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Thu Oct 26 10:21:28 2017 |
Aidan | Computing | | Beam size EPICS channels added to TCS-WS softIoc | I've added a softIoc to TCS-WS to capture
the beam size from the MAKO camera. The IOC
is run using ... |
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233
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Mon Jul 22 18:46:23 2019 |
Edita Bytyqi | Lab Infrastructure | | Laser-Lens-HWS Setup | Today, I set up a system consisting of
the 520 nm laser, a 2'' mirror and
two lenses of focal lengths f1 = 40 cm and |
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240
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Mon Aug 12 21:15:12 2019 |
Edita Bytyqi | Electronics | | Determining heater/reflector focus | I took images of the heat pattern projected
on a piece of paper produced by the semi-circle
reflector. I used 108V to drive current throught |
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241
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Fri Aug 16 17:05:14 2019 |
Edita Bytyqi | Electronics | | FLIR Images of new reflector focusing heat | We got 11 new semi-circle cut reflectors
of radius ~3.6 cm. I glued a screw to the
back of one reflector using the same epoxy |
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187
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Thu Jul 13 10:11:57 2017 |
awade | Electronics | Borrowed | Borrowed newport TrueRMS Supermeter | I lent your fancy Newport TrueRMS Supermeter
with the thermocouple plugs on the top to
the SURF student Jordon. He has it |
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188
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Thu Sep 21 18:56:53 2017 |
awade | Misc | Borrowed | Borrowed thorlabs power meter | Borrowed thorlabs power meter on 21 Sep
2017. It is on the south table of the
ATF lab. |
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228
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Thu May 23 11:36:49 2019 |
agupta | Lab Infrastructure | Borrowed | Borrowed Label Maker | I have borrowed TCS's label maker in
CTN for few days. If you need it, you can
take it from the top of blue cabinets. |
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229
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Mon Jun 17 20:29:34 2019 |
Jon | Lab Infrastructure | Computing | Server rack cleaned up, new workstation installed | In anticipation of the point absorber SURF
project, I cleaned up the server rack and
installed a new workstation today. |
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231
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Mon Jul 22 09:44:21 2019 |
Jon | Lab Infrastructure | Computing | Installed Amplifying VGA Splitter | The VGA signal outputted by the multiplexer
is too weak to drive two monitors. This has
required video cables to be manually switched |
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238
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Tue Aug 6 19:22:28 2019 |
Jon | Electronics | Computing | QIL NFS server set up | I've started building the NFS server
for the QIL cymac. It's sitting on the
workbench in the TCS lab next to the rack. |
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3
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Mon Dec 28 14:48:29 2009 |
Aidan | Computing | DAQ | VME crate has a "new" CPU - needs to be configured | I installed a recycled VME crate in the
electronics rack. It currently has a Baja
4700E CPU card in it - and this needs to |
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4
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Tue Dec 29 16:05:09 2009 |
Frank | Computing | DAQ | booting VME crates from fb1 | http://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:8080/AdhikariLab/514 |
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5
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Tue Dec 29 17:50:57 2009 |
Aidan | Computing | DAQ | VME crate has proper boot settings | We fixed the start-up settings on the VME
crate to look for a TCS startup file on fb0.
The settings on the Baja 4700 are now: |
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6
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Fri Jan 29 10:02:15 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | DAQ | New DAQ ordered | On the advice of Ben Abbott, I've
ordered the Diamond Systems Athena II computer
w/DAQ, as well as an I/O board, solid state |
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138
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Mon Apr 18 15:03:49 2011 |
Aidan | Computing | DAQ | Athena DAC channels hooked up to BNC patch panel | I added the four Athena DAC channels
to the second BNC patch panel in the rack.
At the moment there are only two EPICS channels |
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181
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Mon May 13 14:09:02 2013 |
Zach | Computing | DAQ | C2ATF model rebuilt | ATF:1812 |
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198
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Thu Oct 26 10:31:31 2017 |
Aidan | Computing | DAQ | Beam size EPICS channels added to TCS-WS softIoc | These are also being written to frames
on FB4.
