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  8134   Thu Feb 21 21:12:42 2013 KojiUpdateVACpumpdown at 230 Torr

[Rana, Yuta, Koji]

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

  9604   Wed Feb 5 19:36:50 2014 SteveUpdateVACpumpdown at 25 Torr

Quote:

[Steve, Manasa]

I checked the alignment one last time. The arms locked, PRM aligned, oplevs centered.

We went ahead and put the heavy doors ON. Steve is pumping down now!

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

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

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

  8984   Thu Aug 8 07:57:23 2013 SteveUpdateVACpumpdown at 48 hrs

Quote:

 

 TP2's fore line - dry pump replaced at performance level 600 mTorr after 10,377 hrs of continuous operation.

 

  8155   Mon Feb 25 08:22:03 2013 SteveUpdateVACpumpdown at day 4

 All normal, IFO pressure 1.5e-5 Torr

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

 

  9011   Wed Aug 14 08:24:20 2013 SteveUpdateVACpumpdown at day 8

 

 

  843   Fri Aug 15 19:32:49 2008 steveConfigurationVACpumpdown complete
I have just reached vacuum normal. The maglev peaked at 49.8C body temp with aux fan on at 3.2 Torr
cc1 1e-4Torr

note: pumpdown was put on hold for Koji's goodby lunch
  6906   Tue Jul 3 17:23:50 2012 steveUpdateVACpumpdown completed

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

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

  8136   Fri Feb 22 11:12:16 2013 SteveUpdateVACpumpdown completed

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

The Maglev took over the pumping at 500 mTorr

 

  9607   Thu Feb 6 11:14:07 2014 SteveUpdateVACpumpdown completed

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

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

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

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

CC3 cold cathode gauge was replaced.

 

Valve configuration for week end:

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

2, VC2 disconnected to insure that the cryo stays closed

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

 

  8135   Fri Feb 22 08:01:25 2013 SteveUpdateVACpumpdown continuous

 

 Pump down is restarted after 10.5 hrs stop overnight.

  8206   Fri Mar 1 14:50:36 2013 SteveUpdateVACpumpdown day 8

 Atm1, RGA background scan with TP3 pumping at day 7

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

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

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

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

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

 

  7697   Mon Nov 12 16:52:03 2012 SteveUpdateVACpumpdown has completed

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

The IFO is ready for light

 

  2394   Fri Dec 11 08:35:04 2009 steveConfigurationVACpumpdown has started

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

  2397   Fri Dec 11 13:18:17 2009 AlbertoConfigurationVACpumpdown has started

Quote:

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

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

  2399   Fri Dec 11 14:19:22 2009 KojiConfigurationVACpumpdown has started

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

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

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

Quote:

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

 

  4083   Tue Dec 21 16:20:09 2010 steveConfigurationVACpumpdown has started

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

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

  7696   Mon Nov 12 09:21:10 2012 SteveUpdateVACpumpdown has started

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

Are there any more? The OMC is off.

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

  9605   Wed Feb 5 19:53:51 2014 SteveUpdateVACpumpdown stops for the day at 14 Torr

 

 

  2388   Thu Dec 10 16:51:35 2009 steveUpdateVACpumpdown will start tomorrow morning

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

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

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

  2400   Fri Dec 11 15:21:40 2009 steveConfigurationVACpumpdown#67 is completed

Quote:

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

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

  9703   Fri Mar 7 16:13:03 2014 SteveUpdateVACpumping speed is recovered

Quote:

 

 

 Valve configuration:       Vacuum Normal    is reached in really 4 days if we do not count overnight rest of roughing.

 VA6 and VC2 are reconnected. I'm turning on the RGA next

 

 All 4 ion pumps were vented with air and pumped down to ~ 1e-4 Torr

 Ion pumps gate valve control cables are connected and their pumps are disconnected.

 

 The black relay box was tested repeatedly and it stopped misbehaiving.

