Jordan, Chub

We installed the 4x DB25 feedthru flange on the North-West port of ITMX chamber this afternoon. It is ready to go.

{Paco, Yehonathan, Anchal}

I cut the wires from the winches and removed the winch adapter plate. I engrave  'LO1' on the SOS tower. Me and Paco wrapped the SOS with foil and transported it to Anchal who put it inside the ITMX chamber.

The transportation seems to be successful. Nothing broke. However, we found that even with the short side OSEM the LO1, as it is now, cannot sit in its designed position since ITMX's side OSEM stands in its way.

If there are magnets on both ITMX sides we can move its side OSEM to the other side. Another option is to resuspend LO1 with a side magnet on its left side.

Today I found one of the coil driver boards, S2100619 failed the test on CH2. There appears to be an extra phase lag after 10 kHz and some resonant-like feature at 7 kHz. This of course is very high-frequency stuff and maybe we don't care about these deviations. But it could mean something is off with the channel and could potentially lead to failure in the relevant frequency band in the future. I'll need help to debug this. Please see the attachment for details of test failure.

The ITMX 10" flange with four DSUB-25 feedthroughs has been install with the cables connected at the in-vac side.  See photo; as requested, LO1-1 and LO1-2 are connected to the top row of feedthroughs from left to right respectively and the opposite ends of the cables placed left to right on the laser table.  PR2-1 and PR2-2 are connected to the lower row of feedthroughs from left to right respectively, with the opposite ends placed on the surface below the laser from left to right.  This seemed the easiest way to keep the cable orientation clear.

We have completed modifications and testing of the HAM Coil driver D1100687 units with serial numbers listed below. The DCC tree reflects these changes and tests (Run/Acq modes transfer functions).

** A fix had to be done on the DC power supply for these. The units' regulated power boards were not connected to the raw DC power, so the cabling had to be modified accordingly.

Further, Paco fixed the two even serial number units (S2101648, S211650) that failed the test. The issues were minor soldering mistakes that were easily resolved.

Thanks for the installation.

With regard to the connector convention, let's use the attached arrangement so that it will be consistent with the existing flange DSUB configuration. Not a big deal.

Good catch. It turned out that the both + and - side of the output stages for CH2 were oscillating at ~600kHz. If I use a capacitance sticks to touch arbitrarily around the components, it stops their oscillation and they stay calm.
It means that the phase margin becomes small while the circuit starts up.

I decided to increase the capacitances C6 and C20 (WIMA 150pF) to 330pF (WIMA FPK2 100V) and the oscillation was tamed. 220pF didn't stop them. After visually checked the signal behavior with an oscilloscope, the unit was passed to Anchal for the TF test.

The modification was also recorded in the DCC S2100619

S2100619 was fixed by Koji and it passed the test after that.

Today I glued magnets onto the new 3/4" mirror adapters. I also took the opportunity to make some more side magnets assemblies.

Yesterday I mounted PR3/SR2 3/4" thick mirror onto one of the new adapter. There seem to be no issues for now.

I started the process of suspending AS1 (E2000226-A). The Lambda Optic mirror with the closest specs has Rc = 2 m. I attached side blocks with clamped wires onto adapter number 7 - side block with a magnet on the right.

I then took one of the Lambda Optic mirrors and tried mounting it in the adapter. It was quite difficult to get it right. Unfortunately, I chipped the edge of the substrate (attachment 1) 🤦🏻‍♂️. I put the mirror back in the box and decided to use the spare mirror. I successfully mounted it into the adapter but when I put the clamping screws one of them fell on the mirror 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️. There is no visible damage though. I took some pictures (attachment 2-4).

I and Anchal then started suspending the mirror but then we found that one of the wires is dented in the middle 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️. I'm burned out for today.

Late update: one nice thing that I found yesterday is that the glue is viscous enough to hold the dumbells without a metal sheet from above holding the magnets. This greatly simplifies the gluing process.

Anything else? Feel free to edit this entry.

- SUS: AS1 hanging

- SUS: PR3/SR2/LO2 3/4" thick optic hanging

v Electronics chain check (From DAC to the end of the in-air cable / From the end of the in-air cable to the ADC)
[ELOG 16522]

- Long cable installation (4x 70ft)

- In-air cable connection to the flange

- In-vac wiring (connecting LO1 OSEMs)

- LO1 OSEM insertion/alignment

- LO1 Damping test

I threaded a new wire through a different side block with a magnet and clamped it under a microscope. It was hard, but eventually, I was able to do it by holding the wire on both sides of the side block with weights.

The dented wire was discarded and the side block that was mounted on the AS1 adapter was put aside. I mounted the side block with the new wire on the AS1 adapter.

Anchal and I hanged the AS1 adapter and clamped the wires on the winches of an SOS tower. I balanced the roll and adjusted the height of the magnet with respect to a side OSEM using a camera (attachments 1 & 2).

