It might be a good idea to configure this box for the new suspension config - modern Satellite Amp, HV coil driver etc. It's a good opportunity to test the wiring scheme, "cross-connect" type adapters etc.

{Yehonathan, Jon}

We poked (looked in situ with a flashlight, not disturbing any connections) around c1auxex chassis to understand better what is the wiring scheme.

To our surprise, we found that nothing was connected to the RTNs of the analog input Acromag modules. From previous experience and the Acromag manual, there can't be any meaningful voltage measurement without it.

I also did some rewiring in the Acromag chassis to improve its reliability. In particular, I removed the ground wires from the DIN rail and connected them using crimp-on butt splices.

After confirming that, indeed, leaving the RTN connection floating can cause reliability issues we decided to make these connections in the c1auxex analog input units.

According to Johannes' wiring scheme (excluding the anti-image and OPLEV since they are decommissioned), Acromag unit 1221b accepts analog inputs from two modules. All of these channels are single-ended according to their schematics.

One option is to use the Acromag ground and connect it to the RTNs of both 1221b and 1221c. Another is to connect the minus wire of one module, which is tied to the module's ground, to the RTN. We shouldn't tie the grounds of the different modules together by connecting them to the same RTN point.

We should take some OSEM spectra of the X end arm before and after this work to confirm we didn't produce more noise by doing so. Right now, it is impossible due to issues caused by the recent power surge.

So we agreed that the RTNs points on the c1auxex Acromag chassis should just be grounded to the local Acromag ground as it just needs a stable reference. Normally, the RTNs are not connected to any ground so there is should be no danger of forming ground loops by doing that. It is probably best to use the common wire from the 15V power supplies since it also powers the VME crate. I took the spectra of the ETMX OSEMs (attachment) for reference and proceeding with the grounding work.

{Yehonathan, Paco}

We turned off the ETMX watchdogs and OpLevs. We went to the X end and shut down the Acromag chassi. We labeled the chassi feedthroughs and disconnected all the cables from it.

We took it out and tied the common wire of the power supplies (the commons of the 20V and 15V power supplies were shorted so there is no difference which we connect) to the RTNs of the analog inputs.

The chassi was put back in place. All the cables were reconnected. Power turn on.

We rebooted c1auxex and the channels went back online. We turned on the watchdogs and watched the ETMX motion get damped. We turned on the OpLev. We waited until the beam position got centered on the ETMX.

Attachment shows a comparison between the OSEM spectra before and after the grounding work. Seems like there is no change.

We were able to lock the arms with no issues.

I compiled the burt binaries on c1auxex2 which took a little fiddling with dependencies and paths but nothing too major. The complete local epics folder (/opt/epics/) which contains the base epics binaries, modbus and burt for 32-bit linux has been copied to the shared drive at /opt/rtapps/epics-3.15.5. They belong to the most recent stable release. This was so we can now automatically call burt after the IOC initialization on c1auxex2 to restore the backed-up channel values.

I also copied the database definition and modbus instruction files to /cvs/cds/caltech/target/c1auxex2, from where they are now being read upon IOC initialization. This is an excerpt of the service file:

Note 1) I removed the logging to file for now because I noticed that if there are Acromag communication issues the logfile tends to grow in size VERY fast. In the cryo lab is had gotten to over 70GB just over the winter break. I don't think it's absolutely necessary to have it, and if diagnostics are needed we can easily uncomment it temporarily.

Note 2) I modified the static EPICS records of the four OSEM bias adjust channels so they won't start updating as soon as the IOC starts up (and before the channel defaults are restored by burt). This was done by setting the OMSL (output mode select) field from "closed_loop" to "supervisory". Sample record:

Now, on reboort/IOC re-initialization the physical DAC channels are performing a one-time readback of the last stored value in the Acromag's register, then idle until the last StartPost statement executes the script ETMXaux.sh, which changes their OMSL field back to "closed_loop". This causes them to start updating their output from the calc records defined in their DOL field (which have by then recovered their default values curtesy of burt). The result is a smooth transition from idling to the controlled state with no sudden or large offset changes.