We were at atmosphere for 13 days.  Chamber BS, ITMX, ITMY and ETMY were opened.

Al foil "cups" were placed on the back side OSEMs of PRM.

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

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

increased the ion pumps pressures to about 10-20 torr

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

  4730   Tue May 17 11:45:20 2011 JamieConfigurationCDSpurged non-c1 site files from rtcds checkout of cds_user_apps
I purged all of the working copy checkouts of site files for all sites that are not c1 from the rtcds cds_user_apps working directory (/opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/userapps/trunk). I first checked that there were no outstanding changes, and then did the following (in bash):
cd /opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/userapps
rm -rf trunk
svn update --depth=files trunk
svn update --depth=empty trunk/{CDS,ISI,ISC,PSL,SUS}
svn update trunk/{CDS,ISI,ISC,PSL,SUS}/{c1,common}
  4054   Tue Dec 14 15:15:19 2010 kiwamuUpdateSUSput ETMY and aligned the beam

  [Zach and Kiwamu]

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

 Also we finished the final alignment of IP_ANG.

 

 

(what we did)

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

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

 - did a fine positioning of ETMY.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  3857   Wed Nov 3 21:19:40 2010 yutaUpdateCDSput LOCKIN to c1ioo model and checked

(Joe, Yuta)

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

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

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

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

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

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

6. Put the cables back.

Result:

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

  8404   Wed Apr 3 17:40:18 2013 JamieConfigurationElectronicsputting together a 110 MHz LSC demod board

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

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

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

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

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

What we'll need for a 110 demod:

I'll scrounge or order.

  8407   Wed Apr 3 18:41:22 2013 JamieConfigurationElectronicsputting together a 110 MHz LSC demod board

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

  8409   Wed Apr 3 22:26:51 2013 ranaConfigurationElectronicsputting together a 110 MHz LSC demod board

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

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

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

  8415   Thu Apr 4 14:37:15 2013 JamieConfigurationElectronicsputting together a 110 MHz LSC demod board

I'm having Steve order the following:

2x  SXBP-100+
2x  SCLF-135+
2x  PSCQ-2-120+

If you want him to add anything to the order let him know ASAP.

  9062   Mon Aug 26 18:55:18 2013 JenneConfigurationElectronicsputting together a 110 MHz LSC demod board for AS

I have modified one of the spare demod boards that was sitting above the electronics bench (the one which was unlabeled - the others say 33MHz, 55MHz and 165MHz) to be the new AS110 demod board.  In place of the T1 coil, and the C3 and C6 resistors, I have put the commercial splitter PSCQ-2-120+.  In place of U5 (the low pass for the PD input) I have put an SCLF-135+. 

In order to figure out how to make the pinout of the PSCQ match up with the available pads from T1, I first pulled the "AS11" board (it's not something that we use, so it would be less of a tragedy if something happened while I had the board pulled).  However, while the PCB layout is the same, the splitter for the low frequencies (PSCQ-2-51W) has a different pinout than the one I need for the 110MHz.  So, I put AS11 back, and pulled the POP110 board. (After I noted the pinout on POP110, I reinstalled that board.  To get it out, I had to unplug the I and Q outs of POP22, but I have also replugged those in).

For my new AS110 demod board, I copied the pin connections on POP110.  I have made a little diagram, so you can see what pins went where.  The top 2 rectangles are the "before" installation cartoon, and the bottom is the "as installed" cartoon.

AS110_demod_board_modifications.pdf

The one thing that must be noted is that, because of the pinout of the splitter and the constraints of the board layout, the +0 degrees (I-phase) output of the splitter is connected to the Q channel for the rest of the demod board.  This means that the +90 degrees (Q-phase) output of the splitter is connected to the I channel for the rest of the demod board.  This is not noted for POP110, but is true for both:  The I and Q channels of the 110 MHz demod boards are switched.  In practice, we can handle this with our digital phase rotation.