I shoot the Hene laser on the optic and look at the reflection. I align the laser beam to be as close as possible to the center of the mirror. The OpLev needs to be realigned.

To my surprise, the ghost beam shoots up above the reflected beam! See attachment 3. I check to see that the arrow which marks the thinnest side of the mirror is horizontal (attachment 4). WTF?!

Also, now I realize that the marking on the Lambda optics are pencil markings 😵😵😵.

We @40m do the convention of the arrow at the thinnest side & pointing the HR side, but nobody says Lambda does the same.

We can just remount the mirror without breaking the wires and adjust the pitching if you do it carefully.

Does this mean that the LO1 also likely to have the wedge pointing up? Or did you rotate the mirror to have the wedge reflection to be as horizontal as possible?

I had the fear that any mistake in the electronics chain could have been the show stopper.

So I quickly checked the signal assignments for the ADC and DAC chains.

I had initial confusion (see below), but it was confirmed that the electronics chains (at least for LO1) are correct.

Note: One 70ft cable is left around the 1Y0 rack

There are a few points to be fixed:

- It looks like the ADC/DAC card # assignment has been messed up.

CDS ADC0 -> Cable label ADC1 -> AA A1 -> ...
CDS ADC1 -> Cable label ADC0 -> AA A0 -> ...
CDS DAC0 -> Cable label DAC2 -> AI D2 -> ...
CDS DAC1 -> Cable label DAC0 -> AI D0 -> ...
CDS DAC2 -> Cable label DAC1 -> AI D1 -> ...
(What is going on here... please confirm and correct as they become straight forward)

Once this puzzle was solved I could confirm reasonable connections from the end of the 70 cables to the ADC/DAC.

- We also want to change the ADC card assignment. The face OSEM readings must be assigned to ADC1 and the side OSEM readings to ADC0.
  My system wiring diagram needs to be fixed accordingly too.
  This is because the last channel of the first ADC (ADC0) is not available for us and is used for DuoTone.

I specifically checked the specification before mounting the mirror. It says clearly "Arrow at the thinnest location pointing towards Side 1". I guess they just ignored it.

As for LO1, I mounted it without noticing the location of the arrow. Later, I checked and the ghost beam was horizontal so I left it as it is. Yeah, I guess I will remount the mirror. Also, what do we do with the pencil markings? It's not vacuum-compatible.

Sad... We just need to check the wedge direction everytime, unfortunately.

Pencil: can you try to gently wipe it off with solvent & a swab? (IPA / Acetone)
If it does not come off in the end, it's all right to leave. Do we want to scribe the arrow mark? You need a diamond pen.

The I/O chassis reassigns the ADC and DAC indices on every power cycle. When we moved it, it must have changed it from the order we had. We were aware of this fact and decided to reconnect the I/O chassis to AA/AI to relect the correct order. We forgot to do that but this is not an error, it is expected behavior and can be solved easily.

LO1: No need to remove the pencil mark for the damping test. Until we see serious contamination on the LO1 optic, we don't need to take the optic off from the mount and clean it. If there is a chance of rehanging (because of a broken wire/etc), we do wipe the pencil mark.

Other optics: wipe the pencil mark as much as possible.

Koji found some 68nF caps from Downs and I finished modifying the last remaining coil driver box and tested it.

With this, all coil drivers have been modified and tested and are ready to be used. This DCC tree has links to all the coil driver pages which have documentation of modifications and test data.

{Yehonathan, Anchal}

I released the AS1 wires from the winches, removed the adapter from the SOS tower, and removed the Lambda optic from the adapter. Attachment 1 shows the pencil markings on the optic before cleaning. I cleaned the pencil marking from the side of the optic with acetone using swabs until there were no pencil residues on the swab (attachment 2 shows the swab I used next to an unused swab). I was not able to remove the markings completely though (attachment 3).

I remounted the optic with the arrow rotated by 90 degrees counterclockwise.

We hang the adapter on the winches and adjust the height of the magnet and the adapter roll using the winches. We monitor the height of the adapter using a live stream from the Cannon camera. The camera's tilt was adjusted using straight features on the SOS tower. When we ran out of winch travel we adjust the height using the lower EQ stops and pull tight the wires. Attachment 4 shows the alignment of the side magnet with respect to the SOS tower and a side OSEM.

We checked the ghost beam trajectory and it looks much better (attachment 5)

We started realigning the OpLev. We realize that the height of the beam should be 5+14/32" = 5.437 by measuring the height of the screw holding the side OSEM from the table. The real height from the schematics is 5.425 We make the beam parallel with the table first using an iris and then the QPD.

