In order to block stray beams, I have put some beam dumps and razor blades on the PSL  table.

There were three undesired spots in total. I found two spots on the south side door of the PSL room, close to Mach-Zehnder.

Another spots was on the middle of the north door. Now they all are blocked successfully.

The overnight triangle wave I ran on the AOM drive turns out to have produced no signal in the FAST feedback to the PZT.

The input power to the cavity was ~10 mW (I'm totally guessing). The peak-peak amplitude of the triangle wave was 50% of the total power.

The spectral density of the fast signal at the fundamental frequency (~7.9 mHz) is ~0.08 V/rHz. The FAST calibration is ~5 MHz/V. So, since we

see no signal, we can place an upper limit on the amount of frequency shift = (5 MHz/V) * (0.08 V/rHz) * sqrt(0.0001 Hz) = 4 kHz.

Roughly this means that the RIN -> Hz coefficient must be less than 4 kHz / 5 mW or ~ 1 Hz/uW.

For comparison, the paper on reference cavities by the Hansch group lists a coefficient of ~50 Hz/uW. However, they have a finesse of 400000

while we only have a finesse of 8000-10000. So our null result means that our RC mirrors' absorption is perhaps less than theirs. Another possibility

is that their coating design has a higher thermo-optic coefficient. This is possible, since they probably have much lower transmission mirrors. It would be

interesting to know how the DC thermo-optic coefficient scales with transmission for the standard HR coating designs.

 Vac- rack is powered back up.  UPS first, than all other power switches from top to bottom of the rack, except Maglev

Manually started one by one TP2 and TP3  to accelerate to 50 KRPM

Brought up vac.control screen on lap-top at /cvs/cds/caltech/medm/c0/ve/VacControl_BAK.adl

V5 and VM3 were opened so TP3 can pump on the RGA

V4 was opened so TP2 can pump on the Maglev-TP1. The Maglev power was  turned on and started acceleration.

The vac control screen positions indicators were checked for true position and annulies vent valves were opened.

RGA manual on/off switch was turned at the top of the RGA-head. Ubuntu copmuter was started at cc4 1.1e-6 Torr

The RGA communication was started with:  ssh c0rga from control room

The rga-script was started ./RGAset.py     This script turns on the filament, rs-232 and scan parameters etc

Vac -configuration: IFO-P1 at atm, RGA is pumped and running in background mode, all annulos at atm

The 40m safety audit will be at Wednesday afternoon, March 3

Please participate getting our lab to inspection grade safety level.

Since Rosalba wanted to update ~500 packages, I let it do it. This, of course, stopped the X server from running. I downloaded and installed the newest Nvidia driver and its mostly OK.

The main problem with the auto-update on our workstations is that we've updated some packages by hand; i.e. not using the standard CentOS yum. So that means that the auto-update doesn't work right. From now on, if you want to install a fancier package than what CentOS distributes, you should commit to handle the system maintenance for these workstations for the future. Its not that we can't have new programs, we just have to pay the price.

At 23:45 PST, I also started a slow triangle wave on the AOM drive amplitude. This is to see if there's a response in the FSS-FAST which might imply a coupling from intensity noise to frequency noise via absorbed power and the dn/dT effect in the coatings.

Its a 93 second period triangle modulating the RC power from 100% down to 50%.

1. Turned ON the RAID above linux1.
2. Hooked up a monitor and keyboard and then turned ON linux1.
3. After linux1 booted, turned ON nodus - then restarted apache and elog on it using the wiki instructions.
4. Turned on all of the control room workstatiions, tuned Pandora to Johnny Cash, started the auto package updater on Rosalba (517 packages).
5. Started the startStrip script on op540m.
6. turned on RAID for frames - wait for it to say 'SATA', then turn on daqctrl and then fb40m and then daqawg and then dcuepics
7. turned on all the crates for FEs, Sorensens, Kepcos for LSC, op340m, mafalda was already on
8. fb40m again doesn't mount the RAID again!
9. I turned on fb40m2 and that fixes the problem. The fb40m /etc/vfstab points to 198.168.1.2, not the JetStor IP address.
10. I plugged in the Video Switch - its power cord was disconnected.
11. FEs still timing out saying 'no response from EPICS', but Alberto is now here.