Daytime tomorrow, I will test my new board as Suresh did in elog 4736.  Before we get to use AS110, we need (a) some LO juice from the RF distribution box, and (b) a spot to plug the board in, in the LSC rack.  Meditating on how those are going to happen are also tasks for daytime tomorrow.

  9067   Mon Aug 26 20:13:17 2013 ranaConfigurationElectronicsputting together a 110 MHz LSC demod board for AS

Quote:

I have modified one of the spare demod boards that was sitting above the electronics bench (the one which was unlabeled - the others say 33MHz, 55MHz and 165MHz) to be the new AS110 demod board.  In place of the T1 coil, and the C3 and C6 resistors, I have put the commercial splitter PSCQ-2-120+.  In place of U5 (the low pass for the PD input) I have put an SCLF-135+.

OK, but what kind of filter should we be actually using? i.e. what purpose the 135 MHz low pass serve in contrast to a PHP-100+ ?

  9069   Tue Aug 27 15:31:48 2013 JenneConfigurationElectronicsputting together a 110 MHz LSC demod board for AS

Quote:

Quote:

I have modified one of the spare demod boards that was sitting above the electronics bench (the one which was unlabeled - the others say 33MHz, 55MHz and 165MHz) to be the new AS110 demod board.  In place of the T1 coil, and the C3 and C6 resistors, I have put the commercial splitter PSCQ-2-120+.  In place of U5 (the low pass for the PD input) I have put an SCLF-135+.

OK, but what kind of filter should we be actually using? i.e. what purpose the 135 MHz low pass serve in contrast to a PHP-100+ ?

 Hmmm. Indeed. This is just cutting off higher frequency stuff, but anything from other lower sidebands still gets through.  I should actually stick in the SXBP-100's, which will band pass from 87-117 MHz.  These have an insertion loss at 100 MHz of 1.64 dB. 

Jamie ordered 2 of these, so I can put one in each of AS110 and POP110. 

  9071   Tue Aug 27 17:32:52 2013 JenneConfigurationElectronicsputting together a 110 MHz LSC demod board for AS

I measured the phase split between the I and Q signals of my AS110 board.  To do so, I plugged the board into an empty slot next to the PD DC readout / whitening board in the LSC rack.  I borrowed the POP110 local oscillator, and used a Marconi to generate a "PD input".  (I'm roughly following what Suresh did in elog 4736).  Our 11MHz is currently 11.066134MHz, so I had the Marconi going at 110.662340 MHz (1kHz from 10*11MHz), and I had the Marconi source at -13dBm.  

I took a transfer function using the SR785 between the I and Q outs of the AS110 demod board, and got a magnitude misbalance of 0.809 dB, and a phase split of 110.5 degrees.  This isn't so close to 90 degrees, but this may be a problem with the splitter that we're using, as Suresh detailed in elog 4755.  In that elog, he measured a phase split of POP110 of 105 degrees, unless the power going into the splitter was pretty high.  As with POP110, since I expect that we'll usually only look at one channel (I, for instance), this isn't such a big deal for AS110. 

I have left, for now, the board in the empty slot.  It looks like (I'm going to go check) there are 3 open channels on the whitening board that has the PD DC signals.  So, the only thing left to figure out is how we want to get some local oscillator action for this new board.

EDIT: Yes, those channels are available.  Right now (as a remnant from testing the whitening filters waaaay back in the day) they are called C1:LSC-PDXXX I, Q, DC.  I'll use 2 of those for the AS110 I and Q. 

  9100   Tue Sep 3 21:10:36 2013 JenneConfigurationElectronicsputting together a 110 MHz LSC demod board for AS

Quote:

 

 I should actually stick in the SXBP-100's, which will band pass from 87-117 MHz.

 I have removed the 135 MHz low pass from my new AS110 demod board, but these SXBPs have different feet than the SCLFs, so I want to confirm with Koji or someone that I can solder them in the same way, before I get carried away and destroy anything.  I should be able to finish this up tomorrow, plug in the demod board and the distribution box, and try out AS110 triggering, etc, tomorrow night.