Today, I balanced the counterweight. First using an iris, then by placing a QPD close to the SOS measuring the reflection from AS1. I locked the counterweight's set screw and the QPD Y readout looks good. Attachment 6 shows the QPD y readout near the beat node between pitch and pos. The node comes very close to zero which indicates that the pitch is balanced.

I measured the free-swinging motion using the QPD x and y axes. Attachment 7 shows the spectra of that motion. The major peaks are at 755mHz, 953mHz, and 1.05Hz.

I've received a report that a pin of an ITMX NW feedthru connector was bent. (Attachment 1)
The connector is #1 (upper left) and planned to be used for LO1-1.

This is Pin25 and used for the PD K of OSEM #1. This means that Coil Driver #1 (3 OSEMs) uses this pin, but Coil Driver #2 (2 OSEMs) does not.

Anyways, I tried to fix it by bending it back. WIth some tools, it was straightened enough for plugging the cable connector. (Attachment 2)

It seemed that the pins were exceptionally soft compared to the ones used for usual DSUBs, probably because of the vacuum compatibility.
So it's better to approach the pins in parallel to the surface and not apply mating pressure until you are sure that all the 25pins are inserted in the counterpart holes.

I locked the EQ stops while retaining the XY alignment on the QPD and installed 5 green OSEMs. AS1 is ready for transfer into the vacuum chamber.

chiara local backup of /cvs/cds has not been running since the move of chiara in Nov 19. The remote backup has not been taken since 2017.
The lack of the local backup was because of the misconfiguration of /etc/fstab.

It was fixed and now the backup disk was mounted. We'll see the backup script running tomorrow morning.
The backup disk is smaller than the main disk. So sooner or later, we will face the backup problem again.

localbackup script was crying because there was no backup disk.

backup>pwd
/opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/backup
backup>tail localbackup.log
2021-12-18 07:00:02,002 INFO       Updating backup image of /cvs/cds
2021-12-18 07:00:02,002 ERROR      External drive not mounted!!!
2021-12-19 07:00:01,146 INFO       Updating backup image of /cvs/cds
2021-12-19 07:00:01,146 ERROR      External drive not mounted!!!
2021-12-20 07:00:01,255 INFO       Updating backup image of /cvs/cds
2021-12-20 07:00:01,255 ERROR      External drive not mounted!!!
2021-12-21 07:00:01,361 INFO       Updating backup image of /cvs/cds
2021-12-21 07:00:01,361 ERROR      External drive not mounted!!!
2021-12-22 07:00:01,469 INFO       Updating backup image of /cvs/cds
2021-12-22 07:00:01,470 ERROR      External drive not mounted!!!

fstab had no entry for the backup disk.

backup>cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    nodev,noexec,nosuid 0       0
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=972db769-4020-4b74-b943-9b868c26043a /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=a3f5d977-72d7-47c9-a059-38633d16413e none            swap    sw              0       0

# OLD BACKUP DISK
#UUID="90a5c98a-22fb-4685-9c17-77ed07a5e000"    /media/40mBackup       ext4      defaults,relatime,commit=60       0         0

# CURRENT BACKUP DISK as of 2021/09/02
#UUID="1843f813-872b-44ff-9a4e-38b77976e8dc"    /media/40mBackup       ext4      defaults,relatime,commit=60       0         0

#fb:/frames      /frames nfs     ro,bg

# CURRENT MAIN DISK as of 2021/09/02
# UUID=92dc7073-bf4d-4c58-8052-63129ff5755b   /home/cds    ext4    defaults,relatime,commit=60    0   0
UUID="1843f813-872b-44ff-9a4e-38b77976e8dc"   /home/cds    ext4   defaults,relatime,commit=60    0   0

Checked the dev name of the disks and the UUIDs

backup>sudo lsblk
[sudo] password for controls:
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda      8:0    0 465.8G  0 disk
├─sda1   8:1    0 446.9G  0 part /
├─sda2   8:2    0     1K  0 part
└─sda5   8:5    0  18.9G  0 part [SWAP]
sdb      8:16   0   5.5T  0 disk
└─sdb1   8:17   0   5.5T  0 part /home/cds
sdc      8:32   0   3.7T  0 disk
└─sdc1   8:33   0   3.7T  0 part
sr0     11:0    1  1024M  0 rom
backup> sudo blkid
/dev/sda1: UUID="972db769-4020-4b74-b943-9b868c26043a" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda5: UUID="a3f5d977-72d7-47c9-a059-38633d16413e" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sdb1: UUID="1843f813-872b-44ff-9a4e-38b77976e8dc" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdc1: UUID="92dc7073-bf4d-4c58-8052-63129ff5755b" TYPE="ext4"

Added the fstab entry for the backup disk

media>cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    nodev,noexec,nosuid 0       0
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=972db769-4020-4b74-b943-9b868c26043a /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=a3f5d977-72d7-47c9-a059-38633d16413e none            swap    sw              0       0

