[Attachment #1]: ITMY HR face after cleaning. I determined this to be sufficiently clean and re-installed the optic.

[Attachment #2]: ETMY HR face after cleaning. This is what the HR face looks like after 3 rounds of First-Contact application. After the first round, we noticed some arc-shaped lines near the center of the optic's clear aperture. We were worried this was a scratch, but we now believe it to be First-Contact residue, because we were able to remove it after drag wiping with acetone and isopropanol. However, we mistrust the quality of the solvents used - they are not any special dehydrated kind, and we are looking into acquiring some dehydrated solvents for future cleaning efforts.

[Attachment #3]: Top view of ETMY cage meant to show increased clearance between the IFO axis and the elliptical reflector.

Many more photos (including table leveling checks) on the google-photos page for this vent. The estimated time between F.C. peeling and pumpdown is ~24 hours for ITMY and ~15 hours for ETMY, but for the former, the heavy doors were put on ~1 hour after the peeling.

The first task is to fix the damping of ETMY.

[chub, bob, gautam]

1. Steps described in previous elog were carried out
2. EY heavy door was put on at about 1130am.
3. Pumpdown commenced at ~noon. We are going down at ~3 torr/min.

[koji, chub, jon, rana, gautam]

Full story tomorrow, but we went through most of the required pre close-up checks/tasks (i.e. both arms were locked, PRC and SRC cavity flashes were observed). Tomorrow, it remains to 

1. Confirm clearance between elliptical reflector and ETMY
2. Confirm leveling of ETMY table
3. Take pics of ETMY table
4. Put heavy door on ETMY chamber
5. Pump down

The ETMY suspension chain needs to be re-characterized (neither the old settings, nor a +/- 1 gain setting worked well for us tonight), but this can be done once we are back under vacuum.

Squishing cables at the ITMX satellite box seems to have fixed the wandering ITM that I observed yesterday - the sooner we are rid of these evil connectors the better.

I had changed the input pointing of the green injection from EX to mark a "good" alignment of the cavity axis, so I used the green beam to try and recover the X arm alignment. After some tweaking of the ITM and ETM angle bias voltages, I was able to get good GTRX values [Attachment #1], and also see clear evidence of (admittedly weak) IR resonances in TRX [Attachment #2]. I can't see the reflection from ITMX on the AS camera, but I suspect this is because the ITMY cage is in the way. This will likely have to be redone tomorrow after setting the input pointing for the Y arm cavity axis, but hopefully things will converge faster and we can close up sooner. Closing the PSL shutter for now...

I also rebooted the unresponsive c1susaux to facilitate the alignment work tomorrow.

[chub, gautam]

1. ETMY cage was wiped down
   • Targeted potential areas where dust could drift off from and get attracted to a charged HR surface
   • These areas were surprisingly dusty, even left a grey mark on the wipe [Attachment #1] - we think we did a sufficiently thorough job, but unclear if this helps the loss numbers
   • More pictures are on gPhoto
2. Filters on SD and LR OSEMs were replaced - the open shadow sensor voltages with filters in/out are consistent with the T>95% coating spec.
3. IPANG beam position was checked 
   • It is already too high, missing the first steering optic by ~0.5 inch, not the greatest photo but conclusion holds [Attachment #2].
   • I think we shouldn't worry about it for this pumpdown, we can fix it when we put in the new PR3.
4. Cage wiping procedure was repeated on ITMY
   • The cage was much dustier than ETMY
   • However, the optic itself (barrel and edge of HR face) was cleaner
   • All accessible areas were wiped with isopropanol
   • Before/after pics are on gPhoto (even after cleaning, there are some marks on the suspension that looks like dust, but these are machining marks)

Procedure tomorrow [comments / suggestions welcome]:

1. Start with IY chamber
   • Peel first contact with TopGun jet flowing
   • Inspect optic face with green flashlight to check for residual First Contact
   • Replace ITMY suspension cage in its position, clamp it down
   • Release ITMY from its EQ stops
   • Replace OSEMs in ITMY cage, best effort to recover previous alignment of OSEMs in their holders (I have a photo before removal of OSEMs), which supposedly minimized the coupling of the B-R modes into the shadow sensor signals
   • Best effort to have shadow sensor PD outputs at half their fully open voltages (with DC bias voltage applied)
   • Quick check that we are hitting the center of the ITM with the alignment tool
   • Check that the Oplev HeNe is reasonably centered on steering mirrors
   • Tie down OSEM cabling to the ITMY cage with clean copper wire
   • Replace the OSEM wiring tower
   • Release the SRM from its EQ stops
   • Check table leveling
   • Take pictures of everything, check that we have not left any tools inside the chamber
   • Heavy doors on
2. Next, EY chamber
   • Repeat first seven bullets from the IY chamber, :%s/ITMY/ETMY/g
   • Confirm sufficient clearance between IFO beam axis and the elliptical reflector
   • Check Oplev beam path
   • Check table leveling
   • Take pictures of everything, check that we have not left any tools inside the chamber
   • Heavy doors on
3. IFO alignment checks - basically follow the wiki, we want to be able to lock both arms (or at least see TEM00 resonances), and see that the PRC and SRC mode flashes look reasonable.
4. Tighten all heavy doors up
5. Pump down

All photos have been uploaded to google photos.

Since we may want to close up tomorrow, I did the following prep work:

1. Cleaned up Y-end suspension eleoctronics setup, connected the Sat Box back to the flange
   • The OSEMs are just sitting on the table right now, so they are just seeing the fully open voltage
   • Post filter insertion, the four face OSEMs report ~3-4% lower open-voltage values compared to before, which is compatible with the transmission spec for the filters (T>95%)
   • The side OSEM is reporting ~10% lower - perhaps I just didn't put the filter on right, something to be looked at inside the chamber
2. Suspension watchdog restoration
   • I'd shutdown all the watchdogs during the Satellite box debacle
   • However, I left ITMY, ETMY and SRM tripped as these optics are EQ-stopped / don't have the OSEMs inserted.
3. Checked IMC alignment
   • After some hand-alignment of the IMC, it was locked, transmission is ~1200 counts which is what I remember it being
4. Checked X-arm alignment
   • Strictly speaking, this has to be done after setting the Y-arm alignment as that dictates the input pointing of the IMC transmission to the IFO, but I decided to have a quick look nevertheless
   • Surprisingly, ITMX damping isn't working very well it seems - the optic is clearly swinging around a lot, and the shadow sensor RMS voltage is ~10s of mV, whereas for all the other optics, it is ~1mV.
   • I'll try the usual cable squishing voodoo

Rather than try and rush and close up tomorrow, I propose spending the day tomorrow cleaning the peripheral areas of the optic, suspension cage, and chamber. Then on Thursday morning, we can replace the Y-arm optics, try and recover the cavity alignment, and then aim for a Thursday afternoon pumpdown. The main motivation is to reduce the time the optics spend in air after F.C. peeling and going to vacuum.