  4021   Tue Dec 7 17:19:33 2010 kiwamuUpdateComputerspyNDS available

I moved the Pynds package from Yuta's local directory to the public place.

Now the package is living under :

       /cvs/cds/caltech/apps/linux64/python/lib64/python2.4/site-packages

Also I added the PATH on cshrc.40m, so you don't have to setenv every time.

       (This package can not run on non-64bit linux)

Typing "import nds" on python allows you to use the nds functions.

 


 

 Quote from Yuta's  past entry

Quote: #3722 

3. I installed pyNDS to /cvs/cds/caltech/users/yuta/pynds

  3722   Thu Oct 14 20:31:15 2010 yutaUpdateComputerspyNDS installation

EDIT by kiwamu Dec.7th ;

The Pynds package has been moved to the appropriate place:

/cvs/cds/caltech/apps/linux64/python/lib64/python2.4/site-packages

Background:
 We need the python module pyNDS to get the data directly from the server using python.
 Leo helped us install pyNDS today.

Installation:
1. Get pyNDS source tarball from here.
  https://www.lsc-group.phys.uwm.edu/daswg/download/software/source/pynds-0.3.tar.gz

2. All you need is Boost.Python and nds2-client. See README in the pynds-0.3 directory.

3. I installed pyNDS to /cvs/cds/caltech/users/yuta/pynds

4. You have to set environment variable to import the module. For example, run;
  setenv PYTHONPATH /users/yuta/pynds/lib64/python2.4/site-packages:${PYTHONPATH}

Notes:
 RPM will be available soon from Leo.

  13341   Thu Sep 28 23:32:38 2017 gautamHowToCDSpyawg

I've modified the __init.py__ file located at /ligo/apps/linux-x86_64/cdsutils-480/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cdsutils/__init__.py so that you can now simply import pyawg from cdsutils. On the control room workstations, iPython is set up such that cdsutils is automatically imported as "cds". Now this import also includes the pyawg stuff. So to use some pyawg function, you would just do (for example):

exc=cds.awg.ArbitraryLoop(excChan,excit,rate=fs)

One could also explicitly do the import if cdsutils isn't automatically imported:

from cdsutils import awg

pyawg-away!


Linking this useful instructional elog from Chris here: https://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:8081/Cryo_Lab/1748

  13344   Fri Sep 29 09:43:52 2017 jamieHowToCDSpyawg

 

Quote:

I've modified the __init.py__ file located at /ligo/apps/linux-x86_64/cdsutils-480/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cdsutils/__init__.py so that you can now simply import pyawg from cdsutils. On the control room workstations, iPython is set up such that cdsutils is automatically imported as "cds". Now this import also includes the pyawg stuff. So to use some pyawg function, you would just do (for example):

exc=cds.awg.ArbitraryLoop(excChan,excit,rate=fs)

One could also explicitly do the import if cdsutils isn't automatically imported:

from cdsutils import awg

pyawg-away!


Linking this useful instructional elog from Chris here: https://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:8081/Cryo_Lab/1748

?  Why aren't you able to just import 'awg' directly?  You shouldn't have to import it through cdsutils.  Something must be funny with the config.

  9135   Tue Sep 17 17:55:42 2013 Jamie.ConfigurationComputer Scripts / Programspyepics configured

Quote:
 controls@rosalba:~ 0$ cdsutils
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/ligo/apps/cdsutils/lib/cdsutils/__main__.py", line 7, in <module>
    from cdsutils import CMDS
  File "/ligo/apps/cdsutils/lib/cdsutils/__init__.py", line 4, in <module>
    from servo import servo
  File "/ligo/apps/cdsutils/lib/cdsutils/servo.py", line 1, in <module>
    from epics import PV
ImportError: No module named epics
controls@rosalba:~ 1$
Mon Sep 16 19:40:32 2013 

 I properly installed the python-pyepics package on all the workstations, so this should be working now.