[Gautam, Johannes]

While checking how smooth the transition is we still noticed significant motion of ETMX by looking at the locked green laser and OpLevs. We found that this motion was not caused by interruption of the slow offset adjust, but rather the Watchdog being re-initialized to its OFF state, which cuts the fast channels OFF. On other optics this is observed too, but not as severe. The cause is a rather large offset on the LR coil coming from the fast DAQ, which was reported as 50mV by the slow readback channel (while other readback values are <10mV). It is present even when turning the output of the CDS model OFF, but vanishes when the watchdog is triggered. This helped us trace it to an offset of the DAC output itself: it is present at the output of the AI board but vanishes when the DAC is disconnected. The actual offset is ~40mV, as opposed to other channels on the same board, which ahve offsets in the range 3-7mV.

While we can compensate for this offset in software - it made us  wonder if the DAC channel is somehow busted and if that's what causing the 'wandering' of ETMX that we have been observing recently. There are two free DAC channels on the AI chassis that has the side coil and the green temperature control signals. We could re-route the LR signal through a different DAC channel to fix this.

gautam: 40mV offset at the AI board output gets multiplied by 3 in the dewhitening board, so there is a 120mV DC offset going to the coil (measured at dewhite board output with DMM). The offset itself isn't hurting us, but the fact that it is several times larger than other channels led us to wonder if it could be drifting around as well. From my SOS pitch balancing forays, in my head I have the number 30mrad as being the full range of the OSEM actuation - so if the offset swings by 120mV, that's ~150urad of motion, which is quite large, and is of the order of magnitude I'm used to seeing ETMX move around by.

The new slow machine c1auxex2 is ready to deploy. Unfortunately we don't have enough 37pin DSub cables to connect all channels. In fact, we need a total of 8, and I found only three male-male cables and one gender changer. I asked Steve to buy more.

Over the past week I have transferred all EPICS records - soft channels and physical ones - from c1auxex to c1auxex2, making changes where needed. Today I started the in-situ testing

1. Unplugged ETMX's satellite box
2. Unplugged the eurocrate backplane DIN cables from the SOS Driver and QPD Whitening filter modules (the ones that receive ao channels)
3. Measured output voltages on the relevant pins for comparison after the swap
4. Turned off c1auxex by key, removed ethernet cable
5. Started the modbus ioc on c1auxex2
6. Slow machine indicator channels came online, ETMX Watchdog was responsive (but didn't have anything to do due to missing inputs) and reporting. PIT/YAW sliders function as expected
7. Restoring the previous settings gives output voltages close to the previous values, in fact the exact values requested (due to fresh calibration)
8. Last step is to go live with c1auxex2 and confirm the remaining channels work as expected.

I copied the relevant files to start the modbus server to /cvs/cds/caltech/target/c1auxex2, although kept local copies in /home/controls/modbusIOC/ from which they're still run.

I wonder what's the best practice for this. Probably to store the database files centrally and load them over the network on server start?

To debug a problem with the new c1psl (later elog), we needed a Supermicro EPICS server that was using the shared EPICS/modbus/asyn binaries rather than a local install. Of those available in the lab (c1iscaux, c1vac, c1susaux being the others), this was the only one which uses the shared install. So I 

• turned the slow bias voltages to 0
• shutdown the watchdog
• disconnected the Acromag crate in 1X9 from the 192.168.114.xxx subnet at the supermicro end
• connected a test ADC to the local subnet using a different ethernet cable (leaving the original one dangling)
• ran some software tests to see if we could open up a communication line to the test ADC using modbus without any errors being thrown
• removed the test ADC and restored the ethernet connection.

At which point Jon reset the software end, I restored the slow bias voltage and re-enabled the local damping. The optic seems to have damped okay. The Oplev spot is back in ~center of the QPD and the green beam can be locked to a TEM00 mode (so the alignment is okay - the IR beam is unavailable while c1psl issues are being sorted but I judge that things are back to the nominal state now).

I assembled the rack-mount server that will long-term replace c1auxex, so we can return the borrowed unit to Larry.

