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  9984   Wed May 21 13:51:19 2014 SteveUpdatesafetyscope battery recall

Tektronix RECALL on TDS3000 or TDS300B  oscilloscope BATTERIES TDS3BATB

This Lithium-Ion battery can be a fire hazard !  Remove battery pack and recycle it through Safety Office !

  71   Tue Nov 6 16:48:54 2007 tobinConfigurationComputersscopes on the net
I configured our two 100 MHz Tektronix 3014B scopes with IP addresses: 131.215.113.24 (scope0) and 113.215.113.25 (scope1). Let the scripting commence!

There appears to be a Matlab Instrument Control Toolbox driver for this scope.
  5159   Tue Aug 9 16:54:47 2011 steveUpdateVACscratch on vac door

Jenne found a big scratch on the north vac door of ITMY. Fortunately it does not reach the inner annulos 0 -ring seal.

This is precisely what we have to avoid to preserve our vacuum system!

 

Attachment 1: P1080152.JPG
P1080152.JPG
  4373   Thu Mar 3 07:25:24 2011 kiwamuUpdateGreen Lockingscrewed up the end PDH box

 I somehow screwed up the PDH box at the X end station. 

Right now it's not working, so I am going to check and fix it today.

 

 In the last evening I found that one of the gain stages on the PDH box wasn't fully functional.

So I started investigating it and I though it was going to finish soon, but actually it wasn't so easy.

 

  The PDH box has several gain stages. So an input signal goes through a buffer, a filter, a boost and an output buffer stages sequentially.

The boost stage is supposed to have gain of 10, but I found it didn't have such gain.

In fact the gain was something like -30dB which is pretty small. Plus this boost stage was imposing an wired bump on the transfer function around 50 kHz.

I checked the voltages on some components around the boost stage and confirmed there were no strange voltage.

Then I suspected that the op-amp : LF356 had been broken for some reason. So I replaced it by LT1792 to see if it fixes the issue.

Indeed it did make it functional. However after few minutes of the replacement, it went back to the same bad condition.

I have no idea about what was going on at that time. Anyway it needs more careful investigations.

 

  I temporarily put a jumper cable on the board to skip this stage, but now the PDH lock is not healthy at all.

  4594   Mon May 2 11:14:27 2011 kiwamuUpdateSUSscript : opticshutdown

Just FYI.

There is a useful script for this particular job : shutting down all the suspensions and bringing it back to operation after 5 hrs.

It is called opticshudown, which resides in /cvs/cds/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/SUS/.

 

Also I added this script on the list in the wiki where all the scripts will be listed.

http://blue.ligo-wa.caltech.edu:8000/40m/Computers_and_Scripts/All_Scripts#opticshutdown

If you find any other useful scripts, please add them on the wiki.

Quote from #4592

I leave all the suspensions free from the watchdogs for 5 hours from now.

 

  110   Fri Nov 16 11:27:18 2007 tobinUpdateComputersscript fix
I added a tidbit of code to "LIGOio.pm" that fixes a problem with ezcastep on Linux. Scripts such as "trianglewave" will now work on Linux.
# On Linux, "ezcastep" will interpret negative steps as command line arguments,
# because the GNU library interprets anything starting with a dash as a flag.
# There are two ways around this.  One is to set the environment variable
# POSIXLY_CORRECT and the other is to inject "--" as a command line argument
# before any dashed arguments you don't want interpreted as a flag.  The former
# is easiest to use here:

if (`uname` =~ m/Linux/) {
    # Add an environment variable for child processes
    $ENV{'POSIXLY_CORRECT'} = 1;
}
  6727   Thu May 31 04:03:17 2012 yutaUpdateIOOscript for MC beam spot measurement

I wrote a wrapping script for measuring MC beam spot. We had to run several scripts for the measurement (see elog #6688), but now, you only need to run /opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/ASS/MC/mcassMCdecenter.

The measured data file will be stored in /opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/ASS/MC/dataMCdecenter/ directory, with a timestamp.
The calculated beam spot position data will be logged in /opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/ASS/MC/dataMCdecenter/logMCdecenter.txt file.
I had to edit sensemcass.m file, in order to write the result into the log file. In this way, we can keep track of the beam displacement.

Currently, the calculation script is written in the MATLAB file(sensemcass.m), which isn't very nice.
To run a MATLAB file from the command line
, you have to write something like this;

matlab -nodesktop -nosplash -r "sensemcass('./dataMCdecenter/MCdecenter201205210258.dat')"

 

  6871   Mon Jun 25 17:48:27 2012 yutaUpdateComputer Scripts / Programsscript for finding IR resonance using ALS

I made a python script for finding IR resonance using ALS. It currently lives in /opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/ALS/findIRresonance.py.

The basic algorism is as follows.

