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700
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Fri Jul 18 19:43:55 2008 |
Yoichi | DAQ | Computers | PSL fast channels cannot be read by dataviewer | At this moment only the PSL fast channels
have trouble.
Rob restarted fb40m, c1IOVME, but no effect. |
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699
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Fri Jul 18 19:41:09 2008 |
Yoichi | Update | PSL | PMC PZT investigation | I measured the HV coming to the PMC PZT by
plugging it off from the PZT and hooking
it up to a DVM.
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698
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Fri Jul 18 19:30:20 2008 |
Masha | Update | Auxiliary locking | moving from 40m | I will be working in the basement of Bridge
probably starting next week; I moved the
NPRO laser and some of the optics from my |
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697
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Fri Jul 18 19:15:15 2008 |
Jenne | Update | IOO | Checking out the MC Servo Board | [quote][Jenne, Max]
I haven't checked to ensure that the MC still |
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696
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Fri Jul 18 17:12:35 2008 |
Jenne | Update | IOO | Checking out the MC Servo Board | [Jenne, Max]
One of the things that Rana thinks that might |
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695
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Fri Jul 18 17:06:20 2008 |
Jenne | Update | Computers | Computers down for most of the day, but back up now | [Sharon, Alex, Rob, Alberto, Jenne]
Sharon and I have been having trouble with |
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694
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Fri Jul 18 16:57:37 2008 |
Jenne | Update | IOO | Calibrated MC_F | I have calibrated MC_F. The conversion factor
is 137.49 MHz/count.
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693
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Fri Jul 18 12:24:15 2008 |
josephb, Eric | Configuration | Cameras | Changed Lenses on GC750 at ETMX | We removed the giant TV zoom lens and replaced
it with a much smaller fixed zoom lens.
Currently it views the entire optic. We |
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692
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Thu Jul 17 20:13:34 2008 |
Yoichi | Update | PSL | PMC alignment/mode matching effort | I'm working to improve the mode matching of
PMC.
Because I noticed that the beam was hitting |
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691
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Thu Jul 17 16:39:58 2008 |
Max Jones | Update | DAQ | Magnetometer Installed | Today I installed the magnetometer near the
beam splitter chamber. It is located on the
BSC chamber at head height on the inner part |
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690
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Thu Jul 17 13:08:37 2008 |
John | Summary | LSC | HOM resonances in the arms | On Tuesday night we attempted to lock the
full DRFPMI in the optical spring configuration
with the +f2 sideband resonant in the SRC.
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689
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Thu Jul 17 12:15:21 2008 |
Eric | Update | PSL | Swept PMC PZT voltage range | I unlocked the PMC and swept over C1:PSL-PMC_RAMP's
full range a couple of times this morning.
The PMC should now be relocked and returned |
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688
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Thu Jul 17 08:30:15 2008 |
steve | Update | PSL | PMC relocked manually | The PMC pzt HV and the servo gain adj. are
railing at max this morning
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687
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Thu Jul 17 00:59:18 2008 |
Jenne | Summary | General | Funny signal coming out of VCO | While working on calibrating the MC_F signal,
Rana and I noticed a funny signal coming
out of the VCO. We expect the output to |
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686
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Wed Jul 16 22:29:05 2008 |
Masha | Update | Auxiliary locking | long measurement | [quote]I'm taking a measurement on the SR785
spectrum analyzer at low frequencies, so
I'm going to leave it by the symmetric port |
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685
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Wed Jul 16 17:51:58 2008 |
Masha | Update | Auxiliary locking | long measurement | I'm taking a measurement on the SR785 spectrum
analyzer at low frequencies, so I'm going
to leave it by the symmetric port table for |
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684
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Wed Jul 16 17:36:51 2008 |
John | DAQ | PSL | FSS input offset | I changed the nominal FSS input offset to
0 from 0.3. Tolerance remains unchanged at
+/-0.05. |
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683
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Wed Jul 16 16:59:07 2008 |
Alberto | Update | General | Aligment | I think the two beams are aligned again -
they both pass the Faraday, they match at
the irises and all along the optical path |
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682
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Wed Jul 16 16:28:14 2008 |
josephb | Configuration | Computers | Fixed IP address on Switch | Realized today that the change I made back
on June 30th to the switch was to the wrong
switch. I had disabled the DHCP setting |
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681
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Wed Jul 16 15:59:04 2008 |
josephb, Eric | Configuration | Cameras | PMC trans camera path | In order to reduce saturation, we placed a
Y1 plate (spare from the SP table) in transmission
just before the GC650 camera looking at the |
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680
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Wed Jul 16 11:26:47 2008 |
Max Jones | Update | | This Week | Baffles.
I got a battery for the magnetometer today |
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679
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Wed Jul 16 11:00:15 2008 |
Masha | Update | Auxiliary locking | improving ADC input for the mach zehnder setup and completely unrelated happenings | For most of last week, the SURFs + Jenne were
helping Mike and Ken with "stray light control
for
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678
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Wed Jul 16 10:50:55 2008 |
Eric | Summary | Cameras | Weekly Summary | Finished unwrapping, cleaning, baking, wrapping,
wrapping again, packing, and shipping the
baffles.
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677
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Wed Jul 16 09:27:17 2008 |
steve | Update | ALARM | PSL-FSS_RMTEMP alarm is false | Morning alarm sound is good for people who
does not drink coffee.
