ID |
Date |
Author |
Type |
Category |
Subject |
Text |
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3833
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Mon Nov 1 10:28:41 2010 |
steve | Bureaucracy | SAFETY | Suresh received 40m safety training | Our new postdoc Suresh Doravari received
40m specific safety training last week. |
|
3854
|
Wed Nov 3 16:49:31 2010 |
steve | Update | General | storage cabinet is in place | The south end of IFO room 104 was reshuffled.
The flow bench was moved all the way to the
south end to create more room for the crane |
|
3862
|
Thu Nov 4 17:24:49 2010 |
steve | Update | General | conflat flanges for MIT | 8 pieces of 10" CF blanks were shipped
to MIT |
|
3864
|
Thu Nov 4 17:57:27 2010 |
steve | Update | General | BeamScanner is working again | Koji, Suresh and Steve,
The beam scanner is back from repair.
Koji and Suresh helped to move the I/O address |
|
3867
|
Fri Nov 5 09:08:14 2010 |
steve | Update | SUS | epoxy | Physical Electronics: Vac-Seal #288-6000
arriving Monday. Our last bag used last week
had a p/n 1002003 with expiration date |
|
3894
|
Thu Nov 11 11:08:26 2010 |
steve | Bureaucracy | PEM | AP table found open | Please remember to cover the optical tables
! |
|
4059
|
Wed Dec 15 16:04:49 2010 |
steve | Configuration | VAC | vacuum valves found in default condition | This condition is created when we run out
of nitrogen that holds the valves in set
positions. The Maglev and other turbos are |
|
4077
|
Mon Dec 20 16:57:58 2010 |
steve | Update | IOO | checking out & closing the vacuum chambers |
Check EQ-stops
|
|
4083
|
Tue Dec 21 16:20:09 2010 |
steve | Configuration | VAC | pumpdown has started | Slow pumpdown of |
|
4089
|
Wed Dec 22 17:24:50 2010 |
steve | Configuration | VAC | slow pumpdown at 12 hours | We have reached 200 Torr at 12 hours of
slow pumping speed. Kiwamu stopped the pumping
for 11 hrs last night .and I restarted it |
|
4094
|
Thu Dec 23 13:30:09 2010 |
steve | Configuration | VAC | slow pumpdown complete | The pump down continued this morning by
the removal of the butterfly valve. Two roughing
pumps were used to reach 500 mTorr |
|
4125
|
Fri Jan 7 15:17:37 2011 |
steve | Update | Cameras | ITMX video monitor has tower wide view | The Watec 902, 1/2" CCD camera got
new Tamron lens: 1/2" 10-40mm F/1.4
manual iris. IR corrective lens. It is designed |
|
4133
|
Tue Jan 11 11:39:45 2011 |
steve | Update | VAC | RGA is turned on | Joe updated the rga procedure in the wiki
and we turned on the filament. It will take
a few days to reach thermal equilibrium. |
|
4165
|
Tue Jan 18 10:25:23 2011 |
steve | Update | PEM | vertex crane work this week | The crane people are here. The Vertex chambers
are covered with plastic. The PSL HEPAs will
be running on high during the day. |
|
4233
|
Mon Jan 31 16:12:11 2011 |
steve | Update | VAC | Vertex crane upgrade shorth coming |
|
 |
4264
|
Wed Feb 9 10:25:46 2011 |
steve | Update | SAFETY | AP table | I blocked the AP table's south west
10" ID port since it is obsolete with
the new layout. |
|
4269
|
Thu Feb 10 11:16:31 2011 |
steve | Update | PEM | south arm AC turned on | The air condition was off for the south
arm. I turned it on. |
|
4273
|
Fri Feb 11 09:27:03 2011 |
steve | Configuration | VAC | RGA scan | The RGA scan is normal at day 52 of this
pump down.
Light power BS 1064nm ~25mW, ETMX |
 |
4274
|
Fri Feb 11 16:43:09 2011 |
steve | Update | VIDEO | MC1 & 3 video monitor | I set up video monitoring of MC1 and MC3 |
|
4286
|
Mon Feb 14 11:23:24 2011 |
steve | Update | SAFETY | enclosure door upgrade | The #3 enclosure door was removed for the
carpenter shop this morning. They will make
5 full size doors with window on each. |
|
4290
|
Mon Feb 14 17:16:47 2011 |
steve | Update | General | racks, breakers labeled | The south arm labels were changed from
y to x to reflect reality.
So racks, manual disconnects and |
|
4337
|
Tue Feb 22 11:53:38 2011 |
steve | Update | Electronics | RF Distribution box: assembly completed |
|
|
4338
|
Tue Feb 22 14:37:24 2011 |
steve | Update | SAFETY | Larisa received 40m safety training | Larisa Thorne received 40m lab specific,
basic safety training. She will attend P.