[chub, koji, gautam]

Attachment #1 shows the signal routing near the Satellite box. Somehow, the female 64 pin IDC connector that brings the signals from the coil driver board wasn't mating well with the mail connector on the Satellite box front panel. This is a connector specific problem - plugging the female end into one of the male connectors inside the Satellite box yielded signal continuity. The problem was resolved by re-making both connections -by driving the EPICS bias slider through its full range, we were able to see the full voltage swing at the DB connectors going to the flange

This kind of flakiness could be all around the lab, and could be responsible for many of the suspension "mysteries". To re-iterate, the problem seems to be the way the female sockets of the connector mates with the male pins - while the actual crimping points may look secure, there may not be signal continuity.

Now that this problem is resolved, tomorrow we will recover the cavity alignment and possibly start a pumpdown.

Unrelated to this work - the spare satellite box (S/N #100), which had a note on it that said "low voltages", was tested. The "low voltages" referred to the OSEM shadow sensor voltages being low when the LED was completely unobscured. The reason was that the mod to increase the drive current to 25 mA had not yet been implemented on this unit. I added the appropriate 806 ohm resistors, and verified that the voltages were correct, so now we have a working spare. It is stored in the "photodiode" cabinet along the east arm, together with the tester boxes. 

The foam in the cable tray wall passage had been falling on the floor in little bite-sized pieces, so I investigated and found a fiber cable that had be chewed/clawed through.  I didn't find any droppings anywhere in the 40m, but I decided to bait an un-set trap and see if we'd find activity around it. There has been none so far.  If there is still none tomorrow, I will move the trap and keep looking for signs of rodentia.  At the moment, the trap is in a box in front of the double doors at the north end of the control room.  Next it will be place in the IFO room, up in the cable tray. 

gautam: the fiber that was damaged was the one from the LSC rack FiBox to the control room FiBox. So no DAFI action for a bit...

I reset the remote of this git repo to the 40m version instead of Jon's personal one, to ensure consistency between what's on the vacuum machine and in the git repo. There is now a N2 checker python mailer that will email the 40m list if all the tank pressures are below 600 PSI (>12 hours left for someone to react before the main N2 line pressure drops and the interlocks kick in). For now, the script just runs as a cron job every 3 hours, but perhaps we should integrate it with the interlock process?

To avoid the annoying excercise of having to manually toggle the illuminators, I solved the IP conflict. Made a wiki page for the ethernet power strips since the documentation was woeful (the way the power strips are mounted in the racks, you can't even see the manufacturer/model/make). All chamber illuminators can now be turned on/off by the MEDM scripts . Note that there is a web interface available too, which can be useful in case of some python socket issues. The main lesson is: avoid using the "reset" button on the power strips, it destroys the static IP config.

Unrelated to this work: The EY laptop, asia, won't boot up anymore, with a "Fan Error" message being the red flag. I've temporarily recommissioned the vacuum rack laptop, belladonna, to be the EY machine for this vent. Can we get 3 netbooks that actually work and don't need to be tethered to a power strip for the VEA?

I had taken Satellite box S/N 102, from the SRM suspension, down to the Y-end as part of debugging. However, at some point, I stopped getting readbacks from the shadow sensor PDs, even with the Sat. Box tester hooked up (so as to rule out anything funky with the actual OSEMs). Today evening, I did a more systematic investigation. Schematic with component references is here.

1. Used mini-grabbers and a bench power supply to connect +/-24V to C57 and C58.
2. Checked that all ICs were getting +/- 15 V to the supply pins.
3. Debugged individual channels, checking voltages at various nodes
   • Found that the "PD K" bias voltage was anomalosly low.
   • Found that the inverting input of U3C wasn't ground.
   • The above findings are summarized in Attachment #2.
   • This suggested something was wrong with the Quad OpAmp LT1125 IC, so I elected to switch it out.
   • During the desoldering process, the pads for the "NC" pins came off (Attachment #1) - this has happened to me before on these old boards. I don't think I applied excess heat during the desoldering (I used 650F).
   • Replaced the IC, and measured the expected 10V at the "PD K" node.
4. I then connected the tester box and verified all the shadow sensor channels (LED + PD) work as expected, using the front panel J3 and the "octopus cable".
5. It remains to verify that the coil driver signals get correctly routed through the Satellite box before giving this box a pass certification.

The question remains as to what caused this failure mode - I can't think of why that particular IC was damaged during the Satellite box swapping process - is this indicative of some problem elsewhere in the ETMY OSEM/coil driver electronics chain?

EY:

• A clean cart was setup adjacent to the HEPA-enclosed mini cleanroom area (it cannot be inside the mini cleanroom, because of lack of space). 
• The FC tools (first contact, acetone, beakers, brushes, PEEK mesh, clean scissors, clean tweezers, Canon camera, green flashlight) were laid out on this cart for easy access.
• I inspected the optic - the barrel had a few specks of dust, and the outer 1.5" annular region of the HR face looked to have some streak marks
  • I was advised not to pre-wipe the HR side with any solvents
  • The FC was only applied to the centran ~1-1.5" of the optic
• After applying the FC, I spent a few minutes inspecting the status of the OSEMs 
  • Three out of the four face OSEMs, as well as the side OSEM, did not have a filter in
  • I inserted filters into them.
• Closed up the chamber with light door, left HEPA unit on and the mini cleanroom setup intact for now. We will dismantle everything after the pumpdown.