SUPERMICRO SYS-5017A-EP Specs:

• Intel Atom N2800 (2 cores, 1.8GHz, 1MB, 64-bit)
• 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 RAM
• 128 GB SSD

I installed a standard Debian Jessie distribution, with option LXDE for minimal resource usage. Steps taken after fresh install

1. Give controls sudo permission: usermod -aG sudo controls
2. mkdir /cvs/cds
3. apt-get install nfs-common
4. Added line "chiara:/home/cds              /cvs/cds        nfs     rw,bg,nfsvers=3" to end of /etc/fstab
5. Configured network adapter in /etc/network/interfaces
           iface eth0 inet static
        address 192.168.113.48
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        gateway 192.168.113.2
        dns-nameservers 192.168.113.104 131.215.125.1 131.215.139.100
        dns-search martian
   I first assigned the IP 192.168.113.59 of the original c1auxex, but for some reason my ssh connections kept failing mid-session. After I switched to a different IP the disruption no longer happened.
6. Add lines "search martian" and "nameserver 192.168.113.104" to /etc/resolv.conf
7. apt-get install openssh-server
   At this point the unit was ready for remote connections on the martian network, and I moved it to the XEND.
8. Added lines to /home/controls/.bashrc to set paths and environment variables:
   export PATH=/cvs/cds/rtapps/epics-3.14.12.2_long/base/bin/linux-x86_64:/cvs/cds/rtapps/epics-3.14.12.2_long/extensions/bin/linux-x86_64:$PATH
export HOST_ARCH=linux-x86_64
export EPICS_HOST_ARCH=linux-x86_64
export RPN_DEFNS=~/.defns.rpn
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/cvs/cds/rtapps/epics-3.14.12.2_long/base/lib/linux-x86_64:/cvs/cds/rtapps/epics-3.14.12.2_long/modules/modbus/lib/linux-x86_64/:/cvs/cds/rtapps/epics-3.14.12.2_long/modules/asyn/lib/linux-x86_64
9. apt-get install libmotif-common libmotif4 libxp6 (required to run burtwb utility)

The server is ready to take over for c1auxex2 and does not need any local epics compiled, since it can run the 3.14.12.2_long binaries in /cvs/cds.

I replaced the borrowed server with the permanent one today. Before Removing the current server, Before, I performed several additional preparations:

• Updated Chiara hostables to IP 192.168.113.48 for c1auxex
• apt-get install procserv
• copied ETMXaux2.* files in /cvs/cds/caltech/target/c1auxex2 to ETMXaux.* and changed references from /opt/rtcds/epics (which was a local directory on c1auxex2) to /cvs/cds/rtapps/epics-3.14.12.2_long in the copied files
• Added instruction
  Environment="LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/cvs/cds/rtapps/epics-3.14.12.2_long/base/lib/linux-x86_64:/cvs/cds/rtapps/epics-3.14.12.2_long/modules/modbus/lib/linux-x86_64/:/cvs/cds/rtapps/epics-3.14.12.2_long/modules/asyn/lib/linux-x86_64"
  to /etc/systemd/system/modbusIOC.service  (required for burtwb dependencies)

Then I replaced the server:

1. IFO was in LSC mode with both arms locked
2. Backed up ETMX alignment using save feature in IFOalign screen
3. Disengaged LSC mode
4. Shut down ETMX watchdog
5. Disconnected ETMX satellite box
6. Shut down c1auxex2 and c1auxex
7. Performed the server swap
8. Booted c1auxex
9. Made sure EPICS channels were back online and channel defaults were restored
10. Reconnected satellite box
11. Turned on watchdog
12. Turned on OpLevs
13. Engaged LSC mode -> both arms were instantly locked

I returned c1auxex2 to Larry, who needed it back asap because of some hardware failure

Steve: Acromag XT1221 ordered 3-15-18

[gautam, johannes]

The temperature control output channel for the XEND seismometer wasn't working properly. The EPICS channel existed, could be written to and read from, but no physical voltage was observed on the (confirmed properly) wired connector.

The Acromag DAC that outputs this channel was completely spare in the original scheme and does not serve any other channels at the moment. We found it to be unresponsive to ping from the host machine (reminder: the Acromags are on their own subnet with IPs 192.168.114.xxx connected to the secondary ethernet adapter of c1auxex), while all others returned the ping just fine. The modules have daisy-chained ethernet connections, and the one Acromag unit behind the unresponsive one in the chain was still responding to ping and its channels were working, so it couldn't have been a problem with the (ethernet) cabling.