King's Basic Laser Safety Training Session |
|
4349
|
Thu Feb 24 11:18:08 2011 |
steve | Update | SUS | SRM sus-cables | Cheater cables for SRM sus
tied up. They were dangling aimlessly on
the floor. |
|
4350
|
Thu Feb 24 16:47:26 2011 |
steve | Configuration | PSL | shutter is back on the PSL output | Uniblitz mechanical shutter was placed
into the beam path of the PSL output with
razor beam trap. The output power was 1.39W |
|
4356
|
Fri Feb 25 10:11:56 2011 |
steve | Update | SAFETY | how not to | The beam of IR for doubling is clipping
on bnc cable to green beam transmitted pd. |
|
4367
|
Wed Mar 2 16:51:53 2011 |
steve | Configuration | Green Locking | mech shutter in place at the south end | I moved old POX shutter from ITMY optical
table to the south end. MEDM POX mechanical
shutter screen is now closing the green beam |
|
4386
|
Tue Mar 8 15:23:16 2011 |
steve | Update | PEM | clean room gloves | Ansell
AccuTech
91-300 clean |
|
4391
|
Wed Mar 9 17:29:11 2011 |
steve | Summary | VAC | single O-ring protection | We have one single O-ring on the 40m vacuum
envelope. It is on the OOC west side, facing
the AP table. This O-ring has to be protected |
 |
4405
|
Fri Mar 11 16:30:42 2011 |
steve | Update | General | high speed servo unit is here | New
Focus Servo Controller has just arrived.
We have 25 days to evaluate this product. |
|
4418
|
Mon Mar 21 16:31:02 2011 |
steve | Update | SAFETY | Bryan Barr received safety training | Bryan Barr is visiting us from Glasgow
for a month. He received 40m specific safety
training on Friday. |
|
4429
|
Wed Mar 23 09:48:20 2011 |
steve | Update | PSL | PSL enclosure: gets new window & laser | Solid door, numbered 4 at south west corner
of PSL enclosure was replaced by laser protective
window. |
|
4430
|
Wed Mar 23 09:54:46 2011 |
steve | Omnistructure | Photos | LSC visitors | The 40m lab was visited by ~ 30 LSC
members the end of last week. |
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4447
|
Mon Mar 28 16:19:23 2011 |
steve | Frogs | Photos | visithing 5th graders | Suresh is captivating his audience with
gravity waves on last Friday, March 25 |
|
4475
|
Thu Mar 31 11:30:51 2011 |
steve | Configuration | General | strain relieved rf cables | I strain relieved RF cables labeled 33
MHZ LO and 166 MHZ to EOM at 1X2 This
is a temporary setup for the 11 MHZ |
|
4487
|
Tue Apr 5 17:04:36 2011 |
steve | Summary | SAFETY | cranes inspected and load tested | Mike Caton of Konecranes inspected and
loadtested all 3 of the 40m cranes
at max reach trolley positions with 1 ton. |
 |
4488
|
Tue Apr 5 17:31:59 2011 |
steve | Summary | General | new laser pointers |
|
|
4496
|
Thu Apr 7 11:38:56 2011 |
steve | Update | PSL | enclosure windows on the east side of the PSL | The PSL enclosure now have 4 windows on
each side. The bottom rail guides on the
east side will be replaced by one |
|
4497
|
Thu Apr 7 11:51:13 2011 |
steve | Summary | SAFETY | new crane operator inaugurated |
|
|
4550
|
Thu Apr 21 08:26:42 2011 |
steve | Update | PEM | PSL enclosure work today | The east side window guides will
be replaced by one long U-channel. There
will be drilling into 2x2 steel frame. It |
|
4551
|
Thu Apr 21 14:39:43 2011 |
steve | Update | RF System | new strain relieved N connectors at AP | New right angle PVC, 2 x 2 x 1/4"
installed at the AP table to strain relief
the 1/4" spiral corrugated RF coaxes. |
 |
4552
|
Thu Apr 21 15:03:29 2011 |
steve | Update | Computers | juction board finds home | The anti aliasing box was opened up at
the back to accommodate the junction board
and the SCSI cable towards the ADC. Aluminum |
 |
4553
|
Thu Apr 21 15:20:46 2011 |
steve | Update | PEM | PSL enclosure work today |
|
 |
4597
|
Mon May 2 13:43:05 2011 |
steve | Frogs | Photos | birthday boys | .....Happy.... Birthday.... to.... Joseph...
and... Jamie...Happy....Birthday..... to....
You............sing with us........Happy |
|
4599
|
Mon May 2 17:10:55 2011 |
steve | Update | SUS | PRM oplev | The returning spot diameter on the qpd
~10 mm. In order to reduce the spot size
I moved the f 1145 mm lens toward the PRM |
|
4615
|
Tue May 3 15:59:22 2011 |
steve | Frogs | Photos | X-mas comes early | The little red all terrain cargo wagon
40" x 18" has just arrived
on pneumatic wheels. |
|
4616
|
Tue May 3 16:20:13 2011 |
steve | Update | SUS | PRM & BS oplevs are ready |
|
 |
4633
|
Thu May 5 10:19:22 2011 |
steve | Update | PSL | PSL-FSS_RMTEMP is back | Valera and I installed the the temp sensor
and the interface box that Rana fixed. This
may help with diagnosing the PSL drift. |
|
4641
|
Thu May 5 15:05:06 2011 |
steve | Update | PSL | PSL-FSS_RMTEMP is not back |
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|
4644
|
Thu May 5 15:33:37 2011 |
steve | Configuration | RF System | LSC rack | New right angle PVC front panel with SMA
bulkhead connectors are in place. The connections
are still lose. It is ready for Suresh to |
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