And for posterity, the pyepics source is at:

  pianos:/home/controls/src/pyepics

From this debian packages were built:

  controls@pianosa:~/src/pyepics 0$ debuild -uc -us

The .deb was then moved into the /ligo/apps/deb nfs:

  controls@pianosa:~/src 0$ cp python-pyepics_*_all.deb /ligo/apps/debs/pyepics/

It was then installed on the various workstations:

  controls@rosalba:~ 0$ sudo dpkg -i /ligo/apps/debs/pyepics/python-pyepics*.deb

This will probably need to be repeated any time we upgrade the EPICS install.

  7243   Tue Aug 21 15:25:41 2012 JenneUpdateComputerspyepics installed

I installed pyepics version 3 (http://cars9.uchicago.edu/software/python/pyepics3/overview.html) in ..../scripts/pylibs    .   I also added an "epics.conf" file to /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ , which points to the place in /ligo/apps/epics/base/lib/linux-x86_64/ where the DLLs live.  All .conf files in /etc/ld.so.conf.d/   get included in the path, so python should always automatically be able to use epics now, after you "import epics" in a script.

This is supposed to give us direct channel access to all epics channels, rather than using Yuta's wrapper scripts for ezca stuff.  I was going to write a tdsavg equivalent using camonitor, since it's unclear whether tds tools are being supported anymore.

However, I'm not getting it to connect to the server that serves epics, so I can't get the values of any channels.  All of the info in the link above assumes that you automatically get a connection, and I'm out of ideas right now of things to try.  Does anyone else have any ideas?

  5710   Thu Oct 20 09:54:53 2011 jamieUpdateComputer Scripts / Programspynds working on pianosa again

Quote:

 

Doesn't work on pianosa either. Has someone changed the python environment?

pianosa:SUS_SUMMARY 0> ./setSensors.py 1000123215 600 0.1 0.25
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./setSensors.py", line 2, in <module>
    import nds
ImportError: No module named nds

 So I found that the NDS2 lib directory in (/ligo/apps/nds2/lib) was completely empty.  I reinstalled NDS2 and pynds, and they are now available again by default on pianosa (it should "just work", assuming you don't break your environment).

Why the NDS2 lib directory was completely empty is definitely a concern to me.  The contents of directories don't just disappear.  I can't imagine how this would happen other than someone doing it, either on purpose or accidentally.  If someone actually deleted the contents of this directory on purpose they need to speak up, explain why they did this, and come see me for a beating.

  17318   Mon Nov 28 16:58:20 2022 PacoUpdateCDSpypi package added

[Paco, Tega]

I added the pypi package "restoreEpics" to the donatella clone under test. This is required by some of Anchal's scripts that turn on F2A filters as well as other recovery stages during some measurements.

  9928   Thu May 8 01:33:21 2014 ericqUpdateCDSpython issues

On pianosa: The ezca.Ezca class somehow initializes with its prefix set to "C1:", even though the docstring says the default is None. This makes existing scripts act wonky, because they're looking for channels like "C1:C1:FO-BLAH".

In ligo/apps/linux-x86_64, I ran ln -sfn cdsutils-old cdsutils to get the old version back for now, so I don't have to edit all of our up/down scripts.

Also, Chiara can't find the epics package when I try to load Ezca. It exists in '/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/epics/__init__.pyc' on pianosa, but there is no corresponding 2.7 folder on chiara.

 

  9931   Thu May 8 15:55:43 2014 jamieUpdateCDSpython issues

Quote:

On pianosa: The ezca.Ezca class somehow initializes with its prefix set to "C1:", even though the docstring says the default is None. This makes existing scripts act wonky, because they're looking for channels like "C1:C1:FO-BLAH".

In ligo/apps/linux-x86_64, I ran ln -sfn cdsutils-old cdsutils to get the old version back for now, so I don't have to edit all of our up/down scripts.

