The preparation for pouring concrete is continuing. The grout forms were removed. Half inch ribbed steel bars were epoxied into our 4" thick floor.

The concrete holding sides- forms are cut to size. They will be installed on Monday morning and pouring concrete should follow.

We can be planning for cleaning up on Tuesday

Atm1, epoxy used bars

Atm2, south west tripod feet grouted

Atm3, ribbed bars are getting ready

C1: PEM-count channels are dead since August 12, 2010

Bertine Robby, Bertin and Jerry completed the installation by pouring concrete yesterday and cleaning up today.

Atm1-2, steel bars, grouted feet and side forms are ready

Atm3,    bounding agent is applied for better bounding

Atm4,    pumping concrete

Atm5,    shaker is used to fill-all

Atm6,    late after noon the forms- sides were removed,     NOTE: actual table to concrete distance is 12.75"

Atm7,    construction people left and the tile man is on the way

The tile patching should complete today so tomorrow we can remove plastic covers.

The tile work was done yesterday after noon.

This morning Mike Gerfen and me lowered the enclosure frame to normal height.

Keven- janitor and I removed plastic covers from chambers, racks, SP, MC2 and clean tool boxes.

The afternoon Jenne, Kiwamu, Joe and Aiden cleaned the enclosure inside out. The particle count measured zero inside the enclosure with HEPAs on when the covers were

removed. The MOPA and all other components were happy to see us in excellent condition.

This table height is very user friendly!

Safety grounds were reconnected.

Atm1, new tiles around the concrete slab

Atm2, frame lowered with low cross bars reinstalled

Atm3, the enclosure frame's north west foot is connected to ground

Atm4, PSL optical table is connected to ground at the north east corner through 1 Mohm

Atm5, PSL optical table level at a stimulating, back-friendly height

I posted the crane safety document on the 40m wiki, vacuum page as 26 August 2010

Please add your comments and corrections.

The South End Crane will be balanced on Tuesday,  31 August 2010

This will mean that the back door of the south arm will be open on and off. Air quality will bad.

Please plan accordingly.

The PSL -leg concrete was sealed with a single coat of SCOFIELD Cureseal-S to minimize shedding of particles.

The optical table was covered  and optics were removed from the shelf. Accelerometers were turned off.

I lowered room 101 thermostat setting from 74F to 72F

Our toilets were replaced by a green Gerber 1.6 gpf ( 6 lpf ) last week.

Crane balancing at the south end is continuing today.

The crane I -beam now leveled at all degrees of rotation.  The lower hinge was moved southward  about 1/4 of an inch.  Performance was tested at 2000 lbs

Atm1, work in progress

Atm2, load test at 1 Ton

Atm3, service report

I hooked up interlock to the Innolight 2W 1064 nm in the enclosure. The manual shutter  is closed on this unit.

SAFETY GLASSES REQUIRED !

I played with the particle counter this morning. Now it's running and reading the correct numbers on the old COCHECKLIST.adl medm screen.

However, it can not be seen with dataviewer.

Koji just rebooted the frame builder and the problem was solved.

Innolight 2W 1064nm main laser was turned off for more enclosure related work.

The electrician re rooting the power- conduit to the interlock under the floor and bring it through the new concrete tunnel.

Emergency laser power shut off switch was tested at entry door 104M.  It worked fine.

No laser glasses required. Laser will be turned back on around 11 am today.

Atm1,   AC power line to enclosure and interlock  was extended.

Atm2,   24V line to interlock rerouted

Atm3,   job is completed

SAFETY GLASSES REQUIRED !  SAFETY GLASSES REQUIRED!

 The laser is turned on. Injection current set to 0.871A.

Actually some one turned the  laser  off last night and did  not enter it into the elog ! Burned toast award is granted !

Please  come forward voluntarily.

I turned off/on the power to the accelerometers in order to re rout their connections. I found cable connector body-nut  #3 loose to Accelerometer 2X This connector should be checked for solid performance.

Cleaned up cables on the top and bottom. Vacuumed both areas. We still have some remaining shading from the MOPA umbilical and more unknown BNC cables hanging around.

The PSL out  2" OD beam guide tube was cut  1.5" shorter to 13.5"

The 10" OD  0.25" wall Al tube was replaced by a  lighter, not anodized and thinner  wall 0.094" tube of 15.5" lenght, that is 0.75" shorter.

The new position of the PSL table made these cuts necessary.

John Miller has arrived from Australia with 3 bags of  Wagonga Coffee. Trade bargaining has started on

250 mgs of Sumatran Mandehling, Timur and Papua New Guine.

The squeezing open frame rack was moved from the south side of the PSL enclosure to the north side of the SP table.

AC power breaker is PC-2  #1

Blocked PSL output beam  into IFO

Checked: HV at IOO & OMC are off, jam nuts in position,

Closed V1 and VM3, opened VV1 to N2 regulator

We are venting at 1 Torr/min rate

The vertex crane drive is overheating, it stopped functioning. Service man will be here tomorrow morning.

I crane was just turned  on for for may be  about 5 minutes. The vertical drive was fine for a while, but the horizontal did not worked at all.

The crane is tagged out again and the controller box is cooling down.

 Atm1, Vertex crane controller unit on horizontal I-beam.

