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Date |
Author |
Type |
Category |
Subject |
Text |
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4657
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Sat May 7 10:59:11 2011 |
Suresh | Update | RF System | RF Source filters changed |
The
SLP-50 filters which were on the 55 MHz lines |
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4656
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Sat May 7 02:52:53 2011 |
kiwamu | Update | LSC | TRY photo diode installed | [Suresh / Kiwamu]
We
installed the TRY photo diode (Thorlabs one) |
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4655
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Fri May 6 17:11:55 2011 |
steve | Update | SUS | SRM-oplev cable | The SRM qpd cable was removed from the
BS-table. It's path was changed from 1x4
to ITMY-table following the inner cable tray. |
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4654
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Fri May 6 15:59:40 2011 |
steve | Update | VAC | TP3 fore pump replaced | Dry fore pump of TP3 replaced by brand
new Varian SH-110 at 1.1 Torr_75,208
hrs |
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4653
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Fri May 6 15:42:55 2011 |
valera | Metaphysics | IOO | Input mode cleaner length and 11 MHz modulation frequency | After Kiwamu set the REFL11 phases
in the PRMI configuration (maximized PRM->REFL11I
reesponse) I tried to measure the MC length |
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4652
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Fri May 6 14:59:36 2011 |
Leo Singer | Configuration | SUS | Tuning ITMY bandstop | I tuned the ITMY bandstops -- 'before'
and 'after' spectra attached. Note
that the after the tuning, the bounce mode |
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4651
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Fri May 6 10:20:00 2011 |
steve | Summary | SAFETY | 2011 safety audit | The emphasis of this annual safety audit
was on safe electrical housekeeping
on March 3, 2011 |
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4650
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Fri May 6 06:36:18 2011 |
Suresh | Update | RF System | PD DC signals at each port connected | We now
have the DC signal from three PDs available
in the ADC channels 14,15 and 16. The |
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4649
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Fri May 6 01:27:12 2011 |
Koji | Summary | General | aLIGO BBPD / Green PD investigation | Minicircuits
ERA-5SM was used for the RF
amp of the BBPD. This amp is promising |
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4648
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Thu May 5 20:47:41 2011 |
Koji | Update | PSL | PMC aligned | The PMC exhibited the reduction of the
transmission, so it was aligned.
The misalignment was not the angle |
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4647
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Thu May 5 18:38:01 2011 |
rana | Summary | CDS | Sub-system TRAMP adjustments | I think
that the gain ramping time (_TRAMP) should |
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4646
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Thu May 5 17:19:21 2011 |
Leo Singer | Configuration | SUS | Tuning notch filters for bounce mode suspensions | I am tuning the notch filters for the bounce
modes in the suspensions, starting with the
ITMs and ETMs. I'll do the MCs, the |
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4645
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Thu May 5 16:11:22 2011 |
Jamie | Update | LSC | chans file for LSC |
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4644
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Thu May 5 15:33:37 2011 |
steve | Configuration | RF System | LSC rack | New right angle PVC front panel with SMA
bulkhead connectors are in place. The connections
are still lose. It is ready for Suresh to |
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4643
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Thu May 5 15:28:23 2011 |
kiwamu | Update | LSC | Re: MI locking : calibration of BS and ITMs actuators | They are the DC responses.
I put the resonant frequencies that |
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4642
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Thu May 5 15:26:52 2011 |
Leo Singer | Configuration | Computers | 'glue' installed on some control room computers | I installed 'glue' on Rossa, Allegra, and
Rosalba. This is a Python module that
includes a facility for LIGO_LW XML files. |
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4641
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Thu May 5 15:05:06 2011 |
steve | Update | PSL | PSL-FSS_RMTEMP is not back |
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4640
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Thu May 5 14:50:30 2011 |
Jenne | Update | LSC | chans file for LSC |
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4639
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Thu May 5 14:40:14 2011 |
Koji | Update | LSC | MI locking : calibration of BS and ITMs actuators | I've got confused
1) Are these the DC responses of
the coils? If that is true, we need to specify |
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4638
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Thu May 5 13:55:08 2011 |
kiwamu | Update | LSC | MI locking : calibration of BS and ITMs actuators | EDIT by
KI on 15/5/2011: |
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4637
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Thu May 5 13:14:15 2011 |
kiwamu | Update | LSC | chans file for LSC | Foton
doesn't correctly display the LSC filter
bank file : C1LSC.txt. |
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4636
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Thu May 5 13:13:32 2011 |
Jenne | Update | LSC | New RFPD screens are in | Joe helped me compile the lsc simulink
model, and now we have R&D phase rotation.
Right |
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4635
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Thu May 5 13:12:06 2011 |
Jenne | Update | PSL | Temperature drift, trying to shield PMC with foil | eeek. I've been running around
all day, so this is an incomplete elog.