Also, Chiara can't find the epics package when I try to load Ezca. It exists in '/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/epics/__init__.pyc' on pianosa, but there is no corresponding 2.7 folder on chiara.

I just pushed a fix to ezca to allow for having a truly empty prefix even if the IFO env var is set:

controls@pianosa:~ 0$ ipython
Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Feb 27 2014, 19:43:51) 
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

IPython 0.10 -- An enhanced Interactive Python.
?         -> Introduction and overview of IPython's features.
%quickref -> Quick reference.
help      -> Python's own help system.
object?   -> Details about 'object'. ?object also works, ?? prints more.

In [1]: import ezca

In [2]: ezca.Ezca()
Out[2]: Ezca(prefix='C1:')

In [3]: ezca.Ezca(ifo=None)
Out[3]: Ezca(prefix='')

In [4]: ezca.Ezca(ifo=None).read('C1:LSC-DARM_GAIN')
Out[4]: 0.0

This is in cdsutils r232, which I just installed at the 40m.  I linked it in as well, so it's now the default version.  You will have to make a modification to any python scripts utilizing the Ezca object, but now it's a much smaller change (just in the invocation line):

-ca = ezca.Ezca()
+ca = ezca.Ezca(ifo=None)

 

  3835   Mon Nov 1 12:38:56 2010 Leo SingerConfigurationComputerspython-sqlite installed on Allegra

I installed the Python bindings for sqlite on Allegra using

$ sudo yum install python-sqlite python-sqlite2

  11083   Fri Feb 27 10:25:24 2015 steveUpdateCamerasquad picture problem

MUX input 7 to ITMXF camera cable was replaced by temporary cable labeled as 888

The problem remains to be the same black stripe at the bottom of the image The single picture is OK.

  7021   Tue Jul 24 21:16:55 2012 DenUpdatedigital noisequantization test

I'm trying to get some intuition how digital noise due to quantization shows up in iir filters. I decided to do tests in C using Python to calculate psd and visualize. I've implemented Direct Form 1, 2, "Biquad" and "Low Noise" forms of realization of second-order iir filter from Matt's presentation. There is a typo in the "Low Noise Form" scheme - a1 and a2 gains should be switched. Other then that schemes correctly implement 2 order iir. 

The input signal to each filter was a sine wave plus white noise with small amplitude x[n] = sin(2*pi*f*t[n]) + g*random( [-1, 1] ),  g << 1, f=1kHz. Sampling frequency was 16384 Hz. All 4 forms implemented 2 order low-pass butterworth filter with cut-off frequency 0.2 Hz

iir_2.png iir_8.png

For g=1e-2 all implementations work fine. For g=1e-8 when quantization noise increases, all implementations give a lot of noise at low frequencies. I did not notice any significant difference between any of these implementations. I'll try to do more tests to figure out any difference in noise between the forms.

Quantization noise depends on the architecture of the processor, compiler and what not. But I do not think this can give a huge difference in results. We need to understand carefully digital noise during PSD estimation and all operations done at Matlab or Python.

