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Date |
Author |
Type |
Category |
Subject |
Text |
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14351
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Thu Dec 13 12:06:35 2018 |
gautam | Update | General | Power Outage recovery | I did a walkaround and checked the status
of all the interlock switches I could find
based on the SOP |
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14352
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Thu Dec 13 18:12:47 2018 |
gautam | Update | IOO | ND filter on AS camera changed | In order to see the AS beam a bit more
clearly in our low-power config, I swapped
out the ND=1.0 filter on the AS camera for |
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14353
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Thu Dec 13 20:10:08 2018 |
Koji | Update | General | Power Outage recovery | [Gautam, Aaron, Koji]
The PSL interlock system
was fixed and now the 40m lab is laser hazard |
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14354
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Thu Dec 13 22:24:21 2018 |
aaron | Update | OMC | OMC channels | I completed testing of the AI board mentioned
above. In addition to the blown fuse, there
were two problems: |
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14355
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Thu Dec 13 22:36:42 2018 |
aaron | Update | OMC | Aligning the OMC | I turned on AUX, and aligned the aux beam
to be centered on the first optic the AS
beam sees on the AP table. I then turned |
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14356
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Thu Dec 13 22:56:28 2018 |
gautam | Update | CDS | Frames | [koji, gautam]
We looked into the /frames situation
a bit tonight. Here is a summary: |
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14357
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Fri Dec 14 13:02:24 2018 |
aaron | Update | OMC | Aligning the OMC | I replaced the 2'' AUX-AS combining
BS with a 2'' HR mirror for 1064.
I aligned the AUX beam from the new HR mirror |
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14358
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Fri Dec 14 13:06:12 2018 |
aaron | Update | OMC | Aligning the OMC | I replaced the 2'' AUX-AS combining
BS with a freshly mounted 2'' HR
mirror for 1064. The mirror is labelled 'Y1-2037-45-P', |
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14359
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Fri Dec 14 14:25:36 2018 |
Koji | Update | CDS | chiara backup | fsck of chiara backup disk (UUID="90a5c98a-22fb-4685-9c17-77ed07a5e000")
was done. But this required many files to
be fixed. So the backed-up files are not |
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14360
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Fri Dec 14 22:19:22 2018 |
Koji | Update | General | Chiara new USB 4TB DIsk | Edit:
It was not 4TB |
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14361
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Sat Dec 15 18:29:53 2018 |
Koji | Update | General | Chiara new USB 4TB DIsk | The local backup was done at 18:18
after 11h18m of running.
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14362
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Sat Dec 15 20:04:03 2018 |
gautam | Update | IOO | TT1/TT2 stepping | I'm running a script that moves TT1
and TT2 randomly in some restricted P/Y space
to try and find an alignment that gets some |
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14363
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Mon Dec 17 20:45:40 2018 |
aaron | Update | OMC | Aligning the OMC | [gautam, aaron]
We did work in the OMC chamber
today to get the OMC aligned. Aaron was in |
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14364
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Tue Dec 18 11:42:40 2018 |
Chub | Update | General | Acromag box wired | The Auxiliary DAQ Chassis, or Acromag box,
is now wired and ready for testing.
I will be sorting the cables at the vacuum |
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14365
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Tue Dec 18 18:13:32 2018 |
aaron | Update | OMC | OMC L HV Piezo driver tests (again) | I tested the OMC-L HV driver box again,
and made the following observations:
Drove the HV diff pins |
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14366
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Wed Dec 19 00:12:46 2018 |
gautam | Update | OMC | 40m OMC DCC node | I made a node
to collect drawings/schematics for the 40m
OMC, added the length drive for now. We should |
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14368
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Wed Dec 19 15:15:56 2018 |
gautam | Update | IOO | TT1/TT2 stepping | I removed the ND filter from the ETMYT
camera to facilitate searching for a TRY
beam. This should be replaced before we go |
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14369
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Wed Dec 19 19:51:19 2018 |
gautam | Update | General | Pumpdown prep | [Koji,
gautam]
Summary: |
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14370
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Wed Dec 19 21:14:50 2018 |
gautam | Update | VAC | Pumpdown tomorrow | I just spoke to Jon who asked me to make
this elog - we will be ready to test one
or more parts of the pumpdown procedure tomorrow |
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14371
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Wed Dec 19 22:11:28 2018 |
Koji | Update | General | How to align the copper OMC | The OMC input optics layout is attached
Checked the spot position on OMMT-FM1.
It was off from the center. This was causing |
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14372
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Thu Dec 20 08:38:27 2018 |
Jon | Update | VAC | Pumpdown tomorrow | Linked is the pumpdown
procedure, contained in the old 40m documentation.