IY:

• Similar setup to EY was implemented
• Removed side OSEM from ITMY.
• Double-checked that EQ stops were engaged.
• Moved the OSEM cable tower to free up some space for accommodating ITMY.
• Undid the clamps of ITMY, moved it to the NE corner of the IY table.
• Inspected the optic - it was much cleaner than the 2016 inspection, although the barrel did have some specks of dust.
• Once again, I applied first contact to the central ~1.5" of the HR surface.
• Checked status of filters on OSEMs - this time, only the UL coil required a filter.
  • Attachment #3 shows the sensor voltage DC level before and after the insertion of the filter. There is ~0.1% change.
  • The filters were found in a box that suggests they were made in 2002 - but Steve tells me that it is just stored in a box with that label, and that since there are >100 filters inside that box, he thinks they are the new ones we procured in 2016. The coating specs and type of glass used are different between the two versions.

The attached photo shows the two optics with FC applied.

My original plan was to attempt to close up tomorrow. However, we are still struggling with Satellite box issues. So rather than rush it, we will attempt to recover the Y arm cavity alignment on Monday, satellite box permitting. The main motivation is to reduce the deadtime between peeling off the F.C and starting the pumpdown. We will start working on recovering the cavity alignment once the Sat box issues are solved.

In preparation for the FC cleaning, I did the following:

1. Set up mini-cleanroom at EY - this consists of the mobile HEPA unit put up against the chamber door, with films draped around the setup.
2. After double-checking the table leveling, I EQ-stopped ETMY and moved it to the NE corner of the EY table, where it will be cleaned.
3. Checked leveling of IY table - see Attachment #1.
4. Took pictures of IY table, OSEM arrangement on ITMY.
5. EQ-stopped ITMY and SRM.
6. Removed the face OSEMs from ITMY (this required clipping off the copper wire used to hold the OSEM wires against the suspension cage). The side OSEM has not yet been removed because I left the allen key that is compatible with that particular screw inside the EY chamber. 
7. To position ITMY at the edge of the IY table where we can easily clean it, we will need to move the OSEM cabling tower as we did last time. I've taken photos of its current position for now.

Tomorrow, I will start with the cleaning of ETMY HR. While the FC is drying, I will position ITMY at the edge of the IY cable for cleaning (Chub will setup the mini-cleanroom at the IY table). The plan is to clean both HR surfaces and have the optics back in place by tomorrow evening. By my count, we have done everything listed in the IY and EY chambers. I'd like to minimize the time between cleaning and pumpdown, so if all goes well (Sat Box problems notwithstanding), we will check the table leveling on Friday morning, and put on the heavy doors and at least rough the main volume down to 1 torr on Friday.

For the last week, I noticed that I was unable to turn the EY chamber illuminator on using the remote python scripts. This was turning out to be really annoying, having to turn the light on/off manually. Today, I looked into the problem and found that there is a conflict in the IP addresses of the EY Ethernet Strip (which Chas assigned a static IP but did not include detailed procedures for) and the vertex area laptop, paola. The failure of the python control of the power strip coincided exactly with when Chub and I turned on paola for working at the IY chamber - but how was I supposed to know these events are correlated? I tried shutting down paola , power cycling the Ethernet power strip, and restarting the bind9 services on chiara, but remote control of the ethernet power strip remains elusive. I suspect reconfiguring the static IP for the Ethernet switch will require some serial port enabled device...

While Chub is making new cables for the EY satellite box...

1. I removed the unused optic on the NW corner of the EY table. It is stored in a clean Al-foil lined plastic box, and will be moved to the clean hardware section of the lab (along the South arm, south of MC2 chamber).
2. Checked table leveling - Attachment #1, looked good, and has been stable over the weekend.
3. I moved the two oversized washers on the reflector, which I believe are only used because the screw is long and wouldn't go in all the way otherwise. As shown in Attachment #2, this reduces the risk of clipping the main IFO beam axis.
4. Yesterday, I pulled up the 40m CAD drawing, and played around with a rectangular box that approximates the extents of the elliptical reflector, to see what would be a good place to put it. I chose to go ahead with Attachment #3. Also shown is the eventually realized layout. Note that we'd actually like the dimension marked ~7.6 inches to be more like 7.1 inches, so the optic is actually ~0.5 inch ahead of the second focus of the ellipse, but I think this is good enough. 
5. Attachment #4 shows the view of the optic as seen from the aperture on the back of the elliptical reflector. Looks good to me.
6. Having positioned the reflector, I then inserted the heater into the aperture such that it is ~2/3rds the way in, which was the best position found by Annalisa last summer. I then ran 0.9 A of current through the heater for ~ 5 minutes. Attachment #5 shows the optic as seen with the FLIR with no heating, and after 5 minutes of heating. I'd say this is pretty unambiguous evidence that we are indeed heating the mirror. The gradient shown is significantly less pronounced than in Annalisa's simulations (~3K as opposed to 10K), but maybe the FLIR calibration isn't so great.
7. For completeness, Attachment #6 shows the leveling of the table after this work. Nothing has chanegd significantly.

While the position of the reflector could possibly be optimized further, since we are already seeing a temperature gradient on the optic, I propose pushing on with other vent activities. I'm almost certain the current positioning places the optic closer to the second focus, and we already saw shifts of the HOM resonances with the old configuration, so I'd say we run with this and revisit if needed.

If Chub gives the Sat. Box the green flag, we will work on F.C.ing the mirrors in the evening, with the aim of closing up tomorrow/Friday. 

All raw images in this elog have been uploaded to the 40m google photos.

The N2 ran out this weekend (again no reminder email, but I haven't found the time to setup the Python mailer yet). So all the valves Steve and I had opened, closed (rightly so, that's what the interlocks are supposed to do). Chub will post an elog about the new N2 valve setup in the Drill-press room, but we now have sufficient line pressure in the N2 line again. So Chub and I re-opened the valves to keep pumping on the RGA.

Short update on latest Satellite box woes.