Gautam and I power-cycled the chassis and server, which resolved the issue. The channel is now outputting the requested voltage on the Out1 BNC connector of the chassis (front). When I was setting up the whole system and did frequent rebooting and IP-redefinitions I have seen network issues arise between server and Acromags. In particular, when changing the network settings server-side, the Acromags needed to reboot occasionally. So this whole problem was probably due to the recent server-swap, as the chassis had not been power-cycled since.

During the debugging we also found that the c1psl2 channels were not working. This was because I had overlooked to update the epics environment variables for the modbus path defined in /cvs/cds/caltech/target/c1psl2/npro_config.cmd from the local installation /opt/epics/ (which doesn't exist on the new server anymore) to the network location /cvs/cds/rtapps/epics-3.14.12.2_long/. This has been fixed and the slow diagnostic PSL channels are recording again.

 When I came in this morning, in addition to the fb being unhappy [elog 9436] (which Koji later fixed [elog 9437] ), c1auxex was down / not talking to the world nicely. 

I tried telnet-ing, but was rejected, so EricQ and I went down to the Xend and pushed the reset button on the computer.  The computer came back up just fine, and I did a burt restore to 03:07 on Nov 30th.

Here are the channels we are planning to switch over from c1auxex to Acromag, and their current pin numbers on the existing VME boards. 

Analog inputs: 

C1:SUS-ETMX_UL_AIOut    #C0 S0
C1:SUS-ETMX_LL_AIOut    #C0 S1
C1:SUS-ETMX_UR_AIOut    #C0 S2
C1:SUS-ETMX_LR_AIOut    #C0 S3
C1:SUS-ETMX_Side_AIOut    #C0 S4
C1:SUS-ETMX_OL_SEG1    #C0 S5
C1:SUS-ETMX_OL_SEG2    #C0 S6
C1:SUS-ETMX_OL_SEG3    #C0 S7
C1:SUS-ETMX_OL_SEG4    #C0 S8
C1:SUS-ETMX_OL_X    #C0 S9
C1:SUS-ETMX_OL_Y    #C0 S10
C1:SUS-ETMX_OL_S    #C0 S11
C1:SUS-ETMX_ULPD    #C0 S12
C1:SUS-ETMX_LLPD    #C0 S13
C1:SUS-ETMX_URPD    #C0 S14
C1:SUS-ETMX_LRPD    #C0 S15
C1:SUS-ETMX_SPD    #C0 S16
C1:SUS-ETMX_ULV    #C0 S17
C1:SUS-ETMX_LLV    #C0 S18
C1:SUS-ETMX_URV    #C0 S19
C1:SUS-ETMX_LRV    #C0 S20
C1:SUS-ETMX_SideV    #C0 S21
C1:SUS-ETMX_ULPD_MEAN    #C0 S12
C1:SUS-ETMX_LLPD_MEAN    #C0 S13
C1:SUS-ETMX_SDPD_MEAN    #C0 S16

Analog Outputs:

C1:ASC-QPDX_S1WhiteGain    #C0 S0
C1:ASC-QPDX_S2WhiteGain    #C0 S1
C1:ASC-QPDX_S3WhiteGain    #C0 S2
C1:ASC-QPDX_S4WhiteGain    #C0 S3
C1:SUS-ETMX_ULBiasAdj    #C0 S4
C1:SUS-ETMX_LLBiasAdj    #C0 S5
C1:SUS-ETMX_URBiasAdj    #C0 S6
C1:SUS-ETMX_LRBiasAdj    #C0 S7
C1:LSC-EX_GREENLASER_TEMP    #C0 S0 This appears to have the same pin as another channel-- is it not being used? 