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Thu Oct 26 10:45:44 2017 |
Aidan | Computing | DAQ | Beam size EPICS channels added to TCS-WS softIoc | See attached photo for how data is written
to frames ...
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201
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Tue Oct 31 14:37:49 2017 |
Aidan | Computing | DAQ | New Acromag units for AWC experiments - XT1221 ans XT1541 | I set up an Acromag DAC today with the
fixed IP address 10.0.1.56. Last Friday Andrew
and Antonio set up an ADC unit with fixed |
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202
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Thu Nov 9 14:18:56 2017 |
Aidan | Computing | DAQ | FB4 ip address has changed | We've had trouble logging into FB4.
I access the computer directly in the AWC
lab and found that the IP address had changed |
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206
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Mon Feb 5 15:08:06 2018 |
Aidan | Computing | DAQ | Frame builder clock is totally wrong | The framebuilder on FB4 thinks the current
time is 26-Jan-2018 6:18AM UTC. The date
command on FB4 yields the correct date and |
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212
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Wed May 30 18:50:05 2018 |
awade | Computing | DAQ | Rebooted fb4 | Time was still off by nine days as of yesterday.
I tried rebooting remotely to see if time
would correct to system clock. It didn't |
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213
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Wed May 30 18:59:49 2018 |
awade | Computing | DAQ | FB4 ip address has changed | Maybe you've resolved this now. I moved
the DHCP allocation to 10.0.1.160 and
above around that time because a bunch of |
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221
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Thu Aug 16 11:52:27 2018 |
Aidan | Computing | DAQ | Added AWC thermocouple reader back to acromag1 |
Thermcouple reader is plugged into
an Acromag ADC (10.0.1.55)
acromag1
is now reading this in:
~/modbus/iocBoot/iocTest/test_acromag.cmd |
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222
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Wed Oct 17 16:17:45 2018 |
awade, Aidan | Computing | DAQ | Added AWC thermocouple reader back to acromag1 | Acromag IOC process was removed from PSL
lab acromag1 computer a few months ago.
Aidan needs them again but it would be better |
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105
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Tue Feb 8 13:02:26 2011 |
Aidan | Electronics | Delivery Note | Thorlabs S322C 200W power head arrived | The 200W Thermopile power head from
Thorlabs arrive today. The scanned delivery
note and calibration info are attached. |
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Fri Feb 18 13:26:23 2011 |
Aidan | Things to Buy | Delivery Note | First parts of Bosch framing have arrived from Valin | The first pieces of the Bosch framing have
arrived from Valin Corporation. These are
just small pieces such as the fasteners and |
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108
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Wed Feb 23 18:04:38 2011 |
Aidan | Things to Buy | Delivery Note | First parts of Bosch framing have arrived from Valin |
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111
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Thu Feb 24 13:35:41 2011 |
Aidan | Things to Buy | Delivery Note | Bosch framing has arrived | The custom pieces of the Bosch framing
have arrived. Transportation is currently
moving them downstairs to the lab. The packing |
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117
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Tue Mar 1 11:19:34 2011 |
Aidan | Things to Buy | Delivery Note | MFF001 flipper mirror has arrived | The Thorlabs MFF001 flipper mirror
recommended by Bram has arrived. The delivery
note is attached. |
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Tue Mar 1 11:21:37 2011 |
Aidan | Things to Buy | Delivery Note | More Bosch framing parts - angle connectors | Another box of Bosch framing parts
arrived today. The delivery note is attached. |
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124
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Tue Mar 8 18:57:50 2011 |
Aidan | Things to Buy | Delivery Note | Fiber optics cable and Bosch Fastener | |
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126
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Fri Mar 11 13:11:33 2011 |
Aidan | Lab Infrastructure | Delivery Note | More Bosch connectors have arrived | See attached delivery note ... |
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127
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Wed Mar 16 15:05:47 2011 |
Aidan | Lab Infrastructure | Delivery Note | More Bosch equipment has arrived | 30mm T-junctions, grounding straps and
T-slot covers have arrived
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133
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Mon Apr 4 13:13:23 2011 |
Aidan | Things to Buy | Delivery Note | Newfocus 5102 mirrors and Firewire extension cable have arrived | See attached delivery note ... |
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136
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Sun Apr 17 14:59:36 2011 |
Aidan | Things to Buy | Delivery Note | L-Com patch panel, Newport lenses, Thorlabs fibers delivery notes | |
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243
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Wed Oct 30 12:13:14 2019 |
Jon | Misc | Delivery Note | New lab hardware | Ian and I moved some new hardware into
the lab, shown in the below photos. It is
from the shipment of loaned |
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25
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Mon May 3 17:42:20 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | EPICS | EPICS install by Alex | Alex Ivanov came in on Friday and demonstrated
his EPICS kung-fu. His EPICS knig-fu is strong.