1. Scan the arm by putting an offset to the phase output of the phase tracker(Step C1:ALS-BEAT(X|Y)_FINE_OFFSET_OFFSET by 10 deg with 3 sec ramp time).

2. Fetch TR(X|Y) and OFFSET online data using pyNDS during the step.

3. If it finds a tall peak, sets OFFSET to the value where the tall peak was found.

4. If tall peak wasn't found, go back to 1 and step OFFSET again.

The time series data of how he did is plotted below.
I ran the script for Y arm, but it is compatible for both X and Y arm.

findIRresonance20120625.png

  5074   Sun Jul 31 00:05:52 2011 kiwamuUpdateLSCscript for loss measurement : modified

I modified the script armloss so that the channel names in the script are properly adopted to the new CDS.

Additionally I disabled the ETMX(Y)_tickle command in the script.

The tickle command puts some offsets on the LSC signal to let the arms pass through a fringe until it gets locked, but apparently we don't need it because the arms are loud enough.

A brief check showed that the script ran fine.

I will measure the loss on the X and Y arm cavity tomorrow.

Quote from #5067

Next : Health-check for the X arm ASS, the loss measurements.

 

  6726   Thu May 31 02:27:24 2012 yutaUpdateIOOscript for reliefing MC WFS

I wrote a simple script for reliefing MC WFS servo. The script is located at /opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/MC/reliefMCWFS.
It simply uses ezcaservo to minimize the offset of the WFS feedback signal using MC alignment sliders.

    ezcaservo -r C1:SUS-MC${optic}_ASC${dof}_OUT16 -s 0 -g 0.0001 -t 10 C1:SUS-MC${optic}_${dof}_COMM


I put "MC WFS relief" button on the WFS medm screen (/opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/medm/c1ioo/master/C1IOO_WFS_MASTER.adl).

  4221   Fri Jan 28 13:05:56 2011 KojiConfigurationComputersscript path fixed

We had some issues in terms of the script paths. I have fixed it by replacing /cvs/cds/caltech/scripts to /cvs/cds/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts

Here is the output of diff

----------------------------------------------


rossa:caltech>diff cshrc.40m cshrc.40m.20110128
44,47c44,45
< # OBSOLETE set path = ($path /cvs/cds/caltech/scripts/general)
< # OBSOLETE set path = ($path /cvs/cds/caltech/scripts/general/netgpibdata)
< set path = ($path /cvs/cds/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/general)
< set path = ($path /cvs/cds/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/general/netgpibdata)
---
> set path = ($path /cvs/cds/caltech/scripts/general)
> set path = ($path /cvs/cds/caltech/scripts/general/netgpibdata)
50,51c48
< # OBSOLETE setenv PERL5LIB /cvs/cds/caltech/scripts/general:/cvs/cds/caltech/scripts/general/perlmodules:/cvs/cds/caltech/libs/solaris9/usr_local_lib/perl5/5.8.0/:/cvs/cds/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/general:/cvs/cds/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/general/perlmodules
< setenv PERL5LIB /cvs/cds/caltech/libs/solaris9/usr_local_lib/perl5/5.8.0/:/cvs/cds/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/general:/cvs/cds/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/general/perlmodules
---
> setenv PERL5LIB /cvs/cds/caltech/scripts/general:/cvs/cds/caltech/scripts/general/perlmodules:/cvs/cds/caltech/libs/solaris9/usr_local_lib/perl5/5.8.0/:/cvs/cds/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/general:/cvs/cds/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/general/perlmodules
61,64c58,59
< #OBSOLETE setenv PATH ${SOLARISPATH}/bin:$GDSPATH/bin:$ROOTSYS/bin:$TDSPATH/bin:/cvs/cds/caltech/scripts/general/netgpibdata:$PATH
< setenv PATH ${SOLARISPATH}/bin:$GDSPATH/bin:$ROOTSYS/bin:$TDSPATH/bin:/cvs/cds/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/general/netgpibdata:$PATH
< #OBSOLETE setenv SCRIPTS /cvs/cds/caltech/scripts
< setenv SCRIPTS /cvs/cds/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts
---
> setenv PATH ${SOLARISPATH}/bin:$GDSPATH/bin:$ROOTSYS/bin:$TDSPATH/bin:/cvs/cds/caltech/scripts/general/netgpibdata:$PATH
> setenv SCRIPTS /cvs/cds/caltech/scripts
87,88c82
< #OBSOLETE setenv PERL5LIB /cvs/cds/caltech/scripts/general:/cvs/cds/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/general/perlmodules
< setenv PERL5LIB /cvs/cds/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/general:/cvs/cds/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/general/perlmodules
---
> setenv PERL5LIB /cvs/cds/caltech/scripts/general:/cvs/cds/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/general/perlmodules
99,100c93
< #OBSOLETE setenv SCRIPTPATH /cvs/cds/caltech/scripts/general:/cvs/cds/caltech/scripts/general/netgpibdata
< setenv SCRIPTPATH /cvs/cds/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/general:/cvs/cds/rtcds/caltech/scripts/general/netgpibdata
---
> setenv SCRIPTPATH /cvs/cds/caltech/scripts/general:/cvs/cds/caltech/scripts/general/netgpibdata
103,104c96
< #OBSOLETE setenv SCRIPTS /cvs/cds/caltech/scripts
< setenv SCRIPTS /cvs/cds/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts
---
> setenv SCRIPTS /cvs/cds/caltech/scripts
135,137c127
< #OBSOLETE alias listenDARM '/cvs/cds/caltech/scripts/c1/listenDARM'
< alias listenDARM '/cvs/cds/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/c1/listenDARM'
<
---
> alias listenDARM '/cvs/cds/caltech/scripts/c1/listenDARM'
156,157c146
< #OBSOLETE setenv PERL5LIB /cvs/cds/caltech/scripts/general:/cvs/cds/caltech/scripts/general/perlmodules
< setenv PERL5LIB /cvs/cds/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/general:/cvs/cds/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/general/perlmodules
---
> setenv PERL5LIB /cvs/cds/caltech/scripts/general:/cvs/cds/caltech/scripts/general/perlmodules
167,168c156
< #OBSOLETE setenv SCRIPTPATH /cvs/cds/caltech/scripts/general:/cvs/cds/caltech/scripts/general/netgpibdata
< setenv SCRIPTPATH /cvs/cds/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/general:/cvs/cds/rtcds/caltech/scripts/general/netgpibdata
---
> setenv SCRIPTPATH /cvs/cds/caltech/scripts/general:/cvs/cds/caltech/scripts/general/netgpibdata
172,173c160
< #OBSOLETE setenv SCRIPTS /cvs/cds/caltech/scripts
< setenv SCRIPTS /cvs/cds/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts
---
> setenv SCRIPTS /cvs/cds/caltech/scripts
198,199c185
< #OBSOLETE alias listenDARM '/cvs/cds/caltech/scripts/c1/listenDARM'
< alias listenDARM '/cvs/cds/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/c1/listenDARM'
---
> alias listenDARM '/cvs/cds/caltech/scripts/c1/listenDARM'
288,295c274,277
< #OBSOLETE alias makefiltscreen '/cvs/cds/caltech/scripts/Admin/makeFilterScreen.pl'
< #OBSOLETE alias makelockinscreen '/cvs/cds/caltech/scripts/Admin/makeLockInScreen.pl'
< #OBSOLETE alias f_and_r '/cvs/cds/caltech/scripts/Admin/find_and_replace.pl'
< #OBSOLETE alias plotrgascan '/cvs/cds/caltech/scripts/RGA/plotrgascan'
< alias makefiltscreen '/cvs/cds/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/Admin/makeFilterScreen.pl'
< alias makelockinscreen '/cvs/cds/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/Admin/makeLockInScreen.pl'
< alias f_and_r '/cvs/cds/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/Admin/find_and_replace.pl'
< alias plotrgascan '/cvs/cds/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/RGA/plotrgascan'
---
> alias makefiltscreen '/cvs/cds/caltech/scripts/Admin/makeFilterScreen.pl'
> alias makelockinscreen '/cvs/cds/caltech/scripts/Admin/makeLockInScreen.pl'
> alias f_and_r '/cvs/cds/caltech/scripts/Admin/find_and_replace.pl'
> alias plotrgascan '/cvs/cds/caltech/scripts/RGA/plotrgascan'

  10816   Thu Dec 18 16:21:08 2014 ericqUpdateComputer Scripts / Programsscripts not being backed up!

 I just stumbled upon this while poking around:

Since the great crash of June 2014, the scripts backup script has not been workingon op340m. For some reason, it's only grabbing the PRFPMI folder, and nothing else. 

Megatron seems to be able to run it. I've moved the job to megatron's crontab for now.

  2344   Sun Nov 29 16:56:56 2009 robAoGall down cond.sea of red

Came in, found all front-ends down.

 

Keyed a bunch of crates, no luck:

Requesting coeff update at 0x40f220 w/size of 0x1e44
No response from EPICS 

Powered off/restarted c1dcuepics.  Still no luck.

Powered off megatron.  Success!  Ok, maybe it wasn't megatron.  I also did c1susvme1 and c1susvme2 at this time.

 

BURT restored to Nov 26, 8:00am

 

But everything is still red on the C0_DAQ_RFMNETWORK.adl screen, even though the front-ends are running and synced with the LSC.  I think this means the framebuilder or the DAQ controller is the one in trouble--I keyed the crates with DAQCTRL and DAQAWG a couple of times, with no luck, so it's probably fb40m.    I'm leaving it this way--we can deal with it tomorrow.

