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Date |
Author |
Type |
Category |
Subject |
Text |
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407
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Mon Mar 31 14:01:40 2008 |
jamie | Summary | LSC | Summary of DC readout PD non-linearity measurements | From March 21-26, I conducted some measurements
of the response non-linearity of some mock-up
DC readout photodetectors. The detectors |
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408
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Mon Mar 31 14:14:16 2008 |
rob | Update | Computers | c1susvme2 status | [quote]c1susvme2 is getting worse and worse.
it won't run for more than ~45 minutes without
fatally de-syncing. for now I've turned |
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409
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Wed Apr 2 15:03:51 2008 |
steve | Update | General | reflectivity of black glass | The reflectivity of black glass, shade 12
was supplied by Donald O'Shea
of Emerald Glass Inc., Westlake, OH 44145
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410
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Thu Apr 3 18:33:17 2008 |
Andrey | Summary | Environment | Status of Weather Station |
During the last two days some things related
to weather station have been improved.
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412
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Thu Apr 3 18:46:04 2008 |
Andrey | Configuration | Computers | "Network switch board" and "c1pem1 crate" were touched |
While working with the weather station, I
did two things that potentially (with a very |
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413
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Thu Apr 3 19:27:50 2008 |
Andrey | Summary | Photos | Tour for prospective grad students | Last Friday (March 28), there was a tour of
40-meter lab for prospective graduate students.
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414
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Fri Apr 4 16:54:06 2008 |
Andrey | Summary | Environment | Weather station is fully alive |
[COLOR=blue]After today's trip to the roof
of our building the weather station seems |
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416
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Mon Apr 7 16:42:56 2008 |
rana | Update | Computers | eLog intermittent | Phil Ehrens restarted Dziban again this morning.
Looks like its still crashing each Monday
around 8 AM.
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417
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Mon Apr 7 18:58:49 2008 |
steve | Update | General | reflectivity of SS304 | The reflectivity of stainless steel 304 super
polished # 8 was measured the same way as
elog entry 409
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418
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Tue Apr 8 09:08:54 2008 |
steve | Configuration | PEM | weather station disconnected | We can not leave cables in the walkways and
go on vacation.
I disconnected the weather station from the |
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419
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Tue Apr 15 18:44:25 2008 |
rana | Configuration | Computers | Rosalba | There is a new computer in the control room
-- its called [B][COLOR=purple]Rosalba[/COLOR][/B],
in keeping with our naming convention. Its |
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420
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Wed Apr 16 09:47:35 2008 |
Andrey | Summary | PEM | Weather Station | The weather station is functional again.
The long ethernet Cat5 cable connecting 'WeatherLink' |
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421
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Wed Apr 16 10:20:01 2008 |
Andrey | Update | Computers | Rosalba and linux3 | [quote]There is a new computer in the control
room -- its called [B][COLOR=purple]Rosalba[/COLOR][/B],
in keeping with our naming convention. Its |
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422
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Wed Apr 16 21:11:12 2008 |
rana | Summary | DAQ | AA/AI Filters for the DAQ & FE systems | I used Foton to make up some new filters which
will be used all over the project in order
to downsample/upsample.
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423
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Thu Apr 17 15:00:59 2008 |
steve | Update | VAC | vac controller computer to be replaced | Now that Rosalba is up and running someone
should step forward to volunteer for this
job.
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424
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Thu Apr 17 20:17:37 2008 |
Andrey | Update | PEM | Two issues with our weather station |
I encountered two difficulties working with
the "Weather Station".
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425
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Fri Apr 18 16:02:58 2008 |
alex | Update | SUS | end station sus front-end bug fix | installed and started new susEtmx.o and susEtmy.o
to fix a problem with ETMY optical lever
variables. |
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426
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Fri Apr 18 16:27:04 2008 |
rob | Update | SUS | end station sus front-end bug fix | [quote]installed and started new susEtmx.o
and susEtmy.o to fix a problem with ETMY
optical lever variables.[/quote]
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427
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Fri Apr 18 16:48:13 2008 |
Andrey | Update | PEM | Rain collector of weather station |
Today the rain collector of our weather station
was cleaned. As a result, we checked that |
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428
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Fri Apr 18 19:46:08 2008 |
rana | Update | ASS | check adaptive | I restarted the adaptive code today using
'startass' and 'upass'.
I moved them into the scripts/ASS/ subdirectory.
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429
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Sun Apr 20 18:23:27 2008 |
rana | Summary | LSC | locking attempts | I noticed that the adaptive FF for the MC
had stopped doing anything; this turned out
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430
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Sun Apr 20 20:29:46 2008 |
rana | Update | Computer Scripts / Programs | tdsread bugs | [COLOR=darkred]There seems to be a problem
with reading the C1:IOO-MASTER_OVERFLOW field
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431
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Sun Apr 20 23:39:57 2008 |
rana | Summary | SUS | MC1 electronics busted | I spent some time trying to fix the utter
programming fiasco which was our MCWFS diagonalization
script.