1. I checked the resistance of all 5 OSEM coils on ETMY using a DB25 breakout board and a multimeter - all were between 16-17 ohms (mesured from the cable to the Vacuum flange), which I think is consistent with the expected value.
2. Checked the bias voltage (aka slow path) from the coil driver board was reaching the coils
   • The voltages were indeed being sent out of the coil driver board - I confirmed by driving a slow sine wave and measuring at the output of the coil driver board, with all the fast outputs disabled.
   • The voltage is arriving at the 64 pin IDC connector at the Satellite box - Chub and I verified this using some mini-grabbers and leads from wirewound resistors (we don't have a breakout board for this kind of connector, would be handy to get some!)
   • However, the voltages are not being sent out through the DB25 connectors on the side of the Satellite box, at least for the LL and UR channels. UL seems to work okay.
   • This behavior is consistent with the observation that we had to apply way larger bias voltages to get the cavity axis to line up than was the nominal values - if one or more coils weren't getting their signals, it would also explain the large PIT->YAW coupling I observed using the Oplev spot and the slow bias alignment EPICS sliders.
   • This behavior is puzzling - the Sat box is just supposed to be a feed-through for the coil driver signals, and we measured resistances between the 64 pin IDC connector and the corresponding DB25 pins, and measured in the range of 0.2-0.3 ohms. However, the voltage fails to make it through - not sure what's going on here.. We will investigate further on the electronics bench.

What's more - I did some Sat box switcheroo, swapping the SRM and ETM boxes back and forth in combination with the tester box. In the process, I seem to have broken the SRM sat box - all the shadow sensors are reporting close to 0 volts, and this was confirmed to be an electronic problem as opposed to some magnet skullduggery using the tester box. Once we get to the bottom of the ETMY sat box, we will look at SRM. This is more or less the last thing to look at for this vent - once we are happy the cavity axis can be recovered reliably, we can freeze the position of the elliptical reflector and begin the F.C.ing.

I've attached my handwritten notes covering all the serial communications in the vac system, and the relevant wiring for all the adapters, etc. I'll work with Chub to produce a final documentation, but in the meantime this may be a useful reference.

After diagnosis with the tester box, as I suspected, the fully open DC voltages on the two problematic channels, LL and UR, were restored once I replaced the LM6321 ICs in those two channel paths. However, I've been puzzled by the inability to turn on the Oplev loops on ETMY. Furthermore, the DC bias voltages required to get ETMY to line up with the cavity axis seemed excessively large, particularly since we seemed to have improved the table levelling.

I suspected that the problem with the OSEMs hasn't been fully resolved, so on Thursday night, I turned off the ETMY watchdog, kicked the optic, and let it ringdown. Then I looked at the time-series (Attachment #1) and spectra (Attachment #2) of the ringdowns. Clearly, the LL channel seems to saturate at the lower end at ~440 counts. Moreover, in the time domain, it looks like the other channels see the ringdown cleanly, but I don't see the various suspension eigenmodes in any of the sensor signals. I confirmed that all the magnets are still attached to the optic, and that the EQ stops are well clear of the optic, so I'm inclined to think that this behavior is due to an electrical fault rather than a mechanical one.

For now, I'll start by repeating the ringdown with a switched out Satellite Box (SRM) and see if that fixes the problem. 

I don't think it was used. It is not on the diagram too. You can remove it.

Does anyone know what the purpose of the indicated optic in Attachment #1 is? Can we remove it? It will allow a little more space around the elliptical reflector...

Steve came by the lab today, and looked at the status of the upgraded vacuum system. He recommended pumping on the RGA volume, since it has not been pumped on for ~3 months on account of the vacuum upgrade. The procedure (so we may script this operation in the future) was:

1. Start with the pumpspool completely isolated from the main IFO volume.
2. Open V5, pump down the section between V5 and VM3. Keep an eye on PTP3.
3. Open VM3, keep an eye on P4. It was reporting ~10 mtorr, went to "LO".
4. Close VM3 and V5, transition pumping of the RGA volume to TP1 which is backed by TP2 (we had to open V4 as all valves were closed due to an N2 pressure drop event).
5. Open VM2.
6. Watch CC4.

CC4 pressure has been steadily falling. Steve recommends leaving things in this state over the weekend. He recommends also turning the RGA unit on so that the temperature rises and there is a bakeout of the RGA. The temperature may be read off manually using a probe attached to it.

Nobody documented this, but here is the part number with mechanical drawings of the elliptical reflector installed at EY: Optiforms E180. Heater is from Induceramics, but I can't find the exact part which matches the dimensions of the heater we have (diameter = 3.8mm, length = 30mm), perhaps it's a custom part?

The geometry dictates that if we want the heater to be at one focus and the ETM to be at the other, the separation has to be 7.1 inches. It certainly wasn't arranged this way before. It seems unrealistic to do this without clipping the main beam, I propose we leave sufficient clearane between the main beam and the reflector, and accept the reduced heating efficiency. 

Thanks to Steve for digging this up from his secret stash.

I replaced the BS/PRM Oplev HeNe with one of the heads from the SP table where Steve was setting up the OL RIN/pointing noise experiment. The old one was dead. The new one outputs 3.2 mW of power, I've labelled it with this number, serial number and date of replacement. The beam comes out of the vacuum chamber for both the BS and PRM, and the RIN spectra (Attachment #1) look alright. The calibration into urad and loop gains possibly have to be tweaked. Since the beam comes out of vacuum, I say that we shouldn't open the BS/PRM chamber for this vent - we don't have a proper plan for the in-air layout yet, so we can add this to the list of to-dos for the next vent.

I think we are down to our last spare HeNe head in the lab - @Chub, please look into ordering some more, the ITMX HeNe is going to need replacement soon.

[chub, gautam]

Summary:

Y arm was locked at low power in air.

Details:

1. ITMY chamber door was removed at ~10am with Bob's help.
2. ETMY table leveling was found to have drifted significantly (3 ticks on the spirit level, while it was more or less level yesterday, should look up the calib of the spirit level into mrad). Chub moved some weights around on the table, we will check the leveling again tomorrow.
3. IMC was locked.
4. TT2 and brass alignemnt tool was used to center beam on ETMY.
5. TT1 and brass alignment tool was used to center beam on ITMY. We had to do a c1susaux reboot to be able to move ITMY. Usual precautions were taken to avoid ITMX getting stuck.
6. ETMY was used to make return beam from the ETM overlap with the in-going beam near ITMY, using a holey IR card.
7. At this point, I was confident we would see IR flashes so I decided to do the fine alignment in the control room.