  2345   Mon Nov 30 10:28:47 2009 AlbertoAoGall down cond.sea of red

Quote:

Came in, found all front-ends down.

 

Keyed a bunch of crates, no luck:

Requesting coeff update at 0x40f220 w/size of 0x1e44
No response from EPICS 

Powered off/restarted c1dcuepics.  Still no luck.

Powered off megatron.  Success!  Ok, maybe it wasn't megatron.  I also did c1susvme1 and c1susvme2 at this time.

 

BURT restored to Nov 26, 8:00am

 

But everything is still red on the C0_DAQ_RFMNETWORK.adl screen, even though the front-ends are running and synced with the LSC.  I think this means the framebuilder or the DAQ controller is the one in trouble--I keyed the crates with DAQCTRL and DAQAWG a couple of times, with no luck, so it's probably fb40m.    I'm leaving it this way--we can deal with it tomorrow.

 I found the red sea when I came in this morning.

I tried several things.

  1. ssh into fb40m: connection refused
  2. telnet fb40m 8087: didn't respond
  3. shutdown fb40m by physically pushing the power button: it worked and the FB came back to life but still with a red light on the MEDM DAQ_DETAIL screen;
  4. powercycled fb40m AND C0DAQCTRL: no improvement
  5. shutdown fb40m, C0DAQCTRL, C1DCUEPICS and pushed the reset button on the RF network crate; then I restarted the computers in this order: fb40m, C1DCUEPICS, C0DAQCTRL: it worked: they came back to life and the lights eventually turned green on the MEDM montior screen

I'm now going to restart the single front -ends and burtgooey them if necessary.

  2346   Mon Nov 30 11:29:40 2009 AlbertoAoGall down cond.sea of red

Quote:

Quote:

Came in, found all front-ends down.

 

Keyed a bunch of crates, no luck:

Requesting coeff update at 0x40f220 w/size of 0x1e44
No response from EPICS 

Powered off/restarted c1dcuepics.  Still no luck.

Powered off megatron.  Success!  Ok, maybe it wasn't megatron.  I also did c1susvme1 and c1susvme2 at this time.

 

BURT restored to Nov 26, 8:00am

 

But everything is still red on the C0_DAQ_RFMNETWORK.adl screen, even though the front-ends are running and synced with the LSC.  I think this means the framebuilder or the DAQ controller is the one in trouble--I keyed the crates with DAQCTRL and DAQAWG a couple of times, with no luck, so it's probably fb40m.    I'm leaving it this way--we can deal with it tomorrow.

 I found the red sea when I came in this morning.

I tried several things.

  1. ssh into fb40m: connection refused
  2. telnet fb40m 8087: didn't respond
  3. shutdown fb40m by physically pushing the power button: it worked and the FB came back to life but still with a red light on the MEDM DAQ_DETAIL screen;
  4. powercycled fb40m AND C0DAQCTRL: no improvement
  5. shutdown fb40m, C0DAQCTRL, C1DCUEPICS and pushed the reset button on the RF network crate; then I restarted the computers in this order: fb40m, C1DCUEPICS, C0DAQCTRL: it worked: they came back to life and the lights eventually turned green on the MEDM montior screen

I'm now going to restart the single front -ends and burtgooey them if necessary.

Everything is back on.

Restarted all the front ends. As usual c1susvme2 was stubborn  but eventually it came up.

I burt-restored all the front-ends to Nov 26 at 8am.

The mode cleaner is locked.

  2355   Sat Dec 5 14:41:07 2009 robAoGall down cond.sea of red, again

Taking  a cue from entry 2346, I immediately went for the nuclear option and powered off fb40m.  Someone will probably need to restart the backup script.

  2356   Sat Dec 5 15:20:10 2009 JenneAoGall down cond.sea of red, again

Quote:

Taking  a cue from entry 2346, I immediately went for the nuclear option and powered off fb40m.  Someone will probably need to restart the backup script.

 Backup script restarted.

  3970   Mon Nov 22 20:31:58 2010 kiwamuUpdateGreen Lockingsearching for unknown loss in green PD path

 As I said in the past entry (see this entry), there was unknown loss of about 20dB in the beat detection path.

So I started fully characterizing the beat detection path. 

Today I measured the frequency response of the wideband RFPD using the Jenne Laser.

Since all the data were taken by using a 1064nm laser, the absolute magnitudes [V/W] for 532nm are not calibrated yet.  

I will calibrate the absolute values with a green laser which has a known power.


 RFPDresponse.png

The data were taken by changing the bias voltage from -150V to 0V.

The shape of the transfer function looks quite similar to that Hartmut measured before (see the entry).

It has 100MHz bandwidth when the bias voltage is -150V, which is our normal operation point.

 

Theoretically the transfer function must keep flat at lower frequency down to DC.

