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Date |
Author |
Type |
Category |
Subject |
Text |
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13505
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Fri Jan 5 19:19:25 2018 |
rana | Configuration | SEI | Barry Controls 'air puck' instead of 'VOPO style' breadboard | We've been thinking about putting in
a blade spring / wire based aluminum breadboard
on top of the ETM & ITM stacks to get |
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13504
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Fri Jan 5 17:50:47 2018 |
rana | Configuration | Computers | motif on nodus | I had to do 'sudo yum install motif'
on nodus so that we could get libXm.so.4
so that we could run MEDM. Works now. |
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13503
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Thu Jan 4 14:39:50 2018 |
gautam | Update | General | power outage - timing error | As mentioned in my previous elog, the CDS
overview screen "DC" indicators
are all RED (everything else is green). Opening |
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13502
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Thu Jan 4 12:46:27 2018 |
gautam | Update | ALS | Fiber ALS assay | Attachment
#1 is the updated |
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13501
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Wed Jan 3 18:00:46 2018 |
gautam | Update | PonderSqueeze | plan of action | Notes
of stuff we discussed @ today's meeting,
and afterwards, towards measuring ponderomotive |
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13500
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Wed Jan 3 16:25:32 2018 |
awade | Update | Optimal Control | Oplev loop tuning | Another cool feature
is client side pre-commit hooks. |
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13499
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Wed Jan 3 15:13:55 2018 |
Steve | Update | General | projector light bulb replaced | Bulb
is replaced.
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13498
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Wed Jan 3 12:33:16 2018 |
rana | Update | Optimal Control | Oplev loop tuning | When putting code into git.ligo.org, one
way to have automated testing is to use the
Gitlab CI. This is an automated 'checker', |
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13497
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Tue Jan 2 16:37:26 2018 |
gautam | Update | Optimal Control | Oplev loop tuning | I've made various changes to the optimal
loop design approach, but am still not having
much success. A summary of changes made: |
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13496
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Tue Jan 2 16:24:29 2018 |
gautam | Update | safety | Projector periodically shuts itself off | I noticed this behaviour since ~Dec 20th,
before the power failure. The bulb itself
seems to work fine, but the projector turns |
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13495
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Tue Jan 2 15:43:35 2018 |
Steve | Update | VAC | pumpdown after power outage |
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13494
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Sun Dec 31 12:43:50 2017 |
rana | Summary | Electronics | SR560: reworking | I have
ordered some LSK389A (in both the SOIC-8
and TO-71 packages) to replace the SR560's |
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13493
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Thu Dec 28 17:22:02 2017 |
gautam | Update | General | power outage - CDS recovery |
I had to manually reboot c1lsc,
c1sus and c1ioo.
I edited the
line in /etc/rt.sh (specifically, on FB /diskless/root.jessie/etc/rt.sh) |
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13492
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Tue Dec 26 17:24:24 2017 |
Steve | Update | General | power outage | There was a power outage.
The IFO pressure is 12.8 mTorr-it
and it is not pumped. V1 is still closed. |
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13491
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Fri Dec 22 09:40:19 2017 |
rana | Summary | General | DAC noise contribution to squeezing noise budget |
Should not count the ITMs. On those
we can use big resistors / filters to cut
out the noise.
For the initial |
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13490
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Thu Dec 21 19:25:48 2017 |
Kevin | Summary | General | DAC noise contribution to squeezing noise budget | Gautam and I redid our calculations, and
the updated plot of squeezing as a function
of DAC current noise per coil is shown in |
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13489
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Wed Dec 20 00:43:58 2017 |
Kevin | Summary | General | DAC noise contribution to squeezing noise budget | Gautam and I looked into the DAC noise
contribution to the noise budget for homodyne
detection at the 40m. DAC noise is currently |
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13488
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Mon Dec 18 20:37:18 2017 |
gautam | Update | PSL | PMC MEDM cleanup | There are fewer lies on this screen now.
For reference, the details of the electronics
modifications made are in this |
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13487
|
Mon Dec 18 17:48:09 2017 |
rana | Update | Computers | rossa: SL7.3 upgrade continues | Following instructions
from LLO-CDS fo the rossa upgrade. Last time
there were some issues with not being to |
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13486
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Mon Dec 18 16:45:44 2017 |
gautam | Update | IOO | IMC lockloss correlated with PRM alignment? | I stopped the test earlier today morning
around 11:30am. The log file is located at
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13485
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Fri Dec 15 19:09:49 2017 |
gautam | Update | IOO | IMC lockloss correlated with PRM alignment? | Motivation:
To
test the hypothesis that the IMC lock duty |
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13484
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Fri Dec 15 18:24:46 2017 |
rana | Summary | Optical Levers | PRM | Today Angelina and I looked at the PRM
OL with an eye towards installing a 2nd QPD.
