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Wed Nov 3 02:52:49 2021 |
Koji | General | Suspension | Mariner Sus Design | All parameters are temporary:
Test mass size: D150mm x L140mm
Intermediate mass size W152.4mm x |
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46
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Thu Nov 4 00:42:05 2021 |
Koji | General | Suspension | Mariner Sus Design | Some more progress:
- Shaved the height of the top
clamp blocks. We can extend the suspension |
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51
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Thu May 5 19:56:25 2022 |
Koji | General | Suspension | Mariner Suspension Cryo shield Install / Removal steps | Does this work? Is this insane? |
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54
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Thu Jun 16 19:43:36 2022 |
Koji | General | Suspension | Table for Mariner Suspension Cryo | - B246/QIL Skyhook
Find the base of Skyhook.
It should be in the storage room (B246). |
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55
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Thu Jun 23 21:11:03 2022 |
Koji | General | Suspension | Table for Mariner Suspension Cryo | Table moving effort in the OMC lab: See
https://nodus.ligo.caltech.edu:8081/OMC_Lab/412
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120
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Mon Jan 9 21:03:53 2023 |
Koji | General | General | Heavy item transport - preparation | 1) Paco cleared the path in the DOPO lab.
We'll need a flat dolly or wooden bars
(covered with a mylar sheet) to place the |
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121
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Tue Jan 10 23:30:25 2023 |
Koji | General | General | Heavy item transport - preparation | [JC, Stephen, Paco, Gabriele, Aidan,
Radhika, Koji]
We have successfully extracted |
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122
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Thu Jan 12 11:38:26 2023 |
Koji | General | General | How to move the large engine hoist through the narrow door | See the attachments. |
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123
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Thu Jan 12 11:54:08 2023 |
Koji | General | General | Heavy item transport | [JC, Koji]
Caltech transport came in this
morning. They first went to the OMC lab and |
7x |
124
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Thu Jan 12 15:36:22 2023 |
Koji | General | General | Crane configuration for the suspension test chamber | I made a quick investigation of the crane
configuration for the suspension test chamber.
Conclusions: |
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57
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Sat Jul 2 09:22:39 2022 |
Juan | General | General | Progress update | I've completed one coil driver board.
Hopefully next week I can finish the
other 2 boards and make the modifications |
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75
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Mon Aug 15 16:37:51 2022 |
Juan | General | General | Update on Sat Amp and OSEMs | Sat
Amp
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Thu Jun 16 14:04:30 2022 |
Juan | General | Suspension | Table for Mariner Suspension Cryo | Today we looked at possible locations for
where we will be setting up Mariner Suspension
and Cryo chamber. The first option was the |
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56
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Mon Jun 27 08:22:22 2022 |
Juan | General | General | General Update/ Need to do task | I've managed to cut and crimp wires
for the power board for coil driver. I will
begin adding components to the coil driver |
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58
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Tue Jul 5 21:06:47 2022 |
Juan | General | General | Work Update | Update of my current work I have finished
one coil driver board and started on the
last two that I need here is the progress |
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59
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Thu Jul 7 10:23:04 2022 |
Juan | General | General | Update | Almost done with coil driver boards |
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61
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Fri Jul 8 17:09:10 2022 |
Juan | General | General | Coil Driver and Sat Amp | All three coil driver boards are complete
and have been tested. Modification for all
4 sat amp have been completed. Ideally, I |
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Mon Jul 11 17:39:17 2022 |
Juan | General | General | Coil driver chassis | Finished all 3 Coil Drover chassis
and power lines still need to install the
rear cables will do that after I finish Sat |
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65
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Wed Jul 13 13:16:33 2022 |
Juan | General | General | Finished coil driver and sat amp | I have finished all coil driver and sat
amp chassis they all seem to be functioning
properly. |
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69
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Fri Jul 22 13:47:47 2022 |
Juan | General | General | Update | Just a general update of what I have been
up to deriving Lagrange for double pendulum
system and also been looking at code that |
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70
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Tue Jul 26 14:17:44 2022 |
Juan | General | General | OSEMS actuators | we have 23 OSEMS they look all full built
and I will try and test them this week and
or next week. |
8x |
72
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Thu Aug 4 11:26:55 2022 |
Juan | General | General | Sat Amp | Sat amp seems to be working just fine.
There does seem to be a saturation issue
with one of the outputs we may need to change |
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Mon Aug 8 13:00:56 2022 |
Juan | General | General | Sat Amp testing of OSEMS | In the following test, a single Sat Amp
chassis that holds Sat Amp Board S1106078
and S1106077 |
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22
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Tue Aug 24 08:15:37 2021 |
Jiri Smetana | General | General | Actuation Feedback Model | I'm posting a summary of the work I've
done on the Lagrangian analysis of the Mariner
suspension design and a state space model |
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Wed Sep 15 09:15:21 2021 |
Jiri Smetana | General | General | Actuation Feedback Model and Noise | I've implemented a more extensive feedback
model that uses proper conversions between
metres, volts, counts etc. and includes all |
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Thu Sep 16 10:02:47 2021 |
Jiri Smetana | General | General | Actuation Feedback Model and Noise | Here's the DAC voltage spectrum with
its associated RMS.