Binary Outputs:

C1:SUS-ETMX_UL_ENABLE    #C0 S0
C1:SUS-ETMX_LL_ENABLE    #C0 S1
C1:SUS-ETMX_UR_ENABLE    #C0 S2
C1:SUS-ETMX_LR_ENABLE    #C0 S3
C1:SUS-ETMX_SD_ENABLE    #C0 S4
C1:ASC-QPDX_GainSwitch1    #C0 S7
C1:ASC-QPDX_GainSwitch2    #C0 S8
C1:ASC-QPDX_GainSwitch3    #C0 S9
C1:ASC-QPDX_GainSwitch4    #C0 S10
C1:AUX-GREEN_X_Shutter2    #C0 S15

We don't need to record any of the AIOut channels, the OL channels (since we record them fast), or the _MEAN channels (I think they must be CALC records or just bogus).

c1auxex has forgotten who it is.  Slow sliders for the QPD head were not responding, so I did a soft reboot from telnet. The machine didn't come back, so I plugged the RJ45-DB9 cable into the machine and looked at it through a minicom session.  When I key the crate, it gives me an error that it can't load a file, with the error code 0x320001.  Looking that up on a List of VxWorks error codes, I see that it is:    S_hostLib_UNKNOWN_HOST (3276801 or 0x320001)

I'm not sure how this happened.  I unplugged and replugged in the ethernet cable on the computer, but that didn't help.  Rana is going in to wiggle the other end of the ethernet cable, in case that's the problem.  EDIT:  Replacing the ethernet cable did not help.

Former elogs that are useful:  10025, 10015

EDIT:  The actual error message is:

boot device          : ei                                                      
processor number     : 0                                                       
host name            : chiara                                                  
file name            : /cvs/cds/vw/mv162-262-16M/vxWorks                       
inet on ethernet (e) : 192.168.113.59:ffffff00                                 
host inet (h)        : 192.168.113.104                                         
user (u)             : controls                                                
flags (f)            : 0x0                                                     
target name (tn)     : c1auxex                                                 
startup script (s)   : /cvs/cds/caltech/target/c1auxex/startup.cmd             
                                                                               
Attaching network interface ei0... done.                                       
Attaching network interface lo0... done.                                       
Loading...                                                                     
Error loading file: errno = 0x320001.                                          
Can't load boot file!! 

 We fixed this problem (at least for now) by adding c1auxex to the /etc/hosts file on chiara (following a hint from this page). The DNS setup might be the culprit here.

 At some point tonight we lost our CA connection to c1auxex (which is actually the computer at the X End and controls the ETMX, but has a Y sticker). We could telnet to it, but its puny RAM must have been overloaded with too many EPICS connections that bypassed the CArepeater. I went around and booted some machines and it seems to be back and allowing damping now. Along the way I keyed off the crate to c1auxex a couple of times.

When trying to close the rack door I saw that Charlie/Steve had illegally connected the power cable for the illuminator through the door so that it couldn't close, so I disconnected it so that they can run it properly and feel better about themselves.

Disclaimer: Steve had nothing to do with this connection. I rerouted the cable the correct way. 10-28-2013

** what does this coherence tell us about the noise in the arms ?

We need to set up a copy of the c1asx model (which currently runs on c1iscex), to be named c1asy, on c1iscey for the green steering PZTs. The plan discussed at the meeting last Wednesday was to rename the existing model c1tst into c1asy, and recompile it with the relevant parts copied over from c1asx. However, I suspect this will create some problems related to the "dcuid" field in the CDS params block (I ran into this issue when I tried to use the dcuid for an old model which no longer exists, called c1imc, for the c1omc model).

From what I can gather, we should be able to circumvent this problem by deleting the .par file corresponding to the c1tst model living at /opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/target/gds/param/, and rename the model to c1asy, and recompile it. But I thought I should post this here checking if anyone knows of other potential conflicts that will need to be managed before I start poking around and breaking things. Alternatively, there are plenty of cores available on c1iscey, so we could just set up a fresh c1asy model...

While pointing Yuki to the c1asx servo system, I noticed that the filter file for c1asx is missing in the usual chans directory. Why? Backups for it exist in the filter_archive subdirectory. But there is no current file. Clearly this doesn't seems to affect the realtime code execution as the ASX model seems to run just fine. I copied the latest backup version from the archive area into the chans directory for now.

I rebuilt/install/restarted c1ass.  It came up with no problems.  It's now showing DAC0 with no errors.

After lunch I'll test the outputs.

