The PSL HEPA was running noisy at 100V   The bearing is wearing out. I turned it down to 30V It is quiet there.

They are synchronised tiny glitches. They are not mechanical.
 

The V1 gate valve specs installed at 40m wiki page. VAT model number 10846-UE44-0007 Our main volume pumping goes through this 8" id gate valve V1 to Maglev turbo  or Cryo pump to  VC1

The ion pumps have 6" id gate valves:VAT 10844-UE44-AAY1,  Pneumatic actuator with position indicator and double acting solenoid valve 115V 60Hz  Purchased 1999 Dec 22

UHV gate valves 2.5" id. VAT  10836-UE44    Pneumatic actuator with position indicator and double acting solenoid valve 115V 60 hz, IFO to RGA  VM1 &  RGA to Maglev  VM2

mini UHV gate valve 1.5" id.   VAT  01032-UE01      2016 cataloge page 14,   manual - no position indicator, VM4  next to manual adjustable fine leak valve to RGA

UHV angle valve 1.5" id, model VAT 28432-GE41, Viton plate seal, pneumatic actuator with position indicator & solenoid valve 115V & single acting closing spring  MEDM screen: VM3,VC2, V3,V4,V5,V6,VA6,V7 & annuloses Each chamber annulos has 2 valves.

UHV angle valve 1.5" id, model VAT 57132-GE05   go page 208,   Metal tip seal, manual actuating only with position indicator,   MEDM screen: roughing RV1 and venting VV1 hand wheel needed to close to torque spec

UHV angle valve  1.5" id. model VAT 28432-GE01           Viton plate seal, manual operation only at IT gauges Hornet & Super Bee and  ion pumps roughing  ports. These are not labeled.

The Cryo pump interlock wiring was added too

Note: all moving valve plate seals are single.

The RGA was turned on 7 days ago.  It's 46 C now.   The X-arm room tem ~20 C

IFO pressure 6.5e-6 Torr at IT-Hornet gauge. Valve configuration vacuum normal.

RP1 and RP3 roughing pump manual of Leybold D30A oily rotory pump

Fore pump of TP2 & TP3 Varian SH-100 Dry Scroll

TP2 and TP3 small turbo drag pump  Varian 969-9361 

TP2 and TP3 turbo controller Varian 969-9505

TP1 magnetically suspended turbo pump  Osaka TG390MCAB, sn360 and controller TC010M  and note : this  pump  running on 208VAC single phaseIt is not on the UPS !  

                                                             Osaka Maglev Manual        and Osaka Controller Communication Wiring                                                                                                                                

VC1 cryo pump CTI-Cryogenics Cryo Torr 8 sn 8g23925  SAFETY note: compressor single phase 208VAC and the head driver 3 phase 208VAC Compressor and driver have each separate power cord!

Installed at 40m wiki  also

MC1, MC2 and MC3 damping turned off to see glitching action at 9:57am

Nothing tripped. No obvious damage.

The weight of SS can with copper liner  is 12.2 kg

Is 1 Amp for the heating jacket going to be enough? We should have some headroom.

Instock WIMA caps refilled to a minimum 50 pieces each.

This NPRO has a tripping power output******

" Hi Eric,

I checked with the Engineer as Vincent is travelling.

“The lasers have serial number below 2000 which we cannot repair them, we only can repair NPRO laser has serial number 2000 or later.”

Thanks,

Betty-Ann Watt

Southern Mexio is still shaking..... so as we

No sus tripped. Seimometers do not see the 5.3M  ?

The first Faraday isolater rejected beam path from the NPRO is fixed.

There are no more double sided tape on this table.

Gautam and Steve,

All 3 show the same noise level ~80 nV / rt Hz at 1 kHz as shown. Batteries ordered to be replaced in the top 2

We'll do more measurement to see how can we get to 4 nV / rt Hz  specification level.

 Telescope front lens to wall distance 25 cm,  GigE camera lenght 6 cm and cat6 cable 2cm

 Atm3,   Existing short camera  can has 16cm  lenght to lexan guard on viewport. Available 2" od periscope tube lenght is 8cm. The one in use 16 cm long.

             Note: we can fabricate a lite cover with tube that would accomodate longer telescope.

             Can we calibrate the AR coated M5018-SW and compare it's performance agains the 2" periscope

             Look at the Edmond Optics 3" od camera lens with AR

This lower priced   1" apeture Navitar lens  can be an option too.

 Atm1,   Now I can see dust. This is much better. The focus is not right yet.

Atm2,   Chamber viewport wiped and image refocused. Actually I was focusing on the dust.

Do not leave organic trash or food boxes in the 40m to attrack ants !

[ Gautam , Steve ]

c1susaux & c1iscaux were rebooted manually.

Lompoc 4.3M and 3.7M Avalon

Valve configuration: Vacuum normal

Note: Tp2 running at 75Krpm 0.25A 26C has a  load high pitch sound today. It's fore line pressure 78 mTorr. Room temp 20C

Udit Kahndelwal received 40m specific basic safety traning on Friday, Oct. 27

 IFO pressure 1.2e-5 Torr at 9:30am

Atm. 1,  This was the vacuum condition  this morning.

