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4243
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Thu Feb 3 04:43:58 2011 |
Suresh | Update | Electronics | Added two new DAQ channels | [Suresh, Joe]
We added the following two new DAQ
channels into the c1:GCV model. The |
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4242
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Thu Feb 3 01:46:54 2011 |
Kevin | Update | Electronics | POY Shot Noise and Dark Spectrum | [Koji and Kevin]
I measured the shot noise of POY
and fit the data to determine the RF transimpedance |
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4241
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Wed Feb 2 15:07:20 2011 |
josephb | Update | CDS | activateDAQ.py now includes PEM channels | [Joe, Jenne]
We
modified the activateDAQ.py script to handle |
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4240
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Wed Feb 2 12:55:34 2011 |
Koji | Summary | Green Locking | Freq fluctuation measured by the freq divider and Rana's analog PFD | I found that some flakiness of the beat
signals comes from the RF components for
the beat detection. |
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4239
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Wed Feb 2 10:44:26 2011 |
Koji | Summary | Green Locking | Freq fluctuation measured by the freq divider and Rana's analog PFD | The freq fluctuation of the beat note
has been measured with the following condition
The IR beam only locked |
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4238
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Wed Feb 2 09:56:55 2011 |
Koji | Summary | Green Locking | Installed the freq divider and Rana's PFD | - The freq divider and Rana's PFD were
hooked up to the ADCs. (Attachment 1)
(I leave the analog PFD not explained |
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4237
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Wed Feb 2 03:27:20 2011 |
Koji | Summary | Green Locking | 85MHz Freq divider | The freq divider was built and installed
in the beat detection path.
Attachment 1: Circuit diagram |
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4236
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Tue Feb 1 17:34:21 2011 |
Jenne | Update | SUS | ETMX and PRM watchdogs tripped | I sat down in the control room to find
that ETMX and PRM's watchdogs had been tripped.
I don't know how long they've been crazy, |
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4235
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Tue Feb 1 15:09:41 2011 |
Koji | Omnistructure | General | Projector - fixed | The projector in the controls room has
been fixed the orange blinking of the status
LED. |
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4234
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Mon Jan 31 18:25:25 2011 |
Aidan | Update | Green Locking | DFD - results from the new filters (and running with AWG) |
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4233
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Mon Jan 31 16:12:11 2011 |
steve | Update | VAC | Vertex crane upgrade shorth coming |
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4232
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Mon Jan 31 12:40:38 2011 |
rana, joe | Update | Green Locking | DFD - medm screen | This is a plot showing the old filters
and the new ones we added this morning.
The new ones have a Cheby for AC |
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4231
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Mon Jan 31 10:31:30 2011 |
josephb | Update | WienerFiltering | Improvement in H1 Wiener FF prediction by using weights and taps | Rossa is a rather beefy machine. It effectively
has 8 Intel i7 Cores (2.67 Ghz each) and
12 Gigs of ram. Megatron only has 8 |
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4230
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Mon Jan 31 07:41:23 2011 |
Aidan | Update | Green Locking | DFD - medm screen | I added an MEDM screen for the DFD to the
GREEN screen. It is displayed in the attached
screen shot. |
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4229
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Mon Jan 31 07:03:59 2011 |
Aidan | Summary | Green Locking | DFD - noise spectra |
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4228
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Sun Jan 30 19:26:03 2011 |
Koji | Summary | Green Locking | Prototype freq divider | A prototype freq divider has been made
which works up to ~40MHz.
74HC4060 (14bit binary ripple counter) |
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4227
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Sun Jan 30 17:15:09 2011 |
Aidan | Summary | Green Locking | Digital Frequency discriminator - frequency noise | I've had a go at trying to estimate the
frequency noise of the digital frequency
discriminator (DFD). I input a 234.5Hz (0.5Vpp) |
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4226
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Sat Jan 29 03:13:44 2011 |
rana | Update | WienerFiltering | Improvement in H1 Wiener FF prediction by using weights and taps | (Jenne, Rana)
Tonight we noticed that there
were significant improvements to be had in |
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4225
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Sat Jan 29 00:31:05 2011 |
Suresh | Update | General | Vertex crane upgrade completed | The
Vertex crane is smarter and safer now. |
6x |
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4224
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Fri Jan 28 18:19:21 2011 |
Jenne | Update | IOO | WFS2 has some kind of oil on it | Mystery solved!