            Module CCES-407 1HP 2.3A 460V/3 phase on the right was replaced. Speed was increased  to 30 Hz

Atm2, See burned insulation on black wire that was shorting to the large suppressor resistor on Atm3 One can see the pit marks on the right end of it.

        This large power dissipater resistor got hot as the malfunctioning controller 407 broke down.   Touching black power wire insulation melted and made a short.

          So the heat was created and finally the fuses were blown. The unnecessary large fuses were replaced by small ones.

Fortunately we had one spare controller on hand that made this repair to be done fast.

We used the new Crane Safety Check list  from LIGO-E1000379-v1 the first time yesterday before doors were removed.

The control room's north west corner smelled like propane gas  yesterday around 16:30

We all agreed that the smell was real and I called the safety office. I was told that they received 6 other calls from different parts of the campus.

The smell disappeared in about a half an hour.

Our visiting graduate student Yuta Michimura received 40m specific basic safety training today.

Accelerometers xyz were moved from IOO-south/west  corner to under PSL table. They were turned off for ~20 minutes.

Guralp was also moved eastward about 2 ft. It is not leveled.

This is part of the preparation to remove access connector.

Kiwamu, Koji, Yutah, Rana, Jan and Steve

We removed the west access connector this afternoon.

Our new undergrad Joonho Lee received 40m specific basic safety training yesterday.

Yuta and Joonho are scheduled to participate in the LIGO-laser safety tutelage with Peter K on Oct 12

We got two small RF filter for the PMC from Valera  They are made by http://www.larkengineering.com/   "MC35.5-3-AB" sma, 29300-01

The 2 W Innolight shutter is closed and enclosure door removed. Beam path blocked. Do not change this condition.

The PSL output beam guide was upgraded from 2" to 8" OD . It is green ready. Shutter is open.

Prof Alan Weistein guided the 24 student through the 40m. His performance was rated as  an enthusiastic 9.5

Innolight PSL laser is set to @2.1A , ~1.6W output ! Please scan out when finished! 

The output monitoring pick up window W2-LW-2-2050-UV-1064-45S is in place. IOO_ANG_OPD and IOO_POS_QPD roughly aligned.

The PMC alignment and/ or mode matching is bad. PMC reflected is 50%, throughput 600mW

Remember to block PSL output ! into IFO

This BNC cable is crying for help. Please do not do this to me.  It should be reported  to the  abused center.Throw this cable into the garbage now.

I'm cleaning out to make room for our new optical cabinet. Are we keeping these? There are  ~20  pieces of 10" od 1" wide tapes and large number of cassettes.

AJW,  Zucker,  Stuart A and Koji were notified in this matter.

Alan suggested to save data of Bruce Allen paper of observation of binary neutron stars in the 40m on 1994 November 14-20 and save back up tapes of his period in the 40m.

Mike: reels are not readable any more, it is time to let go

www.avalontest.com has fixed the 25MHz oscillation.  Contact: Jim Burnham 760-536-0191

Actually, NOT FIXED.

Fire-smoke sensors in the vertex area #2-31, 2-30 east, 2-32 south/MC2 and 2-37 old control room area are turned off to accommodate the welding

activity of folding crane. These sensors will be reactivated at 3:30pm today.

Stay out of the 40m lab: IFO room till 6 pm today.

 The new cord wheel was to big. They be back tomorrow?

The lab is open.

Pedro of the electrical shop helped to retrace wires from the racks to the breakers. Many wrong labels were replaced. These labels are  still representing                          the south arm as Y and  the east arm as X.

Racks: 1X1,2,3,4 and 1Y3,4,5,6,7 and 9 are connected through manual disconnect swithes to  AC power breaker PC-1 on the west wall of IFO room 104.

             This panel PC-1 is connected to T1 isolation transformer in room 101 Panel L - # 38, 40, 42

Racks: 1Y1 & 2  psl and mc are connected through manual disconnect switches to AC power breaker PC-2 just west of the psl enclosure.

             This panel is connected to T2 isolation transformer in room 101 Panel L - # 32, 34, 36

Our new postdoc Suresh Doravari received 40m specific safety training last week.

The south end of IFO room 104 was reshuffled. The flow bench was moved all the way to the south end to create more room for the crane reach. The old  large drawing cabinet  was moved under the vacuum tube.

The new clear view through  Acrylic-plexyglass cabinet is anchored. It has powder finished coating so it will not out-gas too much.The back side shelf mounting holes are sealed off with kapton tape. The doors still needs some gaskit seals.

8 pieces of 10" CF blanks were shipped to MIT

Koji, Suresh and Steve,

The beam scanner is back from repair.  Koji and Suresh helped to move the I/O address jumpers on the interface card from default position  300 to 320

It is working again.

Physical Electronics: Vac-Seal #288-6000 arriving Monday. Our last bag used last week had a p/n 1002003 with expiration date   .....2009 ? and it was stored in the

refrigerator all times. We are getting 68 small bags.

We should have precision gluing notes of epoxies/procedures used on our sus upgrade.

Please remember to cover the optical tables !

This condition is created when we run out of nitrogen that holds the valves in set positions. The Maglev and other turbos are still running in this configuration so one has to pay attention that the foreline valves are open.

Reset  error message on vacuum screen and opened V4 & V5 at 3pm today.

• Check EQ-stops
• clamp down counter weights
• check other components are clamped
• remove all tools
• check cabling is not is not shorting out seismic stack or blocking beam
• confirm well centered spots on mirrors

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

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