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Mon Nov 26 10:17:31 2007 |
steve | Omnistructure | SUS | etmy sus damping restored | 20 days plot is showing etmy loosing damping
4 times.
I zoomed in with each event. Three of them |
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121
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Wed Nov 21 14:31:41 2007 |
rob | Update | PSL | FSS twiddle |
I `tweaked' the FSS path today. Here's what
I did:
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120
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Tue Nov 20 18:35:20 2007 |
John | HowTo | Computers | MatLab in Emacs | If you can't get MatLab to run in emacs try
adding the following to the .emacs file
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119
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Tue Nov 20 18:02:54 2007 |
John | Summary | Computers | PSL_Main screen | I've updated the PSL_MAIN screen. The old
version may be found in cvs/cds/caltech/medm/old/medm/psl. |
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118
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Tue Nov 20 13:06:57 2007 |
tobin | Configuration | Computers | linux1 has new disk | Alex put the new hard disk into linux1 along
with a fresh install of linux (CentOS).
The old disk was too damaged to copy.
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117
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Tue Nov 20 11:10:07 2007 |
tobin | Update | Computers | epics access from matlab | I installed "[url=http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~strauman/labca/]labca[/url]",
which allows [b]direct access to EPICS channels
from within Matlab[/b]. It comes with both |
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116
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Tue Nov 20 10:11:33 2007 |
John | Summary | PSL | PMC pole measurements | We measured the PMC pole in the following
way.
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115
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Mon Nov 19 14:32:10 2007 |
steve | Bureaucracy | SAFETY | grad student safety training | John Miller and Alberto Stochino has received
the 40m safety bible.
They still have to read the laser operation |
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114
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Mon Nov 19 14:19:25 2007 |
steve | Omnistructure | PEM | jackhammer | The construction personal successfully jackhemmered
a fence around the "Drever's parking slot"
There is no parking space available close |
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113
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Fri Nov 16 18:46:49 2007 |
steve | Bureaucracy | PSL | MOPA was turned off & on | The "Mohana" boys scouts and their parents
visited the 40m lab today.
The laser was turned off for their safety.
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112
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Fri Nov 16 14:31:43 2007 |
tobin | Update | Computers | op140 disks | Phil Ehrens stopped by and took op140's disks. |
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111
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Fri Nov 16 14:11:26 2007 |
tobin | Update | Computers | op140 | Alan called to say that Phil Ehrens will be
coming by to take [b]op140[/b] off our hands. |
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110
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Fri Nov 16 11:27:18 2007 |
tobin | Update | Computers | script fix | I added a tidbit of code to "LIGOio.pm" that
fixes a [url=http://lhocds.ligo-wa.caltech.edu:8000/40m/EZCA]problem
with ezcastep on Linux[/url]. Scripts such |
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109
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Thu Nov 15 18:37:06 2007 |
tobin | Update | Computers | possible replacement for linux1's disk | It looks like the existing disk in linux1
is a Seagate ST380013A (this can be found
either via the smartctl utility or by looking |
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108
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Thu Nov 15 18:36:48 2007 |
John | Summary | | PSL table work | I've rotated the lambda/2 plate to 340deg
(from 6 deg) and blocked one arm of the Mach-Zender.
Undo both if you need to. |
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107
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Thu Nov 15 18:23:55 2007 |
John | HowTo | Computers | Swap CAPS and CTRL on a Windows 2000/XP machine | I've swapped ctrl and caps on the four control
room Windows machines. Right ctrl is unchanged.
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106
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Thu Nov 15 18:06:06 2007 |
tobin | Update | Computers | alex: linux1 root file system hard disk's dying | I just noticed that Alex made [url=http://www.ldas-sw.ligo.caltech.edu/ilog/pub/ilog.cgi?group=40m&date_to_view=11/14/2007&anchor_to_scroll_to=2007:11:14:20:00:29-aivanov]an
entry in the old ilog[/url] yesterday, saying:
"[color=red][b]Looks like linux1 root filesystem |
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105
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Thu Nov 15 17:09:37 2007 |
pkp | Update | OMC | Vertical Transfer functions with no cables attached. | [Norna Pinkesh]
The cables connecting all the electronics |
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104
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Thu Nov 15 04:18:11 2007 |
John | Summary | PSL | PMC cavity pole measurements | In connection with our work on the ISS I attempted
to measure the PMC cavity pole.
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103
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Wed Nov 14 17:50:00 2007 |
tobin | Update | PSL | ISS | Here's the current wiring between the ISS
and its PDs:
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102
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Wed Nov 14 16:54:54 2007 |
pkp | Update | OMC | Much better looking vertical transfer functions | [Norna Pinkesh]
So after Chub did his wonderful mini-surgery |
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101
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Wed Nov 14 12:47:19 2007 |
tobin | Update | PSL | ISS | John, Tobin
With John's notch filter installed and the |
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100
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Wed Nov 14 12:33:35 2007 |
tobin | AoG | Environment | construction | The construction crews are running a jack-hammer
right outside of the control room. |
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99
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Wed Nov 14 07:48:38 2007 |
norna | Omnistructure | OMC | OMC Cable dressing | [Snipped from an email]
1) Last Friday Pinkesh and I set the OMC |
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98
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Tue Nov 13 14:33:40 2007 |
John | Update | PSL | ISS filter | The transfer function from 'In Loop Error
Point Monitor' to TP3 the filter out test
point on the ISS board.