               IFO P1  9.7 mTorr, V1 open,  V4 was in closed position , ~37 C warm Maglev at normal 560Hz rotation speed with foreline pressure 3.9 Torr because V4 closed 2 days ago when TP2 failed .....see Atm.3

               The error messege at TP2  controller was: fault overtemp.

I did the following to restored IFO pumping: stopped pumping of the annulose with TP3 and valves were configured so TP3 can be the forepump of the Maglev.

closed VM1 to protect the RGA,  close PSL shutter .....see Gautam  entry

aux fan on to cool down Maglev-TP1, room temp 20 C,

aux drypump turned on and opend to TP3 foreline to gain pumping speed,

closed PAN to isolate annulos pumping,

opened V7 to pump Maglev forline with TP3 running at 50Krpm, It took 10 minutes to reach P2  1mTorr from 3.9 Torr

aux drypump closed off at P2  1 mTorr, TP3 foreline pressure 362 mTorr.......see Atm.2

As we are running now:

IFO pressure 7e-6 Torr at Hornet cold cathode gauge at 15:50  We have no IFO CC1 logging now.  Annuloses are in 3-5 mTorr range are not pumped.

TP3 as foreline pump of TP1 at 50 Krpm, 0.24 A, 24 C, it's drypump forline pressure 324 mTorr

V4 valve cable is disconnected.

I need help with wiring up the logging of the Hornet cold cathode gauge.

Our new Agilent Technology TwisTorr 84FS AG rack controller ( English Manual pages 195-297 )  RS232/485, product number X3508-64001, sn IT1737C383

This controller, turbo and it's drypump needs to be set up into our existing vacuum system. The intake valve of this turbo (V4) has to have a hardwired interlock that closes V4 when rotation speed is less than 20% of preset RPM speed.

The unit has an analoge 10Vdc output that is proportional to rotation speed. This can be used with a comperator to direct the interlock or there may be set software option in the controller to close the valve if the turbo slows down more than 20%

The last Upgrade of the 40m Vacuum System  1/2/2000 discribes our  vauum system  LIGO-T000054-00-R 

Here the LabView / Metrabus controls were replaced by VME processor and  an Epic interface

We do not have schematics of the hardware wiring.

We need help with this.

PSL shutter closed at 6e-6 Torr-it    

   The foreline pressure of the drypump is 850 mTorr at 8,446 hrs of seal life

V1 will be closed for ~20 minutes for drypump replacement..........

9:30am dry pump replaced, PSL shutter opened at 7.7E-6 Torr-it

  Valve configuration: vacuum normal as  TP3 is the forepump of the Maglev  & annuloses are not pumped.

BOOM SHAKA-LAKA

The TP3 foreline pressure was 4.8 Torr, 50K rpm 0.54A and 31C........Maglev rotation normal 560 Hz.......    IFO pressure 7.2e- 6 Torrit was not effected

V1 closed ......replaced drypump.........V1 opened

IFO 6.9e-6 Torrit at 19:55, TP3fl 18 mT,  50Krpm 0.15A 24C

VM1 is still closed

Annuloses are not pumped for 30 days, since TP2 failed.  IFO pressure 7e-6 Torr it,  Rga 2.6e-6 Torr

Valve configuration: Vacuum Normal as TP3 is the forepump of Maglev, annuloses are not puped at 1.1 Torr

TP3 50K rpm,  0.15A  24C, foreline pressure 16.1 mTorr

There was a power outage.

The IFO pressure is 12.8 mTorr-it and it is not pumped. V1 is still closed. TP1 is not running. The Rga is not powered.

The PSL output shutter is still closed. 2W Innolight turned on and manual beam block placed in its beampath.

3 AC units turned on at room temp 84F

IFO pumped down from 44 mTorr to 9.6e-6 Torr with Maglev  backed with only TP3

Aux drypump  was helping our std drypump during this 1 hour period. TP3 reached 32 C and slowed down 47K rpm

The peak foreline pressure at P2  was ~3 Torr

Hornet cold cathode gauge setting:   research mode, air,

                                                            2830 HV  1e-4A  at 9.6e-6 Torr,

                                                         [  3110 HV  8e-5A at 7.4e-6 Torr one day later ]

Annuloses are at 2 Torr, not pumped

Valve configuration:  vacuum normal, RGA is still off

PSL shutter is opened automatically. Manual block removed.

End IR lasers and doublers are turned on.

NOTE: Maglev " rotation X " on vacuum medm screen is not working! " C1:Vac-TP1_rot " channel was removed.  Use " NORMAL X " for rotation monitoring.

*We removed this (i.e. rotation) field from the MEDM screen to avoid confusion.

Bulb  is replaced.

Five mechcanical traps set inside of boxes. Red-white warning tape on top of each.

