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1321
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Wed Feb 18 21:03:22 2009 |
rana | Update | Cameras | ETMY Camera work not elogged! | The control room video is showing us a
false ETMY image. Who worked on the ETMY
camera or video today??!! |
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1320
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Wed Feb 18 19:13:20 2009 |
rana | Configuration | Computers | SVN & MEDM & old medm files | Allegra had a 2 year old version of SVN installed
and CentOS (yum) couldn't upgrade it, so
I did an 'svn remove subversion'
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1319
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Wed Feb 18 15:31:38 2009 |
steve | Bureaucracy | SAFETY | emergency back-up lights checked | All
13 exit and emergency back-up lights
and their batteries were checked.
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1318
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Wed Feb 18 03:25:25 2009 |
Yoichi | Update | Computers | medm directory back | I restored the medm directory from the backup
on the tape.
The directory had an svn property svn:ignore |
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1317
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Wed Feb 18 03:17:40 2009 |
Yoichi | Update | LSC | Locking | Yoichi, Kakeru,
Last night, the cm_step script failed at |
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1316
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Tue Feb 17 05:20:11 2009 |
Yoichi | Update | LSC | Locking | Since we excluded *.snap and *.req files from
the svn control in the medm directory and
these were not restored by the svn co, the |
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1315
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Mon Feb 16 23:09:52 2009 |
rana | Update | Electronics | MC Servo Board offset gone bad! | The attached plot shows that someone broke
the MC_SUM_MON channel around 10:30 AM this
past Wednesday the 11th. This is the EPICS |
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1314
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Mon Feb 16 22:58:51 2009 |
rana, yoichi | Configuration | SUS | Hysteresis in SUS from Misalignments | WE wondered if there was some hysteresis in
the SUS alignments. When we leave the optics
misaligned for a
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1313
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Mon Feb 16 21:49:06 2009 |
Kakeru, Rana | Update | IOO | WFS | We centerd the input of WFS QPD. |
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1312
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Mon Feb 16 20:47:48 2009 |
rana | Configuration | IOO | Mode Cleaner WFS Loop Gain change | I found the MCWFS gain slider down at 0.012.
In this state the UGFs are probably around
10-30 mHz
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1311
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Mon Feb 16 16:26:29 2009 |
rob | Update | Computers | medm directory wiped on nodus | [quote][quote][COLOR=red][B]I accidentally
did an 'rm -rf' on the medm directory in
nodus[/B][/COLOR], instead of on my laptop |
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1310
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Mon Feb 16 15:54:07 2009 |
Yoichi | Update | Computers | medm directory wiped on nodus | [quote][COLOR=red][B]I accidentally did an
'rm -rf' on the medm directory in nodus[/B][/COLOR],
instead of on my laptop as was intended.
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1309
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Mon Feb 16 14:12:21 2009 |
Yoichi | Update | LSC | FE system rebooted | [quote]
I can't restart the MC autolocker on c1susvme2
because it doesn't let me ssh in. I tried |
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1308
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Mon Feb 16 10:18:13 2009 |
Alberto | Update | LSC | FE system rebooted | [quote][quote]
I didn't get a chance to do much testing
since the sus controller (susvme1) went nuts. |
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1307
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Mon Feb 16 00:43:46 2009 |
rana | Update | Computers | medm directory wiped on nodus | [COLOR=red][B]I accidentally did an 'rm -rf'
on the medm directory in nodus[/B][/COLOR],
instead of on my laptop as was intended.
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1306
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Sun Feb 15 15:53:21 2009 |
Rob | Update | LSC | Locking status | [quote]
I didn't get a chance to do much testing
since the sus controller (susvme1) went nuts. |
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1305
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Sun Feb 15 09:35:00 2009 |
Yoichi | Update | LSC | Locking status | [quote]
I found a '$<' in the offloadMCF script.
I don't know precisely what that construct |
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1304
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Sat Feb 14 16:53:26 2009 |
rob | Update | LSC | Locking status | [quote]Yoichi, Jenne, Alberto, Rob
Last night, the locking proceeded until the |
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1303
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Sat Feb 14 16:15:19 2009 |
rob | Configuration | Computers | c1susvme1 | c1susvme1 is behaving weirdly. I've
restarted it several times but its computation
time is hanging out around 260 usec, making |
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1302
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Fri Feb 13 16:30:49 2009 |
steve | Configuration | General | status quo is disturbed | I have been getting ready for the annual
safety inspection in the past 2-3 days.
Meaning cleaning up and disturbing |
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1301
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Fri Feb 13 13:35:38 2009 |
Yoichi | Update | LSC | Locking status | Yoichi, Jenne, Alberto, Rob
Last night, the locking proceeded until the |
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1300
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Fri Feb 13 08:38:03 2009 |
steve | Update | IOO | MC2 damping restored | |
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1299
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Thu Feb 12 18:35:10 2009 |
Kakeru | Configuration | PSL | PA current limitter |
I added a PA current limiter.
It is only a voltage devider (composed |
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1298
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Thu Feb 12 17:43:33 2009 |
Yoichi | Update | LSC | SRC strangeness solved | I found the problem with the DRMI lock I had
last night was caused by the zero gain in
the PD11_I filter.
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1297
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Thu Feb 12 14:39:07 2009 |
rana | Summary | General | Silicon Beam Dump test | Yesterday evening, Ken Mailand and I tested
the reflectivity of a piece of polished Silicon.
Since Silicon has such a high thermalconductivity |
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1296
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Thu Feb 12 11:21:54 2009 |
Yoichi | Update | LSC | Locking effort resumed | Last night, I restarted the locking work.