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Mon Nov 12 23:44:19 2007 |
John | Update | PSL | ISS | [quote]
After John soldered a 3.7 MHz notch filter
onto the ISS board, I took a quick TF and |
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96
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Mon Nov 12 15:18:34 2007 |
rob | Update | PSL | ISS |
After John soldered a 3.7 MHz notch filter
onto the ISS board, I took a quick TF and |
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95
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Mon Nov 12 15:05:49 2007 |
rob | Configuration | PSL | FSS |
Spent a bit of time fiddling with the FSS
again today. In a not-particularly-systematic |
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Mon Nov 12 14:09:19 2007 |
rob | DAQ | General | tpman dead on fb40m | The testpoint manager was dead on fb40m.
I know I re-started it sometime after the
power outage, so something must have killed |
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93
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Mon Nov 12 10:53:58 2007 |
pkp | Update | OMC | Vertical Transfer functions | [Norna Sam Pinkesh]
These plots were created by injected white |
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Sun Nov 11 21:21:04 2007 |
rana | HowTo | Computers | New DV | To use the new ligoDV (previously GEO DV)
to look at 40m data, open up a matlab, set
up for mDV as usual,
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91
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Sun Nov 11 21:05:55 2007 |
rana | HowTo | SUS | MC Touching or not | I wrote a script: [I]SUS/freeswing-mc.csh[/I],
which gives the MC mirrors the appropriate
kicks
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90
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Fri Nov 9 21:36:14 2007 |
rob | Configuration | PSL | FSS | rob, rana
We looked at the FSS a bit today. The most |
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89
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Fri Nov 9 17:33:33 2007 |
rob | Configuration | PSL | ISS |
The 3.7 MHz is actually on the light. It's
the beat between the 29.5 MHz sidebands and |
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88
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Fri Nov 9 09:37:55 2007 |
steve | Update | PSL | head temp hiccup | Just an other PSL-126MOPA_HTEMP hiccup.
The water chiller is at 20.00C |
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87
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Fri Nov 9 00:23:12 2007 |
pkp | Update | OMC | X and Z resonances | I got a couple of resonance plots going for
now. I am still having trouble getting the
Y measurement going for some reason. I will |
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86
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Fri Nov 9 00:01:24 2007 |
waldman | Omnistructure | OMC | OMC mechanical resonances (Tap tap tappy tap) | [Pinkesh, Aidan, Sam]
We did a tap-tap-tappy-tap test of the OMC |
7x |
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85
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Thu Nov 8 18:44:01 2007 |
tobin | Configuration | PSL | ISS | Tobin, Rob
With the Sense PD blocked, I adjusted the |
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84
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Thu Nov 8 15:57:53 2007 |
tobin | Configuration | PSL | shelf removed | I removed the sheet metal shelf from the PSL
enclosure, for easier access to the ISS.
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83
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Thu Nov 8 11:40:21 2007 |
steve | Update | PEM | particle counts are up | I turned up the psl HEPA filter to 100%
This 4 days plot shows why |
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82
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Thu Nov 8 00:55:44 2007 |
pkp | Update | OMC | Suspension tests | [Sam , Pinkesh]
We tried to measure the transfer functions |
9x |
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81
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Wed Nov 7 16:07:03 2007 |
steve | Update | PSL | PSL & IOO trend | 1.5 days of happy psl-ioo with litle bumps
in C1:PSL-126MOPA_HTEMP |
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Wed Nov 7 14:05:59 2007 |
tobin | Configuration | IOO | MC ringdown | Modeling the mode cleaner as a simple cavity
with all losses lumped together, we expect
the cavity power to be
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79
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Wed Nov 7 14:01:31 2007 |
waldman | Omnistructure | OMC | Frequency and Intensity noise | One of the biggest problems I had using the
PZT to lock was excessive noise. I did a
little noise hunting and found that the problem |
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78
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Wed Nov 7 13:54:44 2007 |
rob | Configuration | IOO | Mode Cleaner transfer function | I performed the same procedure described [url=http://dziban.ligo.caltech.edu:40/40m/40]
here[/url], and re-measured the transfer
function of the mode cleaner to see the effect |
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Wed Nov 7 10:55:21 2007 |
ajw | Configuration | Computers | backup script restarted | Following the reboot of computers on 10/31/07,
the backup script required restart (which
unfortunately "can't" be automated because |
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Wed Nov 7 09:38:01 2007 |
steve | Update | VAC | rga scan | pd65-m-d2 at cc1 6e-6 torr |
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Wed Nov 7 02:14:08 2007 |
Andrey | Bureaucracy | IOO | More information about MC2 ringdown | As Tobin wrote two hours ago, we (Andrey,
Tobin, Robert) made a series of ringdown
measurements for MC2
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Wed Nov 7 00:51:33 2007 |
andrey, rob, tobin | Configuration | IOO | MC ringdowns | We completed several ringdown measurements
this afternoon; Andrey is currently processing
the data. |
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Tue Nov 6 23:45:38 2007 |
tobin | Configuration | Computers | tektronix scripts! | I cooked up a little script to fetch the data
from the networked Tektronix scope. Example
usage:
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