# OLD BACKUP DISK
#UUID="90a5c98a-22fb-4685-9c17-77ed07a5e000"    /media/40mBackup       ext4      defaults,relatime,commit=60       0         0

# OLD BACKUP DISK as of 2021/09/02
#UUID="1843f813-872b-44ff-9a4e-38b77976e8dc"    /media/40mBackup       ext4      defaults,relatime,commit=60       0         0

# Current backup disk as of 2021/12/22
UUID="92dc7073-bf4d-4c58-8052-63129ff5755b"    /media/40mBackup       ext4      defaults,relatime,commit=60       0         0

#fb:/frames      /frames nfs     ro,bg

# CURRENT MAIN DISK as of 2021/09/02
# UUID=92dc7073-bf4d-4c58-8052-63129ff5755b   /home/cds    ext4    defaults,relatime,commit=60    0   0
UUID="1843f813-872b-44ff-9a4e-38b77976e8dc"   /home/cds    ext4   defaults,relatime,commit=60    0   0

The in-vacuum installation team has reported that the side OSEMs of ITMX and LO1 are going to be interfering if place LO1 at the planned location.
I confirmed that ITMX has the side magnet on the other side (Attachment 1 ITMX photo taken on 2016/7/21). So we can do this swap.

The ITMX side OSEM is sticking out most. By doing this operation, we will recover most of the space between the ITMX and LO1. (Attachment 2)

The local backup seems working fine again. But I found that megatron is down and this is a real issue. This should be fixed at the earliest chance.

It seems that the local backup has been successfully taken this morning.

controls@nodus|backup> tail /opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/backup/localbackup.log
2021-12-19 07:00:01,146 INFO       Updating backup image of /cvs/cds
2021-12-19 07:00:01,146 ERROR      External drive not mounted!!!
2021-12-20 07:00:01,255 INFO       Updating backup image of /cvs/cds
2021-12-20 07:00:01,255 ERROR      External drive not mounted!!!
2021-12-21 07:00:01,361 INFO       Updating backup image of /cvs/cds
2021-12-21 07:00:01,361 ERROR      External drive not mounted!!!
2021-12-22 07:00:01,469 INFO       Updating backup image of /cvs/cds
2021-12-22 07:00:01,470 ERROR      External drive not mounted!!!
2021-12-23 07:00:01,594 INFO       Updating backup image of /cvs/cds
2021-12-23 07:19:55,560 INFO       Backup rsync job ran successfully, transferred 338425 files.

However, I noticed that the autoburt has been stalled since Dec 6 (I used to check how the backup is up-to-date using the autoburt snapshots)

Dec>pwd
/opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/burt/autoburt/snapshots/2021/Dec
Dec>ls -l
total 24
drwxr-xr-x 26 controls controls 4096 Dec  1 23:07 1
drwxr-xr-x 26 controls controls 4096 Dec  2 23:07 2
drwxr-xr-x 26 controls controls 4096 Dec  3 23:07 3
drwxr-xr-x 26 controls controls 4096 Dec  4 23:07 4
drwxr-xr-x 26 controls controls 4096 Dec  5 23:07 5
drwxr-xr-x 19 controls controls 4096 Dec  6 16:07 6

There are a bunch of errors in the log file as follows, but maybe this is not an issue

controls@nodus|burt> pwd
/opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/burt
controls@nodus|burt> tail burtcron.log
!!!  ERROR !!! Target c1supepics Snapshot file inconsistent with Request file
!!!  ERROR !!! Target c1tstepics Snapshot file inconsistent with Request file
!!!  ERROR !!! Target c1x10epics Snapshot file inconsistent with Request file
!!!  ERROR !!! Target c1aux Snapshot file inconsistent with Request file
!!!  ERROR !!! Target c1dcuepics Snapshot file inconsistent with Request file
!!!  ERROR !!! Target c1iscaux Snapshot file inconsistent with Request file
!!!  ERROR !!! Target c1iscepics Snapshot file inconsistent with Request file
!!!  ERROR !!! Target c1losepics Snapshot file inconsistent with Request file
!!!  ERROR !!! Target c1psl Snapshot file inconsistent with Request file
!!!  ERROR !!! Target c1susaux Snapshot file inconsistent with Request file

The real issue seems that megatron is down. It has a lot of house keeping jobs on corn including the N2 pressure alert.
https://wiki-40m.ligo.caltech.edu/Computers_and_Scripts/CRON
This needs to be fixed at the earliest chance.

It turned out that the UPS installed on Nov 22 failed (cf https://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:8081/40m/16479 ). As a fact, it was alive just for 2 weeks!