I removed WFS2 from the AP table
(after placing markers so I can put it back |
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4223
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Fri Jan 28 15:50:44 2011 |
Jenne | Configuration | PSL | The PSL has a name! | Back in the days when we were talking about
getting a new 2W PSL, I was given naming
rights by Rana for this new laser. |
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4222
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Fri Jan 28 13:07:31 2011 |
Jenne | Update | IOO | Beam is back on the WFS | The MC WFS have had beam dumps in front
of them for the past ~2 weeks, until I could
find the appropriate optic to put in the |
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4221
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Fri Jan 28 13:05:56 2011 |
Koji | Configuration | Computers | script path fixed | We had some issues in terms of the script
paths. I have fixed it by replacing /cvs/cds/caltech/scripts
to /cvs/cds/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts |
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4220
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Fri Jan 28 12:15:58 2011 |
josephb | Update | CDS | Updating conlog channel list/ working on "HealthCheck" script | I've updated
the scan_adls script (currently located in
/cvs/cds/caltech/conlog/bin) to look at new |
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4219
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Fri Jan 28 11:08:44 2011 |
josephb | Update | Green Locking | no transmission of ALS signals | As you've
correctly noted, the source of the C1:GCV-SCX_ETMX_ALS
channels is in the c1gcv model. The first |
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4218
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Fri Jan 28 10:27:46 2011 |
Aidan, Joe | Summary | Green Locking | Digital Frequency Discriminator - calibration | One more thing ... we can calibrate
the output of the LP filter to give a result
in Hz with the following calibration: |
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4217
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Fri Jan 28 09:03:38 2011 |
Aidan | Summary | Green Locking | Digital Frequency Discriminator |
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4216
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Thu Jan 27 23:21:50 2011 |
rana | Summary | Green Locking | Digital Frequency Discriminator | That's some pretty fast work! I
thought we would be taking up to a week to
get that happening. I wonder what's the right |
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4215
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Thu Jan 27 21:43:37 2011 |
Koji | Update | Green Locking | no transmission of ALS signals | No signal is transmitted from C1:GCV-SCX_ETMX_ALS
(on c1gcv) to C1:GCV-SCX_ETMX_ALS (on c1scx)
I can't find RFM definition for ALS |
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4214
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Thu Jan 27 21:10:47 2011 |
Osamu | Update | 40m Upgrading | Calibrated noise of green | I calibrated noise spectrum of green lock.
1. Measurement of conversion factor
of ADC input from V to ct: |
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4213
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Thu Jan 27 17:12:02 2011 |
Aidan, Joe | Summary | Green Locking | Digital Frequency to Amplitude converter | Joe and I built a very simple digital frequency
to amplitude converter using the RCG. The
input from an ADC channel goes through a |
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4212
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Thu Jan 27 15:16:43 2011 |
josephb | Update | CDS | Updated generate_master_screens.py | I modified
the generate_master_screens.py script in
/opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/medm/master/ to handle |
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4211
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Thu Jan 27 11:04:27 2011 |
Koji | Update | Green Locking | beat freq scan | Experiment in the night of Jan 26.
o The arm was locked for the IR beam
and was aligned for it. |
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4210
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Thu Jan 27 03:24:56 2011 |
Kevin | Update | Electronics | POY Optical Transfer Function | [Rana and Kevin]
I measured the optical transfer function
of POY and fit the data using LISO. The fit |
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4209
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Wed Jan 26 14:49:48 2011 |
Aidan | Update | Environment | Turned on Control room AC | 80 degrees is too uncomfortable in the
control room so I turned on the AC. The set
point is 74F. |
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4208
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Wed Jan 26 12:04:31 2011 |
josephb | Update | CDS | Explanation of why c1sus and c1lsc models crash when the other one goes down | So apparently
with the current Dolphin drivers, when one
of the nodes goes down (say c1lsc), it causes |
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4207
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Wed Jan 26 12:03:45 2011 |
Koji | Update | CDS | Front End multiple crash | This is definitely a nice magic to know
as the rebooting causes too much hustles.
Also, you and I should spend an hour |
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4206
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Wed Jan 26 10:58:48 2011 |
josephb | Update | CDS | Front End multiple crash | Looking
at dmesg on c1lsc, it looks like the model
is starting, but then eventually times out |
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4205
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Wed Jan 26 10:11:47 2011 |
Aidan | Update | Green Locking | cavity scan |
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4204
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Wed Jan 26 02:18:12 2011 |
Koji | Update | SUS | ETMX length to angle matrix | I have put an offset of 1000 counts to
C1:SUS-ETMX_ALS_OFFSET. This actually misalign
the mirror a lot. |
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4203
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Tue Jan 25 22:49:13 2011 |
Koji | Update | CDS | Front End multiple crash | STATUS:
Rebooted c1lsc and
c1sus. Restarted fb many times.
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4202
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Tue Jan 25 21:57:59 2011 |
Koji | Update | Green Locking | Slow servo for green laser | 1. The dewhitening filter CH6 had no output.
I disconnected the cable and put it to the
monitor out of the AI filter. |
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4201
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Tue Jan 25 20:42:46 2011 |
Osamu | Update | Green Locking | Slow servo for green laser | I implemented a slow servo for green laser
thermal control on c1scx.mdl. Ch6,7 of ADC
and ch6 of DAC are assigned for this servo |
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4200
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Tue Jan 25 15:20:38 2011 |
josephb | Update | CDS | Updated c1rfm model plus new naming convention for RFM/Dolphin | After
sitting down for 5 minutes and thinking about
it, I realized the names I had been using |
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4199
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Tue Jan 25 06:48:55 2011 |
kiwamu | Update | Green Locking | To do list | Here are some
tasks that I want someone to work on during |
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4198
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Tue Jan 25 05:26:51 2011 |
kiwamu | Update | Green Locking | cavity scan | |
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4197
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Tue Jan 25 00:09:54 2011 |
Koji | Update | General | Jenne laser is at PSL Lab | I found Tara's elog entry that Jenne laser
is at PSL Lab.
Since we recently use it frequently, |
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4196
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Mon Jan 24 14:27:13 2011 |
kiwamu | Update | Green Locking | Re: X arm locked ! |
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4195
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Mon Jan 24 13:08:07 2011 |
kiwamu | Update | Green Locking | Re: X arm locked ! |
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4194
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Mon Jan 24 10:39:16 2011 |
josephb | HowTo | DAQ | DAQ Wiki Failure | Actually
both port 8087 and 8088 work to talk to the
frame builder. Don't let the lack of |
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