We want to try out |
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13483
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Fri Dec 15 18:23:03 2017 |
rana | Update | PEM | Trillium seismometer DC offset | UVW refers to the 3 internal, orthogonal
velocity sensors which are not aligned with
the vertical or horizontal directions. XYZ |
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13482
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Fri Dec 15 17:05:55 2017 |
gautam | Update | PEM | Trillium seismometer DC offset | Yesterday, while we were bringing the CDS
system back online, we noticed that the control
room wall StripTool traces for the seismic |
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13481
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Fri Dec 15 11:19:11 2017 |
gautam | Update | CDS | CDS recovery, NFS woes | Looking at the dmesg on c1iscex for example,
at least part of the problem seems to be
associated with FB1 (192.168.113.201, see |
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13480
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Fri Dec 15 01:53:37 2017 |
jamie | Update | CDS | CDS recovery, NFS woes |
Quote:
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13479
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Fri Dec 15 00:26:40 2017 |
johannes | Update | CDS | Re: CDS recovery, NFS woes |
Quote:
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13478
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Thu Dec 14 23:27:46 2017 |
johannes | Update | DAQ | aux chassis design | Made a front and back panel and slot panels
for DSub and IDC breakouts. I want to send
this out soon, are there any comments? Preferences |
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13477
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Thu Dec 14 19:41:00 2017 |
gautam | Update | CDS | CDS recovery, NFS woes | [Koji, Jamie(remote), gautam]
Summary:
The CDS system seems to be back up and functioning. |
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13476
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Thu Dec 14 19:33:20 2017 |
gautam | Frogs | ASS | c1ass slow channel offloading scripts with small | I
don't think this is really a problem |
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13475
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Thu Dec 14 08:59:17 2017 |
Steve | Update | General | we are here | |
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13474
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Thu Dec 14 07:07:09 2017 |
rana | Update | IOO | Lots of red on the FE status screen | I had to key the c1psl crate to get the
PMC locking again. Without this, it would
still sort of lock, but it was very hard |
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13473
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Thu Dec 14 00:32:56 2017 |
johannes | Update | ASS | Acromag new crate; c1auxex2 configured as gateway server for acromag | This splicing in of fast binary channels
we discussed at yesterday's and today's
meetings is getting messy with the current |
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13472
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Wed Dec 13 17:46:08 2017 |
Udit Khandelwal | Summary | General | Summary of Current Tasks | 40m
Lab CAD
1. 40m_bldg.dwg has 2D drawing |
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13471
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Wed Dec 13 09:49:23 2017 |
johannes | Update | ASS | wiring diagram | I attached a wiring schematic from the
slow DAQ to the eurocrate modules. Of these,
pins 1-32 (or 1A-16C) and pins 33-64 (17A-32C) |
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13470
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Fri Dec 8 23:31:31 2017 |
johannes | Frogs | ASS | c1ass slow channel offloading scripts with small | While staring at epics records all day
I noticed something about the PIT/YAW offset
sliders and ASS offset offloading to slow |
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13469
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Fri Dec 8 12:06:59 2017 |
johannes | Omnistructure | Computers | c1auxex2 ready - but need more cables | The new slow machine c1auxex2
is ready to deploy. Unfortunately we don't
have enough 37pin DSub cables to connect |
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13468
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Thu Dec 7 22:24:04 2017 |
johannes | Omnistructure | Computers | Acromag XEND progress |
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13467
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Thu Dec 7 16:28:06 2017 |
Koji | Update | IOO | Lots of red on the FE status screen | Once the RT machines were back, we launched
only the five IOPs. They had bunch of red
lights, but we continued to run essential |
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13466
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Thu Dec 7 15:46:31 2017 |
johannes | HowTo | Computer Scripts / Programs | Lots of red on the FE status screen | [Koji, Johannes]
The issue was partially fixed and
the interferometer is in workable condition |
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13465
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Thu Dec 7 15:02:37 2017 |
Koji | HowTo | Computer Scripts / Programs | Lots of red on the FE status screen | Once a realtime machine was rebooted, it
did not come back. I suspect that the diskless
hosts have a difficulty to boot up. |
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13464
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Thu Dec 7 11:14:37 2017 |
johannes | HowTo | Computer Scripts / Programs | Lots of red on the FE status screen | Since we're getting ready to put the
replacement slow DAQ for c1auxex in I wanted
to bring the IFO back to operating condition |
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13463
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Mon Dec 4 22:06:07 2017 |
johannes | Omnistructure | Computers | Acromag XEND progress | I wired up the power distribution, and
ethernet cables in the Acromag chassis today.
For the time being it's all kind of loose |
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13462
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Sun Dec 3 17:01:08 2017 |
Koji | Configuration | Computers | sendmail installed on nodus | An email has come at 5PM on Dec 3rd.
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13461
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Sun Dec 3 05:25:59 2017 |
gautam | Configuration | Computers | sendmail installed on nodus | Pizza mail didn't go out last weekend
- looking at logfile, it seems like the "sendmail"
service was missing. I installed sendmail |
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13460
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Fri Dec 1 17:09:29 2017 |
Udit Khandelwal | Summary | General | | Current objectives and statuses:
CAD Model of 40m lab (facility,
chambers, invacuum components etc)
Status: |
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13459
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Thu Nov 30 10:38:39 2017 |
Steve | Update | VAC | annuloses are not pumped | Annuloses are not pumped for 30 days, since
TP2 failed. IFO pressure 7e-6 Torr
it, Rga 2.6e-6 Torr |
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13458
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Wed Nov 29 21:40:30 2017 |
johannes | Omnistructure | Computers | Slow DAQ replacement computer progress | [Aaron, Johannes]
We
configured the AtomServer for the Martian |
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13457
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Wed Nov 29 15:33:16 2017 |
rana | Update | PSL | PMC locking | PMC wasn't locking. Had to power down
c1psl. Did burt restore. Still not great.
I think many of the readbacks on |
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13456
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Tue Nov 28 17:27:57 2017 |
awade | Bureaucracy | Calibration-Repair | SR560 return, still not charging | I brought a bunch of SR560s over for repair
from Bridge labs. This unit, picture attached
(SN 49698), appears to still not be |
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