Sun Feb 28 18:23:09 2010

Hi. This is Alberto. Its Sun Feb 28 19:23:09 2010

1. Turned on c1dcuepics, c0daqctrl and c0daqawg. c0daqawg had a "bad"status on the daqdetail medm screen. The FEs still don't come up.
2. Rebooted c1dcuepics and power cycled c0daqctrl and c0daqawg. The problem is still there.
3. Turned on c1omc. Problem solved.
4. Rebooted c1dcuepics and power cycled c0daqctrl and c0daqawg. c0daqawg now good. The FE are coming up.
5. Plugged in the laser for ETMY's oplev
6. Turned on the laser of ETMX's oplev from its key.

 Monday, March 1, 9:00 2010 Steve turns on PSL-REF cavity ion pump HV at 1Y1

There is a planned power outage tomorrow, Saturday from 7am till midnight.

I vented all annulies and switched to ALL OFF configuration. The small region of the RGA is still under vacuum.

The vac-rack: gauges, c1vac1 and UPS turned off.

Last night I worked on the MC incident beam such that we can hit the center of the MC mirrors.

Steve and I checked the incident beam on MC1. We found the beam is ~5mm south.
This was not too critical but it is better to be realigned. I moved the steering mirror on the OMC
table (in vac). We kept the MC resonated. After the maximization of the resonance, I realigned the
MC1 and MC3 such that the resonance in dominated by TEM00.

Jenne, Kiwamu, and I then closed the light door on to the OMC/IMC.

I will make more detailed entry with photos in order to explain what and how I did.

This is going to be a laundry list of the mile markers achieved so far:

* Guiderod and wire standoff glued to each ITMX and ITMY

* Magnets glued to dumbbells (4 sets done now).  ITMX has 244 +- 3 Gauss, ITMY has 255 +- 3 Gauss.  The 2 sets for SRM and PRM are 255 +- 3 G and 264 +- 3 G.  I don't know which set will go with which optic yet.

* Magnets glued to ITMX.  There were some complications removing the optic from the magnet gluing fixture.  The way the optic is left with the glue to dry overnight is with "pickle picker" type grippers holding the magnets to the optic.  After the epoxy had cured, Kiwamu and I took the grippers off, in preparation to remove the optic from the fixture.  The side magnet (thankfully the side where we won't have an OSEM) and dumbbell assembly snapped off.  Also, on the UL magnet, the magnet came off of the dumbbell (the dumbbell was still glued to the glass).  We left the optic in the fixture (to maintain the original alignment), and used one of the grippers to glue the magnet back to the UL dumbbell.  The gripper in the fixture has very little slop in where it places the magnet/dumbbell, so the magnet was reglued with very good axial alignment.  Since after the side magnet+dumbbell came off the glass, the 2 broke apart, we did not glue them back on to the optic.  They were reattached, so that we can in the future put the extra side magnet on, but I don't think that will be necessary, since we already know which side the OSEM will be on.

* Magnets glued to ITMY.  This happened today, so it's drying overnight.  Hopefully the grippers won't be sticky and jerky like last time when we were removing them from the fixture, so hopefully we won't lose any magnets when I take the optic out of the fixture.

* ITMX has been placed in its suspension cage.  The first step, before getting out the wire, is to set the optic on the bottom EQ stops, and get the correct height and get the optic leveled, to make things easier once the wire is in place.  Koji and I did this step, and then we clamped all of the EQ stops in place to leave it for the night.

