 2 bits and the bottom 4bit were processed independently.

13832   Fri May 11 11:47:33 2018 johannesSummaryPEMAcromag issues

The replacement Acromag we scooped from the West Bridge E-Shop does actually seem to work, although we thought it was broken - at first it was just outputting zeros, but after I did the calibration procedure, applying +10 V and -10 V, respectively, it was reporting voltage correctly, over the full range. I don't know why the factory settings would be messed up, but it had been out of the box before. I did this only with channel 7, so you need to calibrate channels 0-6 and confirm that they indeed also work properly.

13844   Tue May 15 15:13:23 2018 KiraSummaryPEMAcromag issues

I tried calibrating the other channels today, but they still fluctuate. Sometimes they do stabilize at +/- 10V, but then suddenly drop to 5 or 6 V before climbing back up to 10. Turning the legacy off made it go only up to 6.67V. This happens for all the channels, even after doing a factory reset and recalibrating. Not sure what's happening here.

12273   Fri Jul 8 13:01:23 2016 AakashUpdateGeneralAcromag is talking ! | SURF 2016

Acromag is talking now, after few changes to the original EPICS configuration and cross compile configuration. Modbus config files also were changed and compiled again to run it on linux-arm architecture. I have made use of pyModbus for the final work and I am planning to use the same for grabbing channels. Though I am unable to grab channel data right now, I am able to communicate to it over ethernet and send and receive data.

14718   Tue Jul 2 12:30:53 2019 gautamUpdateElectronicsAcromag crate switched to Sorensens

[chub, gautam]

We crossed off another couple of bullets today.

It took me ~1 hour to realize that c1susaux requries the running of sudo /sbin/ifup eth0 to be run in order to see the martian network - why???

Activity:

1. Stopped the c1susaux machine:
• Moved alignment sliders of ITMX and ITMY to 0 as a precaution.
• Shutdown the c1susaux machine so that it doesn't become unhappy with the missing Acromags when we power the unit down.
2. Dialled down supply voltages on the +/- 15 V and +/- 20 V DC Sorensens. Current draw became 0 A on the front panel indicators.
3. Chub tapped some new terminal blocks for +15 V DC and +20 V DC
• This required some additional daisy chaining, which is why we dialled down the Sorensens.
• New cables were made using the "standard" LIGO color scheme, which isn't really applicable in this case because we are using +15 V DC (orange sheath wire) and + 20 V DC (yellow sheath wire) whereas the closest LIGO standard voltages are +18 V DC and +24 V DC.
• A test cable, presumably meant to be used in the electronics area (orange for +15 V DC) was destroyed for this work as we opted for speed rather than making a new cable.
4. Disconnected bench power supplies that were powering the Acromags, and connected the new cables.
• I opted to use 5 A fuses in the terminal blocks for these supplies as the current draw is pretty significant.
5. Dialled the Sorensens back up to the nominal voltages:
• Attachment #1 shows the front panels of the Sorensens before and after this work.
• The current limit on the +20 V DC Sorensen had to be raised, because the Acromag box draws ~2.3 A on its own, whereas the previous current draw was 2.8 A.
6. Brought the c1susaux machine back online. Took me a while to get to the bottom of why I wasn't able to see c1susaux on the martian, but eventually, I figured out the whole sbin/ifup thingy.

I don't understand the exact chain of causation, but during this work, the fast c1sus model crashed. I had to go through a few iterations of the scripted vertex machine rebooting, but things seem to be back in a normal state now, see Attachment #2. Should probably run the IFO test suite to make sure everything is a-okay, but for now, I am able to lock the IMC so I'm moving on.

The main task remaining here is to take new pictures of everything and upload to the wiki. Also, need to update the Sorensen labels to reflect their current values, some of them are outdated.