The APC UPS unit indicated F06. According to the manual (https://www.apc.com/shop/us/en/products/APC-Power-Saving-Back-UPS-Pro-1000VA/P-BR1000G), F06 means "Relay Welding" and can not be fixed by a user. Resetting the UPS eliminated the error, but I didn't want to have the same issue while no one is in the lab, I moved the megatron power source from the UPS to the power strip on 1Y7. So, megatron is currently vulnerable to a power glitch.

After the power cords were restored, megatron eventually recovered ssh terminals. I manually ran autoburt.cron at 16:50 so that the latest snapshot is taken.

19:00~ Start working on the electronics bench

The following units were tested and ready to be installed. These are the last SUS electronics units and we are now ready to upgrade the end SUS electronics too.

40m End ADC Adapter Unit D2100016 / 2 Units (S2200001 S2200002)

40m End DAC Adapter Unit D2100647/ 2 Units (S2200003 S2200004)

These are placed on Tega's desk together with the vertex DAC adapters

0:30 End work

[Paco, Anchal]

Continue working on 1Y0. Added coil drivers for LO2, AS1, AS4. Anchal made additional labels for cables and boxes. We lined up all cables, connected the different units and powered them without major events.

[Paco, Anchal]

Continued working on 1Y1 rack. Populated the 6 coil drivers, made all connections between sat amp, AA chassis, DAC, and ADC adapters for SR2, PR2, and PR3 suspensions. Powered all boxes and labeled them and cables where needed. Near the end, we had to increase the current limit on the positive rail sorensen (+18 V) from ~ 7 to > 8.0 Amps to feed all the instruments. We also increased the negative (-18 V) current limit proportionally.

We think we are ready for all the new SOS on this side electronics-wise.

Photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/GviuqLQviSPo1M3G6

I used the rejected light from the PBS after the motorized half-wave plate between PMC and IMC injection path (used for input power control to IMC) to measure the transmission of PR2 candidates. These candidates were picked from QIL (QIL/2696). Unfortunately, I don't think either of these mirrors can be used for PR2.

If I remember correctly, we are looking for a 2" flat mirror with a transmission of the order of 1000 ppm. The current PR2 is supposed to have less than 100 ppm transmission which would not leave enough light for LO path.

I've kept the transmission testing setup intact on the PSL table, I'll test existing PR2 and another optic (which is 0.5" thick unfortunately) tomorrow.

[yehonathan, paco, anchal]

We continue suspending PR3 today. Yehonathan and Paco suspended the thick optic in its adapter. After fixing some nominal height and undoing any residual roll angle (see Attachments 1,2 for pictures), we noticed a problem with the pitch angle, so we insert the counterweights all the way in. Nevertheless, we soon found out that we needed to shift one of the two counterweights to the back of the adapter side (so one on each side) in order to tare the pitch angle. This is a newly experienced maneuver that may apply for further thick optics.

After taring the pitch angle roughly, we noted another issue. The wedge (~ 1 deg) on the optic made it such that the protruding socket heads on the thick side bumped against the lower clamp (not the earthquake stop tip itself). Attachments #4,5 show the before/after situation which was solved provisionally by replacing the socket head screws with lower profile (flat) head screws in situ. Again, this operation was highly delicate and specific to wedged thick optics, so for future SOS we should keep it in mind.

Another issue that we had with the new thick optic adapters is that for some reason there is a recession in the upper backside of the adapter (attachment coming soon). This makes the upper back EQ stop too short to touch the adapter. We replaced it with a longer screw. When inserted it doesn't really hit the back of the adapter. Rather, it touches the corner of the recession, stoping the optic with friction.

While all this was happening, Anchal started mounting AS4 on its adapter. After one of the magnets broke off, he switched to another one and succeeded. This is the next target for suspension. We still need to check the orientation of the wedge. Furthermore, we started a gluing session in the afternoon to prepare as much as possible for further SOS during the week. 3 side magnets were glued to side blocks. 3 magnets were glued to 3 adapters that were missing 1 magnet each.

In the afternoon, Yehonathan and Paco set up the QPD and did all the usual balancing, and then Anchal took the data of which the result is shown in Attachment #3. The major peaks are located at 723mHz, 953mHz, and 1.05Hz. Very similar to the case of the thin optic adapters.

Anchal progressed with OSEM installation, and engraving and yehonathan glued the counterweight setscrew in place. After securing the EQ stops, and wrapping the wires in foil, we declare PR3 is ready to be installed.

I tested 2 more optics today, the old PR2 that we took out and another optic I found in QIL. Both these optics are also not good for our purpose.

I'll find thw Y1S optic and test that too. We should start looking for alternate solutions as well.

{Paco, Yehonathan, Anchal}

Today we suspended AS4 (E2000226-B). Anchal mounted Lambda Optic mirror with an RoC closest to AS4 in a thin optic mount. He noted that this optic as well as AS1 don't have a wedge angle. The specs claim that the wedge angle is 2 degrees what should have been clearly seen by inspecting the optic with a naked eye. All the ghost beam deflections probably come from the curvature of the mirror.