The relevant procedure is "All Off --> |
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14373
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Thu Dec 20 10:28:43 2018 |
gautam | Update | VAC | Heavy doors back on for pumpdown 82 | [Chub, Koji, Gautam]
We replaced the EY and IOO chamber
heavy doors by 10:10 am PST. Torquing was |
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14374
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Thu Dec 20 17:17:41 2018 |
gautam | Update | CDS | Logging of new Vacuum channels | Added the following channels to C0EDCU.ini:
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14376
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Fri Dec 21 11:11:51 2018 |
gautam | Update | CDS | Logging of new Vacuum channels | The N2 pressure channel name was also wrong
in C0EDCU.ini, so I updated it this morning
to the correct name and units: |
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14385
|
Fri Jan 4 15:18:15 2019 |
Koji | Update | General | Chiara disk clean up and internally mounted | [Koji Gautam]
Took the opprtunity of the power
glitch to take care of the disk situation |
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14386
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Fri Jan 4 17:43:24 2019 |
gautam | Update | CDS | Timing issues | [J Hanks (remote),
koji, gautam] |
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14389
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Tue Jan 8 10:27:27 2019 |
gautam | Update | General | Near-term in-chamber work | 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 |
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14390
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Tue Jan 8 19:13:39 2019 |
Jon | Update | Upgrade | Ready for pumpdown tomorrow | Everything is set for a second pumpdown
tomorrow. We'll plan to start pumping
after the 1pm meeting. Since the main volume |
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14391
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Wed Jan 9 11:07:09 2019 |
gautam | Update | VAC | New Vac channel logging | 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 |
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14392
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Wed Jan 9 11:33:35 2019 |
gautam | Update | CDS | Timing issues still persist | Summary:
The gps time mismatch between /proc/gps
and gpstime seems to be resolved. However, |
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14393
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Wed Jan 9 20:01:25 2019 |
Jon | Update | VAC | Second pumpdown completed | [Jon, Koji, Chub, Gautam]
Summary
The
second pumpdown with the new vacuum system |
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14394
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Thu Jan 10 10:23:46 2019 |
gautam | Update | VAC | overnight leak rate | Overnight, the pressure increased from
247 uTorr to 264 uTorr over a period of 30000
seconds. Assuming an IFO volume of 33,000 |
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14395
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Thu Jan 10 11:32:40 2019 |
Chub | Update | VAC | Manual valve interfaced with CDS | Connected the manual gate valve status
indicator to the Acromag box this morning.
Labeled the temporary cable (a 50' 9p |
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14396
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Thu Jan 10 19:59:08 2019 |
Jon | Update | VAC | Vac System Running Normally on Turbo Pumps | [Jon, Gautam, Chub]
Summary
We continued
the pumpdown of the IFO today. The main volume |
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14397
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Fri Jan 11 16:38:57 2019 |
gautam | Update | General | Some alignment checks | 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 |
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14398
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Mon Jan 14 10:06:53 2019 |
gautam | Update | VAC | Vent 82 complete | [chub, gautam]
IFO pressure was ~2e-4 |
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14399
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Tue Jan 15 10:52:38 2019 |
gautam | Update | SUS | EY door opened | [chub, bob, gautam]
We took the heavy door off the
EY chamber at ~930am. |
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14400
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Tue Jan 15 15:27:36 2019 |
gautam | Update | General | Lasers and other stuff turned back on | VEA is now a laser hazard area
as usual, several 1064nm lasers
in the lab have been turned back on. Apart |
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14401
|
Tue Jan 15 15:49:47 2019 |
gautam | Update | SUS | EY door opened | While restoring OSEMs on ETMY, I noticed
that the open voltages for the UR and LL
OSEMs had significantly (>30%) changed |
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14402
|
Tue Jan 15 18:16:00 2019 |
gautam | Update | Optical Levers | ETMY Oplev HeNe needs replacement | Perhaps the ETMY Oplev HeNe is also giving
up - the power has fallen by ~30% over 1
year (Attachment #2), nearly twice as much |
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14403
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Wed Jan 16 16:25:25 2019 |
gautam | Update | SUS | Yarm locked | [chub, gautam]
Summary:
Y arm was locked at low power in |
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14404
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Fri Jan 18 12:52:07 2019 |
gautam | Update | Optical Levers | BS/PRM Oplev HeNe replaced | 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 |
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14405
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Fri Jan 18 15:34:37 2019 |
gautam | Update | Thermal Compensation | Elliptical reflector part number | Nobody documented this, but here is the
part number with mechanical drawings of the
elliptical reflector installed at EY: |
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14406
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Fri Jan 18 17:44:14 2019 |
gautam | Update | VAC | Pumping on RGA volume | Steve came by the lab today, and looked
at the status of the upgraded vacuum system.
He recommended pumping on the RGA volume, |
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14407
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Fri Jan 18 21:34:18 2019 |
gautam | Update | SUS | Unused optic on EY table | Does anyone know what the purpose of the
indicated optic in Attachment #1 is? |
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14408
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Sat Jan 19 05:07:45 2019 |
Koji | Update | SUS | Unused optic on EY table | I don't think it was used. It is not
on the diagram too. You can remove it. |
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14409
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Sat Jan 19 15:33:18 2019 |
gautam | Update | SUS | ETMY OSEMs faulty | After diagnosis with the tester box, as
I suspected, the fully open DC voltages on
the two problematic channels, LL and UR, |
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14411
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Tue Jan 22 20:36:53 2019 |
gautam | Update | SUS | ETMY OSEMs faulty | Short update on latest Satellite box woes.
I checked the resistance
of all 5 OSEM coils on ETMY using a DB25 |
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14412
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Tue Jan 22 20:45:21 2019 |
gautam | Update | VAC | New N2 setup | 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 |
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14413
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Wed Jan 23 12:39:18 2019 |
gautam | Update | SUS | EY chamber work | While Chub is making new cables for the
EY satellite box...
I removed the unused |
6x |