We could use similar load cells   to make the actual weight measurement on the Stacis legs. This seems practical in our case.

I have had bad experience with pneumatic Barry isolators.

Our approximate max compression loads are 1500 lbs on 2 feet and 2500 lbs on the 3rd one.

Good going Johannes!

I have just received the scheduling of the PSL self work for tomorrow. Gautam and I agreed that if it is needed I will shut the laser off and cover the hole table with plastic.

Measurements for good fit were made. The new shelf will be installed on next Tuesday at 2pm

The reference cavity ion pump is in the way  so the cavity will be moved 5" westward. The shelf height space will be 10"  Under shelf working height 18" to optical table.

[ Johannes, Rana, Mark and Steve ]

On the second trial the shelf was installed. Plastic cover removed. South end door put back on and 2W Inno turned on.

Shelf 10 " below the existing one:   92" x 30" x 3/4" melamine (or MDF) covered with white Formica.  200 lbs it's max load. Working distance to top of the table 18"

1500 and 2000 lbs load cells arrived from MIT to measure the vertical loads on each leg.

M4 local earthquake at 10:10 UTC    There is no sign of damage.

....here is an other one.........M5.8 Ferndale, CA at 16:40 UTC

pd80b rga scan at 175 day.  IFO pressure 7.3e-6 Torr-it

Condition: vacuum normal, annuloses not pumped. Rga turned on yesterday.

The rga was not on since last poweroutage Jan 2, 2018 It is warming up and outgassing Atm2

Annual crane inspection with load tests is scheduled for Monday, Feb 5, 2018 from 8 to 11:30am

Konecranes rescheduled this appointment to: Monday, Feb 12, 2018

Hornet cold cathode gauge analoge output  [ DSub9 pin 3 and 7 ] are wired to go ETMX Acromag. It was reading 4.9V at 7.8e-6 Torr [ 3,110 V  8.35e-5A ] at the end of a 24ft BNC cable. Now it has to be hook up to an Acromag channel.

This will replace the not functioning C1: Vac-CC1_pressure

gautam: the motivation behind hooking this gauge up to our DAQ system is that non-vacuum-system-experts have a quick diagnostic to make sure everything is in order. This gauge is physically placed adjacent to V1, and so if something goes wrong with our vacuum pumps, we would see the effect here immediately. we did note that occassionally, the reading fluctuated by ~1V on the DMM used to check the voltage output at the end of the BNC cable, so we still need to run some long-term stability analysis once this channel is hooked up to the Acromag.  For future reference, in order to make this gauge work, we need to check that

1. Error flag has been cleared.
2. HV is ON (state has to be manually toggled).

The ETMX  Sorrenson power supply -15V was running at -13.9V

Our 3 cranes passed  professional  inspection. Fred Goodbar of Konacrane with 450 lbs load at full extension.

Certificates will be posted in 40m wiki as they arrive.

Gautam and Steve,

The "called 225 lbs" steel crane load measured right on 102 kg

The trick to the measurment to maintain 1 mm gap to the central cilynder of the load cell.

The lead plate stabilized the large load.

gautam: some additional notes:

1. the wiring on the Omega controller unit as given to us was wrong - I had to fix this on the D-sub connector in order to get the load cell to work. something to check for the other units.
2. the main difficulty in doing this calibration run was that the readback is very sensitive to tilts of the load relative to the sensor.
3. the problem is complicated by the fact that the load cell itself does not have a flat surface - it has a ring that protrudes above the flat face of the cylindrical load cell by a few mm as Steve mentioned.
4. so in order to measure the weight of our stacks, we have to mitigate this problem and ensure that the full load of the stack is normally incident on the load cell - if the load cell itself is somehow torqued during the measurement because of the distribution of the load on it being uneven, we get an inaccurate measurement.
5. In this calibration measurement, we think the error is <1% (true mass is 102kg, we measure 104kg on the meter which seems reasonable as the sum of the donut + lead plate)

The forline pressure of TP3 was 399 mTorr

It was replaced this morning at  TP3 controller 134,638hrs with the "failed TP2 station" drypump. The foreline pressure now at TP3 is 100 mTorr at 6 hrs of operation.[ at day 3  63 mT ]

IFO pressure at CC Hornet 7.9e - 6 Torr

Valve configuration: vacuum normal as TP3 is the forepump of the Maglev & the annuloses are not pumped

All rack power supplies labeled if their load changed.

We have the IFO pressure logged again! Thanks Johannes and Gautam

This InstruTech cold cathode ionization vacuum gauge " Hornet " was installed 2016 Sep 14

Here is the CC1 gauge history of 10 years from 2015 Dec 1

The next thing to do is put this channel C1:Vac-CC1_HORNET_PRESSURE  on the 40m Vacuum System Monitor   [ COVAC_MONITOR.adl ] 

gautam 1pm: Vac MEDM screen monitor has been edited to change the readback channel for the CC1 pressure field - see Attachment #2. Seems to work okay.