* The HeNe laser has been leveled, to a beam height of 5.5inches, in preparation for the final leveling of the optics, beginning tomorrow.  The QPD with the XY decoder is also in place at the 5.5 inch height for the op lev readout.  The game plan is to leave this set up for the entire time that we're hanging optics.  This is kind of a pain to set up, but now that it's there, it can stay out of the way huddled on the side of the flow bench table, ready for whenever we get the ETMs in, and the recoated PRM. 

* Koji and Steve got the ITMX OSEMs from in the vacuum, and they're ready for the hanging and balancing of the optic tomorrow.  Also, they got out the satellite box, and ran the crazy-long cable to control the OSEMs while they're on the flow bench in the clean room.

Koji and I discovered a problem with the small EQ stops, which will be used in all of the SOS suspensions for the bottom EQ stops.  They're too big.  :(  The original document (D970312-A-D) describing the size for these screws was drawn in 1997, and it calls for 4-40 screws.  The updated drawing, from 2000 (D970312-B-D) calls for 6-32 screws.  I naively trusted that updated meant updated, and ordered and prepared 6-32 screws for the bottom EQ stops for all of the SOSes.  Unfortunately, the suspension towers that we have are tapped for 4-40.  Thumbs down to that.  We have a bunch of vented 4-40 screws in the clean room cabinets, which I can drill, and have Bob rebake, so that Zach and Mott can make viton inserts for them, but that will be a future enhancement.  For tonight, Koji and I put in bare vented 4-40 screws from the clean room supply of pre-baked screws.  This is consistent with the optics in our chambers having bare screws for the bottom EQ stops, although it might be nicer to have cushy viton for emergencies when the wire might snap.  The real moral of this story is: don't trust the drawings.  They're good for guidelines, but I should have confirmed that everything fit and was the correct size.

Koji, Steve

ITMX OSEM CONFIGURATION

[Steve, Bob, Joe, Zach, Alberto, Kiwamu, Koji]

We opened the OMC-IMC access connector, ITMX North door, and ITMY West door.
We worked from 9:30-11:00.
The work was quite smooth thanks to the nice preparation of Steve as usual.

Thank the team for the great work!

Since we're going to open the MC1 tank tomorrow, I've moved the MC1 accelerometers and the Guralp over to underneath MC2 for the vent.  I'll reconnect them later.

Most of the RFM went red this morning. I took the nuclear option and it seemed to be recovered.

 Kiwamu has completed the vent.

The vent has been finished.

Now the pressure inside the chamber is 760 torr, and it's getting equilibrium with the atmospheric pressure.

Therefore we are ready and can open the door of the chamber tomorrow.

I ran the start Apache script as described by Yoichi in the WIki. SVN back up.

 Our vacuum was not pumped for 4 days. The computers were not up when we started pumping again. The manual reading on P1 was 15 mTorr.

This means that our outgassing plus leakrate is  ~3.8 mTorr /day 

3-5 mTorr / day is normal

Our janitor dropped one 48" long  fluorescent tube on the top cover of ETMX-isct. This accident made glasses fly all over the place.

He cleaned up nicely, but please beware of small glass pieces around ETMX chamber.

We did not clean up on the table in order to reserve oplev and green ITMX pointing alignment.

Plot below shows that the alignment was not effected.

Kiwamu and Steve have started venting the 40m vacuum envelope.

Preparation:

centered oplevs at resonating cavities,

ITM references were set by green pointer from the ends by Koji,

closed  PSL shutter and placed manual block into beam path,

checked  jamnuts in locked positions on bellows,

turned  HV off at PZT-Jena "steering mirror" power supply and OMC HV ps

checked  particle counts,

switched oplev servos off,

set up N2 cylinder to start vent from 1e-6 Torr to 25 Torr,

have ~ 6 cylinders of instrument grade compressed air to bring envelope from 25 Torr to 760 Torr

All three cranes were wiped off today.