  8544   Tue May 7 19:58:28 2013 ranaFrogsTreasurerabbitt whole

controls@rosalba:/opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/medm/c1ioo/master/master/master 0$ ls
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C1IOO_LOCKMC.adl          C1IOO_MC_ASS_LOCKIN6.adl     C1IOO_WFS1_Q.adl             C1IOO_WFS_MASTER.adl
C1IOO_LOCKMC_BAK.adl      C1IOO_MC_ASS_PIT_LOCKIN.adl  C1IOO_WFS1_SETTINGS.adl      C1IOO_WFS_MASTER.adl~
C1IOO_MC_ALIGN.adl        C1IOO_MC_ASS_YAW_LOCKIN.adl  C1IOO_WFS1_SETTINGS.adl.old  C1IOO_WFS_MASTER_BAK.adl
C1IOO_MC_ALIGN.adl~       C1IOO_MC_LOCKINS.adl         C1IOO_WFS2_I.adl             C1IOO_WFS_OUTMATRIX.adl
C1IOO_MC_ALIGN_BAK.adl    C1IOO_MC_SERVO.adl           C1IOO_WFS2_Q.adl             C1IOO_WFS_QPD.adl
C1IOO_MC_ASS.adl          C1IOO_MC_TRANS_QPD.adl       C1IOO_WFS2_SETTINGS.adl      C1IOO_WFS_QPD.adl.old
C1IOO_MC_ASS_LOCKIN1.adl  C1IOO_Mech_Shutters.adl      C1IOO_WFS2_SETTINGS.adl.old  fmX
C1IOO_MC_ASS_LOCKIN2.adl  C1IOO_MODECLEANER.adl        C1IOO_WFS_HEADS.adl          junk
C1IOO_MC_ASS_LOCKIN3.adl  C1IOO_QPDS.adl               C1IOO_WFS_HEADS.adl.old      master
C1IOO_MC_ASS_LOCKIN4.adl  C1IOO_QPDS_BAK.adl           C1IOO_WFS_INMATRIX.adl       svn-commit.tmp~
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  9458   Thu Dec 12 17:22:07 2013 SteveUpdateGeneralrack power supplies checked

Instrument rack power supplies checked and labeled at present loads.

The vacuum rack Sorensen is running HOT! Their is only 0.3A load at 24V There is plenty of space around it.

It is alarming to me because all vacuum valve positions are controlled by this 24V

  13649   Thu Feb 22 10:49:11 2018 SteveUpdateElectronicsrack power supplies checked

All rack power supplies labeled if their load changed.

 

  17108   Fri Aug 26 14:05:09 2022 TegaUpdateComputersrack reshuffle proposal for CDS upgrade

[Tega, Jamie]

Here is a proposal for what we would like to do in terms of reshuffling a few rack-mounted equipments for the CDS upgrade. 

  • Frequency Distribution Amp - Move the unit from 1X7 to 1X6 without disconnecting the attached cables. Then disconnect power and signal cables one at a time to enable optimum rerouting for strain relief and declutter.  

 

  • GPS Receiver Tempus LX - Move the unit from 1X7 to 1X6 without disconnecting the attached cables. Then disconnect power and signal cables one at a time to enable optimum rerouting for strain relief and declutter.

 

  • PEM & ADC Adapter - Move the unit from 1X7 to 1X6 without disconnecting the attached cables. Disconnect the single signal cable from the rear of the ADC adapter to allow for optimum rerouting for strain relief.

 

  • Martian Network Switch - Make a note of all connections, disconnect them, move the switch to 1X7 and reconnect ethernet cables. 

 

  • MARTIAN NETWORK SWITCH CONNECTIONS
    # LABEL # LABEL
    1 Tempus LX (yellow,unlabeled) 13 FB1
    2 1Y6 HUB 14 FB
    3 C0DCU1 15 NODUS
    4 C1PEM1 16  
    5 RFM-BYPASS 17 CHIARA
    6 MEGATRON/PROCYON 18  
    7 MEGATRON 19 CISC/C1SOSVME
    8 BR40M 20 C1TESTSTAND [blue/unlabelled]
    9 C1DSCL1EPICS0 21 JetStar [blue/unlabelled]
    10 OP340M 22 C1SUS [purple]
    11 C1DCUEPICS 23 unknown [88/purple/goes to top-back rail]
    12 C1ASS 24 unknown [stonewall/yellow/goes to top-front rail]

     

I believe all of this can be done in one go followed by CDS validation. Please comment so we can improve the plan. Should we move FB1 to 1X7 and remove old FB & JetStor during this work?

Attachment 1: Reshuffling proposal

Attachment 2: Front of 1X7 Rack

Attachment 3: Rear of 1X7 Rack

Attachment 4: Front of 1X6 Rack

Attachment 5: Rear of 1X6 Rack

Attachment 6: Martian switch connections

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