Our 40m alarm is on every morning.
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676
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Tue Jul 15 19:15:57 2008 |
rana | Summary | SUS | ETMX Dewhitening characterization | Since the boys found that the ETM dewhitening
transient was kicking the IFO out of lock
we
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675
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Tue Jul 15 12:44:08 2008 |
John | Summary | Locking | DRFPMI with DC readout | Rob, John
Last night, despite suspect alignment, we |
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674
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Tue Jul 15 12:23:22 2008 |
Jenne | Update | General | MC2 Watchdog tripped | Alberto, Jenne
Mode Cleaner was unlocked. We checked, and |
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673
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Tue Jul 15 11:47:56 2008 |
Jenne | DAQ | PEM | Accelerometer channels in ASS Adapt MEDM screen | Jenne, Sharon
We have traced which accelerometers correspond |
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672
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Tue Jul 15 10:24:57 2008 |
steve | Update | PSL | PMC temp & pzt voltage | The PMC pzt HV was happy with no HEPA temp
stability.
Can we thermally insulate the pmc ? |
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671
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Tue Jul 15 10:09:42 2008 |
Eric | DAQ | Cameras | Did anyone kill the picture taking process on Mafalda? | Did anyone kill the process on Mafalda that
was taking pictures of the end mirror of
the x-arm last Friday? I need to know whether |
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670
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Tue Jul 15 09:47:09 2008 |
steve | Update | PEM | lab temps and particles | All air condtion units were serviced last
Friday.
AC filters are trying to control our particle |
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669
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Mon Jul 14 21:34:10 2008 |
Alberto | Update | General | abs cavity length measurement experiment | [quote]Lately I've been dealing with the alignment
of the interferometer to have a good beam
spot at the AS port. Today the alignment |
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668
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Mon Jul 14 19:15:43 2008 |
Alberto | Update | General | abs cavity length measurement experiment | Lately I've been dealing with the alignment
of the interferometer to have a good beam
spot at the AS port. Today the alignment |
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667
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Mon Jul 14 12:43:07 2008 |
John | Summary | Computers | Restarted fb40m, tpman and c1ass | |
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666
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Mon Jul 14 10:57:00 2008 |
Koji | Frogs | Environment | Someone at 40M sent LHO water of life | Someone at the 40m sent Mike@LHO a pound of
peets coffee with the name of Koji Arai.
It was a good surprise! Thanks, we will enjoy |
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665
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Mon Jul 14 00:36:19 2008 |
John | Summary | PSL | Slow sweep of laser temp - PMC PZT response | John, Rana
Follow up to # 663
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664
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Sun Jul 13 22:39:16 2008 |
John | Summary | General | Edited medm screens | I've edited the FSS and PMC screens so that
red boxes are shown around the appropriate
slider if a gain or offset is not within |
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663
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Sun Jul 13 17:19:29 2008 |
rana | Summary | PSL | MOPA SLOWM Calibration | John, Rana
We first unlocked the FSS and ramped the |
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662
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Sat Jul 12 23:28:31 2008 |
rana | Update | PSL | PMC needs help | As everyone has noticed recently, the PMC
seems to have a PZT problem. It often zooms
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661
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Fri Jul 11 23:55:25 2008 |
alan | Update | Locking | RF common mode at zero offset | [quote][I]rob, john, yoichi[/I]
[SIZE=3][FONT=Comic Sans MS]Last night we |
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660
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Fri Jul 11 20:16:01 2008 |
Eric | DAQ | Cameras | Taking data from the GC 750 Camera | Mafalda has been set up with a background
process to constantly take data from the
GC 750 camera (at the end of the x-arm) for |
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659
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Fri Jul 11 09:29:02 2008 |
steve | Update | PSL | the PMC still hangs up | Morning alarms:
PMC high voltage is railing, it's auto locker |
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658
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Fri Jul 11 00:30:24 2008 |
rob | Metaphysics | Computers | strange SUS controllers |
[I]rob, johnnie[B]M[/B][/I]
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657
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Thu Jul 10 23:27:57 2008 |
John | Metaphysics | Cameras | Secret handshakes | Rob and I have joined the ranks of the illuminati
and exercised our power.
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656
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Thu Jul 10 19:12:07 2008 |
Alberto | Update | General | abs cavity length measurement experiment | Yesterday morning, when I started, I found
the IFO beam on a different position and
the beam spot at the AS port looked very |
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655
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Thu Jul 10 14:59:01 2008 |
rob | Update | Locking | RF common mode at zero offset | [I]rob, john, yoichi[/I]
[SIZE=3][FONT=Comic Sans MS]Last night we |
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654
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Thu Jul 10 13:47:12 2008 |
Yoichi | HowTo | Computers | svn access via https | Now you can access to the svn repository on
nodus by https.
To perform a checkout, you can use the following |
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653
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Wed Jul 9 17:58:19 2008 |
John | Summary | General | Illuminator alarms | This morning some time was wasted on alignment
due to the illuminators.
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652
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Wed Jul 9 15:04:22 2008 |
steve | Metaphysics | Photos | SURFs helping hands | Surf students are helping out with baffle
cleaning. |
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651
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Wed Jul 9 12:42:14 2008 |
John | Update | Locking | Hand off to RF CARM | Rob, Yoichi, John
Last night we were able to reduce the CARM |
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