Konecrane Fred was early this morning. He diagnosed the ETMY crane horizontal drive gear box dead and left just before the film crew showed up.

New gear box should be here by the end of this week for installation.

The lab air quality is high ~20,000 counts of particles of 0.5 micron.  Keep an eye on this before you open the chamber.

 The east end particle count is 155K for 0.3 micron and 15K for 0.5 micron  counts/cf min.  In order to minimize diffusion of dirt into the IFO we set up the mobile HEPA with CP Stat 100 tent.

This set up gives us practically ZERO inside the tent

The RGA region is beeing monitored during the vent. This will tell us how clean the RGA itself is.

I measured the particles coming off of new- unused clean room coat. Tyvek, Convertors, Allegiance #9393 measured  10 counts of 0.3 micron at 1 minute and 0 count at 7 minute.

The 0.5 micron size  measured 0 at both times. Jenne's used coat measured 20 counts of 0.3 micron  and 0 counts for 0.5 micron at 1 minute. ( counts / cf- min)

The HEPA tent background is consistently 0 when it's CP STAT 100 curtains are closed.

Jenne found a big scratch on the north vac door of ITMY. Fortunately it does not reach the inner annulos 0 -ring seal.

This is precisely what we have to avoid to preserve our vacuum system!

I'm having this problem with DTV every morning at Rosalba only. It wants to start with a negative GPS time and it can not connect to the frame builder.

Normally after a few time of starting it, it will work.

 Gear box found, it's  lead time one week at $825    The crane may be functional round August 25

I'm looking for an ether net based  power switch for turning lights on and off for the vacuum system from MEDM screen.  This is what I found

Jamie please take a look at it.

 We should use the deionizer before drag wiping with isopropanol.

damped sus at atm1 and freeswingging sus at atm2

Light into the MC is 20 mW at atm, MC_Transmitted ~10 MW = 400 count

The PMC_T is OK but something else is drifting.

Free swingging OSEM sensors LL at atm

                UTILITY & SERVICE INTERRUPTION

**PLEASE POST**

Building:               Central Engineering Services (C.E.S.)

LIGO Gravitational Physics building adjacent to C.E.S. 40M- Lab


Safety Storage adjacent to CES

Steele House 

Keck Lab

Date:                   Saturday, October 1, 2011

Time:                   8:00 a.m. To 9:00 a.m.            

Interruption:   Electricity

Contact:                Mike Anchondo ext. 4999  Tom Brennan 4984

*This interruption is required for maintenance of high voltage switchgear in Campus Sub Station.

(If there is a problem with this Interruption, please notify

 the Service Center X-4717 or the above Contact as soon as possible.

 If no response is received we will proceed with the interruption.)

                                Reza Ohadi,

                                Director, Campus Operations & Maintenance

Cranes are  checked and they are ready for lifting. At the east end will use the manual Genei-lift to put door on.

 jamie, jenne, kiwamu, suresh, steve

ETMY and ITMY were treated the same way as ETMX. The BS chamber was closed with heavy vac door yesterday also. The IOO access connector's inner jamnuts are torqued to 45 ft/lbs as all vac door bolts.

The vac envelope is ready for pumpdown condition, except ITMX chamber with light atm door cover.

Jenne will summeries the condition of dust on the  TMs before and after the drag wipes.

Jamie is modeling our next generation  in-vac & clean room bonny suit that Jenne and myself already tested.

It is quite bearable with our traditional cleanroom beret-bouffant cap. Please use these in the future.

This will help to avoid the farther degradation of somewhat dusty 40m vac envelope.

It is the required dress code to enter the clean assembly room in the 40m.

 We have small, med, large and x-large in stock. I'm getting larger sizes.

It will not allow certain people to climb inside the vacuum chamber in dirty pants.

 Follow full procedure for full strength, minimum risk

 New gear box installed and tested by Fred KoneCranes.

manufacturer info

Jamie and Shuresh moved in Jenne's 11 drawers cabinet and relocated old note book boxes on the inside of the vac tube.

I have restored the damping of BS and PRM. Today is janitor day. He is shaking things around the lab.

Uniblitz mechanical shutter installed in the green beam path at ETMY-ISCT  The remote control cable has not been connected.

The RGA back ground at day 29 of this vent.

Atm1, ITMY and the SRM are on the same isolation stack.  So why does  the SRM move twice as much?

Atm2, We should check the ITMY  SIDE_OSEM before pump down. Anatomically correct, beautiful picture taken by Kiwamu on August 22

Suresh, Kiwamu and Steve

Heavy chamber doors replaced by light ones at  ITMX-west and ITMY-north locations.

 ITMX OSEMs   UL 1.8V,   UR 1.7V,   LR 0V,   LL 0V,   SD 1.3V  at the same bias setting shown above. May be a lose earth quake tip?or magnet is touching?

All fine, except ITMX_sensor_UL's  60  counts deep hoop for an hour.

Jamie and Steve

We closed ITMX and ITMY chambers and started pumping around 11am

What we did before:

1, turned off AC power  to PZT Jena HV ps

2, checked jam nut positions

3, cheched  single o-ring shims

4, closed psl out shutter

 ITMY has been upgraded  here I have the new lenses on hand to do the others when it fit into the schedule.

 We are at 30 Torr of 7 hours of pumping with 2 roughing pumps.

Kiwamu will take over the rest of the roughing today. He will keep an eye on  the pumping speed to be  ~1-2 Torr/min  and open up the manual RV1 valve if needed.

