I installed an improvised version of PSL output beam iris at the output periscope last week.

IFO pressure was 2.3 mTorr this morning,

The Maglev's foreline valve  V4 was closed so P2 rose to 4 Torr. The Maglev was running fine with V1 open.

This is a good example for V1 to be closed by interlock, because at 4 Torr foreline pressure the compression ratio for hydrocarbones goes down.

V4 was closed by interlock when TP2 lost it's drypump. The drypump's AC plug was lose.

To DO: set up  interlock  to close V1 if P2 exceeds 1 Torr

We added C1:Vac-CC1_pressure to the alarm handler, with the minor alarm at 5e-6 torr and the major alarm at 1e-5 torr.

I have added/modified SMOO settings to all of the records in psl.db appropriately. Changes checked in to SVN.

As a reminder, you should check in to the SVN all changes you make to any of the .db files or any of the .ini files in chans.

Alberto, Rana

With the high power meter I measured the reflected power when the PMC was unlocked and used that to obtain the calibration of the PMC-REFL PD: 1.12V/W.

P_in = 1.98W ; P_trans = 1.28W ; P_refl = 0.45W

From that I estimated that the losses account to 13% of the input power.

I checked both the new and the old elogs to see if such a measurement had ever been done but it doesn't seems so. I don't know if such a value for the visibility is "normal". It seems a little low. For instance, as a comparison, the MC visibility, is equal to a few percents.

Also Rana measured the transmitted power after locking the PMC on the TEM20-02: the photodiode on the MEDM screen read 0.325V. That means that a lot of power is going to that mode.

That makes us think that we're dealing with a mode matching problem with the PMC.

These are the settings which determine the transmon (eg, TRX) amplitude, and which are updated by the matchTransMon scripts.

For the X arm

op440m:AutoDither>tdsread C1:LSC-TRX_GAIN C1:LSC-LA_PARAM_FLT_01 C1:LSC-LA_PARAM_FLT_00
0.0023
0.155
119.775

For the Y arm

op440m:AutoDither>tdsread C1:LSC-TRY_GAIN C1:LSC-LA_PARAM_FLT_04 C1:LSC-LA_PARAM_FLT_03
0.00237196
-0.116
19.9809

Yesterday, Alex attached the old frame builder 1.5 TB raid array to linux1, and tested to make sure it would work on linux1.

This morning he tried to start a copy of the current /cvs/cds structure, however realized at the rate it was going it would take it roughly 5 hours, so he stopped.

Currently, it is planned to perform this copy on this coming Friday morning.

In the last hour or so the elog crashed. I  have restarted it.

Koji, Yoichi

The RAID array servicing the Frame builder was finally switched over to JetStor Sata 16 Bay raid array. Each bay contains a 1 TB drive.  The raid is configured such that 13 TB is available, and the rest is used for fault protection.

The old Fibrenetix FX-606-U4, a 5 bay raid array which only had 1.5 TB space, has been moved over to linux1 and will be used to store /cvs/cds/.

This upgrade provides an increase in look up times from 3-4 days for all channels out to about 30 days.  Final copying of old data occured on August 5th, 2009, and was switched over on that date.

 Sadly, this was only true in theory and we didn't actually check to make sure anything happened.

We are not able to get lookback of more than ~3 days using our new huge disk. Doing a 'du -h' it seems that this is because we have not yet set the framebuilder to keep more than its old amount of frames. Whoever sees Joe or Alex next should ask them to fix us up.

In nodus, I moved the elog from /export to /cvs/cds/caltech. So now it is in the cvs path instead of a local directory on nodus.

For a while, I'll leave a copy of the old directory containing the logbook subdirectory where it was. If everything works fine, I'll delete that.

I also updated the reboot instructions in the wiki. some of it also is now in the SVN.

The 40m Lab reference cavity temperature box S/N BDL3002 was modified as per DCN D010238-00-C.

