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1613
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Wed May 20 10:43:17 2009 |
steve | Omnistructure | Environment | accelerometers sensitivity |
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1614
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Wed May 20 16:03:52 2009 |
steve | Omnistructure | Environment | using OSEMs to look at seismic activity | Rana suggested using OSEM sensing voltages
as guide lines to look seismic activity.
As you see todays drilling and tumping |
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1630
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Thu May 28 18:41:26 2009 |
steve | Update | PSL | the saga of the chiller is ending | I drained the water and removed side covers
from the Neslab RTE 140 refrigerated water
cooler unit this morning. The hoses to the |
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1631
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Fri May 29 18:57:09 2009 |
steve | Update | PSL | the laser is back | Steve, Rob and Alberto
Starting capacitor 216 miroFarad |
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1651
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Thu Jun 4 15:53:15 2009 |
steve | Update | PSL | NPRO cooling flowrate adjusted | The Neslab chiller is working well. It's
temp display shows 20.0 C rock solid. Flow
meter rotating at 13.5Hz at the out put of |
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1665
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Wed Jun 10 09:06:12 2009 |
steve | Update | PEM | particle counts and turbulance | I moved the mobile HEPA filter from ITMX's
north door to ITMX-ISCT and covered it up
with a merostate tent to accommodate the |
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1666
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Wed Jun 10 09:28:14 2009 |
steve | Update | PSL | PMC | The PMC alarm was on this morning. It was
relocked at lower HV
The FSS_RMTEMP jumped 0.5 C so The |
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1671
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Fri Jun 12 09:56:38 2009 |
steve | Configuration | VAC | new maglev installed | Joe and Steve
The retrofitted Osaka 390 was installed |
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1672
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Fri Jun 12 15:34:49 2009 |
steve | Configuration | VAC | maglev is running |
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1674
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Mon Jun 15 16:31:36 2009 |
steve | Configuration | VAC | RGA is scanning new Maglev |
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1677
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Tue Jun 16 09:02:30 2009 |
steve | Configuration | VAC | new maglev RGA scan | The maglev fore line pressure is 3e-6 torr
at CC2 after 4 days of pumping. Varian turbo
V-70 is pumping on it through V4 and VM2 |
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1690
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Tue Jun 23 10:06:03 2009 |
steve | Update | VAC | new maglev RGA scan at day6 | The Maglev is running for 10 days with
V1 closed. The pressure at the RGA-region
is at 2e-9 torr on CC4 cold cathode |
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1691
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Tue Jun 23 15:19:42 2009 |
steve | Configuration | VAC | V1 is open |
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1693
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Wed Jun 24 09:21:19 2009 |
steve | Configuration | VAC | IFO RGA scan with Maglev & Cryo |
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1700
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Wed Jun 24 17:08:16 2009 |
steve | Bureaucracy | SAFETY | surf student safety | The 40m lab specific safety training is
done. The participants were
Stephanie Erickson, Clara Bennett, |
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1701
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Thu Jun 25 10:28:58 2009 |
steve | HowTo | VAC | Cryopump is regenerated | The Cryopump's VC1 valve to IFO was closed
yesterday.
The compressor
Helium pressure was 235 PSI. The cold head |
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1716
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Thu Jul 2 17:37:36 2009 |
steve | Update | VAC | V1 interlock test | Joe, Alberto and Steve
We tested gate valve V1 interlock
by : |
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1743
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Tue Jul 14 14:54:19 2009 |
steve | Configuration | Computers | fb40m2 in 1Y6 | Alex and Steve,
SunFire x4600 ( not MEGATRON
2 , it is fb40m2 ) and JetStor ( 16 x 1 TB |
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1746
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Wed Jul 15 08:59:30 2009 |
steve | Update | Computers | fb40m | The fb40m just went out of order with status
indicator number 8
It recovered on its own five minutes |
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1763
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Mon Jul 20 10:35:06 2009 |
steve | Update | VAC | UPS batteries replaced | APC Smart-UPS (uninterruptible power
supply) batteries RBC12 replaced at 1Y8 vacuum
rack. |
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1771
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Tue Jul 21 18:46:47 2009 |
steve | Configuration | Computers | computers are down | All suspentions are kicked up. Sus dampings
and oplev servos turned off.
c1iscey and c1lsc are down. c1asc |
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1795
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Mon Jul 27 09:34:07 2009 |
steve | Summary | IOO | Aligning the mode cleaner |
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1802
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Wed Jul 29 11:15:06 2009 |
steve | Bureaucracy | SAFETY | Kevin receives safety training | Kevin Vigue, our high school summer student
went through the 40m specific safety traning
yesterday. |
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1831
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Wed Aug 5 07:33:04 2009 |
steve | DAQ | Computers | fb40m is down | |
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1838
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Wed Aug 5 16:33:50 2009 |
steve | Configuration | PSL | new PSL output iris | I installed an improvised version of PSL
output beam iris at the output periscope
last week. |
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1840
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Thu Aug 6 09:05:29 2009 |
steve | Update | VAC | large O-rings of vacuum envelope | The 40m-IFO vacuum envelope doors are sealed
with dual viton O-rings and they are pumped
through the annulos lines. |
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1852
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Fri Aug 7 09:50:57 2009 |
steve | Configuration | VAC | IFO pressure rose to 2.3 mTorr | IFO pressure was 2.3 mTorr this morning,
The Maglev's foreline valve
V4 was closed so P2 rose to 4 Torr. The Maglev |
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1864
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Fri Aug 7 19:34:40 2009 |
steve | Summary | VAC | UPS failed | The Maglev is running on single phase 220V
and that voltage was not interrupted.