We are operating with 1/10th the input power we normally have, so we expect the IR transmission of the Y arm to max out at 1 when well aligned. However, it is hovering around 0.05 right now, and the dominant source of instability is the angular motion of ETMY due to the Oplev loop being non-functional. I am hesitant to do in-chamber work without an extra pair of eyes/hands around, so I'll defer that for tomorrow morning when Chub gets in. With the cavity axis well defined, I plan to align the green beam to this axis, and use the two to confirm that we are well clear of the Parabola.

* Paola, our vertex laptop, and indeed, most of the laptops inside the VEA, are not ideal to work on this kind of alignmment procedure, it would be good to set up some workstations on which we can easily interact with multiple MEDM screens,

Perhaps the ETMY Oplev HeNe is also giving up - the power has fallen by ~30% over 1 year (Attachment #2), nearly twice as much as ETMX but the RIN spectrum (Attachment #1, didn't even need to rotate it!) certainly seems suspicious. Some "nominal" RIN levels for HeNes can be found earlier in this thread. I can't close any of the EY Oplev loops in this condition. I'll double check to make sure I'm routing the right beam onto the QPD, but if the problem persists, I'll replace the HeNe. ITMX HeNe also looks to be near EOL.

While restoring OSEMs on ETMY, I noticed that the open voltages for the UR and LL OSEMs had significantly (>30%) changed from their values from ~2 years ago. The fact that it only occurred in 2 coils seemed to rule out gradual wear and tear, so I looked up the trends from Nov 25 - Nov 28 (Sundance visited on Nov 26 which is when we removed the cage). Not surprisingly, these are the exact two OSEMs that show a decrease in sensor voltage when the OSEMs were pulled out. I suspect that when I placed them in their little Al foil boats, I shorted out some contacts on the rear (this is reminiscent of the problem we had on PRM in 2016). I hope the problem is with the current buffer IC in the satellite box and not the physical diode, I'll test with the tester box and evaluate the problem further.

Chamber work by Chub and gautam:

1. Table leveling was checked with a clean spirit level
   • Leveling was substantially off in two orthogonal directions, along the beam axis as well as perpendicular to it.
   • We moved almost all the weights available on the table.
   • Managed to get the leveling correct to within 1 tick on the level.
   • We are not too worried about this for now, the final leveling will be after heater repositioning, ETMY cleaning etc.
2. ETMY OSEM re-insertion
   • OSEMs were re-inserted till their mean voltage was ~ half the open values.
   • Local damping seems to work just fine.

VEA is now a laser hazard area as usual, several 1064nm lasers in the lab have been turned back on. Apart from this

• the IFR was reset to the nominal modulation settings of +13dBm output at 11.066209 MHz (this has to be done manually following each power failure).
• The temeprature control unit for the EY doubling oven PID control was turned back on.
• The EY Oplev HeNe was turned back on.
• EY green PZT HV Kepco was turned back on.

[chub, bob, gautam]

We took the heavy door off the EY chamber at ~930am.

Chamber work:

• ETMY suspension cage was returned to its nominal position.
• Unused hardware from the annular heater setup was removed.
• The unused heater had its leads snipped close to the heater crimp point, and the exposed part of the bare wires was covered with Kapton tape (we should remove the source leads as well in air to avoid any accidental shorting)

Waiting for the table to level off now. Plan for later today / tomorrow is as follows:

1. Lock the Y arm, recover good cavity alignment.
2. Position parabolic heater such that clipping issue is resolved.
3. Move optic to edge of table for FC cleaning
4. Clean optic
5. Return suspension cage to nominal position.

[chub, gautam]

• IFO pressure was ~2e-4 torr when we started, on account of the interlock code closing all valves because the N2 line pressure dropped below threshold (<65 psi)
• Chub fixed the problem on the regulator in the drill-press area where the N2 tanks are, the N2 line is now at ~75 psi so that we have the ability to actuate valves if we so desire
• We decided that there is no need to vent the pumpspool this time - avoiding an unnecessary turbo landing, so the pumpspool is completely valved off from the main volume and TPs 1-3 are left running
• Went through the pre-vent checklist:
  • Chub measured particle count, deemed it to be okay (I think we should re-locate the particle counter to near 1X8 because that is where the air enters the IFO anyways, and that way, we can hook it up to the serial device server and have a computerized record of this number as we had in the past, instead of writing it down in a notebook)
  • Checked that the PSL was manually blocked from entering the IFO
  • Walked through the lab, visually inspected Jam Nuts and window covers, all was deemed okay
• Moved 2 tanks of N2 into the lab on account of the rain
• Started the vent at ~930am PST
  • There were a couple of short bursty increases in the pressure as we figured out the right valve settings but on average, things are rising at approx the same rate as we had in vent 81...
  • There was a rattling noise coming from the drypump that is the forepump for TP2 (Agilent) - turned out to be the plastic shell/casing on the drypump, moreover, the TP2 diagnostics (temperature, current etc) are all normal.
  • The CC1 gauge (Hornet) is supposed to have an auto-shutoff of its High Voltage when the pressure exceeds 10 mTorr, but it was reporting pressures in the 1 mTorr range even when the adjacent Pirani was at 25 torr. To avoid risk of damage, we manually turned the HV off. There needs to be a python script that can be executed to transition control between the remote and local control modes for the hornet, we had to Power Cycle the gauge because it wouldn't give us local control over the HV.
  • Transitioned from N2 to dry air at P1a=25 torr. We had some trouble finding the correct regulator (left-handed thread) for the dry air cylinders, it was stored in a cabinet labelled green optics
  • Disconnected dry air from VV1 intake once P1b reached 700 torr, to let lab air flow into the IFO and avoid overpressuring.
  • VA* and VAV* valves were opened so as to vent the annuli as we anticipate multiple chamber openings for this vent.

As of 8pm local time, the IFO seems to have equilibriated to atmospheric pressure (I don't hear the hiss of in-rushing air near 1X8 and P1a reports 760 torr). The pumpspool looks healthy and there are no signs in the TP diagnostics channels that anything bad happened to the pumps. Chub is working on getting the N2 setup more robust, we plan to take the EY door off at 9am tomorrow morning with Bob's help.