Work on 22nd Monday:

[MC recovery]

- Tried to lock MC after the computer recovery by Joe.
- A lot of higher modes. I can touch the input periscope or the MC mirrors.
- First tried to align the MC mirrors. MC1 was aligned against the MC REFL PD. MC2/3 was aligned to maximize the transmitted power.
- After the alignment, I got the MC Trans Sum ~8V. Also I saw the flashing of the arm cavities. I decided to take this alignment although the beam looks little bit clipped by the faraday.

[IFO alignment recovery]

- Aligned the arms for TEM00 manually.
- Arm alignment script seems not working now. This could come from the move of the end QPDs
- PRMI/DRMI were aligned. All alignment values saved.

[Low power MC]

[Optical config]

- I fixed the MCT CCD camera. It is quite useful to align the MC.

- Inserted HWP+Cube PBS+HWP combo in the MC incident path.
- First HWP and PBS adjust the light power. The second HWP is fixed at 342deg such that it restores the poralization to S.
- The incident power was measured by the SCIENTECH power meter. Offset of 3mW was subtracted in the table below.

- HWP1 85deg is the nominal.

- I needed to touch the steering mirror (indicated by the picture) to obtain TEM00.
  The alignment of the HWPs and the cube PBS didn't change the mode. Thermal lense of the cube?

- I could not lock the MC with the incident power below 100mW. So the BS in the MC REFL path was replaced by a total reflector (Y1-45S).
- This increased the power on the MC REFL PD x10 of the previous. NOW WE ARE CONSTRAINED BETWEEN 81deg~90deg. DON'T ROTATE FURTHER!
- The original BS was stored on the AP table as shown in the picture.
- This total reflector disabled the MC WFS QPDs. We can't use them.

[Lock of the MC with 20mW incident]
- Disable the MC autolocker.
- Disable the MC WFS.
- Run
  /cvs/cds/caltech/scripts/MC/mcloopson
- Turn on the MCL servo.
- Set the MCL gain to 1.5 (it was nominally 0.3 for the high power)
- Just wait until lock.

[Gain boost after the lock] ...If you like to have more gain
- There was almost no room to increase the MCL gain.
- MC_REFL_GAIN can be increased from +6dB to +20dB
  ezcawrite "C1:IOO-MC_REFL_GAIN" 20
- MC_VCO_GAIN can be increased from -3dB to +2dB
  ezcawrite "C1:IOO-MC_VCO_GAIN" 2
- Crank the FSS gains
  ezcawrite C1:PSL-FSS_MGAIN `ezcaread -n C1:PSL-STAT_FSS_NOM_C_GAIN`
  ezcawrite C1:PSL-FSS_FASTGAIN `ezcaread -n C1:PSL-STAT_FSS_NOM_F_GAIN`

[If lock is lost]
- Run
  /cvs/cds/caltech/scripts/MC/mcdown

[Kiwamu, Jenne]

The magnets + dumbbell standoffs have been glued to ITMX.  We're waiting overnight for them to dry. 

Since I broke one of the magnet + dumbbells on the ITMY set, we've glued another dumbbell to the 6th magnet, and it should be ready for us to glue to ITMY tomorrow, once ITMX is dry and out of the fixture.  This doesn't put us behind schedule at all, so that's good.

We had been concerned that there might be a problem with the arm of the guiderod fixture being glued to ITMY, but it was fine after all.  Everything is going smoothly so far.

[Zach, Mott]

Zach and Mott are almost prepared to start cutting the viton for the earthquake stops.  We need 2 full sets by Wednesday morning, when we expect to begin hanging the ITMs.

While working on c1omc, I created a .cshrc file in the controls home directory, and had it source the cshrc.40m file so that useful shortcuts like "target" and "c" work, among other things.  I also fixed the resolv.conf file so that it correctly uses linux1 as its name server (speeding up ssh login times).

Even after bringing up the fb40m, I was unable to get the front ends to come up, as they would error out with an RFM problem.