We fixed the IP address of the Hartmann |
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Tue May 18 09:33:44 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | EPICS | Added defocus and other Hartmann sensor channels to EPICS and DAQ | I've added the following channels
to the HWS softIoc in /cvs/cds/caltech/target/softIoc/HWS.db |
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85
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Fri Jul 30 19:22:24 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | EPICS | Waveform Channel Access for storing centroids | A waveform channel was added to the
HWS softIoc on hartmann. This allows arrays
of data to be stored in a single channel. |
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Fri Jul 30 21:19:05 2010 |
Aidan | Computing | EPICS | Waveform Channel Access for storing centroids | After some discussion with Frank we figured
out how to edit the record type in HWS.db
so that the waveform/array channel actually |
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134
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Tue Apr 12 22:30:59 2011 |
Aidan | Computing | EPICS | Installed the thermistor on the Hartmann plate/created MEDM ADC Input screen | I restarted the Athena box and created
an MEDM screen that shows the 8 differential
input voltages next to their corresponding |
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135
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Tue Apr 12 22:46:27 2011 |
Aidan | Computing | EPICS | Added temperature sensor channels to the frame builder and restarted fb1 | Added the following to the frame builder
in /cvs/cds/caltech/chans/daq/C4HWS.ini
and restarted daqd as per instructions |
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Fri Apr 22 19:51:37 2011 |
Aidan | Computing | EPICS | pyepics installed on princess_sparkle | I installed the pyepics
package on princess_sparkle since this is
much easier under Ubuntu than under CentOS. |
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Thu Apr 28 22:48:47 2011 |
Aidan | Lab Infrastructure | Electronics | BNC Cables from HWS table to rack | I labelled and strung 8 of the 16
custom 40' BNC cables from L-Com between
the HWS table and the BNC feed-through on |
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Wed May 24 09:58:17 2017 |
Aidan | Electronics | Electronics | Temperature sensor batteries swapped in TCS Lab | I noticed that the TCS lab temperature
sensor batteries died. Apparently they died
two days ago. I swapped in some new batteries |
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Wed Oct 11 19:14:16 2017 |
Jon Richardson | Computing | Electronics | Replaced TCS Monitor | I replaced the dead 24" monitor on
the work bench, which is connected to the
video multiplexer. Mike Pedraza was |
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192
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Fri Oct 13 18:35:29 2017 |
Jon Richardson | Computing | Electronics | Installed Maku Ethernet CCD Camera | I installed the Maku Gigabit CCD camera
driver software on the hws-ws machine. The
camera viewer can be opened from the terminal |
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Tue Oct 24 10:19:53 2017 |
Jon Richardson | Computing | Electronics | Installed Maku Ethernet CCD Camera | There is an SDK for the camera with compiled
examples. For a really quick image grab from
the command line, use the following: |
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Tue Oct 24 15:05:57 2017 |
Jon Richardson | Computing | Electronics | Installed a Realtime Beam Profiler for the Mako CCD Camera | Aidan found a C demo code for acquiring
a single image from the Mako CCD camera and
saving it to disk (SynchronousGrab -- aliased |
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