* I took this opportunity to follow instructions on pg 29 of the manual and set the calibration for the SuperBee pirani gauge to 760 torr so that it is in better agreement with our existing P1a Pirani gauge. The correction was ~8% (820-->760).

The pumpdown seems to be progressing smoothly, so I think we are going to stick with the plan decided on Wednesday, and vent the IFO on Monday at 8am. I decided to do some checks of the IFO alignment.

I turned on the PSL again (so goggles are advisable again inside the VEA until this work is done), re-locked the PMC, and opened the PSL shutter into the vacuum (still low power 100 mW beam going into vacuum). The IMC alignment required minor tweaking, but I recovered ~1300 cts transmission which is what it was --> so we didn't macroscopically change the input pointing into the IMC while working on the IOO table.

Centering the ITMY oplev spot, there is a spot on the AS camera roughly centered on the control room monitor, so the TT pointing must also be pretty close.

Then I centered the ITMY oplev spot to check how well-aligned or otherwise the Michelson was - the BS has no Oplev so there was considerable angular motion of the Michelson spot, but it looked like on average, it was swinging around through a well aligned place. I saved the slow bias voltages for the ITMs and BS in this config.

Then I re-aligned ETMX and checked the green transmission - it was okay, ~0.3, and I was able to increase it to ~0.4 using the EX green PZT mirrors. So far so good.

Finally, I tried to lock the X-arm on IR - after zeroing the offsets on the transmission QPD, there seems to be a few flashes as the cavity swings through resonances, but no discernible PDH error signal. Moreover the input pointing of the IR into the X arm is controlled by the BS which is swinging around all over the place right now, so perhaps locking is hopeless, but the overall alignment of the IFO seems not too bad. Once ETMY is cleaned and put back in place, perhaps the Y arm can be locked.

I shuttered the PSL and inserted a manual beam block, and also turned off the EX laser so that we can vent on Monday without laser goggles.

*Not directly related to this work: we still have to implement the vacuum interlock condition that closes the PSL shutter in the event of a vacuum failure. It's probably fine now while the PSL power is attenuated, but once we have the high power beam going in, it'd be a good to revert to the old standard.

[Jon, Gautam, Chub]

Summary

We continued the pumpdown of the IFO today. The main volume pressure has reached 1.9e-5 torr and is continuing to fall. The system has performed without issue all day, so we'll leave the turbos continuously running from here on in the normal pumping configuration. Both TP2 and TP3 are currently backing for TP1. Once the main volume reaches operating pressure, we can transition TP3 to pump the annuli. They have already been roughed to ~0.1 torr. At that point the speed of all three turbo pumps can also be reduced. I've finished final edits/cleanup of the interlock code and MEDM screens.

Python Code

All the python code running on c1vac is archived to the git repo: 

https://git.ligo.org/40m/vacpython

This includes both the interlock code and the serial device clients for interfacing with gauges and pumps.

MEDM Monitor/Control

We're still using the same base MEDM monitor/control screens, but they have been much improved. Improvements:

• Valves now light up in red when they are open. This makes it much easier to see at a glance what is valved in/out.
• Every pump in the system (except CP1) is now digitally controlled from the MEDM control screen. No more need to physically push any buttons in the vaccum rack. 👍
• The turbo pumps now show additional diagnostic readouts: speed (TP1/2/3), temperature (TP2/3), current draw (TP1/2/3), and voltage (TP2/3).
• The foreline pressure gauge readouts for TP2/3 have been added to the digital system.
• The two new main volume gauges, Hornet and SuperBee, have been added to the digital system as well.
• New transducers have been added to read back the two N2 tank pressures.
• The interlock code generates a log file of all its actions. A field in the MEDM screens specifies the location of the log file.
• A tripped interlock (appearing as a message in the "Error message" field) must be manually cleared via the "Clear error message" button on the control screen before the system will accept any more manual valve input.

Note: The apparent glitches in the pressure and TP diagnostic channels are due to the interlock system being taken down to implement some of these changes.

Connected the manual gate valve status indicator to the Acromag box this morning.  Labeled the temporary cable (a 50' 9p DSUB, will order a proper sized cable shortly) and the panel RV2.  

Overnight, the pressure increased from 247 uTorr to 264 uTorr over a period of 30000 seconds. Assuming an IFO volume of 33,000 liters, this corresponds to an average leak rate of ~20 uTorr L / s. It'd be interesting to see how this compares with the spec'd leak rates of the Viton O-ring seals and valves/ outgassing rates. The two channels in the screenshot are monitoring the same pressure from the same sensor, top pane is a digital readout while the bottom is a calibrated analog readout that is subsequently digitized into the CDS system.

[Jon, Koji, Chub, Gautam]

Summary

The second pumpdown with the new vacuum system was completed successfully today. A time history is attached below.

We started with the main volume still at 12 torr from the Dec. pumpdown. Roughing from 12 to 0.5 torr took approximately two hours, at which point we valved out RP1 and RP3 and valved in TP1 backed by TP2 and TP3. We additionally used the AUX dry pump connected to the backing lines of TP2 and TP3, which we found to boost the overall pump rate by a factor of ~3. The manual hand-crank valve directly in front of TP1 was used to throttle the pump rate, to avoid tripping software interlocks. If the crank valve is opened too quickly, the pressure differential between the main volume (TP1 intake) and TP1 exhaust becomes >1 torr, tripping the V1 valve-close interlock. Once the main volume pressure reached 1e-2 torr, the crank valve could be opened fully.

We allowed the pumpdown to continue until reaching 9e-4 torr in the main volume. At this point we valved off the main volume, valved off TP2 and TP3, and then shut down all turbo pumps/dry pumps. We will continue pumping tomorrow under the supervision of an operator. If the system continues to perform problem-free, we will likely leave the turbos pumping on the main volume and annuli after tomorrow.

New Vac Control Station

We installed a local controls terminal for the vacuum system on the desk in front of the vacuum rack (pictured below). This console is connected directly to c1vac and can be used to monitor/control the system even during a network outage or power failure. The entire pumpdown was run from this station today.