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432
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Mon Apr 21 12:58:42 2008 |
rob | Update | ASS | check adaptive | [quote]
Caryn Palatchi (a Caltech undergrad who just |
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433
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Mon Apr 21 13:12:21 2008 |
rob | Update | Computer Scripts / Programs | tdsread bugs | [quote][COLOR=darkred]There seems to be a
problem with reading the C1:IOO-MASTER_OVERFLOW
field
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434
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Tue Apr 22 08:34:22 2008 |
josephb | Configuration | Cameras | Current Network Diagram | The attached network diagram has also been
added to the 40m Wiki at http://lhocds.ligo-wa.caltech.edu:8000/40m/Image_Processing_with_GigE_Cameras |
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435
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Tue Apr 22 10:59:24 2008 |
rob | Update | SUS | MC1 electronics busted | [quote]I spent some time trying to fix the
utter programming fiasco which was our MCWFS
diagonalization script.
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436
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Tue Apr 22 16:17:48 2008 |
rob | Update | SUS | end station sus front-end bug fix | [quote]installed and started new susEtmx.o
and susEtmy.o to fix a problem with ETMY
optical lever variables.[/quote]
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437
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Tue Apr 22 17:08:04 2008 |
Caryn | Update | IOO | no signal for C1:IOO-MC_L | C1:IOO-MC_L signal was at zero for the past
few days |
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438
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Tue Apr 22 22:19:02 2008 |
rob | Metaphysics | lore | jiggling sliders |
In the interests of tacit communication of
scientific knowledge, I here reveal a nugget |
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439
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Tue Apr 22 22:51:30 2008 |
rana | Configuration | IOO | McWFS Status | I've been working a little on the MC WFS in
the last few days. I have made many
changes to the sensing matrix script and |
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440
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Wed Apr 23 22:39:54 2008 |
Andrey | DAQ | Computer Scripts / Programs | Problem with "get_data" and slow PEM channels |
It turns out that I cannot read minute trends
for the slow weather channels for more than |
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441
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Thu Apr 24 11:50:10 2008 |
josephb | Summary | Computer Scripts / Programs | Useful tidbits learned while tracking the network setup | In process of understanding the network setup
I've learned several things:
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442
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Thu Apr 24 14:10:26 2008 |
rob | Update | Locking | locking work | [I]Rob, Johnnie[/I]
We made some progress on locking last night |
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443
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Thu Apr 24 15:57:53 2008 |
steve | Configuration | SAFETY | Safety at AP-ISCT | I measured the output power of the psl after
the mechanical shutter.
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444
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Thu Apr 24 22:06:47 2008 |
Andrey | Summary | Computers | Ethernet Cables and Hubs | Today in the morning (between 8.30AM and noon)
Joe and I were working on understanding which
ethernet cables connect "processors controlling |
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445
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Thu Apr 24 23:27:48 2008 |
rana | Update | PEM | acoustic noise in MC_F | I looked at the [COLOR=darkblue][FONT=Comic
Sans MS][SIZE=3]coherence between the Microphone
in the PSL (PEM-AS_MIC) and the MC_F[/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR] |
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446
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Thu Apr 24 23:50:10 2008 |
rana | Update | General | Syringes in George the Freezer | There are some packets of syringes in the
freezer which are labeled as belonging to
an S. Waldman.
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447
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Fri Apr 25 11:33:40 2008 |
Andrey | Configuration | Computers | Computer controlling vaccum equipment |
[COLOR=blue]Old computer[/COLOR] (located
in the south-end end of the interferometer |
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448
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Fri Apr 25 13:20:04 2008 |
Andrey | Update | PEM | Microphone test | In response to Rana's request, I tested the
microphone (if it is alive or not) by clapping
my hands and speaking aloud nearby.
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449
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Fri Apr 25 13:53:11 2008 |
josephb | Summary | Computers | Network setup | This is the promised more in detail summary
from Andrey's log ID 444.
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450
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Fri Apr 25 15:44:21 2008 |
steve | Update | PSL | scattering measurments | In pursuit of a low back scattering, high
power beam dump we looked at materials such:
polished copper, polished aluminum, diamond |
6x |
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451
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Fri Apr 25 20:53:02 2008 |
rana | Configuration | IOO | MC WFS with more gain | Quick update: we found that the reason for
the MC WFS instability was that the digital
anti-whitening was one but not the analog |
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452
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Sat Apr 26 01:45:38 2008 |
Andrey | Summary | PEM | Weather Station enhancement | Two more things concerning weather monitoring
have been done during this week.
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453
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Sat Apr 26 11:21:15 2008 |
ajw | Omnistructure | Computers | backup of /cvs/cds restarted | The backup of /cvs/cds (which runs as a cron
job on fb40m; see /cvs/cds/caltech/scripts/backup/000README.txt)
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454
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Sun Apr 27 02:11:11 2008 |
rana | Configuration | IOO | MC WFS Notes | As noted in the elog from Friday, the WFS
has been bad ever since someone switched
on the digital whitening filters (FM1 & FM2)
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455
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Sun Apr 27 05:09:30 2008 |
rana | Configuration | IOO | MC WFS Whitening turned on | I [B]hardwired on the MC WFS whitening[/B]
filters.
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456
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Sun Apr 27 18:11:58 2008 |
rob | DAQ | Computers | br40m? |
The testpoint manager (which runs on fb40m)
crashed this afternoon. Upon re-starting |
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457
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Sun Apr 27 22:57:15 2008 |
ajw | DAQ | Computers | br40m? | [quote]
The testpoint manager (which runs on fb40m)
crashed this afternoon. Upon re-starting |
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458
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Mon Apr 28 23:44:33 2008 |
Andrey | Update | Computer Scripts / Programs | Weather.db |
I was trying to figure out how to modify
the file "Weather.db" so that the atm.pressure |
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