I'll fill in more stuff in the next hour |
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4634
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Thu May 5 12:01:53 2011 |
Larisa Thorne | Configuration | Electronics | Jenne-Seismometer LPF project | Having finished the bulk of the work
for the LPF itself ( see here ),
I have begun trying to design the seismometer |
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4633
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Thu May 5 10:19:22 2011 |
steve | Update | PSL | PSL-FSS_RMTEMP is back | Valera and I installed the the temp sensor
and the interface box that Rana fixed. This
may help with diagnosing the PSL drift. |
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4632
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Thu May 5 04:38:20 2011 |
Koji | Summary | LSC | Comparison between S3399 and FFD-100 | Comparison between Hamamatsu S3399 and
Perkin Elmer FFD-100
These are the candidates for the |
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4631
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Thu May 5 00:08:59 2011 |
Jenne | Update | LSC | (Almost) New Screens for RFPDs | I modified C1LSC.mdl to use the CDSphase
blocks, which automatically calculate the
R and D phase rotation for us. Now |
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4630
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Wed May 4 17:32:06 2011 |
Larisa Thorne | Configuration | Electronics | Jenne-Seismometer LPF project | Building on what was posted previously
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4629
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Wed May 4 15:56:09 2011 |
valera | Summary | General | PSL and MC trends | The attached plot shows 2 day trends of
the PMC and MC reflected and transmitted
power, the PSL POS/ANG QPD signals, and the |
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4628
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Wed May 4 15:39:32 2011 |
Suresh | Update | RF System | RF Source Harmonics |
I have measured the RF source harmonics in |
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4627
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Wed May 4 15:22:39 2011 |
kiwamu | Update | | Re: Intermittent MC3 UL PD signal | I
went push all the possible connectors for
the MC3 shadow sensors including the SCSIs, |
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4626
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Wed May 4 13:57:04 2011 |
kiwamu | Update | SUS | mechanical resonances updated | [Leo w/ a little help from Kiwamu]
Leo
summarized the mechanical resonances of all |
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4625
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Wed May 4 13:51:51 2011 |
valera | Configuration | | Intermittent MC3 UL PD signal | The attached plot shows the 30 day trend
of the MC3 UL PD signal. The signal dropped
to zero at some point but now it is close |
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4623
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Wed May 4 13:45:56 2011 |
kiwamu | Update | LSC | locking last night | Last night I was trying to calibrate the
MICH error signal and the actuators on BS
and ITMs. |
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4622
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Wed May 4 12:07:48 2011 |
Suresh | Update | RF System | REFL55 installed on the AP table | REFL55
has been installed on the AP table.
REFL11 has been moved to make space for a |
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4621
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Wed May 4 11:48:01 2011 |
Suresh | Update | IOO | MC Locking not working | [Valera, Suresh]
The first time I noticed that the
MC was not locking was after I had finished |
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4620
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Tue May 3 18:46:06 2011 |
rana | Update | IOO | MC Locking not working | I found that the MC autolocker was OFF.
Kiwamu says he turned it off because its
slow. Suresh says that he has some feelings |
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4619
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Tue May 3 18:25:38 2011 |
kiwamu | Summary | LSC | PRMI locking : plan | [Rana/Jamie/Kiwamu]
Since we've got the PRMI locked
we now should be able to do more qualitative |
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4618
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Tue May 3 17:19:25 2011 |
kiwamu | Update | Electronics | Heliax connectors on 1Y2 rack : tightened | My observation wasn't accurate enough.
The
looseness came from the fact that the N-SMA |
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4617
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Tue May 3 16:47:55 2011 |
kiwamu | Update | LSC | PRMI locking : details | Here
are some details about the PRMI locking done
last night. |
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4616
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Tue May 3 16:20:13 2011 |
steve | Update | SUS | PRM & BS oplevs are ready |
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4615
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Tue May 3 15:59:22 2011 |
steve | Frogs | Photos | X-mas comes early | The little red all terrain cargo wagon
40" x 18" has just arrived
on pneumatic wheels. |
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4614
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Tue May 3 15:48:26 2011 |
Larisa Thorne | Update | Electronics | laser temperature control LPF, final version! | This is a continuation of this
The low pass filter is finally
acceptable, and its Bode graph is below (on |
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4613
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Tue May 3 15:04:20 2011 |
kiwamu | Update | SUS | Re: DRMI prep : suspension diagnostic | Jenne went through all the suspension racks
and pushed all the connectors.
After pushing them, we had a quick |
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4612
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Tue May 3 14:35:44 2011 |
Larisa Thorne | Configuration | Electronics | Jenne-Seismometer LPF project | I was charge with making a Non-Inverting
Op Amp Low Pass Feedback circuit for Jenne,
which may somehow be integrated into a seismometer |
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4611
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Tue May 3 13:22:13 2011 |
Leo | Update | SUS | Re: DRMI prep : suspension diagnostic | Here are the free-swinging spectra for
the BS, ETMX, ETMY, ITMX, ITMY, MC1, MC2,
MC3, and PRM chambers. Kiwamu left |
10x |
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4610
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Tue May 3 11:49:03 2011 |
Koji | Update | LSC | daytime tasks | Done. C1:PSL-PMC_PMCTRANSPD was improved
from ~0.75 to 0.87.
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4609
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Tue May 3 10:59:31 2011 |
josephb | Update | CDS | 1Y2 binary output adapter board now powered | I temporarily turned off the power to the
1Y2 rack this morning while wiring in the
binary output adapter board power (+/- 15V) |
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4608
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Tue May 3 10:41:35 2011 |
josephb | Update | CDS | Morning maintenance | 1) Filled in the C1SUS_BS_OLMATRIX properly
so as to make the BS oplev work for Steve.
2) Turned on the ITMX damping. |
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4607
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Tue May 3 10:21:25 2011 |
Koji | Update | LSC | daytime tasks | I think the installation of the PD DC
signals are quite important. What to do
1) Connect the DC signals to the right |
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