We updated the c1ass model to include the BS.  We removed the dither excitation of the PZTs.  PZT control goes to epics. To do this, modified the /cvs/cds/caltech/target/c1iscaux/PZT_AI.db file.  We basically have it sum both the existing epics slider and our new output from c1ass.

More importantly we updated the color scheme.

We compiled and tested the Dolphin and RFM which work.

I should note we can't figure out why testpoints are not working properly with just this model.  Alex and Joe spent well over an hour trying to debug it to no success.  Current workaround is to add what channels you want from c1ass to the DAQ recording.  Other testpoints on other models appear to be working.

The medm screen for c1ass started being modified to be more user-friendly.

The modification is still ongoing, but the goal is to make a screen which anyone can easily understand and play with.

Still to do : ( need a volunteer )

- Modification of the screens

- Commission the input beam and X-arm servos

- Make scripts for X-arm

- Measure the PZT mirrors' matrix for the translation and angle

Here the status of the dither alignment or c1ass:

- Both pitch and yaw centering on ETMY/ITMY were closed simultatenously with ugf of ~1/30 Hz.

- I made a medm screen with beam positions as measured by the dither system.The snapshot is attached. There are visual perimeter alarms (red box around the display) to warn about arm power being low or the dither lines not being on. The screen has a pull down menu with 4 scripts:

. assUp - sets up the gains, phases and matricies for the dither system (both the spot centering and the input beam alignment)

. assOn - turns on the dithers and servo - just the Y-arm centering part at the moment

. assOff - turns off the servo and dither lines

. assDitherOn - turns on the dither lines but does not turn on the servo

- All scripts are in scripts/ASS and the medm screen is in medm/c1ass/master/

Still to do:

- Commission the input beam and X-arm servos

- Make scripts for X-arm

While staring at epics records all day I noticed something about the PIT/YAW offset sliders and ASS offset offloading to slow channels scripts that I'm not sure others are aware off, so I'll briefly discuss it in this post.

The PIT and YAW sliders directly control soft channels that are hosted on the slow machine. Secondary epics records disentangle them for the individual coils:

• UL = PIT+YAW
• LL = -PIT+YAW
• UR = PIT-YAW
• LR = -PIT-YAW

These channels are the direct input for the physical output channels that generate the control voltage.

The fast channels for PIT and YAW have a numerical correction factor built in that accounts for differences between the OSEMs, but the slow channels don't. This means that the slow PIT/YAW controls are not entirely orthogonal but have crosstalk on the order of 10 percent. This in itself is not that dramatic, however the offload offsets scripts for the dither alignment use the fast PIT/YAW values as inputs, which represent the necessary adjustments to the OSEMs only after the individual correction factors have been applied. The offloading to slow knows nothing of this calibration difference between the OSEMs. The result is that there is a ~10 percent of the offset correction error on the mirror alignment AFTER offloading. This will of course converge after a few iterations, but in any case it is recommendable to run the dither alignment again after offloading and not offload the new offsets to the fast channels.

I don't think this is really a problem - we offload to the fast channels and not to the slow (although we really should offload to the slow channels). I think the best approach is to use the ezcaservo utility to offload the DC part of the ASS control signals to the slow channels, so as to not waste fast channel DAC counts on DC offsets. In principle, this approach should be somewhat immune to the slow channel calibration not being perfect.

c1ass had not been rebooted since before the filesystem change, so when I was sshed into c1ass I got an error saying that the NFS was stale.  Sanjit and I went out into the cleanroom and powercycled the computer.  It came back just fine.  We followed the instructions on the wiki, restarting the front end code, the tpman, and did a burt restore of c1assepics. 

[Valera, Joe]

We added a cdsPCIx_SHMEM connection between the c1lsc and c1ass models.  This connection is called C1:LSC-ASS_AS55I, and sends the normalized AS55I data to Lockin 11 of the c1ass model.

In addition, in order to get the c1ass model to compile, we had to place all the non-IO parts inside a subsystem block, which we called ASS, and gave the top_names tag to.

The c1lsc and c1ass models were rebuilt, the frame builder restarted, and the models restarted.