These were:

    R1, R2, R5, R6 was 10k now are 25.5k metal film

    R11, R14 was 10k now are 24.9k metal film

    R10, R15 was 10k now are 127k thick film - no metal film resistors available

    R22 was 2.00k now is 2.21k

    R27 was 10k now is 33.2k

    U5, the LM-336/2.5 was removed

    An LT1021-7, 7 V voltage reference was added.  Pin 2 to +15V, pin 4 to ground, pin 6 to U6 pin 3.

    Added an 8.87k metal film resistor between U6 pin 1 and U4 pin 6.

    Added an 8.87k metal film resistor between U6 pin 1 and U4 pin 15.

    The 10k resistor between J8 pin 1 and ground was already added in a previous modification.

In addition R3, R4, R7, R8, R12 and R13 were swapped out for metal film resistors of the same value

(1.00k).

    The jumper connection to the VME setpoint was removed, as per Rana's verbal instructions.

This disables the ability to set the reference cavity vacuum chamber temperature by computer.

Basically, in addition to the replacement of the resistors with metal film ones, Peter replaced the chip that provides a voltage reference.

The old one provided about 2.5 V, whereas the new one gets to about 7V. Such reference voltage somehow depends on the room temperature and it is used to generate an error signal for the temperature of the reference cavity.

Peter said that the new higher reference should work better.

I removed POX rfpd to see how it is mounted on its base. It is here on the work bench just in case someone wants to use it the IFO over the week end.

 I put POX back to it's place with markers. The pd was removed from it's base so it is for sure misaligned.

Today I aligned the beam to PD3 (POX) since Steve had moved it.

The DC power read 1.3mV when the beam was on the PD.

I have wiped out the 2008a install of 64-bit linux matlab and installed 2009a in its place. Enjoy.

 Alex logged in around 10:30 this morning and, at our request, adjusted the configuration of fb40m to have 20 days of lookback.

I wasn't able to get him to elog, but he did email the procedure to us:

1) create a bunch of new "Data???" directories in /frames/full
2) change the setting in /usr/controls/daqdrc file
       set num_dirs=480;

my guess is that the next step is:

3) telnet fb0 8087

    daqd>  shutdown

I checked and we do, in fact, now have 480 directories in /frames/full and are so far using up 11% of our 13TB capacity. Lets try to remember to check up on this so that it doesn't get overfull and crash the framebuilder.

The RGA isolation valve VM1 was closed since Aug 24, 2009  I installed the new UPS that time.

The last RGA scan in the log is from Aug 7, 2009   The vacuum rack UPS failed on Aug 15, 2009

I opened VM1 today so we can have ifo rga scan tomorrow.

>su
>/etc/init.d/xntpd start -c /etc/inet/ntp.conf

server nodus

[root@c1dcuepics sbin]# ./ntpq -p
     remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset  jitter
==============================================================================
 nodus.ligo.calt 0.0.0.0         16 u    -   64    0    0.000    0.000 4000.00
*nodus.ligo.calt usno.pa-x.dec.c  2 u   29   64  377    1.688  -65.616   6.647
-lime7.adamantsy clock.trit.net   3 u   32   64  377   37.448  -72.104   4.641
-montpelier.ilan .USNO.           1 u   19   64  377   18.122  -74.984   8.305
+spamd-0.gac.edu nss.nts.umn.edu  3 u   28   64  377   72.086  -66.787   0.540
-mighty.poclabs. time.nist.gov    2 u   30   64  377   71.202  -61.127   4.067
+monitor.xenscal clock.sjc.he.ne  2 u   16   64  377   11.855  -67.105   6.368

Koji and I were looking for an extender card to aid with MZ board testing.  Rob went off on a quest to find one.  He found 2 (in addition to the one in the drawer near the electronics bench which says "15V shorted"), and put them in some empty slots in 1X1 to test them out.  Somehow, this burned a few pins on each board (1 pin on one of them, and 3 pins on the other). We now have 0 functioning extender cards: unfortunately, both extender cards now need fixing.  The 2 slots that were used in 1X1 now have yellow electrical tape covering the connectors so that they do not get used, because the ends of the burnt-off pins may still be in there. 

