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17104
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Thu Aug 25 15:24:06 2022 |
Paco | HowTo | Electronics | RFSoC 2x2 board -- fandango | [Paco, Chris Stoughton, Leo -- remote]
This morning Chris came over to
the 40m lab to help us get the RFSoC board |
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17105
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Thu Aug 25 16:05:51 2022 |
Yehonathan | Update | SUS | Trying to fix some SUS | I tried to lock the Y/X arms to take some
noise budget. However, we noticed that TRX/Y
were oscillating coherently together ( |
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17106
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Thu Aug 25 16:39:31 2022 |
Cici | Update | General | I have learned the absolute basics of github | I have now added code/data to my github
repository. (it's the little victories) |
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17107
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Fri Aug 26 12:46:07 2022 |
Cici | Update | General | Progress on fitting PZT resonances | Here is an update of how fitting the resonances
is going - I've been modifying parameters
by hand and seeing the effect on the fit. |
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17108
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Fri Aug 26 14:05:09 2022 |
Tega | Update | Computers | rack reshuffle proposal for CDS upgrade | [Tega, Jamie]
Here is a proposal for what we
would like to do in terms of reshuffling |
6x |
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17109
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Sun Aug 28 23:14:22 2022 |
Jamie | Update | Computers | rack reshuffle proposal for CDS upgrade | @tega This looks great, thank you for putting
this together. The rack drawing in
particular is great. Two notes: |
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17110
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Mon Aug 29 13:33:09 2022 |
JC | Update | General | Lab Cleanup | The machine shop looked a mess this morning,
so I cleaned it up. All power tools
are now placed in the drawers in the |
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17111
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Mon Aug 29 15:15:46 2022 |
Tega | Update | Computers | 3 FEs from LLO got delivered today | [JC, Tega]
We got the 3 front-ends from LLO
today. The contents of each box are: |
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17112
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Mon Aug 29 18:25:12 2022 |
Cici | Update | General | Taking finer measurements of the actuator transfer function | Took finer measurements of the x-arm aux
laser actuator tranfer function (10 kHz -
1 MHz, 1024 pts/decade) using the Moku. |
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17113
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Tue Aug 30 15:21:27 2022 |
Tega | Update | Computers | 3 FEs from LHO got delivered today | [Tega, JC]
We received the remaining 3 front-ends
from LHO today. They each have a timing card |
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17114
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Wed Aug 31 00:32:00 2022 |
Koji | Update | General | SOS and other stuff in the clean room | Salvage these (and any other things).
Wrap and double-pack nicely. Put the labels.
Store them and record the location. Tell |
6x |
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17115
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Wed Aug 31 00:46:56 2022 |
Koji | Update | General | Vertex Lab area to be cleaned | As marked up in the photos.
Attachment 5: The |
9x |
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17116
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Wed Aug 31 01:22:01 2022 |
Koji | Update | General | Along the X arm part 1 |
Attachment 5:
RF delay line was accommodated in 1X3B. (KA) |
9x |
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17117
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Wed Aug 31 01:24:48 2022 |
Koji | Update | General | Along the X arm part 2 |
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9x |
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17118
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Wed Aug 31 01:25:37 2022 |
Koji | Update | General | Along the X arm part 3 |
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9x |
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17119
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Wed Aug 31 01:30:53 2022 |
Koji | Update | General | Along the X arm part 4 | Behind the X arm tube |
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17120
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Wed Aug 31 01:53:39 2022 |
Koji | Update | General | Along the Y arm part 1 |
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9x |
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17121
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Wed Aug 31 01:54:45 2022 |
Koji | Update | General | Along the Y arm part 2 | |
8x |
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17122
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Wed Aug 31 11:39:48 2022 |
Yehonathan | Update | LSC | Updated XARM noise budget | {Radhika, Paco, Yehonathan}
For educational purposes we update
the XARM noise budget and add the POX11 calibrated |
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17123
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Wed Aug 31 12:57:07 2022 |
rana | Summary | ALS | control of ALS beat freq from command line -easy | The PZT sweeps that we've been making
to characterize the ALS-X laser should probably
be discarded - the DFD was not setup correctly |
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17125
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Wed Aug 31 16:11:37 2022 |
Koji | Update | General | Vertex Lab area to be cleaned | The analog electronics units piled up along
the wall was moved into 1X3B rack which was
basically empty. (Attachments 1/2/4) |
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17126
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Thu Sep 1 09:00:02 2022 |
JC | Configuration | Daily Progress | Locked both arms and aligned Op Levs | Each morning now, I am going to try to
align both arms and lock. Along with that,
sometime at towards the end of each week, |
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17127
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Fri Sep 2 13:30:25 2022 |
Ian MacMillan | Summary | Computers | Quantization Noise Calculation Summary | P.