We did all the height and roll balancing using a camera (Attachment 1,2). We balanced that pitch of the adapter using a QPD not before we realigned the OpLev setup.

We measured the motion spectra (attachment 3). Major peaks are found at 755 mHz, 964 mHz, and 1.062Hz. I locked the counterweights setscrew and observed that the pitch balance doesn't change. I locked the EQ stops such that the alignment of the mirror remained the same by monitoring the QPD signals. I clamped the suspensions wires to the suspension block.

The only thing remaining is inserting the OSEMs.

Just as predicted, all realtime models reported "0x4000" error. Read the parent post for more details. I fixed this by following the instructions. I add folowing lines to the file /opt/rtcds/rtscore/release/src/include/drv/spectracomGPS.c in fb1:

Then is made the package and reloaded it after stoping the daqd services. This brought back all the fast models except C1SUS2 models which are in red due to some other reason that I'll investigate further.

Just restarting all the c1sus2 models fixed the issue. (Attachment 1)

SUS2 ADC1 CH21 is saturated. I'm not yet sure if this is the electronics issue or the ADC issue.
SUS2 ADC1 CH10 also has large offset. This should also be investiagted.

More BHD SUS screens added to sitemap (Attachment 1)

[Anchal, Koji]

=== Summary ===
- ITMX SD OSEM migration done
- LO1 OSEM insertion and precise adjustment (part 1) done
- LO1 POS/PIT/YAW/SD motions were damped

=== General Remarks ===
- 15:00 Entered into ITMX.
- We were equipped with N95 and took physical distance as much as possible.
- 17:00 Temporarily came out from the lab.
- 18:30? Came into the chamber again
- 20:00 Sus damped. OSEM work continues
- 21:00 OSEM installation work done. Exit.

=== ITMX SD OSEM position swap ===
- Moved the LO1 suspension to the center of the chamber
- Removed the ITMX SD OSEM from the right side (west side) and tried to move it to the other side.
- Noted that the open light output of the ITMX SD was 908 at the output of the SDSEN filter module. So the half-light target is 454. These numbers include the "cnt2um" calibration of 0.36. That means the open light raw ADC count was supposed to be 2522.

- The OSEM set screw (silver plated, with a plunger) was removed from the old position. We first tried to recycle it to the other side, but it didn't go into the thread with fingers. After making ourselves convinced that the threaded hole was identical for both sides, we decided to put the new identical plunger set screw with an Allen-key was used to put it in and it went in!
- Now the ITMX SD OSEM was inserted from the east side. Once we saw some shadow on the OSEM signal, the SD damping was turned on with the previous setting. And this successfully damped the side motion. ⭕️
- A bit finer adjustment has been done. After a few trials, we reached the stable output of ~400. Considering the temporary leveling of the table, we decided this is enough for now ⭕️. The set screw was tightened.
- To make the further work safer w.r.t the ITMX magnets, Anchal fastened the EQ stops of the ITMX sus except for the bottom four.
- Photo: [Attachment 1]

=== LO1 OSEM installation ~ wiring ===
- Now LO1 was moved back to the planned position.
- For the wiring, we (temporarily) clamped the in-vac DSUB cables to the stack table with metal clamps.
- Started plugging the OSEMs into the DSUB cables.
- Looking at the LO1-1 cable from the mating side with the longer side top: The top-right pin of the female connector is Pin1 as usual. From right to left LL / UR / UL coils were inserted one by one while looking at the OSEM PD signals.
- LO1-2 cable has the LR / SD coils (from the right to the left) were connected.
- Photo: [Attachment 2]

- LO1 Open light levels (raw ADC counts) the 2nd number is the target half-light level

• UL 27679 (-> 13840)
• UR 29395 (-> 14697)
• LR 30514 (-> 15257)
• LL 27996 (-> 13998)
• SD 26034 (-> 13017)

=== RTS Filter implementation ===

- Anchal copied the filter module settings from other suspensions.
- We also implemented the simple input and output matrices.

=== LO1 OSEM insertion ===

- We struggled to make the suspension freely swinging with the OSEMs inserted.

- It seemed that the magnets were sucked to the OSEMs due to magnetic components.
- It turned out that the OSEMs were not fastened well and not seated in the holder plates.
- Once this was fixeded, we found that the mirror height is too high for the given OSEM heights.
  The suspension height (or the OSEM height should be decided with the OSEMs not inserted but fully fastened to prevent misalignment of them.
- Decided to lift up the OSEM plates in situ.
- Soon we found that the OSEM holder plates are not fastened at all [Attachment 3 arrows]
- The plates were successfully lifted up and the suspension became much more freely swinging even with the OSEMs inserted. ⭕️

=== LO1 damping and more precise OSEM insertion ===

- Once the OSEMs were inserted to the light level of 30~70%, we started to try to dampen the motion. The side damping was somewhat successful, but the face ones were not.
- We checked the filters and found the coil output filters didn't have the alternating signs.
- Once the coil signs were corrected, the damping became more straight forward.
- And the robust damping allowed us the fine-tuning of the OSEM insertion.