 Quote: Take photos of the new setup, cabling. Remove the old c1susaux crate from the rack to free up space, possibly put the PSL monitoring acromag chassis there. Test that the OSEM PD whitening switching is working for all 8 vertex optics.(verified as of 5/3/19 5pm) New 15V and 24V power cables with standard LIGO connectors need to be run from the Sorensenn supplies in 1X5. The chassis is currently powered by bench supplies sitting on a cart behind the rack. All 24 new DB-37 signal cables need to be labeled. New 96-pin DIN connectors need to be put on two ribbon cables (1Y5_80 B, 1Y5_81) in the 1X4 rack. We had to break these connectors to remove them from the back of the eurcrates. General cleanup of any cables, etc. left around the rack. We cleaned up most things this evening. Rename the host computer c1susaux2 --> c1susaux, and update the DNS lookup tables on chiara.
13553   Wed Jan 17 14:32:51 2018 gautamUpdateDAQAcromag checks
1. I take back what I said about the OSEM PD mon at the meeting - there does seem to be to be some overall calibration factor (Attachment #1) that has scaled the OSEM PD readback channels, by a factor of (20000/2^15), which Johannes informs me is some strange feature of the ADC, which he will explain in a subsequent post.
2. The coil redback fields on the MEDM screen have a "30Hz HPF" text field below them - I believe this is misleading. Judging by the schematic, we are monitoring, on the backplane (which is what these channels are reading back from), the coil to the voltage with a gain of 0.5. We can reconfirm by checking the ETMX coil driver board, after which we should remove the misleading label on the MEDM screens.
 Quote: Some suggestions of checks to run, based on the rightmost colum in the wiring diagram here - I guess some of these have been done already, just noting them here so that results can be posted. Oplev quadrant slow readouts should match their fast DAQ counterparts. Confirm that EX Transmon QPD whitening/gain switching are working as expected, and that quadrant spectra have the correct shape. Watchdog tripping under different conditions. Coil driver slow readbacks make sense - we should also confirm which of the slow readbacks we are monitoring (there are multiple on the SOS coil driver board) and update the MEDM screen accordingly. Confirm that shadow sensor PD whitening is working by looking at spectra. Confirm de-whitening switching capability - both to engage and disengage - maybe the procedure here can be repeated. Monitor DC alignment of ETMX - we've seen the optic wander around (as judged by the Oplev QPD spot position) while sitting in the control room, would be useful to rule out that this is because of the DC bias voltage stability (it probably isn't). Confirm that burt snapshot recording is working as expected - this is not just for c1auxex, but for all channels, since, as Johannes pointed out, the 2018 directory was totally missing and hence no snapshots were being made. Confirm that systemd restarts IOC processes when the machine currently called c1auxex2 gets restarted for whatever reason.

13554   Wed Jan 17 22:44:14 2018 johannesUpdateDAQAcromag checks

This happened because there are multiple ways to scale the raw value of an EPICS channel to the desired output range. In the CryoLab I was using one way, but the EPICS records I copied from c1auxex were doing it differently. Basically this:

 DTYP - Data type - LINR "NO CONVERSION" vs "LINEAR" RVAL Raw value EGUF Engineering units full scale EGUL Engineering units low ASLO Manual scaling factor AOFF Manual offset VAL Value

If the "LINR" field is set to "LINEAR", the fields EGUF and EGUL are used to convert the raw value to the channel value VAL. To use them, one needs to enter the voltages that return the maximum and minimum values expected for the given data type. It used to be +10V and -10V, respectively, and was copied that way but that doesn't work with the data type required for the Acromag units. For -some- reason, while the the ADC range is -10V to +10V, this corresponds to values -20000 to +20000, while for the DAC channels it's -30000 to +30000. I had observed this before when setting up the DAQ in the CryoLab, but there we were using "NO CONVERSION", which skips the EGUF and EGUL fields, and used the ASLO and AOFF for manual scaling to get it right. When I mixed the records from there with the old ones from c1auxex this got lost in translation. Gautam and I confirmed by eye that this indeed explains the different levels well. This means that the VMon channelsfor the coils are also showing the wrong voltages, which will be corrected, but the readback still definitely works and confirms that the enable switches do their job.