To open a controls MEDM screen, open a terminal and execute the alias

Similarly, to open a monitor-only MEDM screen, execute the alias

Summary:

The gps time mismatch between /proc/gps and gpstime seems to be resolved. However, the 0x4000 DC errors still persist. It is not clear to me why.

Details:

On the phone with J Hanks on Friday, he reminded me that c1sus seems to be the only machine with an IRIG-B timing card installed. I can't find the elog but I remembered that Jamie, ericq and I had done this work in 2016 (?), and I also remembered Jamie saying it wasn't working exactly as expected. Since the DAQ was working fine before this card was installed, and since there are no problems with the recording of channels from the other four FE machines without this card installed, I decided to simply pull out the card from the expansion chassis. The card has been stored in the CDS/FE cabinet along the Y arm for now. There was also a cable that interfaces to the card which brings over the 1pps from the GPS unit, which has also been stored in the CDS/FE cabinet.

This seems to have resolved the mismatch between the gpstime reported by cat /proc/gps and the gpstime commands - Attachment #1 (the <1 second mismatch is presumably due to the deadtime between commands). However, the 0x4000 DC errors still persist. I'll try the full power cycle of FEs and FB which has fixed this kind of error in the past, but apart from that, I'm out of ideas.

Update 1215:

Following the instructions in this elog did not fix the problem. The problem seems to be with the daqd_fw service, which reports the following:

Update 1530:

The frame-writer error was tracked down to a C0EDCU issue. Jon told me that the Hornet CC1 pressure gauge channel was renamed to . C1:Vac-CC1_pressure, and I made the change in the C0EDCU file. However, it returns a value of 9990000000.0, which the frame writer is not happy about... Keeping the old channel name makes the frame-writer run again (although the actual data is bunk).

Update 1755:

J Hanks suggested adding a 1 second offset to the daqdrc config files. This has now fixed the 0x4000 errors, and we are back to the "nominal" RTCDS status screen now - Attachment #2.

Looks like I didn't restart all the daqd processes last night, so the data was not in fact being recorded to frames. I just restarted everything, and looks like the data for the last 3 minutes are being recorded . Is it reasonable that the TP1 current channel is reporting 0.75A of current draw now, when the pump is off? Also the temperature readback of TP3 seems a lot jumpier than that of TP2, probably has to do with the old controller having fewer ADC bits or something, but perhaps the SMOO needs to be adjusted.

Everything is set for a second pumpdown tomorrow. We'll plan to start pumping after the 1pm meeting. Since the main volume is already at 12 torr, the roughing phase won't take nearly as long this time.

I've added new channels for the TP1 analog readings (current and speed) and for the two N2 tank pressure readings. Chub finished installing the new regulator and has run the transducer signal cable to the vacuum rack. In the morning he will terminate the cable and make the final connection to the Acromag.

Gautam and I updated the framebuilder config file, adding the newly-added channels to the list of those to be logged. We also set up a git repo containing all of the Python interlock/interfacing code: https://git.ligo.org/40m/vacpython. The idea is to use the issue tracker to systematically document any changes to the interlock code.

Here is a list of tasks I think we should prioritize for the next two weeks. The idea is to get back to the previous state of being able to do single arm, PRMI-on-carrier and DRMI locking, before making further changes.

Once the new folding mirrors arrive, I'd like to modify the SRC length to allow locking in the signal-recycled config as opposed to RSE. Still need to do the detailed layout, but I think the in-vacuum layout will work. In that case, I'd like to also move the OMC and OMMT to the IY table, and also move the in-air AS photodiodes to the IY in-air optical table. This is why I've omitted the OMC alignment from this near-term list, but if we want to not move the OMC, then we probably should add alignment of the AS beam to the OMC to this list.

ADC work finished for the day. The vac controls are back up, with all valves CLOSED and all pumps OFF.

I'm making a controlled shutdown of the vac controls to add new ADC channels. Will advise when it's back up.

[J Hanks (remote), koji, gautam]

Summary:

The problem stems from the way GPS timing signals are handled by the FEs and FB. We effected a partial fix:

• Now, old frame data is no longer being overwritten
• For the channels that are indeed being recorded now, the correct time stamp is being applied so they can be found in /frames by looking for the appropriate gpstime.

Details:

• The usual FE/FB power cycling did not fix the problem.
• The gps time used by FB and associated RT processes may be found by using  cat /proc/gps (i.e. this is different from the system time found by using date, or gpstime).
• This was off by 2 years.
• The way this worked up till now was by adding a fixed offset to this time.
  • This offset can be found as a line saying set symm_gps_offset=31622382 in daqdrc.fw (for example)
  • There were similar lines in daqdrc.rcv and daqdrc.dc - however, they were not all the same offset! We couldn't figure out why.
  • All these files live in /opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/target/daqd/.

Changes effected:

1. First, we tried changing the offset in the daqdrc.fw file only.
   • Incremented it by 24*60*60*365 = number of seconds in a year with no leap seconds/days.
   • This did not fix the problem.
2. So J Hanks decided to rebuild the Spectracom driver - these commands may not be comprehensive, but I think I got everything).
   • The relevant file is spectracomGPS.c (made a copy of /usr/src/symmetricom-3.3~rc1, called symmetricom-3.3~rc1-patched, this file is in /usr/src/symmetricom-3.3~rc1-patched/include/drv)
   • Added the following lines:
     /* 2018 had no leap seconds or leap days, so adjust for that */
            pHardware->gpsOffset += 31536000;
   • re-built and installed the modified symmetricom driver.
   • Checked that cat /proc/gps now yields the correct time.
   • Reset the gps time offsets in daqdrc.fw, daqdrc.rcv and daqdrc.dc to 0
   • With these steps, the frames were being written to /frames with the correct timestamp.
3. Next, we checked the timing on the FEs
   • Basically, J Hanks rebuilt the version of the symmetricom driver that is used by the rtcds models to mimic the changes made for FB.
   • This did the trick for c1lsc and c1ioo - cat /proc/gps now returns the correct time on those FEs.
   • However, c1sus remains problematic (it initially reported a GPS time from 2 years ago, and even after the re-installed driver, is 4 days behind) - he suspects that this is because c1sus is the only FE with a Symmetricom/Spectracom card installed in the I/O chassis. So c1sus reports a gpstime that is ~4 days behind the "correct" gpstime.
   • He is going to check with Rolf/other CDS experts to figure out if it's okay for us to simply remove the card and run the models, or if we need to take other steps.
   • As part of this work, the c1x02 IOP model was recompiled, re-installed and re-started.