Therefore for the calibration of this data, we can use the DC signal when a green beam with a known power is illuminating the PD.

 

  6328   Mon Feb 27 21:26:22 2012 DenUpdatePEMseis box

I did liso simulation of the circuit in the seis box. I think that AD620 (first amplifier in the circuit) noise might be much less with the signal from guralps from 0.01 Hz. Here is the TF of AD620 output / circuit input.

ad620.pdf

The noise spectrum is at this node is

noise.pdf

The psd of the seismic noise below 1 Hz ~ 1u m/s => circuit input signal is ~1mv.

The TF of the whole circuit is

whole.pdf

This result differs from the graph on the circuit sheet, but may be it was done before the resistor parameteres changed. Back of the envelop calculations also show that it is not possible to acheive DC gain 200 while 50-800 Hz gain = 5000. I'll check with the spectrum analyzer.

AD620 might be a weak point in the simulation since this is not a "classical" operational amplifier, it contains a resistor that adjusts the gain. During the liso simulation I assumed that we have an ordinary opamp (with noise, gain and gbw parameters taken from the real ad620 datasheet) with a resistor parallel to the opamp = 50k and a resistor before the inverted input that corrsponds to R2. In this case the gain of the simulated opamp is the same as of the real one given by the formula 1 + 49.9k / R2, though noise parameters may change. This should be also checked with the spectrum analyzer.

  6349   Fri Mar 2 18:55:06 2012 DenUpdatePEMseis box

I've put the seismometer box back to the 1x1, Guralp is back under MC2. When the seismometer is not plugged in, the noise is

dv_noise.png

Now, I'm going to collect some data from GUR 1 and MC_F and see if the problem with adaptive filter (increasing errror while decreasing mu) will be gone.

 

  6346   Fri Mar 2 11:05:28 2012 DenUpdatePEMseis box gain

I've replaced R2 resistor that adjusts the gain of the AD620 amplifier. Previous value 5491Ohm, new value 464Ohm, so the gain should increase up to ~200-250. Only at the N/S 1 circuit!

LISO simulation of the circuit transfer function and noise are

tf_new.pdf

noise_new.pdf

LISO predicts gain ~45-46 dB = 200 and noise at the level of 10uV at 1Hz. The transfer function and noise measured are

tf_analyzer.png

 noise_analyzer.png

The noise measured is 5 times higher then predicted by LISO. Though I described AD620 as an ordinary amplifier with 49.9kOhm resistor connecting output and inverted input. I specified the noise spectrum 10 nV and 1/f corner frequency 30 Hz. In the AD620 datasheet noise spectrum is 10 - 100 nV depending on the gain. However, the gain is 200 and noise spectrum should be 10 nV. May be in reality it is not the case. It also possible that the noise model used by LISO is not valid for AD620 as it is not an ordinary operational amplifier.

  6338   Wed Feb 29 01:02:06 2012 DenUpdatePEMseis box measured

I've measured the input signal to the seismic box from seismometer Guralp 1. The spectrum of the signal in the "input +" (TP 1) is

input.png

 

The spectrum below 1 Hz is ~250 uV/sqrt(Hz). As the input is differential, then the input voltage is 0.5 mV/sqrt(Hz). The spectrum of the "output +" signal (TP 2) is

output.png

 

So the gain at ~ 1Hz is ~20. I've measured the transfer function between the "input +" and "output +" (TP1 and TP2) for all 9 circuits

tf.png

The channels 1-6 are of new modification and have gain ~20 at the frequencies 0.2 - 100 Hz. Below 0.2 Hz the gain is reduced. 100 Hz - cut off frequency of the low-pass filters. Meanwhile channels 7-9 (old configuration) have much more gain and 10_50 Hz filters work here.

The coherence between  "input +" and "output +" (TP1 and TP2) for 9 circuits is

 

coherence.png

We can see that channel VERT 3 is very bad. For others coherence is lost below 0.2 Hz. The spectrum analyzer noise measured is ~1000 times less then the signal at these frequencies. I'll pay more attention to this loss of coherence at low frequencies. Something is noisy.

  6343   Thu Mar 1 00:05:23 2012 DenUpdatePEMseis box noise

I've moved GUR1 seismometer from MC2 to the working tables in order not to disturb the MC while working with the seismometer box. The new place for the GUR1 for a few days is near the printer, cables and blue boxes. I've cleaned all mess and wires from the floor, so that seismometer now looks like that

DSC_3959.JPG

I've connected 2 inputs of the N/S 1 circuit of the seismometer box with a 50 Ohm resistor and measured the noise at the output. The comparison with the seismic signal is

noise.png

The noise increased at 0.5 Hz and is pretty big. This might explain the loose of coherence at low frequencies.

  6345   Thu Mar 1 21:48:34 2012 DenUpdatePEMseis box noise

Quote:

The noise increased at 0.5 Hz and is pretty big. This might explain the loose of coherence at low frequencies.