 Quote: I take back what I said about the OSEM PD mon at the meeting - there does seem to be to be some overall calibration factor (Attachment #1) that has scaled the OSEM PD readback channels, by a factor of (20000/2^15), which Johannes informs me is some strange feature of the ADC, which he will explain in a subsequent post.

13565   Sun Jan 21 13:11:25 2018 johannesUpdateDAQAcromag checks

After some research: -the- reason for the reduced +/- 20,000 swing in raw values is a default setting for having support for legacy devices enabled when using the acromag proprietary i2o peer-to-peer protocol. So this is doubly unnecessary because a) we don't have any legacy devices at all and b) we're using pure modbus/TCP and no i2o. To change the setting I have to connect via the USB configuration utility. In addition, I want to understand the averaging feature of the acromag units better, which is also configured via USB, and lets one set a fixed amount of samples to be averaged before updating the read-register value. The documentation says that the 8 channels are multiplexed into a single ADC, and that new input data is available after 10 ms for each channel, suggesting a sampling rate of 100 Hz per channel and that the multiplexing happens faster, but is not super-clear about this, so I want to test it in the cryo lab first before unleashing it onto c1auxex2.

Furthermore, the standard timing options for updating epics records are 10s, 5s, 2s, 1s, 0.5s, 0,2s, and 0.1s. On the previous c1auxex, the monitoring channels were set to 0.1s, but that clashes with the 16 Hz global EPICS rate, resulting in partial double-sampling. One can manually provide the option 0.0625s for 16Hz update rate. I will test this and how it deals with the averaging in the cryolab too.

14364   Tue Dec 18 11:42:40 2018 ChubUpdateGeneralAcromag box wired

The Auxiliary DAQ Chassis, or Acromag box, is now wired and ready for testing.  I will be sorting the cables at the vacuum rack to make connection to the box easier.

13463   Mon Dec 4 22:06:07 2017 johannesOmnistructureComputersAcromag XEND progress

I wired up the power distribution, and ethernet cables in the Acromag chassis today. For the time being it's all kind of loose in there but tomorrow the last parts should arrive from McMaster to put everything in its place. I had to unplug some of the wiring that Aaron had already done but labeled everything before I did so. I finalized the IP configuration via USB for all the units, which are now powered through the chassis and active on the network.

I started transcribing the database file ETMXaux.db that is loaded by c1auxex in the format required by the Acromags and made sure that the new c1auxex2 properly functions as a server, which it does.

ToDo-list:

• Need to calibrate the +/- 10V swing of the analog channels via the USB utility, but that requires wiring the channels to the connectors and should probably be done once the unit sits in the rack
• Need to wire power from the Sorensens into the chassis. There are +/- 5V, +/- 15V and +/- 20V present. The Acromags need only +12V-32V, for which I plan to use the +20V, and an excitation voltage for the binary channels, for which I'm going to wire the +5V. Should do this through the fuse rails on the side.
• The current slow binary channels are sinking outputs, same as the XT1111 16-channel module we have. The additional 4 binary outputs of the XT1541 are sourcing, and I'm currently not sure if we can use them with the sos driver and whitening vme boards that get their binary control signals from the slow system.
• Confirm switching of binary channels (haven't used model XT1111 before, but I assume the definitions are identical to XT1121)
• Setup remaining essential EPICS channels and confirm that dimensions are the same (as in both give the same voltage for the same requested value)
• Disconnect DIN cables, attach adapter boards + DSUB cables
• Testing

Quote:

[Aaron, Johannes]

We configured the AtomServer for the Martian network today. Hostname is c1auxex2, IP is 192.168.113.49. Remote access over SSH is enabled.

There will be 6 acromag units served by c1auxex2.