- In the end, what we had for the light levels were

• UL 14379 (52%)
• UR 14214 (48%)
• LR 14212 (47%)
• LL 12869 (46%)
• SD 14358 (55%)

The damping is working well. [Attachment 4]

Post continues at 40m/16552.

{Paco, Yehonathan}

Today we suspended LO2 (E1800089) which Anchal has loaded into the thick optic adapter. Attachments 1,2 show the height and roll balance adjustments.

I realigned the opLev setup and balanced the suspended mass. We figured that if we use 2 counterweights we will be 1 short. We decided to use 1 mass at the back of the adapter. This has the additional advantage that the Viton tip on lower back EQ stop can touch it and act normally. The optic was successfully balanced in this way. Attachment 3 shows the motion spectra on the QPD. There are major peaks at 712 mHz, 854 mHz, 876 mHz, and 996 mHz. As expected using only 1 counterweight raised the center of mass and lowered the pitch resonance frequency. The optic was locked keeping the alignment fixed on the center of the QPD, OSEMs were inserted and the SOS tower was engraved.

We should apply some glue to the counterweight to prevent it from spinning on the setscrew.

There were several cases where the long EQ stops didn't perform as expected.

In one type of case, we used a counterweight at the front of the adapter but not in the back leaving a recess where the lower back EQ stop should touch.

In the other type, a recess in the thick optics adapter prevented the upper EQ stop from touching the adapter. In the first thick optic, the screw was screw barely scratched the recess' corner. In the second case, it didn't touch it at all.

In the last group meeting, we discussed using Peek screws (made out of plastic) to prevent metal on metal bumping when the EQ can touch the adapter and Peek nuts when it doesn't to increase its impact area.

Mcmaster has 1.5" long 1/4-20 screws (part number 98885A131) that will fit well in the OSEM plates. We can order 20 of those.

The biggest Peek nuts on Mcmaster however are not big enough (7/16" wide) to cover the entire bottom recess area which is 0.5" wide (they are good enough for the top recess area in the thick adapter optic design). Koji suggested that we can use a big Peek washer for that purpose that can be held between nuts. We should then order 10 Peek nuts (98886A813) and 1 package of 10 Peek washers (0.63" OD) (93785A600).

Indicated by the red arrow:
Even when the side damping servo is off, the number appears at the input of the output matrix

Indicated by the green arrows:
The face magnets and the side magnets use different ADCs. How about opening a custom ADC panel that accommodates all ADCs at once? Same for the DAC.

Indicated by the blue arrows:
This button opens a custom FM window. When the pitch gain was modified with a ramping time, the pitch and yaw gain grows at the same time even though only the pitch gain was modified.

Indicated by the orange circle:
The numbers are not indicated here, but they are input-related numbers (for watchdogging) rather than output-related numbers. It is confusing to place them here.

[Anchal, Paco]

Yesterday we noticed that one of the ADC channels was overflowing. I checked the signal chain and found that CH3 on PR2 Sat Amp was railing. After a lot of debugging, our conclusion is that possible the PD current input trace is shorted to the positive supply through a finite resistance on the PCB. This would mean this PCB has a manufacturing defect. The reason we come to this conclusion is that even after removing the opamp U3 (AD822ARZ), we still measure 12.5 V at the pins of R25 (100 Ohm input resistance)

Please see the schematic for reference. We also checked the resistance between input of R25 (marked PDA above) and positive voltage rail and it came out as 3 kOhms. While I all other channels, this value was 150 kOhms.

I would like it if someone else also takes a look at this. We probably would need to change the PCB in this chassis or use a spare chassis.

{Yehonathan, Paco}

{Paco, Yehonathan}

Today we suspended SR2 (E1800089) which Anchal has loaded into the thick optic adapter. Attachments 1,2 show the height and roll balance adjustments.

I realigned the opLev setup and balanced the suspended mass. Attachment 3 shows the motion spectra on the QPD. There are major peaks at 723 mHz, 832 mHz, and 996 mHz. I inserted OSEMs and tightened them in place. I adjusted the OSEM plates to make sure the magnets are at the center of the OSEMs, then I tightened the OSEM plates to the SOS tower.

The optic was locked keeping the alignment fixed on the center of the QPD.

Again, we should apply some glue to the counterweight to prevent it from spinning on the setscrew. Is there a glue other than EP30 that we can use?

Related: Peek nuts, screws and washers were ordered from Mcmaster.

