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Date |
Author |
Type |
Category |
Subject |
Text |
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16709
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Mon Mar 7 16:44:15 2022 |
Ian MacMillan | Update | SUS | ETMY SUS Electronics Replacement | Now that the ETMSUS is back up and running
I reran my measurements from the beginning
of the process. The results below show |
6x |
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16710
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Mon Mar 7 16:56:08 2022 |
Yehonathan | Update | BHD | Re-susspension of AS1 | {Paco, Yehonathan}
We tried to roughly balance the
adapter with two counterweights at the front, |
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16711
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Mon Mar 7 18:53:16 2022 |
Koji | Update | BHD | Re-susspension of AS1 | Not sure if that small difference can cause
the alignment inability. Particularly, the
removed metal was just below the wire. This |
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16713
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Tue Mar 8 12:08:47 2022 |
Tega | Update | VAC | Ongoing work to get the FRG gauges readouts to EPICs channels | OMG, it worked! It was indeed a calibration
issue and all I had to do was press the "OK"
button after selecting the "CAL" |
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16714
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Tue Mar 8 12:24:13 2022 |
Yehonathan | Update | BHD | Re-susspension of AS1 | The gluing seemed to be successful. I assembled
the side block with the magnet on the adapter.
Paco helped me hang the adapter on the SOS |
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16715
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Tue Mar 8 19:29:36 2022 |
Paco | Update | BHD | Re-balance of AS1 | [Paco]
Installed AS1 in vacuum, near the
center of the table, and installed the OSEMs. |
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16716
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Wed Mar 9 09:35:26 2022 |
Paco | Update | BHD | Re-balance of AS1 | [Paco]
AS1 is installed, OSEMs balanced,
and the optic damped successfully. We should |
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16717
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Wed Mar 9 10:23:28 2022 |
Jordan | Update | VAC | Leak Testing of New Manual Gate Valve - Attempt #1 | Jordan, Chub, Paco
Chub and I went into the lab this
morning to leak check the new gate valve |
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16718
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Wed Mar 9 11:52:18 2022 |
Yehonathan | Update | BHD | Simplified BHD readout sketch on ITMY table | I have made an editable
draw.io diagram of the planned simplified
BHD setup on the ITMY table (see attached). |
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16719
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Wed Mar 9 12:57:52 2022 |
Koji | Update | BHD | Simplified BHD readout sketch on ITMY table | - BHD beams were already mixed in the chamber.
So we don't need a BS on the table. (Probably
there is no BS already) |
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16721
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Thu Mar 10 09:39:59 2022 |
Jordan | Update | VAC | Leak Testing of New Manual Gate Valve - Attempt #2 | This morning Chub and I leak checked the
manual gate valve with the RGA and helium.
There was no change in the helium partial |
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16722
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Thu Mar 10 10:05:49 2022 |
Paco | Update | SUS | AS1 free swing test | [Paco, Ian]
Begin free swinging test
for AS1 at 10:05 AM, set for ~ 2.04 hours.
Test |
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16723
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Fri Mar 11 16:43:03 2022 |
Ian MacMillan | Update | SUS | ETMY SUS Electronics Replacement | I updated the gain of the ct2um filter
on the OSEMS for ETMY and decreased their
gain by a factor of 9 from 0.36 to 0.04. |
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16725
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Tue Mar 15 10:45:31 2022 |
Paco | Update | General | Assembled small in-vac optics | [Paco]
This morning I assembled LO3,
LO4 and AS3 (all |
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16731
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Thu Mar 17 11:40:41 2022 |
Paco | Update | SUS | ETMY green PZT HV supply | [Anchal, Paco]
We installed a HV kepco power supply
for the green PZT steering the YAUX beam. |
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16732
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Thu Mar 17 16:50:53 2022 |
Paco | Update | BHD | XARM AUX alignment | [Ian, Paco]
We opened the ITMX chamber and
Inspected PR2 and LO1 and |
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16735
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Fri Mar 18 17:15:19 2022 |
Paco | Update | BHD | XARM AUX alignment cont. | [Paco, Ian]
First, we re-balanced the ITMX
OSEMs so that they would damp at around half-a-shadow. |
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16738
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Mon Mar 21 14:22:52 2022 |
Anchal | Update | SUS | ETMY Alignmnet offsets needed to be changed | I'm not sure why but the PIT and YAW
offset values of +2725 and -2341 were not
sufficient for the reflected OPLEV beam to |
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16739
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Mon Mar 21 18:00:05 2022 |
Ian MacMillan | Update | BHD | XARM AUX alignment cont. | [Ian, Paco]
Continuing with the previous alignment
that we stoped on friday, we re set up my |
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16743
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Fri Mar 25 11:39:14 2022 |
Anchal | Update | SUS | ETMY SUS Electronics Replacement - Questions | After Ian updated the cts2um filters for
OSEM, shouldn't the damping gains be
increased back by factor of 10 to previos |
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16746
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Mon Mar 28 16:25:34 2022 |
Ian MacMillan | Update | SUS | ETMY SUS Electronics Replacement - Questions | The point of changing the gains was to
return the system to its origional state.