In other, not-Rob's-fault news, the Martian network is down...we're going to try to reset it so that we have use of the laptops again.

Mode cleaner length measured tonight.

33196198

132784792

165980990

199177188

[Tag by KA: modulation frequency, MC length]

This happened when I plugged the cards into a crate with computers, which apparently is a no-no.  The extender cards only go in VME crates full of in-house, LIGO-designed electronics.

I changed the input channels of the DMF recently so that it now uses 3 Guralp channels in addition to the 3 ACC and 1 Ranger.

op440m:seisblrms>diff seisBLRMS-datachans.txt~ seisBLRMS-datachans.txt
4,7c4,7
< C1:PEM-ACC_MC2_X
< C1:PEM-ACC_MC2_Y
< C1:PEM-ACC_MC2_Z
< C1:PEM-SEIS_MC1_Y
---
> C1:PEM-SEIS_GUR1_X
> C1:PEM-SEIS_GUR1_Y
> C1:PEM-SEIS_GUR1_Z
> C1:PEM-SEIS_RANGER_Y
op440m:seisblrms>pwd
/cvs/cds/caltech/apps/DMF/compiled_matlab/seisblrms

The seisBLRMS channels still have the wrong names of IX and EX, but I have chosen to keep them like this so that we have a long trend. When looking at the historical seisBLRMS trend, we just have to remember that all of the sensors have been around the MC since last summer.

Does anyone know if this master file is the real thing that's in use now? Are we really using a file called tpchn_C1_new.par? If anyone sees Alex, please get to the bottom of this.

allegra:daq>pwd
/cvs/cds/caltech/chans/daq
allegra:daq>more master
/cvs/cds/caltech/chans/daq/C1ADCU_PEM.ini
#/cvs/cds/caltech/chans/daq/C1ADCU_SUS.ini
/cvs/cds/caltech/chans/daq/C1LSC.ini
/cvs/cds/caltech/chans/daq/C1ASC.ini
/cvs/cds/caltech/chans/daq/C1SOS.ini
/cvs/cds/caltech/chans/daq/C1SUS_EX.ini
/cvs/cds/caltech/chans/daq/C1SUS_EY.ini
/cvs/cds/caltech/chans/daq/C1SUS1.ini
/cvs/cds/caltech/chans/daq/C1SUS2.ini
#/cvs/cds/caltech/chans/daq/C1SUS4.ini
/cvs/cds/caltech/chans/daq/C1IOOF.ini
/cvs/cds/caltech/chans/daq/C1IOO.ini
/cvs/cds/caltech/chans/daq/C0GDS.ini
/cvs/cds/caltech/chans/daq/C0EDCU.ini
/cvs/cds/caltech/chans/daq/C1OMC.ini
/cvs/cds/caltech/chans/daq/C1ASS.ini
/cvs/cds/gds/param/tpchn_C1_new.par
/cvs/cds/gds/param/tpchn_C2.par
/cvs/cds/gds/param/tpchn_C3.par

"Yes. This master file is used."

Steve, Kiwamu, and Koji

We went through the PSL table to make sure any strong beam did not hit the wall.

We found that the reflection of Stephanie's OSA returned its path down to the beamsplitter.
This BS reflect that beam to the wall. That was fixed.

The surprising was that the relatively strong beam (~1mW?) went through the steering mirror
just before the PMC. We put thorlabs razor blades. I am still thinking what this indicates...
because the beam had been blocked if it was such from long time before.

During the work we found some stray optics such as a cube BS, a flipper mirror, and so on.
We can see them in the photo as those enclosed with yellow circles.
One of the beams was obtained from the reflection of the ND filter (...almost illeagal), and 
was even hittting a metal fixture for the BS cube.

If someone uses these components for useful purposes,
please let me(Koji) know. Otherwise, they are removed next week.