The realtime models were not restarted (although all the vertex FEs are running) - we can regroup next week and decide what is the correct course of action.

[Koji Gautam]

Took the opprtunity of the power glitch to take care of the disk situation of chiara.

- Unmounted /cvs/cds from nodus. This did not affect the services on nodus as they don't use /cvs/cds

- Go to chiara, shut it down, and physically checked the labels of the drives.

root = 0.5TB
/cvs/cds = 4TB HGST
backup of /cvs/cds= 6TB HGST

- These three disks are internally mounted and connected with SATA. Previously, 6TB was on USB.

- There were two other drives (2TB and 3TB) but they seemed logically or physically broken. These two disks were removed from chiara. (they came back online after reformatting on mac. So they seem still physically alive).

- Rebooted the machine and just came back without any error. This time the control room machines were not shutdown, but they just recovered the NFS once chiara got back.

The base Acromag vacuum system is running and performing nicely. Here is a list of remaining questions and to-do items we still need to address.

Safety Issues

• Interlock for HV supplies. The vac system hosts a binary EPICS channel that is the interlock signal for the in-vacuum HV supplies. The channel value is OFF when the main volume pressure is in the arcing range, 3 mtorr - 500 torr, and ON otherwise. Is there something outside the vacuum system monitoring this channel and toggling the HV supplies?
• Exposed 30-amp supply terminals. The 30-amp output terminals on the back of the Sorensen in the vac rack are exposed. We need a cover for those.
• Interlock for AC power loss. The current vac system is protected only from transient power glitches, not an extended loss. The digital system should sense an outage and put the IFO into a safe state (pumps spun down and critical valves closed) before the UPS battery is fully drained. However, it presently has no way of sensing when power has been lost---the system just continues running normally on UPS power until the battery dies, at which point there is a sudden, uncontrolled shutdown. Is it possible for the digital system to communicate directly with the UPS to poll its activation state?

Infrastructure Improvements

• Install the new N2 tank regulator and high-pressure transducers (we have the parts; on desk across from electronics bench). Run the transducer signal wires to the Acromag chassis in the vacuum rack.
• Replace the kludged connectors to the Hornet and SuperBee serial outputs with permanent ones (we need to order the parts).
• Wire the position indicator readback on the manual TP1 valve to the Acromag chassis.
• Add cable tension relief to the back of the vac rack.
• Add the TP1 analog readback signals (rotation speed and current) to the digital system.  Digital temperature, current, voltage, and rotation speed signals have already been added for TP2 and TP3.
• Set up a local vacuum controls terminal on the desk by the vac rack.
• Remove gauges from the EPICS database/MEDM screens that are no longer installed or functional. Potential candidates for removal: PAN, PTP1, IG1, CC2, CC3, CC4.
• Although it appeared on the MEDM screen, the RGA was never interfaced to the old vac system. Should it be connected to c1vac now?

Yes, for TP2 and TP3. They both have a small vent valve that opens automatically on shutdown.

donatella was one of our last workstations running ubuntu12. we installed SL7 on there today

1. had to use a DVD; wouldn't boot from USB stick
2. made sure to use userID=1001 and groupID=1001 at the initial install part
3. went to the Keith Thorne LLO wiki on SL7
4. The 'yum update' command failed due to a gstreamer conflict. I did "yum remove gstreamer1-plugins-ugly-free-1.10.4-3.el7.x86_64" and then it continued a bit more.

5. Then there are ~20 errors related to gds-crtools that look like this:Error: Package: gds-crtools-2.18.12-1.el7.x86_64 (lscsoft-production) Requires: libMatrix.so.6.14()(64bit)

6. I re-ran the yum install .... command using the --skip-broken command and that seemed to complete, although I guess the GDS stuff will not work.
7. Installed: terminator, inconsolata-fonts, 
8. Installed XFCE desktop as per K Thorne:  yum groupinstall "Xfce" -y
9.  

Larry W came by the 40m, and reported that there was a campus-wide power glitch (he was here to check if our networking infrastructure was affected). I thought I'd check the status of the vacuum.

• Attachment #1 is a screenshot of the Vac overview MEDM screen. Clearly something has gone wrong with the modbus process(es). Only the PTP2 and PTP3 gauges seem to be communicative.
• Attachment #2 shows the minute trend of the pressure gauges for a 12 day period - it looks like there is some issue with the frame builder clock, perhaps this issue resurfaced? But checking the system time on FB doesn't suggest anything is wrong.. I double checked with dataviewer as well that the trends don't exist... But checking the status of the individual daqd processes indeed showed that the dates were off by 1 year, so I just restarted all of them and now the time seems correct. How can we fix this problem more permanently? Also, the P1b readout looks suspicious - why are there periods where it seems like we are reading values better than the LSB of the device?

I decided to check the systemctl process status on c1vac:

So something did happen today that required restart of the modbus processes. But clearly not everything has come back up gracefully. A few lines of dmesg (there are many more segfaults):

I don't know enough about the new system so I'm leaving this for Jon to debug. Attachment #3 shows that the analog readout of the P1 pressure gauge suggests that the IFO is still under vacuum, so no random valve openings were effected (as expected, since we valved off the N2 line for this very purpose).

Independent question: Are all the turbo forelines vented automatically? We manually did it for the main roughing line.

Per the discussion yesterday, I valved off the N2 line in the drill press room at 11 am PST today morning so as to avoid any accidental software induced gate-valve actuation during the holidays. The line pressure is steadily dropping...

Attachment #1 shows that while the main volume pressure was stable overnight, the the pumpspool pressure has been steadily rising. I think this is to be expected as the turbo pumps aren't running and the valves can't preserve the <1mtorr pressure over long timescales?

Attachment #2 shows the current VacOverview MEDM screen status.

The N2 pressure channel name was also wrong in C0EDCU.ini, so I updated it this morning to the correct name and units:

Now it too is being recorded to frames.