ie I wanted the over all gain of the physical |
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16748
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Tue Mar 29 17:35:54 2022 |
Paco | Update | SUS | Damping fix on BS, AS4, PR2, and PR3 | [Ian, Paco]
We removed the "cheby"
filters from AS4, PR2 and PR3 which had been |
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16751
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Fri Apr 1 14:26:50 2022 |
Tega | Update | Optical Levers | Simplified sketch on MC table | Here is an early sketch
of the MC table.
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16752
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Fri Apr 1 17:02:02 2022 |
Koji | Update | Optical Levers | Simplified sketch on MC table | We are supposed to have BS Oplev Beams.
We don't like the shallow angle reflections
(i.e. AOI>45deg). |
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16753
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Fri Apr 1 22:22:29 2022 |
Koji | Update | Optical Levers | Simplified sketch on MC table | Possibility to swap BS and ITMX
tables:
BS table, which Tega said MC table, |
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16755
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Mon Apr 4 15:49:06 2022 |
Tega | Update | Optical Levers | Simplified sketch on BS table | I have updated the BS table using feedback
from Koji and Paco and the attached
pdf document is the latest iteration. |
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16761
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Thu Apr 7 11:47:22 2022 |
Yehonathan | Update | BHD | Initial BHD modeling: AS - LO mode matching |
I begin modeling the initial BHD |
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16763
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Thu Apr 7 20:33:42 2022 |
Tommy | Update | Electronics | RFSoC 2x2 board -- setup for remote work | To access the board remotely through the
40m lab ethernet port, use
ssh -N -L localhost:1137:localhost:9090 |
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16764
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Thu Apr 7 20:37:06 2022 |
Tommy | Update | Electronics | RFSoC 2x2 Board -- Simple Tone Generator | In the "Tommy" sub folder, I
created a new notebook called "SimpleToneGenerator".
This tunes the DAC and ADC mixers to a single |
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16765
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Thu Apr 7 20:41:15 2022 |
Tommy | Update | Electronics | RFSoC 2x2 Board -- Gain Plotter | In this file (under Tommy), we have a notebook
which runs through a spectrum of frequencies
and determines the gain response of the attached |
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16766
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Thu Apr 7 21:15:04 2022 |
Yehonathan | Update | BHD | Initial BHD modeling: AS - LO mode matching | Ok, it turns out these optics were purchased
on purpose, as this elog
shows. Jon considered building a mode-matching |
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16767
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Fri Apr 8 16:03:58 2022 |
rana | Update | Electronics | RFSoC 2x2 board -- setup for remote work & BALUN saga | Seems like it should be possible to just
remove the transformer (aka as a BALUN ...