We proceeded to reboot everything I could get my hands on, although its likely it was daqawg and daqctrl which were the issue, as on the C0DAQ_DETAIL screen their status had been showing as 0xbad, but after the reboot showed up as 0x0.  They had originally come up before the frame builder had been fixed, so this might have been the culprit.  In the course of rebooting, I also found c1omc and c1lsc had been turned off as well, and turned them on.

After this set of reboots, we're now able to bring the front ends up one by one.

I fixed the JetStor 416S raid array IP address by plugging in my laptop to its ethernet port, setting my IP to be on the same subnet, and using the web interface.  (After finally tracking down the password, it has been placed in the usual place).

After this change, I powered up the fb40m2 machine and reboot the fb40m machine. This seems to have made all the associated lights green.

Data viewer is working such that is recording from the point I fixed the JetStor raid array and did the fb40m reboot.  It also can go back in time before the IP switch over.

Turned on the power supply for the oplev lasers.
Turned on the power of the aux NPRO.
Turned on some of the Sorensen at 1X1.
Fixed the thermal output to round -4.0.
Locked PMC / MZ.

Waiting for the computers recovering.

Morning condition: vacuum rack power is still off, no MEDM screen reading.....meaning unknown vacuum pressure.We closed PSL shutter immediately.

Joe restored c1iscepis and Jenne powered up the vac-rack UPS. Now the rest of the vac-rack power were restored from starting at the top to bottom.

P1 was reading 15 mTorr.  We restarted pumps and  set vacuum valve positions. V1 opening required Rob's recipe of elog # 1863 to defeat interlock that

has a non communicating gauge: PTP1

CC1 pressure just reached 1e-6 Torr at VAC NORMAL configuration.

This work happened on Friday, after Nodus and the elog went down....

[Jenne, Kiwamu]

The guiderod and standoff for ITMY were epoxied, and left drying over the weekend on the flow bench under a foil tent.  The flow bench was off for the weekend, so we made tents which hopefully didn't have any place for dust to get in and settle on the mirrors.

There is a small chance that there will be a problem with glue on the arm of the fixture holding the guiderod to the optic.  Kiwamu and I examined it, and hopefully it won't stick.  We'll check it out this afternoon when we start getting ready for gluing magnets onto optics this afternoon.

I knew there was going to be a script somewhere with a hard coded IP address.  My fault for missing it.  However, in regards to the removal of op340m's host.deny file, I did elog it here.  Item number 5.

Autoburts have not been working since the network changeover last Thursday.

Last snapshot was around noon on Feb 11...  

It turns out this happened when the IP address got switched from 131.... to 192.... Here's the horrible little piece of perl code which was failing:

$command = "/usr/sbin/ifconfig -a > $temp";
   system($command);

   open(TEMP,$temp) || die "Cannot open file $temp\n";
   $site = "undefined";
   #                                                                                                     
   # this is a horrible way to determine site location                                                   
   while ($line = <TEMP>) {
     if ($line =~ /10\.1\./) {
       $site = "lho";
     } elsif ($line =~ /10\.100\./) {
       $site = "llo";
     } elsif ($line =~ /192\.168\./) {
       $site = "40m";
     }
   }
   if ($site eq "undefined") {
     die "Cannot Determine Which LIGO Observatory this is\n";


I've now put in the correct numbers for the 40m...and its now working as before. I also re-remembered how the autoburt works:

1) op340m has a line in its crontab to run /cvs/cds/caltech/burt/autoburt/burt.cron (I've changed this to now run at 7 minutes after the hour instead of at the start of the hour).

2) burt.cron runs /cvs/cds/scripts/autoburt.pl (it was using a perl from 1999 to run this - I've now changed it to use the perl 5.8 from 2002 which was already in the path).

3) autoburt.pl looks through every directory in 'target' and tries to do a burt of its .req file.

Oh, and it looks like Joe has fixed the bug where only op440m could ssh into op340m by editing the host.allow or host.deny file (+1 point for Joe).