TP1 was running undisturbed with V1 and V4 |
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1865
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Fri Aug 7 19:55:08 2009 |
steve | Summary | VAC | opening V1 when PTP1 is broken | The swapped in 307 convectron gauge controller
is very likely to have the RS232 connection
wired differently from the old one. |
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1931
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Thu Aug 20 09:16:32 2009 |
steve | HowTo | Photos | Control Room Workstation desks lowered to human height |
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1937
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Mon Aug 24 16:48:57 2009 |
steve | HowTo | VAC | new UPS installed |
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1943
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Tue Aug 25 18:42:42 2009 |
steve | Update | PSL | reference cavity temp box temporarly out of order |
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1948
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Wed Aug 26 14:45:14 2009 |
steve | Update | PSL | PSL-FSS_RCTEMP of 4 years | The reference cavity vacuum chamber temp
is plotted starting Feb 22 of 2005
This plot suggest that the MINCO |
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1952
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Wed Aug 26 16:31:34 2009 |
steve | Update | PSL | reference cavity temp box temporarly out of order |
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1958
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Thu Aug 27 16:14:28 2009 |
steve | Summary | OMC | burned photodiode | Old -pre 6/2009 LLO DCPD 3 mm od
GTRAN photodiode |
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1961
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Fri Aug 28 15:30:15 2009 |
steve | Configuration | General | POX rfpd removed | I removed POX rfpd to see how it is mounted
on its base. It is here on the work bench
just in case someone wants to use it the |
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1962
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Tue Sep 1 11:23:36 2009 |
steve | Update | General | electrical ground | I was told yesterday, that on Friday the
construction people accidentally ripped out
one of the 40m soil ground.....AND HOW MANY |
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1963
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Tue Sep 1 13:52:06 2009 |
steve | Configuration | General | POX rfpd is back & needs alignment |
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1965
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Thu Sep 3 11:20:26 2009 |
steve | Update | General | electrical ground in place |
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1974
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Tue Sep 8 16:01:52 2009 |
steve | Configuration | VAC | RGA was separeted from IFO | The RGA isolation valve VM1 was closed
since Aug 24, 2009 I installed the
new UPS that time. |
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1980
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Wed Sep 9 10:13:31 2009 |
steve | Bureaucracy | General | the use of FAX machine, scanner & toaster |
You said that the use of FAXST
was forbidden for phds and graduate students. |
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1987
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Tue Sep 15 15:46:05 2009 |
steve | Update | PEM | PEM and VAC | FSS_RMTEMP is moving up and daily
fluctuations are less . 120 and
16 days plots are below. |
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1993
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Fri Sep 18 16:26:02 2009 |
steve | Summary | PSL | Neslab chiller is OK | Rob found puddles of water very close to
the chiller during lunch time. We raised
the unit and took the side cover off. All |
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2031
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Thu Oct 1 08:37:43 2009 |
steve | Update | SUS | suspention damping restored and MZ HV stuck | Earthquake
of magnitude 5.0 shakes ETMY loose.
MC2 lost it's damping later. |
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2033
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Thu Oct 1 10:23:00 2009 |
steve | Update | PSL | MC2 damping restored again | The EQ did not change the input beam
pointing. All back to normal, except MC2
wachdogs tripped again. |
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2097
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Thu Oct 15 09:23:07 2009 |
steve | Summary | Locking | never had it so good | Awesome 5 hrs of locking Rob! |
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2102
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Fri Oct 16 10:15:02 2009 |
steve | Update | IOO | IP ang & pos recentered | Pointing stability of 4 days. Initial pointing
does not go through suspended optics. It
is launched right after the Piezo Jena |
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2115
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Mon Oct 19 11:00:52 2009 |
steve | HowTo | SAFETY | 40m safety training | Kiwamu, Alex and Zach are practicing mandatory
IR-safety scan at the 40m-PSL
40m specific safety indoctrination |
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2124
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Tue Oct 20 10:46:18 2009 |
steve | Update | IOO | clipping IP-ANG beam at ETMX chamber | Initial pointing beam is clearly clipping
on 2" pick off mirror in ETMX
vacuum chamber. |
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2132
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Thu Oct 22 08:45:58 2009 |
steve | Update | IOO | IP ang & pos recentered |
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