BALanced, UNbalanced), or replace it with |
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16769
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Mon Apr 11 11:00:30 2022 |
Jancarlo | Update | VAC | C1VAC Reboot and Nitrogen tanks | [Paco, JC, Ian, Jordan, Chub]
Checking in the morning, I walked
over to the Nitrogen tanks to check the levels. |
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16772
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Tue Apr 12 09:05:21 2022 |
Jordan | Update | VAC | New Pressure Gauge Install/Pump Spool Vent | Today, Tega and I would like to vent the
pump spool an dinstall the new FRG-400 Agilent
Pressure Gauges (per elog 15703). The attached |
6x |
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16773
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Wed Apr 13 12:50:07 2022 |
Tega | Update | VAC | New Pressure Gauge Install/Pump Spool Vent | [Jordan, JC, Tega]
We have installed all the FRGs
and updated the VAC medm screens to display |
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16774
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Wed Apr 13 15:57:25 2022 |
Ian MacMillan | Update | Cameras | Camera Battery Test | Tested the Nikon batteries for the camera.
they are supposed to be 7V batteries but
they don't hold a charge. I confirmed |
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16775
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Wed Apr 13 16:23:54 2022 |
Ian MacMillan | Update | General | Smell in 40m | [Ian, Paco, JC]
There is a strange smell in the
40m. It smells like a chemically burning |
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16776
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Wed Apr 13 18:55:54 2022 |
Koji | Update | Cameras | Camera Battery Test | I believe that the Nikon has an exposure
problem and that's why we bought the
Canon. |
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16777
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Thu Apr 14 09:04:30 2022 |
Jordan | Update | VAC | RGA Volume RGA Scans | Prior to venting the RGA volume on Tuesday
(4/12/2022) I took an RGA scan of the volume
to be vented (RGA+TP1 volume+Manual Gate |
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16782
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Fri Apr 15 11:59:16 2022 |
Yehonathan | Update | IOO | IMC completely misaligned | Came this morning, opened the PSL and there
was not even a beam on the MC REFL.
Looking at the big monitor it seems |
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16784
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Mon Apr 18 15:17:31 2022 |
Jancarlo | Update | General | Tool box and Work Station Organization | I cleaned up around the 40 m lab. All the
Laser Safety Glasses have been picked up
and placed on the rack at the entrance. |
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16785
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Mon Apr 18 16:09:07 2022 |
Yehonathan | Update | BHD | BHD Readout simulation | I'm planning on simulating the BHD
readout noise in a manner very similar to
the ALS noise model using Simulink. I've |
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16787
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Mon Apr 18 23:22:39 2022 |
Koji | Update | General | Tool box and Work Station Organization | Whoa! Thanks! |
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16788
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Tue Apr 19 18:10:10 2022 |
Paco | Update | BHD | Part V of BHR upgrade - POX11 path, LO path, and ITMX Oplev | [Yuta, Paco]
We set up POX11 beam path from
ITMX chamber to the ITMX in-air table. To |
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16789
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Wed Apr 20 08:20:22 2022 |
Paco | Update | BHD | Part V of BHR upgrade - PR2 weirdness | Yesterday, I tried tuning the PR2 damping
gains by increasing the gain until the damping
gave the ~5 oscillations (by watching the |
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16790
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Wed Apr 20 14:56:06 2022 |
Tommy | Update | Electronics | RFSoC 2x2 board -- setup for remote work & BALUN saga | Here are a few options for replacement
BALUNs from Mini Circuits and specs:
Current. TCM1-83X+, 10-8000 MHz, |
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16791
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Wed Apr 20 16:11:08 2022 |
Koji | Update | SUS | Outpur resistors updated for LO1 coil drivers / for SR2, LO2, AS1, and AS4 in progress | [JC Koji]
To give more alignment ranges for
the SUS alignment, we started updating the |
6x |
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16792
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Wed Apr 20 18:50:03 2022 |
Koji | Update | BHD | Part V of BHR upgrade - PR2 weirdness | It seemed that it comes from the servo
oscillation. This does not happen when the
output limitters were set to be 100-ish. |
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16793
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Thu Apr 21 10:35:23 2022 |
Koji | Update | CDS | DAQ seemed down | Yesterday, when I worked on the damping
servo, I found that any of the daqvtools
(ndscope, dtt, dataviewer,...) is not available. |
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16794
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Thu Apr 21 11:31:35 2022 |
JC | Update | VAC | Gauges P3/P4 | [Jordan, JC]
It was brought to attention during
yesterday's meeting that the pressures |
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