The other thing we found was the bright scatter from the EOM for the PMC.
As this scatter is so blight, I am going to align it.

 These components are from when Rana and I used the StochMon PD to do the RFAM tuning, documented in elog 1926.  This was a very handy measurement, but I'm not sure if whether or not we need it often enough to keep the optics there.

OK! I saw the optics are redundant and some of the components are not in a right place.
I will talk with you when you are back such that we can keep the usefulness of the setup.

You can remove the RFAM measuring setup. Once we upgrade, we will no longer have a MZ or the related problems.

Some questions came arise to me:

A. How the green injection system should be? How the handing off between 532 and 1064 should be?

This is not new, though. It would be worth reminding.

B. Do we still need PMC if we use 2W innolight?

Innolight has low intensity noise at the detection freq. Also the spacial mode is clean.

C. Do we still need frequency prestabilization by RC?

Is the stabilization of the laser freq by the MC not enough?
What is the relationship with the green?

I pushed the "closed loop" button on PZT2 YAW around 3:40 pm today, then roughly recentered it using the DC Offset knob on the PiezoJena controller and the IP ANG QPD readbacks.  There was a large DC shift.    We'll watch and see how much it drifts in this state.

 Here's the trend.

The transient at ~22:40 is Rob switching to 'Open Loop' on the Piezo Jena PZTs. I don't see any qualitative change in the drift after this event.

At 05:55 UTC, I removed an iris that was blocking the IP POS beam (the sum goes up from 2 to 6.5) without disturbing the mirrors who's oplev beam are on that table. Steve has conceded one sugar Napoleon after betting against my ninja-like iris skills.

We should recenter the beam on IP POS now that its unclipped - I'll let it sit this way overnight just to get more drift data.

Inspecting the AS table to make an inventory of the photodiodes in use around the interferometer, I found a mysterious photodetector hiding behind PD1 (AS166).

It turned out the detector was an old type of QPD from the Squeezing Experiment a few years ago.

We removed the box and the cable to which it was connected from the table. We stored it in the optics cabinet along the X arm.

I wanted to see how long our IP POS beam has been badly clipped - turns out its since April 1, 2007.

Steve's April Fool's joke is chronicled then. The attached trend shows that the drop in IP POS is coincident with that event.

In trying to align IPPOS, I noticed that someone has placed a ND2.0 filter (factor of 100 attenuation) in front of it. This is kind of a waste - I have removed IPPOS to fix its resistors and avoid this bad optic. Also the beam coming onto the table is too big for the 1" diameter optics being used; we need to replace it with a 2" diamter optic (Y1-2037-45P).

IP ANG dropped by a factor of 2 back in early August of '08.

We need this guy on the investigation:

Its back in and re-centered. Our next move on IPPOS should be to replace its steering mirror with something bigger and more rigid.

Electronics changes:

20K -> 3.65 K  (R6, R20, R42, R31) (unused)

20K -> 3.65 K  (R7, R21, R32, R43, R11, R24, R35, R46)

If you look in the schematic (D990272), you see that its an AD797 transimpedance stage with a couple of LT1125 stages set to give some switchable gain. It looks like some of these

switches are on and some are not, but I am not sure where it would be controlled from. I've attached a snapshot of one quadrant of the schematic below.

The schematic shows the switches in the so-called 'normally closed' configuration. This is what the switches do with zero volts applied to the control inputs. As the schematic also shows,

just disconnecting the 'switch' inputs cause the switch's control inputs to go high (normally open configuration, i.e. pins 2-3 connected, pin4 open). For the record, the default positions of the IPPOS switches are:

switch1   high

switch2   low

switch3   low

switch4   high

** EDIT (Nov 2, 2009): I forgot to attach the before and after images; here they are:

I tried to compare the IP_POS time series with the IPANG and MC_TRANS but was foiled at first:

1) The IPANG scan rate was set to 0.5 second, so it doesn't resolve the pendulum motions well. Fixed in the .db file.