But he forgot to elog it (-1 point for Joe).®

• Turned on the RAID attached to linux1 (its our /cvs/cds disk)
  
• Turned on linux1 (it needed a keyboard and monitor in order to be happy - no fsck required)
  
• Turned on nodus (and started ELOG) + all the control room machines
  
• Turned on B/W monitors
  
• Untaped fridge
  

• Found several things OFF which were not listed in the Wiki...
  
• Turned ON the 2 big isolation transformers (next to Steve's desk and under the printer). These supply all of the CDS racks inside.
  
• ~75% of the power strips were OFF in the CDS racks ?? I turned on as many as I could find (except the OMC).
  
• Switched on and keyed on all of the FE and SLOW crates in no particular order. Some of the fans sound bad, but otherwise OK.
  
• Turned on all of the Sorensens that are labeled.
  
• Turned ON the linear supplies close to the LSC rack.
  
• ON the Marconis - set them according to the labels on them (probably out-dated).
  
• After restoring power to the PSL enclosure (via the Isolation Transformer under the printer) turned the Variac ON and HEPA on full speed.
  
• Plugged in the PSs for the video quads. Restored the Video MUX settings - looks like we forgot to save the correct settings for this guy...
  

PSL

Koji and kiwamu

The existing optics on the ETMX/ETMY end table were rearranged in this morning.

The main things we have done are -

1. relocation of the optical levers for ETMs ( as mentioned in koji's entry )

This relocation can make a space so that we can setup the green locking stuffs.

The optical path of the green locking is planed to start from the right top corner on the table, therefore we had to relocate the oplevs toward the center of the table.

2. relocation of the lens just before the tube

Because we are going to shoot the green beam into the arm cavity, we don't want to have any undesired lenses before the cavity.

For this reason we changed the position of the lens, it was standing just in front of the tube, now it's standing on the left side of the big mirror standing center top.

Since we did not find a significant change in its the spot size of the transmitted light, we did not change the position of all the TRANS_MON_PDs and its mirrors. And they are now well aligned.

Attachment1: ETMX end table

Attachment2: ETMY end table

Jenne and kiwamu

We have glued the dumbbells to the magnets that will be used for the ITMs

We made two sets of glued pair of the dumbbell and the magnet ( one set means 6 pairs of the dumbbell and the magnet. Therefore in total we got 12 pairs. )

You can see the detailed procedure we did on the LIGO document E990196.

Actually we performed one different thing from the documented procedure;

we made scratch lines on the surface of the both dumbbells and magnets by a razor blade.

According to Steve and Bod, these scratch make the strength of the glues stronger.

Now the dumbbell-magnet pairs are on the flow bench in the clean room, and supported by a fixture Betsy sent us.

- -  notes

On the bench the left set is composed by magnets of 244 +/- 3 Gauss and the right set is 255 +/- 3 Gauss.

- ETMX/ETMY oplev paths renewed. The nominal gain for ETMY YAW was reversed as a steering mirror has been put.
- Oplevs/QPDs cenrtered except for the MCT QPD.
- SUS snapshots updated
- QPD/Aligment screenshots taken

40m Wiki: Preparation for power supply stop

The Vac pressure measured at P1 is at 2.5mTorr.  I expect we'll hit 3mTorr sometime this afternoon, at which point (according to Steve) the interlock will shut the shutter, and we won't have light in the IFO.  Anything which needs to happen with light in the IFO before Monday needs to happen fairly soon.

I set up instant green oplevs for ITMs.

A green laser pointer has been set on each end table. It illuminates the ITM center. The beam goea through the ETM substrate.
The reflected green beam returns to the ETM if the ITMs are aligned. Even though the reflected beam to the end is too big, this can
be a rough reference for each ITM.

Note: The green laser pointer at the ETMX were borrowed from Frank. We must return it to him when we finish the work.

[Jenne, Kiwamu, with moral support from Koji, and loads of advice from Steve and Bob]

New upgrade ITMX (ITMU03) has it's guiderod & standoff glued on, as step 1 toward hanging the ITMs.