P. Vaidyanathan wrote a chapter in the
book "Handbook |
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17128
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Fri Sep 2 15:26:42 2022 |
Yehonathan | Update | General | SOS and other stuff in the clean room | {Paco, Yehonathan}
BHD Optics box was put into the
x-arm last clean cabinet. (attachment 5) |
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17129
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Fri Sep 2 15:30:10 2022 |
Anchal | Update | General | Along the X arm part 1 | [Anchal, Radhika]
Attachment 2: The custom
cables which were part of the intermediate |
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17130
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Fri Sep 2 15:35:19 2022 |
Anchal | Update | General | Along the Y arm part 2 | [Anchal, Radhika]
The cables in USPS open box were
important cables that are part of the new |
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17131
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Fri Sep 2 15:40:25 2022 |
Anchal | Summary | ALS | DFD cable measurements | [Anchal, Yehonathan]
I laid down another temporary cable
from Xend to 1Y2 (LSC rack) for also measuring |
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17132
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Tue Sep 6 09:57:26 2022 |
JC | Summary | General | Lab cleaning | DB9 Cables have been assorted and placed
behind the Y-Arm. Long BNC Cables and Ethernet
Cables have been stored under the Y-Arm. |
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17133
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Tue Sep 6 17:39:40 2022 |
Paco | Update | SUS | LO1 LO2 AS1 AS4 damping loop step responses | I tuned the local damping gains for LO1,
LO2, AS1, and AS4 by looking at step responses
in the DOF basis (i.e. POS, PIT, YAW, and |
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17134
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Wed Sep 7 14:32:15 2022 |
Anchal | Update | SUS | Updated SD coil gain to keep all coil actuation signals digitally same magnitude | The coil driver actuation strength for
face coils was increased by 13 times in LO1,
LO2, SR2, AS1, AS4, PR2, and PR3. |
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17135
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Thu Sep 8 11:54:37 2022 |
JC | Configuration | Lab Organization | Lab Organization | The arms in the 40m laboratory have now
been sectioned off. Each arm has been divided
up into 15 sections. Along the Y arm, the |
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17136
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Thu Sep 8 12:01:02 2022 |
JC | Configuration | Lab Organization | Lab Organization | The floor cable cover has been changed
out for a new one. This is in Section X11. |
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17137
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Thu Sep 8 16:03:25 2022 |
Yehonathan | Update | LSC | Realignment, arm locking, gains adjustments | {Anchal, Yehonathan}
We came this morning and the IMC
was misaligned. The IMC was realigned and |
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17138
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Tue Sep 13 14:12:03 2022 |
Yehonathan | Update | BHD | Trying LO phase locking again | [Paco, Yehonathan]
Summary:
We |
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17139
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Wed Sep 14 15:40:51 2022 |
JC | Update | Treasure | Plastic Containers | There are brand new empty plastic containers
located inside the shed that is outside
in the cage. These can be used for organizing |
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17140
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Thu Sep 15 11:13:32 2022 |
Anchal | Summary | ASS | YARM and XARM ASS restored | With limited proof of working for a few
times (but robustly), I'm happy to report
that ASS on YARM and XARM is working now. |
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17141
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Thu Sep 15 16:19:33 2022 |
Yehonathan | Update | LSC | POX-POY noise budget | Doing POX-POY noise measurement as a poor
man's FPMI for diagnostic purposes. (Notebook
in /opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/Git/40m/measurements/LSC/POX-POY/Noise_Budget.ipynb) |
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17142
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Thu Sep 15 21:12:53 2022 |
Paco | Update | BHD | LO phase "dc" control | Locked the LO phase with a MICH offset=+91.
The LO is midfringe (locked using the A-B
zero crossing), so it's far from being |
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17143
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Mon Sep 19 17:02:57 2022 |
Paco | Summary | General | Power Outage 220916 -- restored all | Restore lab
[Paco, Tega, JC,
Yehonathan]
We followed the instructions |
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17144
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Mon Sep 19 20:21:06 2022 |
Tega | Update | Computers | 1X7 and 1X6 work | [Tega, Paco, JC]
We moved the GPS network time server |
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17145
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Tue Sep 20 07:03:04 2022 |
Paco | Summary | General | Power Outage 220916 -- restored all | [JC, Tega, Paco ]
I would like to mention that during
the Vacuum startup, after the AUX pump was |
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17146
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Tue Sep 20 15:40:07 2022 |
yehonathan | Update | BHD | Trying doing AC lock | We resume the LO phase locking work. MICH
was locked with an offset of 80 cts. LO and
AS beams were aligned to maximize the BHD |
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17147
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Tue Sep 20 18:18:07 2022 |
Anchal | Summary | SUS | ETMX, ETMY damping loop gain tuning | [Paco, Anchal]
We performed local damping loop
tuning for ETMs today to ensure all damping |
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17148
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Tue Sep 20 23:06:23 2022 |
Tega | Update | Computers | Setup the 6 new front-ends to boot off the FB1 clone | [Tega, Radhika, JC]
We wired the front-ends for power,
DAQ and martian network connections. Then |
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17149
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Wed Sep 21 10:10:22 2022 |
Yehonathan | Update | CDS | C1SU2 crashed | {Yehonathan, Anchal}
Came this morning to find that
all the BHD optics watchdogs tripped. Watchdogs |
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17150
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Wed Sep 21 17:01:59 2022 |
Paco | Update | BHD | BH55 RFPD installed - part I | [Radhika, Paco]
Optical path setup
We
realized the DCPD - B beam path was already |
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17151
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Wed Sep 21 17:16:14 2022 |
Tega | Update | Computers | Setup the 6 new front-ends to boot off the FB1 clone | [Tega, JC]
We laid 4 out of 6 fiber cables
today. The remaining 2 cables are for the |
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17152
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Thu Sep 22 19:51:58 2022 |
Anchal | Update | BHD | BH55 LSC Model Updates - part II | I updated follwoing in teh rtcds models
and medm screens:
c1lsc
Added |
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17153
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Thu Sep 22 20:57:16 2022 |
Tega | Update | Computers | build, install and start 40m models on teststand | [Tega, Chris]
We built, installed and started
all the 40m models on the teststand today. |
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17154
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Fri Sep 23 10:05:38 2022 |
JC | Update | VAC | N2 Interlocks triggered | [Chub, Anchal, Tega, JC]
After replacing an empty tank this
morning, I heard a hissing sound coming from |
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