2) Someone had used a Windows/DOS editor to edit the .db file and it was filled with "^M" characters. I have removed them all using this command:   tr -d "\r" <ETMXaux.db > new.db

3) The MC_TRANS P/Y channels were on the MC Lock screen but had never been added to the DAQ. Remember, if there's a useful readback on an EPICS screen. its not necessarily in the frames unless you add it to the C0EDCU file. I have done that now and restarted the fb daqd. Channels now exist.

4) Changed the PREC of the IPPOS channels to 3 from 2.

5) changed the sign for the IBQPD (aka IPANG) so that bigger signal is positive on the EPICS screen.

The 33MHz mod depth is now controlled by the OMC (C1:OMC-SPARE_DAC_CH_15).  The setting to give us the same modulation depth as before is 14000 (in the offset field).

In this morning, we have disconnected SR785 which was in front of 1X2 rack, to measure a Hall sensor noise.

After a while, we put back SR785 and re-connected as it has been.

But the display setup might have been changed a little bit.

Does anyone know what the channels plugged in to the PEM ADCU, channels 5,6,7,8 are?  They aren't listed in the C1ADCU_PEM.ini file which tells the channel list/dataviewer/everything about all the rest of the signals which are plugged into that ADCU, so I'm not sure if they are used at all, or if they're holdovers from some previous time.  The cables are not labeled in a way that makes clear what they are.  Thanks!

I removed the multiply resonant EOM that has been set by a SURF student from PSL table.

I will use it for checking the resonant circuit.

For the CDS upgrade preparation I put and moved those stuff at the rack 1Y9:

Placed 1Y9-12 ADC to DB44/37 Adapter LIGO D080397

Placed 1Y9-14 DAC to IDC Adapter LIGO D080303

Moved the ethernet switch from 1Y9-16 to 1Y9-24

Wiki has also been updated.

In investigating why megatron wouldn't talk to the network, I re-discovered the fact that it had been placed on its own private network to avoid conflicts with the 40m's test point manager.  So I moved the linksys router (model WRT310N V2) down to 1Y9, plugged megatron into a normal network port, and connected its internet port to the rest of the gigabit network. 

Unfortunately, megatron still didn't see the rest of the network, and vice-versa.  I brought out my laptop and started looking at the settings.  It had been configured with the DMZ zone on for 192.168.1.2, which was Megatron's IP, so communications should flow through the router. Turns out it needs the dhcp server on the gateway router (131.215.113.2) to be on for everyone to talk to each other.  However, this may not be the best practice.  It'd probably be better to set the router IP to be fixed, and turn off the dhcp server on the gateway.  I'll look into doing this tomorrow.

Also during this I found the DNS server running on linux1 had its IP to name and name to IP files in disagreement on what the IP of megatron should be.  The IP to name claimed 131.215.113.95 while the name to IP claimed 131.215.113.178.  I set it so both said 131.215.113.178.  (These are in /var/named/chroot/var/ directory on linux1, the files are 113.215.131.in-addr.arpa.zone  and martian.zone - I modified the 113.215.131.in-addr.arpa.zone file).  This is the dhcp served IP address from the gateway, and in principle could change or be given to another machine while the dhcp server is on.

The elog just crashed and I rebooted it

I took the RFM 5565 card dropped off by Jay and installed it into megatron.  It is not very secure, as it was too tall for the slot and could not be locked down.  I did not connect the RFM fibers at this point, so just the card is plugged in.

Unfortunately, on power up, and immediately after the splash screen I get "NMI EVENT!" and "System halted due to fatal NMI". 

The status light on the RFM light remains a steady red as well.  There is a distinct possibility the card is broken in some way.

The card is a VMIPMC-5565 (which is the same as the card used by the ETMY front end machine).  We should get Alex to come in and look at it on Monday, but we may need to get a replacement.

The MC2 watchdogs tripped. I just restored them.

I also had to relock the MZ and then the Mode Cleaner.

I turned the auxialiary NPRO for the AbsL Experiment on. Its shutter stays closed.