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Date |
Author |
Type |
Category |
Subject |
Text |
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16009
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Fri Apr 9 13:13:00 2021 |
Anchal, Paco | Update | SUS | Faster coil balancing | We ran again this method but with the 'b'
parameter as a matrix instead. This provides
more gain on some off-diagonal terms than |
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16008
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Thu Apr 8 20:58:17 2021 |
Koji | Update | CDS | ADC adapter boards assembly | 5x 16bit ADC adapter boards (D0902006)
assembled. |
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16007
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Thu Apr 8 17:04:43 2021 |
Anchal, Paco | Update | SUS | First Successful Coil Balancing | Today, we finally crossed the last hurdle
and got a successful converging coil balancing
run. |
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16006
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Wed Apr 7 22:48:48 2021 |
gautam | Update | IOO | Waveplate commissioning | Summary:
I spent an hour today evening checking
out the remote waveplate operation. Basic |
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16005
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Wed Apr 7 17:38:51 2021 |
Anchal | Update | SUS | Trying to uncouple only PIT and YAW first | To test if our method is working at all,
we went for the simpler case of just uncoupling
PIT and YAW. This is also because the sensor |
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16004
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Wed Apr 7 13:07:03 2021 |
Jordan | Update | SUS | CoM on 3"->2" Adapter Ring for SOS | Adding the chamfer around the edge of the
optic ring did not change the center of mass
relative to the plane from the suspension |
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16003
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Wed Apr 7 02:50:49 2021 |
Koji | Update | SUS | Flange Inspections | Basically I went around all the chambers
and all the DB25 flanges to check the invac
cable configurations. Also took more time |
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16002
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Tue Apr 6 21:17:04 2021 |
Koji | Summary | General | PSL HEPA investigation | - Last week we found both of the PSL HEPA
units were not running.
- I replaced the capacitor of the |
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16001
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Tue Apr 6 18:46:36 2021 |
Anchal, Paco | Update | SUS | Updates on recent efforts | As mentioned in last post, we earlier made
an error in making sure that all time series
arrays go in with same sampling rate in CSD |
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15999
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Tue Apr 6 15:42:57 2021 |
Yehonathan | Update | BHD | SOS assembly | We got some dumbells from Re-Source Manufacturing
(see attached). I picked 3 in random and
measured their dimensions: |
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15998
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Tue Apr 6 11:13:01 2021 |
Jon | Update | CDS | FE testing | I/O chassis assembly
Yesterday
I installed all the available ADC/DAC/BIO
modules and adapter boards into the new I/O |
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15997
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Tue Apr 6 07:19:11 2021 |
Jon | Update | CDS | New SimPlant cymac | Yesterday Chris and I completed setup of
the Supermicro machine that will serve as
a dedicated host for developing and testing |
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15996
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Mon Apr 5 22:26:01 2021 |
gautam | Update | LSC | PRMI 1f locking (no ETMs) recovered | Since it seems like the entire electronics
chain has no obvious failure, I decided to
compensate for the apparent increased optical |
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15995
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Mon Apr 5 08:25:59 2021 |
Anchal, Paco | Update | General | Restore MC from early quakes | [Paco, Anchal]
Came in a little bit after 8 and
found the MC unlocked and struggling to lock |
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15994
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Sat Apr 3 00:42:40 2021 |
gautam | Update | LSC | PRFPMI locking with half input power | Summary:
I wanted to put my optomechanical
instability hypothesis to the test. So |
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15993
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Fri Apr 2 15:22:54 2021 |
gautam | Update | SUS | Matrix results, new measurement set to trigger | How should I try to understand why PIT
and YAW are so different?
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15992
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Fri Apr 2 15:17:23 2021 |
gautam | Summary | General | HEPA AC cord replacement | From the last failure, I had ordered 2
extra capacitors (they are placed on top
of the PSL enclosure above where the capacitors |
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15991
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Fri Apr 2 14:51:20 2021 |
Anchal | Update | SUS | Bug found, need to redo the balancing | Last run gave similar results as the quick
run we did earlier. The code has been unable
to strike out couplings with POS. We found |
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15990
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Fri Apr 2 01:26:41 2021 |
gautam | Update | Electronics | REFL55 chain checkout again, seems fine | [koji,
gautam]
Summary: |
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15989
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Thu Apr 1 23:55:33 2021 |
Koji | Summary | General | HEPA AC cord replacement | I think
the PSL HEPA (both 2 units) are not running.
The switches were on. And the variac was |
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15988
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Thu Apr 1 21:13:54 2021 |
Anchal | Update | SUS | Matrix results, new measurement set to trigger |
New
Input matrix used for MC2 (C1:SUS-MC2_INMATRIX_ii_jj
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15987
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Thu Apr 1 18:48:45 2021 |
gautam | Update | SUS | MC2 Coil Balancing Test Results Success?? | In these results, can you also include
the new matrix and what the relative imbalances
were? |
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15986
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Thu Apr 1 18:16:28 2021 |
Koji | Update | Electronics | Electronics Packaging for assembly work | All small
components are packed in the boxes. They
are ready to ship.