Today I've set c1ass model to improve alignment of X and Y arms. I've added all measured parameters to ASS scripts. I've also added a script to c1ass.adl that downloads calculated OFFSETs to corresponding ASC filter banks and blocks outputs. It should be called after alignment convergence.

XARM phase rotation and sensing matrix

Output gains were (-0.5, 0.5, -0.25, -0.25). XARM Gain was set to 0.5.

YARM phase rotation and sensing matrix

Output gains were (-0.25, 0.25, 0.7, -0.7). YARM Gain was set to 0.8.

 This looks like a good performance tuning for these. It would be good if you can codify this procedure in the wiki so that even unexperienced people can tune up the system after reboots or vacuum work.

Is it possible to have some python scripts automatically measure and set the phases and matrices? If so, can we also run them iteratively so that after the second run we can confirm that they have converged? Then the script can output a short report of numbers telling us how well the system is now tuned.

I suppose that there is also a similar system possible to align the arms in a continuous way; i.e. low level drives and very low bandwidth. Also something fast / slow for the the DRMI.

 c1ass was really useful today when we slowly aligned PZT and servo kept arms aligned to the input beam. I think it is possible to automate phase and matrix measurements. DRMI servo will be very useful.

Today I tried to investigate the mode in PRCL and MICH. I locked them but power build-up was only 27. The beam on the POP camera looked like interference of 00 mode and a long strip of fringes. (I wanted to make videocaptures but script is not working - the problem is that it is looking for /usr/lib/*.so.4 libraries but they were updated to *.so.5, I made a few links .so.4 -> .so.5 but this kept going for many libraries, so this should be fixed in a better way). 

We looked at PRM and BS faces and they had the same shape - interference of a circle with a strip. There were also a lot of bright spots all over the frames. Loops were closed and circle was not moving. Strip was oscillating at ~1Hz and also its position significantly changed with alignment. Looking at PRM face camera we made a conclusion that the length of the strip is ~5 cm and width ~1cm. Interesting that strip has plenty of power - approximately 10 times of transmitted beam when cavity is not locked. As a result POYDC was oscillating at the same frequency as a strip.

I had made changes to the c1als model a couple of weeks ago. I had removed all the beat_coarse channels that had existed from pre-phase tracker era.

Also, I forgot to elog about it then. This dawned on me only when I found that c1als isn't working the way it should right now.

I have edited the daq channels in c1als model.

Added: DQ channels for the error signal (phase tracker output)
Removed: DQ channels that existed for the beat_coarse signals

Installed and restarted the model on c1ioo.
Frame builder restarted.
Changes were committed to the svn. 

I have added more DAQ channels to the c1als model. Installed and restarted the model on c1ioo. Frame builder restarted.

DAQ channels added:
C1:ALS-XARM_IN1
C1:ALS-YARM_IN1
C1:ALS-OFFSETTER1_OUT
C1:ALS-OFFSETTER2_OUT

I have modified the ALS model to now include PHASE_OUT calibration for both X and Y. MEDM screen has not been edited to include these yet.

 Could be that this is OK, but it doesn't yet make sense to me. Can you please explain in words how this manages to apply the calibration rather than just add an extra gain to the phase tracking loop?

The calibration is applied by adding an extra gain. But, I missed the point that I should be doing this outside the phase-tracking loop....my BAD .

So I modified the model such that the calibration is done without disturbing the phase tracking loop.

Right now, epics input 'PHASE_OUT_CALIB' accepts the calibration and we get the calibrated phase tracker output converted from deg to Hz at 'PHASE_OUT_HZ'.  I have also made it a DAQ channel to be used with dataviewer and dtt.

medm screens have been modified to accommodate these additions to the phase tracker screen. I used Yuta's phase tracker calibration data in elog to set PHASE_OUT_CALIB in the medm screens.

The c1als model was pulling out some ADC0 connections that were no longer used for anything:

• ADC_0_1 --> sfm "FD" --> IPC "C1:ALS-SCX_FD"
• ADC_0_5 --> sfm "OCX" --> term
• ADC_0_6 --> sfm "ADC" --> term

The channels would have shown up as C1:ALS-FD, C1:ALS-OCX, C1:ALS-ADC.  The IPC connection that presumably was meant to go to c1scx is not connected on the other end.