Procedure:

1. Make sure you have everything ready.  This is long and complicated, but not really worth detail here.  Follow instructions in E970037 (SOS Assembly Spec), and get all the stuff in there.

2. Set optic in a 'ring stand', of which Bob has many, of many different sizes. They are cleaned and baked, and in the cleanroom cupboard on the bottom just behind the door. We used the one for 3" optics.  This lets you sit the optic down, and it only rests on the bevel on the outside, so no coated surface touches anything.

3. Drag wipe the first surface of the optic, using Isopropyl Alcohol.  We used the little syringes that had been cleaned for the Drag Wipe Event which happened in December, and got fresh Iso out of the bottle which was opened in Dec, and put it into a baked glass jar.  The drag wipe procedure was the same as for the December event, except the optic was flat on the bench, in the ring holder.

4. Turn the optic over.

5. Drag wipe the other surface.

6. Align the optic in the guiderod gluing fixture (Step 3 in Section 3.2.1: Applying Guide Rod and Wire Standoff of E970037).

7. Set guiderod and standoff (1 guiderod on one side, 1 standoff on the other, per instructions) against the side of the optic.

8.a.  Use a microscope mounted on a 3-axis micrometer base to help align the guiderod and standoff to the correct places on the optic (Steps 4-5 of Section 3.2.1).  This will be much easier now that we've done it once, but it took a looooooong time. 

8.b.  We put the optic in 180deg from the way we should, based on the direction of the wedge angle in the upgrade table layout (wedge angle stuff used a "Call a Friend" lifeline.  We talked to Koji.) The instructions say to put the guiderod and standoff "above" the scribe lines in the picture on Page 5 of E970037 - the picture has the arms of the fixture crossing over the scribe lines.  However, to make the optic hang correctly, we needed to put the guiderod and standoff below the scribe lines.  This will be true as long as the arrow scribe line (which marks the skinniest part of the optic, and points to the HR side) is closest to you when the optic is in the fixture, the fixture is laying on the table (not standing up on end) with the micrometer parts to your right.  We should put the other ITM into the fixture the other way, so that the arrow is on the far side, and then we'll glue the guiderod and standoff "above" the scribe lines.  Mostly this will be helpful so that we can glue in exactly the places the instructions want us to.

8.c.  The biggest help was getting a flashlight to help illuminate the scribe lines in the optic while trying to site them in the microscope.  If you don't do this, you're pretty much destined to failure, since the lights in the cleanroom aren't all that bright. 

8.d.  The micrometer mount we were able to find for the microscope has a max travel of 0.5", but the optic is ~1" thick.  To find the center of the optic for Step 5 in the guiderod and standoff alignment we had to measure smaller steps, such as bevel-to-end-of-scribe-line, and length-of-scribe-line then end-of-scribe-line-to-other-bevel.  Thankfully once we found the total thickness and calculated the center, we were able to measure once bevel-to-center. 

9. Apply glue to the guiderod and standoff.  We made sure to put this on the "down" side, which once the optic is hung, will be the top of the little rods.  This matches the instructions as to which side of the rods to apply the glue on.  The instructions do want the glue in the center of the rod though, but since we put the optic in the fixture the wrong way, we couldn't reach the center, so we glued the ends of the rods.  We will probably apply another tiny dab of glue on the center of the rod once it's out of the fixture, perhaps while the magnet assemblies are being glued.

10.  We didn't know if the airbake oven which Bob showed us to speed up the curing of our practice epoxy last night was clean enough for the ITM (he was gone by the time we got to that part), so for safety, we're leaving the optic on the flow bench with a foil tent (the foil is secured so there's no way it can blow and touch the optic).  This means that we'll need the full curing time of the epoxy, not half the time.  Maybe tomorrow he'll let us know that the oven is in fact okay, and we can warm it up for the morning.

As preparation for the upcoming planned power outage we turned turbos, RGA off and closed valves.