 This is because spectrum analyzer did not plot the real noise spectrum at the first few points at low frequencies. I've remeasured the noise at 1mHz - 3Hz at "output -" (TP9) and compared it to the seismometer signal

noise2.png

The noise seems to be much less then the signal. I've measured the noise several times and once I got a huge amount of noise

noise.png

 

I made another measurement in some time and got the low noise again. A circuit might have a bad contact somewhere.

The plan is to change AD620 adjustable resistor (R2) from 5.49kOhm to 500Ohm to increase the gain from 20 up to 200.

  287   Wed Jan 30 20:39:31 2008 robUpdateDMFseisBLRMS


In order to reduce the probability of seisBLRMS crashing due to unavailability of data, I edited seisBLRMS.m so that it displays data from 6 minutes in the past, rather than 3. After compiling, this version ran for ~8 hours without crashing. I've killed the process now because it seems to interfere with alignment scripts that use ezcademod, causing "DATA RECEIVING ERROR 4608" messages. These don't cause ezcademod to crash, but so many of them are spit out that the scripts don't work very well. I guess running DMF constantly is just making the framebuilder work too hard with disk access. In the near term, we can maybe work around this by having DMF programs check the AutoDithering bit of the IFO state vector, and just not try to get data when we're running these sorts of scripts.
  2387   Thu Dec 10 15:18:55 2009 JenneUpdateVACseisBLRMS

last 20 days - including the pounding from next door

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  1730   Fri Jul 10 17:32:08 2009 ranaUpdateEnvironmentseisBLRMS & mafalda restarted
Rana, Alberto

Mafalda's ethernet cable had fallen out of the connector on the hub-side. We reconnected it and rebooted mafalda and restarted seisBLRMS.

Mafalda didn't mount /cvs/cds on start up for some reason. I mounted it using 'sudo mount linux1:/home/cds /cvs/cds' and it took at least
30 seconds, so maybe there's a timeout issue. Seems OK now.
  282   Mon Jan 28 18:56:47 2008 ranaUpdateDMFseisBLRMS 1.0
I made all of the updates I aludded to before:

  • Expanded the dmf.db file on c1aux to include all accelerometers and the seismometer.
  • Added the channels to the C0EDCU.ini file and restarted the framebuilder daqd.
  • Modified seisBLRMS.m to use .conf files for the channels. The .conf files are now residing in the compiled matlab directory that Rob made.

I still have yet to compile and test the new version. Its running on linux3 right now, but feel free to kill it and compile it to run on Mafalda.

It should be making trends overnight and so we can finally see what the undergrads are really up to.
  284   Tue Jan 29 14:56:39 2008 robUpdateDMFseisBLRMS 1.0

The seisBLRMS 1.0 program crashed at ~7:20 pm last night, so we didn't get data from overnight. It crashed when framecaching failed. I added
a try-catch-end statement around the call to dttfft2 to let the program survive this, then compiled it and started it on mafalda. After ~45 minutes, the compiled version encountered the same error, and while it didn't crash per se, after 20 minutes it still wasn't able to read data. We may have to dig deeper into the guts of mDV to make this stuff run more robustly.
  312   Tue Feb 12 16:34:07 2008 robDAQDMFseisBLRMS 1.1
The compiled version of seisBLRMS had been running ~2 weeks without crashing as of last night, when I killed it
so it wouldn't interfere with alignment scripts.  I added an EPICS channel C1:DMF-ENABLE, and updated the DMF
executables to check this channel while running.  So far it seems to work.  When you're running alignment acripts,
simply click the DISABLE button on the C1DMF_MASTER.adl screen, and then re-ENABLE when the scripts finish. 
It's not clear why this is necessary though.  Theories include the constant disk access is keeping the
framebuilder busy, reducing its ability to deal with ezcademod commands and DMF programs just flooding the
network with so much traffic that ezcademod-related packets run late and get ignored.

Also, for reasons of aesthetics, I changed the data delay from 6 minutes to 5 minutes.  We'll see if that's enough.
  317   Thu Feb 14 15:05:18 2008 robDAQDMFseisBLRMS 1.1
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> Also, for reasons of aesthetics, I changed the data delay from 6 minutes to 5 minutes.  We'll see if that's enough.

5 minutes didn't work.  
  1559   Thu May 7 23:34:59 2009 robUpdateSEIseisBLRMS already lost

Can't find hostname 'fb40m'

 

it only lasted a few hours

  1400   Fri Mar 13 19:26:09 2009 YoichiUpdateDMFseisBLRMS compiled

 I compiled seisBLRMS.