I removed all this stuff from the model and rebuilt/restarted.

 Koji, Jenne and Steve

Preparation to reboot:

1, closed VA6, V5 disconnected cable to valves ( closed all annuloses )

2, closed V1, disconnected it and stopped Maglev rotation

3, closed V4, disconnected its cable

   See Atm1,  This set up is insured us so there can not be any accidental valve switching to vent the vacuum envelope if reboot-caos strikes.[moving=disconnected]

4, RESET c1Vac1 and c1Vac2 one by one and together. They both went at once. We did NOT power recycled.

    Jenne entered the new "carma" words on  the old Dell laptop and checked the good answers. The reboot was done.

    Note: c1Vac1 green-RUN indicator LED is yellow. It is fine as yellow.

5, Checked and TOGGLED valve positions to be correct value ( We did not correct the the small turbo pumps monitor positions, but they  were alive )

6,  V4 was reconnected and opened. Maglev was started.

7,  V1 cable reconnected and opened at full rotation speed of 560 Hz

8,  V5 cable reconnected,  valve opened..............VA6 cable connected and opened........

9,   Vacuum Normal valve configuration was reached.

 Yesterday's  reboot was prepared as stated above with one difference. 

  c1Vac1 and c1Vac2 were DOWN before reset. The disconnected valves stayed closed (plus VC1) . This saved us, so the main volume was not vented.

  All others OPENED. PR1 and PR2  rouphing pumps turned ON.  Ion pumps gate valve opened too. The ion pumps did not matter either because they were pump down recently.

  We'll have to rewrite how to reboot vacuum.

The c0rga computer was off, I turned it on via front panel button. After running RGAset.py, RGAlogger.py seems to run. However, there are error messages in the output of the plotrgascan MATLAB script; evidiently there are some negative/bogus values in the output. 

I'll look into it more tomorrow.

 Details of the warranties are posted on wiki power supply cost, warranty described, cost

.......I’ve also attached a warranty renewal quote.  A 1 year warranty renewal is usually $.... per year, but we gave you special pricing of $.... / year if you renew both units.  This pricing is also special due to the fact that both warranties expired awhile ago.  We usually require that the warranty renewal begin on the date of expiration, but we will waive this for you this time if both are renewed.

JetStor SATA 416S, SN: SB09040111A3 – expired 04/24/2012 (3 years old)

JetStor SATA 516F, SN: SB09080016P – expired on 08/21/2012........

. Are we keep it for an other 2 years? buy warranty or buy better storage.

I recorded a burt snapshot of these settings: /opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/burt/autoburt/snapshots/2011/Jun/23/21:40

Previously, burt restoring was not setting filters on and off, which was required us to constantly go through all the filter banks and turn them on.  We figured it out that the autoBurt.req file doesn't seem to be setup to restore those values, so that snapshots made with the default .req file don't restore either.

So I went to each of the suspension directories (/opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/target/c1SYS/c1SYSepics/   where SYS is sus, mcs, or rms) and modified teh autoBurt.req files found there with the following incantation:

sed -i 's/RO \(.*SW[12]R.*\)/\1/' autoBurt.req

This removes the RO at the beginning of the lines which have SW1R or SW2R in them.  These are the channels which correspond to filter bank switches.  As far as I can tell, the RO means to leave it alone.  Unfortunately, I didn't see an obvious autoBurt file specification in the DCC or on google in the 2 minutes I took to look for it.

We need to talk to Alex to figure out how that autoBurt.req file is generated and get it so it doesn't default to not restoring filter bank settings.

I had updated the individual start scripts, but forgotten to update the rc.local file on the front ends to handle burt restores on reboot.

I went to the fb machine and into /diskless/root/etc/ and modified the rc.local file there.

Basically in the loop over systems, I added the following line:

/opt/epics-3.14.9-linux/base/bin/linux-x86/burtwb -f /opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/burt/autoburt/latest/${i}epics.snap  -l /opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/burt/autoburt/logs/${i}epics.log.restore -v

The ${i} gets replaced with the system name in the loop (c1sus, c1mcs, c1rms, etc)