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15985
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Thu Apr 1 18:01:06 2021 |
Anchal, Paco | Update | SUS | MC2 Coil Balancing Test Results Success?? | After fixing a few things we felt were
wrong in our implementation of the algorithm,
we ran the coil balancing for 12 iterations |
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15984
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Thu Apr 1 13:56:49 2021 |
Anchal, Paco | Update | SUS | MC2 Coil Balancing Test Results | The coil balancing attempt failed. The
off-diagonal values in the measured sensing
matrices either remained the same or increased. |
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15983
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Thu Apr 1 00:50:06 2021 |
gautam | Update | SUS | PRMdiag | I spent some time investigating the PRM
this evening, trying out some of the stuff
we discussed in the meeting. |
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15982
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Wed Mar 31 22:58:32 2021 |
Anchal, Paco | Update | SUS | MC2 Coil Balancing Test | A cross-coupling test has been set to trigger
at 05:00 am on April 1st, 2021. The script
is waiting on tmux session 'cB' on |
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15981
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Wed Mar 31 03:56:37 2021 |
Koji | Summary | Electronics | A bunch of electronics received | We have received 9x 18bit DAC adapter boards
(D1000654) |
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15980
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Wed Mar 31 00:40:32 2021 |
Koji | Update | Electronics | Electronics Packaging for assembly work | I've worked on packing the components
for the following chassis
- 5 16bit AI chassis |
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15979
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Tue Mar 30 18:21:34 2021 |
Jon | Update | CDS | Front-end testing | Progress today:
Outside Internet access for FE
test stand
This morning Jordan |
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15978
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Tue Mar 30 17:27:04 2021 |
Yehonathan | Update | CDS | c1auxey assembly | {Yehonathan, Jon}
We poked (looked
in situ with a flashlight, not disturbing |
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15977
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Mon Mar 29 19:32:46 2021 |
gautam | Update | LSC | REFL55 whitening checkout | I repeated the usual whitening board characterization
test of:
driving a signal (using |
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15976
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Mon Mar 29 17:55:50 2021 |
Jon | Update | CDS | Front-end testing | Cloning of chiara:/home/cvs underway
I
returned today with a beefier USB-SATA adapter,
which has an integrated 12 V supply |
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15975
|
Mon Mar 29 17:34:52 2021 |
rana | Update | SUS | MC2 Coil Balancing updates | I think there's been some mis-communication.
There's no updated Hang procedure, but
there is the one that Anchal, Paco and I |
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15974
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Mon Mar 29 17:11:54 2021 |
gautam | Update | SUS | MC2 Coil Balancing updates | For this technique to work, (i) the WFS
loops must be well tuned and (ii) the beam
must be well centered on MC2. I am reasonably |
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15973
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Mon Mar 29 17:07:17 2021 |
gautam | Summary | SUS | MC3 new Input Matrix not providing stable loop | I suppose you've tried doing the submatrix
approach, where SIDE is excluded for the
face DoFs? Does that give a better matrix? |
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15972
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Mon Mar 29 10:44:51 2021 |
Paco, Anchal | Update | SUS | MC2 Coil Balancing updates | We ran the coil balancing procedure 4 times
while iterating through the output matrix
optimization. |
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15971
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Sun Mar 28 14:16:25 2021 |
Anchal | Summary | SUS | MC3 new Input Matrix not providing stable loop | Rana asked us to write out here the new
MC3 input matrix we have calculated along
with the old one. The new matrix is not working |
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15970
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Fri Mar 26 11:54:37 2021 |
Paco, Anchal | Update | SUS | MC2 Coil Balancing updates | [Paco, Anchal]
Today
we spent the morning testing the scripts |
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15969
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Fri Mar 26 10:25:37 2021 |
Yehonathan | Update | BHD | SOS assembly | I measure some of the dowel pins we got
from Mcmaster with a caliper.
One small pin is 0.093" in |
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15968
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Thu Mar 25 18:05:04 2021 |
gautam | Update | Electronics | Stuffed HV coil drivers received from Screaming Circuits | I think the only part missing for assembly
now are 4 2U chassis. The PA95s need to be
soldered on as well (they didn't arrive |
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15967
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Thu Mar 25 17:39:28 2021 |
gautam | Update | Computer Scripts / Programs | Spot position measurement scripts "modernized" | I want to measure the spot positions on
the IMC mirrors. We know that they can't
be too far off centerBasically I did the |
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15966
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Thu Mar 25 16:02:15 2021 |
gautam | Summary | SUS | Repeated measurement of coil Rs & Ls for PRM/BS | Method
Since I am mainly concerned with
the actuator part of the OSEM, I chose to |
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15965
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Thu Mar 25 15:31:24 2021 |
gautam | Update | IOO | WFS servos | The servos are almost certainly not optimal
- but we have the IFO sort of working, so
before we make any changes, let's make |
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15964
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Thu Mar 25 14:58:16 2021 |
Yehonathan | Update | BHD | SOS SmCo magnets Inspection | Redoing magnet measurement of envelope
1:
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15963
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Thu Mar 25 14:16:33 2021 |
gautam | Update | CDS | c1auxey assembly | It might be a good idea to configure this
box for the new suspension config - modern
Satellite Amp, HV coil driver etc. It's |
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15962
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Thu Mar 25 12:11:53 2021 |
Yehonathan | Update | CDS | c1auxey assembly | I finished prewiring the new c1auxey Acromag
chassis (see attached pictures). I connected
all grounds to the DIN rail to save some |
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15961
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Thu Mar 25 11:46:31 2021 |
Paco, Anchal | Update | SUS | MC2 Coil Balancing updates | Proof-of-principle
We
excited PIT and YAW dofs using LOCKIN1 in
MC2 on Monday.
We |
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15960
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Wed Mar 24 22:54:49 2021 |
gautam | Update | LSC | New day, new problems | I thought I'd get started on some of
the tests tonight. But I found that this
problem had resurfaced. I don't know |
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15959
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Wed Mar 24 19:02:21 2021 |
Jon | Update | CDS | Front-end testing | This evening I prepared a new 2 TB 3.5"
disk to hold a copy of /opt/rtcds and /opt/rtapps
from chiara. This is the final piece of setup |
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