The tricks were the following:

(1) Don't add path in a deployed command.
It does not make sense to add paths in a compiled command because it may be moved to anywhere. Moreover, it can cause some weird side effects. Therefore, I enclosed the addpath part of mdv_config.m in a "if ~isdeployed ... end" clause to avoid adding paths when deployed. Instead of adding paths in the code, we have to add paths to necessary files with -I options at the compilation time. This way, mcc will add all the necessary files into the CTF archive.

(2) Add mex files to the CTF archive by -a options.
For some reason, mcc does not add necessary mex files into the CTF archive even though those files are called in the m-file which is being compiled. We have to add those files by -a options.

(3) NDS_GetData() is slow for nodus when compiled.
NDS_GetData(), which is called by get_data() stops for a few minutes when using nodus as an NDS server.
This problem does not happen when not compiled. I don't know the reason. To avoid this, I modified seisBLRMS.m so that when an environmental variable $NDS is defined, it will use an NDS server defined in this variable.

I wrote a Makefile to compile seisBLRMS. You can read the file to see the details of the tricks.
I also wrote a script start_seisBLRMS, which can be found in /cvs/cds/caltech/apps/DMF/compiled_matlab/seisblrms/. To start seisBLRMS, you can just call this script.
At this moment, seisBLRMS is running on megatron. Let's see if it continues to run without crashing.

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The seisBLRMS has been running on megatron via an open terminal ssh'd into there from allegra with matlab running. This

is because I couldn't get the compiled matlab functionality to work.

Even so, this running script has been dying lately because of some bogus 'NDS' error. So for today I

have set the NDS server for mDV on megatron to be fb40m:8088 instead of nodus.ligo.caltech.edu. If this seems to fix the problem

I will make this permanent by putting in a case statement to check whether or not the mDV'ing machine is a 40m-martian or not.

  1416   Sun Mar 22 22:47:58 2009 ranaUpdateDMFseisBLRMS compiled but still dying
Looks like seisBLRMS was restarted ~1 AM Friday morning but only lasted for 5 hours. I just restarted it on megatron;
let's see how it does. I'm not optimistic.
  1596   Sun May 17 23:22:19 2009 ranaUpdateEnvironmentseisBLRMS for the past 3 weeks
Looks like Chris Wipf's fix of using fclose worked for the NDS client.
The attached plot shows the minute trend RMS - we should put the calibration for these into the .m file
so that the EPICS values are in something useful like microns or microns/sec.

I also now see why Nodus seems really slow with the elog sometimes. When we load a page with an attached
PDF, it runs 'gs' to try to generate the PNG preview. Because its on Solaris it often fails because it
can't find some font. We should probably disable the preview or fix the font issue.
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  1706   Fri Jun 26 19:14:04 2009 ranaUpdateEnvironmentseisBLRMS for the past 3 weeks
Restarted the seisBLRMS.m on mafalda (running a term on op540m). Don't know why it stopped - the
terminal had a 'disabled by EPICS' message even though the EPICS enable button was enabled.

I also changed the delay from 4 to 2 minutes. So now it is calculating a 64 s PSD starting from 2 minutes ago. We had
put it back to 4 minutes long ago since the framebuilder was acting slow, but maybe it will work now since its using
the NDS1 protocol instead of direct frame reading. If it starts not finding data, please kill the seisBLRMS and restart
it with a 3 minute delay.
  1379   Mon Mar 9 19:33:10 2009 ranaUpdateDMFseisBLRMS in temp condition

The seisBLRMS has been running on megatron via an open terminal ssh'd into there from allegra with matlab running. This

is because I couldn't get the compiled matlab functionality to work.

Even so, this running script has been dying lately because of some bogus 'NDS' error. So for today I

have set the NDS server for mDV on megatron to be fb40m:8088 instead of nodus.ligo.caltech.edu. If this seems to fix the problem

I will make this permanent by putting in a case statement to check whether or not the mDV'ing machine is a 40m-martian or not.

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  392   Fri Mar 21 23:17:47 2008 ranaConfigurationDMFseisBLRMS restarted
I updated the seisBLRMS par file with the new channel names of the accelerometers and the seismometer and then
recompiled the code and restarted it according to Rob's elog entry. It went fine and the seisBLRMS is now back in
action
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  3385   Sat Aug 7 21:57:56 2010 ranaSummaryDMFseisBLRMS restarted

The green xterm on op540m which is running the seisBLRMS DMF got stuck somehow ~3 days ago and lost its NDS connection. I closed the matlab session and restarted it. Seismic trends are now back online.

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  3563   Mon Sep 13 02:45:59 2010 ranaConfigurationDMFseisBLRMS restarts

I restarted the seisBLRMS DMF monitor by ssh'ing into mafalda and starting up a matlab session. I also have started a StripTool session on rossa by forwarding the process from op440m.

We need to get the modern EPICS installation onto these linux machines by copying what K. Thorne has done at LLO.