 Hostname Type IP Address c1auxex-xt1221a 1221 192.168.113.130 c1auxex-xt1221b 1221 192.168.113.131 c1auxex-xt1221c 1221 192.168.113.132 c1auxex-xt1541a 1541 192.168.113.133 c1auxex-xt1541b 1541 192.168.113.134 c1auxex-xt1111a 1111 192.168.113.135

Some hardware to assemble the Acromag box and adapter PCBs are still missing, and the wiring and channel definitions have to be finalized. The port driver initialization instructions and channel definitions are currently locally stored in /home/controls/modbusIOC/ but will eventually be migrated to a shared location, but we need to decide how exactly we want to set up this infrastructure.

• Should the new machines have the same hostnames as the ones they're replacing? For the transition we simply named it c1auxex2.
• Because the communication of the server machine with the DAQ modules is happening over TCP/IP and not some VME backplane bus we could consolidate machines, particularly in the vertex area.
• It would be good to use the fact that these SuperMicro servers have 2+ ethernet ports to separate CDS EPICS traffic from the modbus traffic. That would also keep the 30+ IPs for the Acromag thingies off the Martian host tables.
13468   Thu Dec 7 22:24:04 2017 johannesOmnistructureComputersAcromag XEND progress

 Quote: Need to calibrate the +/- 10V swing of the analog channels via the USB utility, but that requires wiring the channels to the connectors and should probably be done once the unit sits in the rack Need to wire power from the Sorensens into the chassis. There are +/- 5V, +/- 15V and +/- 20V present. The Acromags need only +12V-32V, for which I plan to use the +20V, and an excitation voltage for the binary channels, for which I'm going to wire the +5V. Should do this through the fuse rails on the side. The current slow binary channels are sinking outputs, same as the XT1111 16-channel module we have. The additional 4 binary outputs of the XT1541 are sourcing, and I'm currently not sure if we can use them with the sos driver and whitening vme boards that get their binary control signals from the slow system. Confirm switching of binary channels (haven't used model XT1111 before, but I assume the definitions are identical to XT1121) Setup remaining essential EPICS channels and confirm that dimensions are the same (as in both give the same voltage for the same requested value) Disconnect DIN cables, attach adapter boards + DSUB cables Testing

Getting the chassis ready took a little longer than anticipated, mostly because I had not looked into the channel list myself before and forgot about Lydia's post which mentions that some of the switching controls have to be moved from the fast to the slow DAQ. We would need a total of 5+5+4+8=22 binary outputs. With the existing Acromag units we have 16 sinking outputs and 8 sourcing outputs. I looked through all the Eurocrate modules and confirmed that they all use the same switch topology which has sourcing inputs.

While one can use a pull-down resistor to control a sourcing input with a sourcing output,

pulling down the MAX333A input (datasheet says logic low is <0.8V) requires something like 100 Ohms for the pull down resistor, which would require ~150mA of current PER CHANNEL, which is unreasonable. Instead, I asked Steve to buy a second XT1111 and modified the chassis to accomodate more Acromag units.

I have now finished wiring the chassis (except for 8 remaining bypass controls to the whitening board which need the second XT1111), calibrated all channels in use, confirmed all pin locations via the existing breakout boards and DCC drawings for the eurocrate modules, and today Steve and I added more fuses to the DIN rail power distribution for +20V and +15V.

There was not enough contingent free space in the XEND rack to mount the chassis, so for now I placed it next to it.

c1auxex2 is currently hosting all original physical c1auxex channels (not yet calc records) under their original name with an _XT added at the end to avoid duplicate channel names. c1auxex is still in control of ETMX. All EPICS channels hosted by c1auxex2 are in dimensions of Volts. The plan for tomorrow is to take c1auxex off the grid, rename the c1auxex2 hosted channels and transfer ETMX controls to it, provided we can find enough 37pin DSub cables (8). I made 5 adapter boards for the 5 Eurocrate modules that need to talk to the slow DAQ through their backplane connector.

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