IFO chamber is not pumped now. Small leaks and out gassing will push the pressure up slowly. At 3 mTorr of P1 the PSL output shutter

will be closed by the interlock.

It is OK to use light in the IFO up to this point.

Only the 40m cranes are running on 480VAC The electricians are rewiring this transformer on the mezzanine so it was shut down.

I tested all three cranes before the 480V power was turned off. The last thing to do with the cranes to wipe them down before use.

It will happen on next Tuesday morning.

I have measured the arm visibilities.
I did not see any change since the last wiping. Our vacuum is not contaminating the cavity in the time scale of 2 months.
It is very good.

Arm visibility measurement ~ latest (Feb. 17, 2010)

Arm visibility measurement after the vent (Dec. 14, 2009)

Arm visibility measurement before the vent (Nov 10, 2009)

X Arm: 0.875 +/- 0.005
Y Arm: 0.869 +/- 0.006

I updated the IP address on the Cisco Linksys wireless N router, which we're using to keep megatron separated from the rest of the network.  I then went in and updated megatrons resolv.conf and host files.  It is now possible to ssh into megatron again from the control machines.

I put the TRY_PD back to the end table and aligned it. Now it seems to be working well.

 Koji and I started poking around, trying to understand what was going on.  At first, we thought it might be related to a computer error, as it seemed.

Fortunately, Rob stopped by and explained that the boost stage of the filter comes under c1lsc control, and will be turned on or off depending on the power in the arms.  Although if you turn it off, it will remain off, it just if its manually selected on, it may go on or off.

Similarly, the output from the Xarm filter bank to the ETMX  filter input will be turned on or off depending on the power in the arm.

Anyways, the locking trouble turns out to be due to no RF sidebands at 33 MHz.  The output of the Marconi was unplugged.  I don't know who, or why did it, but I've plugged it in for now, so we can lock the arms.  Let us know if you need in unplugged.  Thanks.

 I am going to put the PD back to the Y end table in this afternoon.

Since last Friday either the arms or the PRC can't lock.

The montors show the beam flashing on the end mirrors, but the cavity can't get locked. The error signal looks fine. I suspect a computer problem.

Also PRC can't lock. SPOB is suspiciously stuck at about -95. Although that's not a fixed number, but covering the by hand the SPOB PD on the ITMY table doesn't change the number. I check the DC output of the photodetector and it is actually seen the beam.

Suspecting computer problems started after last Thursday's IP switch, I rebooted the frame builder, c1dcuepics, c1daqctrl and all the front ends. I then burtrestored to February 1st at 1:00 am.

Before I burtrestored c1iscepics, SPOB had gone back to more typical numbers around 0, as it usually read when PRC wasn't locked.

But burtrestoring c1iscepics, return it to the -95 of earlier.

Burterestoring to other times or dates didn't solve the problems.

The PD Kiwamu removed from the Y table was TRY, which we still need.

My bad if he took that. By mistake I told him that was the one I installed on the table for the length measurement and we didn't need it anymore.

I'm going to ask Kiwamu if he can kindly put it back.

I received an e-mail from Alex indicating he found the testpoint problem and fixed it today:

Quote from Alex: "After we swapped the frame builder computer it has reconfigured all device files and I needed to create some symlinks on /dev/ to make tpman work again. I test the testpoints and they do work now."

Looks good. I just thought of the idea that we also can use Alberto's PLL setup to sense the modulation with more sensitivity.  ;-)

In the last two days Steve and I took some optics away from the both ETM end table.

This is because we need an enough space to set up the green locking stuff into the end table, and also need to know how much space is available.

Optics we took away are : Alberto's RF stuff, fiber stuff and some optics obviously not in used.

The picture taken after the removing is attached. Attachment1:ETMX, Attachment2:ETMY

And the pictures taken before the removing are on the wiki, so you can check how they are changed.

http://lhocds.ligo-wa.caltech.edu:8000/40m/Optical_Tables