Also, for clarity, this model is |
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Tue Oct 12 12:44:44 2021 |
Jiri Smetana | General | General | New Damping Loop Model | I've ironed out the issues with my
MATLAB model so that it now shows correct
phase behaviour. The problem seems to arise |
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40
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Tue Oct 12 12:49:42 2021 |
Jiri Smetana | General | General | Damping Loop (Point-Mass Pendulums) | Now that I have correct phase and amplitude
behaviour for my MIMO state space model of
the suspension and the system is being correctly |
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Thu Oct 14 04:17:36 2021 |
Jiri Smetana | General | General | Damping Loop (Point-Mass Pendulums) | Here are the DAC and residual displacement
spectra for different suspension heights
ranging from 450 mm to 600 mm. I aimed to |
8x |
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Tue Oct 26 08:09:08 2021 |
Jiri Smetana | General | General | Lagrangian Suspension Model - Extended Body | I've been testing out the extended
body lagrangian models and I'm trying
to understand the ground motion and force |
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49
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Wed Nov 17 09:27:04 2021 |
Jiri Smetana | General | General | Lagrangian Model - Translation & Pitch | I've been having a look at the transfer
functions for the translation and pitch of
both masses. I'm attaching the plot of |
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50
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Wed Dec 15 06:43:43 2021 |
Jiri Smetana | General | General | Lagrangian Model - Translation & Pitch | I've checked the validity of my state
space model in a couple of ways so that we
have confidence in the results that it gives. |
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Mon Jul 11 16:24:31 2022 |
Jennifer Hritz | General | Optical Contacting | Baselining the temperature output of the Oster hot plate | This was performed last Friday (7/8).
I secured a thermocouple perpendicular
against the hotplate and recorded the |
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Mon Jul 11 17:27:39 2022 |
Jennifer Hritz | General | Optical Contacting | First successful bond | Note that the slides have "GLOBE"
printed on one side. I always bond the opposite
using the opposite side without the text. |
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Thu Jul 14 14:55:01 2022 |
Jennifer Hritz | General | Optical Contacting | Testing isopropanol and methanol | Note that I am just testing out different
techniques, so I have not set up the thermocouples
to precisely measure the temperatue. |
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71
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Wed Jul 27 14:50:20 2022 |
Jennifer Hritz | General | Optical Contacting | Bonding without liquids and narrowing down heating issue | I have found that, after cleaning the glass
with methanol (or even sometimes with just a dry
lense-cleaning cloth), I can get glass slides to |
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Thu Aug 4 13:44:56 2022 |
Jennifer Hritz | General | Optical Contacting | Success with slowly heating | Yesterday, I did two rounds of slowly heating
4 samples to the maximum hot plate temperature.
This was to formally test if my success |
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77
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Tue Aug 16 19:54:29 2022 |
Jennifer Hritz | General | Optical Contacting | Razor blade test | We succeeded in setting up an apparatus
for quantifiying the razor blade test. After
mounting the glass slides such that |
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Tue Sep 27 22:29:34 2022 |
Jennifer Hritz | General | Optical Contacting | Razor test apparatus disassembly pictures | Pictures of the razor test apparatus before
and after disassembly, to make future reassembly
easier. |
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Wed Sep 28 22:11:31 2022 |
Jennifer Hritz | General | Optical Contacting | Looked at Thor Lab slides | While finalizing my work plan for the quarter,
I decided to look at the Thor Lab slides.
This was instructive because they highlighted |
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84
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Thu Sep 29 18:36:40 2022 |
Jennifer Hritz | General | Optical Contacting | Looked at Thor Lab slides (continued) | Continuining with my casual exploration
of the Thor Lab slides, I heated them from
off --> low --> med --> high, with |
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Fri Sep 30 21:51:31 2022 |
Jennifer Hritz | General | Optical Contacting | Quick test heat and pressure test | Given that these glass slides are much
thinner than the ones I worked with prior,
I suspected they would be more receptive |
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Sat Oct 1 23:00:03 2022 |
Jennifer Hritz | General | Optical Contacting | (RESULTS!) Quick test heat and pressure test | These are the results from the previous
log.
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Sun Oct 2 23:23:07 2022 |
Jennifer Hritz | General | Optical Contacting | Cause of improved bond: time or pressure | Before jumping to conclusions based on
my previous results, I wanted to check that
it was indeed heat and pressure, not time, |
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Mon Oct 3 23:32:30 2022 |
Jennifer Hritz | General | Optical Contacting | Cause of improved bond: time or pressure (Update) | I was unable to check the samples because
I could not get access to Bridge, so they
will be checked tomorrow and the results |
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Tue Oct 4 22:15:23 2022 |
Jennifer Hritz | General | Optical Contacting | Hot plate PWM Test #1 | I wrote a program to control the heating
rate of the hot plate using Pulse Width Modulation
(PWM), and it was a great success! |
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Wed Oct 5 23:24:08 2022 |
Jennifer Hritz | General | Optical Contacting | Hot plate PWM Test #2 | I repeated the first test, but let the
hot plate run longer. It revealed that the
linearity for the lower temperatures completely |
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Fri Oct 7 00:21:24 2022 |
Jennifer Hritz | General | Optical Contacting | Hot plate PWM Test #3 | The previous test was cycled with 0.3s
on follwed by 0.7s off*. This test was 0.7s
on followed by 0.3s off. I intended to let |
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Fri Oct 7 21:20:08 2022 |
Jennifer Hritz | General | Optical Contacting | Hot plate PWM v2 progress | I had a little set back regarding the non-linear
portion of the heating. After about 150°C,
if the heating rate is kept constant, the |
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Sat Oct 8 23:22:25 2022 |
Jennifer Hritz | General | Optical Contacting | Hot plate PWM v2 test #1 | I had some trouble with the code not working
as intended (partially because it has been
I while since I coded in C++). |
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