Vacseal in the freezer. It could have been expired sooooo many years ago, We need some cure testing.

Can you release the part numbers of the ordered components (and how/where to use them), so that we can incorporate them into the CAD model?

Leave the unit to me. I can look it at on Mon. For a while, you can take a replacement unit from the electronics stack.

Also: Was this unit tested before? If so, what was the testing result at the time?

The unit was tested before by Tege. The test included testing the testpoint voltages only. He summarized his work in this doc. The board number is S2100737. Here are the two comments about it:
"This unit presented with an issue on the PD1 circuit of channel 1-4 PCB where the voltage reading on TP6, TP7 and TP8 are -15.1V,  -14.2V, and +14.7V respectively, instead of ~0V.  The unit also has an issue on the PD2 circuit of channel 1-4 PCB because the voltage reading on TP7 and TP8 are  -14.2V, and +14.25V respectively, instead of ~0V."

"Debugging showed that the opamp, AD822ARZ, for PD2 circuit was not working as expected so we replaced with a spare and this fixed the problem. Somehow, the PD1 circuit no longer presents any issues, so everything is now fine with the unit."

Note:  No issues were reported on PD3 circuit is is malfunctioning now.

Yes,

For the thin optics adapter design, we want Peek 1/4-20 screw (part # 98885A131) to replace the lower back long EQ stop. On it, we will have a Peek washer (part # 93785A600) fastened between two Peek nuts (part #98886A813).

For the thick optics adapter design, we want Peek 1/4-20 screw (part # 98885A131) to replace both the upper and lower back EQ stop. On the upper stop, we need a single Peek nut (part #98886A813).

I will cure-test the Vacseal.

The ITMY 10" flange with 10 DSUB-25 feedthroughs has been installed with the cables connected at the in-vac side.  This is the first of two flanges, and includes 5 cables ordered vertically in stacks of 3 & 2 for [[OMC-DCPDs, OMC-QPDs, OMC-PZTs/Pico]] and [[SRM1, SRM2]] respectively from right to left. During installation, two 12-point silver plated bolts were stripped, so Chub had to replace them.

The issue was present in the cable between the small adapter board and the rear panel. The cable and the Dsub 25 connectors were replaced. The removed parts were resoldered. Did the basic test of the channel.

Attachment 1: I cleaned up the area of the PD3 circuit of S2100556 and checked the voltage when the circuit was energized. The PD photocurrent line from the rear panel had S2100556 even with R25 removed. So the problem was between the rear panel to the outer side of R25. I've started to remove the cables to localize the issue and found that the issue disappeared when the ribbon cable was removed.

Attachment 2: I didn't investigate how the ribbon cable was bad. It was just trashed. The cable and the 25pin Dsub connectors were replaced and the line in question looked normal.

Attachment 3: All the components removed were stuffed again. The I/V-output of the circuit showed a 0.7mV offset but it seemed within the normal range. By touching R25 with a finger made it up to ~10mV as the other channels do. BTW: For 1000pF cap (C10) I used a stock 1000pF cap (KEMET, C330C102JDG5TA, 5%, 1kV, C0G) instead of nominal one (KEMET, C317C102G1G5TA,  2%, 100V, C0G).

Attachment 4: Noticed that the jumpers for shield grounding were missing. So they were installed (Attachment 5). This jumper is connected to Pin13. This line becomes Pin1 of the Dsub25 sat-amp cable because of the adapter board D2100148. The sat amp cable is D2100675. Hmm. In fact, this line does not touch the shield anywhere (unlike the aLIGO case). So only the chassis provides the cable shielding, no matter how the jumpers are connected or not connected.

Attachment 6: Final state of the circuit

We found that there was a small offset (~300 mV) at TP6 and TP8, in PD2 circuit (CH2 of the board). I replaced U3 AD822ARZ but did not see any affect. I disconnected the adaptor board in the back and saw that the offset went away. This might mean that the cable had some flaky short to a power supply pin. However, when I just reinserted the adaptor board back again, there was no offset. We could not find any issue with the board after that to fix, so we left it as it is. If this board gives offset issues in the future, most probably the ribbon cable would be the suspect.

Now all ADC channels are showing no offset or overflows in C1SU2 chassis.

I tested 2 more optics found by Paco and Yehonathan in QIL.

I would like someone to redo the second test. I'm not sure what was happening but I could not find the transmitted beam at all on my card even with all lights out. This is either too good a coating and not useful for us or I did something wrong while measuring it.

V6-704, V6-706 mirror seemed like a good candidate as the paper with it said it would be a 200 ppm mirror. But I measured a lot more transmission than that. Now that I see that paper more carefully, it is a 45 degree s-pol mirror, probably that's why it had so much transmission for p-pol at near-normal incidence.

I handed the Peek parts we got from McMaster to Jordan for C&B.