  291   Fri Feb 1 12:37:39 2008 robUpdateDMFseisBLRMS trends

Here are DV trends of the output of seisBLRMS over the last ~36 hours (which is how long it's been running), and another of the last 2 hours (which show the construction crew taking what appears to be a lunch break).
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  6497   Fri Apr 6 16:22:15 2012 DenUpdateEnvironmentseism box

I've changed R2 resistor in the seism box for the VERT 1 channel from 464 Ohm to 1051 Ohm to reduce the gain of this channel by a factor of 2. This should help the GUR1Z signal not to be corrupted inside the AA box, so we can use it in the adaptive filtering.

  6581   Fri Apr 27 13:32:06 2012 DenUpdatePEMseism channels

A few weeks ago I found that GUR2_X signal is biased from 0 to 800 counts in average. I decided that the corresponding channel in the readout box is bad - adds DC voltage to the signal. I stopped using GUR2_XYZ channels of the seism readout box. Now the same thing happened with the GUR1_XYZ channels. I checked the signals coming out from the seism box with the oscilloscope and they were fine. So the problem is not in the readout box. Then I applied 1 V sine wave to the input of AA board to the GUR1_X and ACC_MC1_Z channels. GUR1_X channel still shows noise. Something is wrong with these channels inside the AA board or in the ADC.

pem.png

 

Edited by Den: GUR1_XYZ_IN1 signals are empty though GUR1_XYZ are fine. So the problem is just that GUR1_XYZ_IN1 are not acquired for now though some of the ACC_IN1 channels contain the signal. I need to correct .ini files.

  6272   Fri Feb 10 15:52:35 2012 JenneUpdatePEMseismic BLRMS loud too

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 Kiwamu and Steve maybe don't know about how to trend seismic noise. If you just take the mean of the time series, you don't prove that the seismic noise got any higher. The STS has a nominally zero DC output, so the long period level shifts that you see tell you just that there was a DC offset.

This is NOT an increase in seismic noise. To see a seismic trend you should plot the trend of the BLRMS channels that we made especially for this purpose.

 So, none of our PEM BLRMS channels are recorded as of right now.  All we have for long-term record is the StripTool on the wall.  The 0.1-0.3Hz and 0.3-1 Hz traces both show these weirdo things, but the 1Hz and up BLRMS don't have any unusual noise.

  6275   Fri Feb 10 23:58:30 2012 ranaUpdatePEMseismic BLRMS loud too

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 So, none of our PEM BLRMS channels are recorded as of right now.  All we have for long-term record is the StripTool on the wall.  The 0.1-0.3Hz and 0.3-1 Hz traces both show these weirdo things, but the 1Hz and up BLRMS don't have any unusual noise.

 Seems like a problem to solve on Monday so that we don't end up without trends like this again.

  6276   Mon Feb 13 11:30:51 2012 JenneUpdatePEMseismic BLRMS loud too

Quote:

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 So, none of our PEM BLRMS channels are recorded as of right now.  All we have for long-term record is the StripTool on the wall.  The 0.1-0.3Hz and 0.3-1 Hz traces both show these weirdo things, but the 1Hz and up BLRMS don't have any unusual noise.

 Seems like a problem to solve on Monday so that we don't end up without trends like this again.

 Tragically, this is more tricksy than I would have thought. The channels we need are "cdsEpicsOutput"s in the model.  They don't show up in Dataviewer (fast or slow channels) or the regular fast channel .ini file.  Jamie and I don't remember where these channels live and how to get them saved to frames.  I'm on top of it though.

I did notice however, that the striptool for seismic trends is showing the wrong channels for 3-10 and 10-30 Hz.  The other 3 channels are correctly the output after the sqrt is taken, but those two (orange and red on striptool) are before the sqrt, but after the bandpass and low pass.  I'll fix that now...

  6277   Mon Feb 13 12:02:17 2012 KojiUpdatePEMseismic BLRMS loud too

I reported the procedure to add slow channels to the FB. I guess you already have done Step.1

http://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:8080/40m/5991

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 Tragically, this is more tricksy than I would have thought. The channels we need are "cdsEpicsOutput"s in the model.  They don't show up in Dataviewer (fast or slow channels) or the regular fast channel .ini file.  Jamie and I don't remember where these channels live and how to get them saved to frames.  I'm on top of it though.

 

  9958   Thu May 15 15:10:02 2014 SteveUpdatePEMseismic activities

Our only seismometer is at the east end now.

Atm1, Ditch Day morning puzzle. The gardener came after the freshman did leave and cut the grass with the lawn mower.

Atm2, Yesterday afternoon the Aztecs containers moved out.

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  12519   Tue Sep 27 08:49:47 2016 SteveUpdateSUSseismic activity is up

The earth quake shook ITMX free for a  short while.

 

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  12590   Tue Nov 1 09:03:08 2016 SteveUpdateSUSseismic activity is up

Salton See is shaking again.

 

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