Quite some time was wasted by the disconnected
REFL199 by Alberto for the cavity length |
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1295
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Wed Feb 11 23:51:53 2009 |
Kakeru | Update | PSL | PA current and laser output | I attached a plot of ISS monitor PD and MOPA
output to PA current.
The both end of PA current (26.0353[A] and |
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1294
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Wed Feb 11 15:01:47 2009 |
josephb | Configuration | Computers | Allegra | So after having broke Allegra by updating
the kernel, I was able to get it running
again by copying the xorg.conf.backup file |
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1293
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Wed Feb 11 11:39:17 2009 |
steve | Configuration | General | vac envelope ground | The vacuum envelope was grounded from
the IOO chamber to master ground north (under
electric breaker panel L)
with |
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1292
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Wed Feb 11 10:52:22 2009 |
Yoichi | Configuration | DAQ | C1:PEM-OSA_APTEMP and C1:PEM-OSA_SPTEMP disconnected | During the cleanup of the lab. Steve found
a box with two BNCs going to the ICS DAQ
interface and an unconnected D-SUB on the |
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1291
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Wed Feb 11 07:28:25 2009 |
Yoichi | Update | PSL | PA current and laser output | I think we should also plot the laser power
at the MOPA output. The horizontal axis should
be the absolute current value read from the |
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1290
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Wed Feb 11 00:50:24 2009 |
caryn | Update | General | ants? | So, near 2 of the trashcans in the control
room and underneath a desk there are hundrends
of ants. Is this normal? |
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1289
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Tue Feb 10 23:36:25 2009 |
Kakeru | Update | PSL | PA current and laser output | I changed the PA current and measured laser
output power (monitor PD signal).
The gain of ISS is 13dB
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1288
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Tue Feb 10 10:48:48 2009 |
steve | Bureaucracy | SAFETY | safety glasses scanned | All 40m safety glasses are absorbent.
They
were scanned by 180 mW 2mm spot size
of 1064 nm beam and their transmissions |
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1287
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Mon Feb 9 19:50:48 2009 |
Yoichi | Configuration | PSL | ISS disconnected | We are doing measurements on ISS.
The ISS feedback connector is disconnected
and the beam to the MC is blocked. |
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1286
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Mon Feb 9 17:09:51 2009 |
Yoichi | Update | Computers | A bunch of updates for the network GPIB stuff. | During the work on ISS, we noticed that netgpibdata.py
is very unreliable for SR785.
The problem was caused by flakiness of the |
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1285
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Mon Feb 9 16:05:01 2009 |
Yoichi | Update | LSC | DRMI OK | After the ISS work, I aligned the IFO and
confirmed that DRMI locks with good SPOB
and AS166 values. |
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1284
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Mon Feb 9 16:02:42 2009 |
Yoichi | Update | PSL | PSL relative intensity noise | I attached the relative intensity noise of
the PSL.
There is no bump around the lower UGF (~1Hz), |
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1283
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Fri Feb 6 23:23:48 2009 |
Kakeru, Yoichi | Update | PSL | ISS is fixed | Yoichi and me found that the transfar function
of the current shunt changed with the current
of PA. |
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1282
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Fri Feb 6 16:23:54 2009 |
steve | Update | MOPA | MOPAs of 7 years | MOPAs and their settings, powers of 7 years
in the 40m |
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1281
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Fri Feb 6 16:20:52 2009 |
Yoichi | Update | PSL | MOPA current slider fixed | I fixed the broken slider to change the
current of the PA.
The problem was that the EPICS database |
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1280
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Fri Feb 6 14:49:31 2009 |
steve | Summary | SAFETY | laser inventory |
40M Laser Inventory at Feb 05,
2009
1, Lightwave PA#102 @ 77,910 |
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1279
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Fri Feb 6 10:46:40 2009 |
Kakeru | Update | PSL | ISS servo and noise | I measured the output noise of eache stage
of ISS servo, and calcurated the noise ratio
between input and
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1278
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Fri Feb 6 09:56:11 2009 |
Kakeru | Update | PSL | ISS servo transfar function | I attache the transfar function of ISS
servo.
The 4th stage and variable gain amplifier |
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1277
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Fri Feb 6 09:52:35 2009 |
Kakeru | Update | PSL | Current shunt transfar function | I attach the transfar function of the current
shunt.
There is a little gap at 10 Hz for |
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1276
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Thu Feb 5 21:42:28 2009 |
Yoichi | Update | PSL | My thoughts on ISS | Today, I worked with Kakeru on ISS.
The problem is sort of elusive. Some
time, the laser power looks fine, but after |
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1275
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Thu Feb 5 16:21:07 2009 |
Jenne | Frogs | Computers | Belladonna connects to the wireless Martian network again | Symptoms: Belladonna could
not (for a while) connect to the wireless
network, since there was a driver problem |
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1274
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Thu Feb 5 10:42:33 2009 |
Yoichi | Update | General | Do we need off-axis parabolic mirrors ? No way ! | I made a mistake in estimating the astigmatism
problem.
If we use the current MMT1 as it is, this |
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1273
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Thu Feb 5 09:12:29 2009 |
steve | Bureaucracy | SAFETY | safety updates & fire alarm test | The fire alarm test was completed at 13:30
yesterday.
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1272
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Wed Feb 4 19:22:57 2009 |
Yoichi | Update | General | Do we need off-axis parabolic mirrors ? | I also estimated the mode matching degradation
caused by the astigmatism.
Since the incident angles to the mode matching |
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