The present status is #3023 of  "chamber open to vacuum open" mode and waiting the P1 pressure to drop to 500 mTorr

He will do the following to stop pumping at P1 = 500 mTorr

1, close V3

2, close RV1 with torque wheel

3, turn off PR1 & 3

4, disconnect metal hose between RV1 and PR3

 I will start the Maglev tomorrow morning.

Vacuum status:  " vacuum normal"   CC1 pressure 5e-5 Torr

Slow roughing through butterfly valve took 11 hours at 1-2 Torr/min speed.  We had a leak at the metal hose connecting o-ring  that became visible  at 200 Torr.

The vacuum envelope pressure rose to 500 mTorr from 450 mTorr  This is 50 mTorr leak plus outgassing over 11 hrs  over night stop =  5  mTorr /  hr

Atm2, Maglev pumpdown details. P2 and P3  are in the foreline of the Maglev. The pressure peaks at 4 Torr beacause the 3 drypumps have  little pumpimg speed at this range.

            External fan is turned on during this one hour period to prevent  Maglev turbo from overheating.

            Same things are  happenning with the two small TP2 and TP3 pumps under load. Their foreline pressure peak at 1 Torr.  They slow down to 45 K RPM from 50K RPM  and warm up to 36-39 C

Precondition: 36 days at atm

We tried not to open chambers above 10,000 particles of 0.5 micron cf/min

New items going in:                       2 rasor beam traps, 5 badly oxidized old silver plated  setscrew with spring loaded tips......to be replaced in the future, viton tips for eq screws....some are lose, gold plated allen wrench installed at ITMX bottom, reglued magnet on ITMX

Bad hardware things found:          nylon ball "locking elements" on OSEM locking set screws with screwdriver  slot, lose  1064 nm filter on OSEM pd

 Old Coherent diode laser was replaced by Uniphase HE/NE 1125P at ITMX.

Newport 10B20NC.1 broadband beam sampler set up as beamspitter to dump 90% of the light into beam trap. Beam in to test mass  0.7 mW ,  returning to qpd 0.07 mW  = ~ 3,700 counts

f 1.5 m lens placed into ingoing beam path to reduce the spot size on the qpd.         ITMY oplev will be done in this manner tomorrow.

* IP-ANG is lost with the Piezo Jena PS

* IP-POS cable have to be found at the LSC rack

The PRM damping was restored at side sensor var 1050

Jeff has changed our AC filters inside the lab this morning. Now he is checking on the main filters at CES.  He will finish the roof units tomorrow.

Met One #1 counter is on the top of IOO chamber.  It is measuring 1 and 0.5 micron size particles.  One year of lab condition plot below.

 The PRM sus damping restored.

Paul, Mirko and Katrin visiting grad students received the 40m basic safety training.

RGA scan with maglev pumping speed at day 14 of the pump down.

The larger inserted box contains the tuning parameters of the SRS  200 amu RGA

APC Smart -UPS 2200   model: SUA2200RM2U   batteries were replaced by compatible RBC43, 8x  12V5A

The arm's CCD cameras were reset as picture shows last week.

The height adjustment only works at ITMX. Short post holders are ordered to make this feature  available on the rest.

The 75 ohms video and power supply cables are stress relieved. Solid cover can be attached now without  miss aligning cameras.

ITMY suspention damping restored

 I'm turning  the sus damping  off for Dsub connection fix at  the back of 1X5 rack

The plan is to install 4-40 jack screws to lock connector positions.

All dewittening(or called coil driver) and wittening D sub connectors are locked with two 4-40 socket head screws

Kiwamu and Steve,

This is one of the better oplev set up we have. Single bounce from TM, no mirror on stack. One lens and one  mirror on ISCT. Old Uniphase 1103P laser on heafty 3" od mounts.

Somewhat  big ~5-6 mm spot on qpd in  1,300 counts.

The intensity noise effect can be seen at 1 Hz and 3-20 Hz

Oplev servo was OFF

I failed to start Rana's favorit anciant desktop computer at the vac rack. He has to baby this old beast just a little bit more.

Vacuum status: Vac Normal was reached through Farfalla: Rga was switched back to IFO and and Annuloses are beeing pumped now.

V1 was closed for about a day and the pressure reached  ~2.8 mTorr in the IFO.  This leakrate plus outgassing is normal

The ref cavity 5000V was turned on.

The only thing that has to be done is to restart the RGA. I forgat to turn it off on Friday.

 c1lsc and c1sus are still down. Only ETMX and ETMY are damped

JDSU 1103P died after 4 years of service. It was replaced with new identical head of 2.9 mW output. The power supply was also changed.

The return spots of 0.04 mW  2.5 mm diameter on qpds are BS  3,700 counts and PRM 4,250 counts.

Kiwamu and Steve,

The He/Ne oplev shows no coherece so relative intensity noise is not limiting factor for the oplev servo

The SRM bounce peak 18.33 Hz. Suresh helped me to retune filter through Foton, but we failed to remove it.

ITMX_OPLEV_PERROR shows high coherence with oplev laser. This is our lousiest set up. I will work on it next week.

Generally speaking we can say that JDSU-Uniphase 1103P and 1125P laser intensity noise do not limit oplev servo performance.

However, the overall well being of filters, gain settings, beam sizes on qpds are poor.

 I lost UL osem voltage this morning when I was checking the actual connection at rack ETMY

This after noon I disconnected  the 64 pins IDE connector from satelite amp at the rack, and the two 25 pins Dsubs at this juction board.

UL OSEM recovered after reconnecting these three connectors.

Atm3, bad connection.........noisy UL