Reports until 11:30, Wednesday 23 April 2014
H1 SEI (INS)
hugh.radkins@LIGO.ORG - posted 11:30, Wednesday 23 April 2014 - last comment - 16:21, Wednesday 23 April 2014(11532)
WHAM5 HEPI is locked(On Stops)--Ready for Septum Pull

In addition, I pulled the Dial Indicators from the East side, Turned off the ISI Sensor/Driver electronics, unplugged all the the East air-side cabling, and removed those Feed-Thru protection shrouds.  This will give access to the final bolts of the Septum flange.  Be mindful of the CPS Feedthrus on the North side--long and vulnerable.

For the operators or future HEPI Lockers, attached are trends from before starting thru after stopping the HEPI down.  We shoot for < +-200 IPS Counts (655cts/mil) and it looks like we did pretty well here.  Also are trends of the Cartesian values.  These are nanos(meters/rads) for the horizontal/rotation dofs.  We shifted 7um in X, less for Y & Z and 5urads RX and less for RY & RZ.  RZ is likely the most important for the upcoming alignments, it shifted 2urads.

Bartlett, Thomas

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hugo.paris@LIGO.ORG - 15:47, Wednesday 23 April 2014 (11538)

Notes for Saturation counter bleeding design:

  • As of 3:40 in the afternoon, the H1:HPI-HAM5 L4C saturation counter is still at at 16326 (122880 allowed).
  • 12h minute trends is attached. It shows that the L4C saturation counter of this platform was not reset throughout the day.
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brian.lantz@LIGO.ORG - 16:21, Wednesday 23 April 2014 (11542)
to note: after a day of heavy installation work around this chamber, the HPI L4C WD is still a long way from saturation. I (Brian L) believe that this is not a good day to consider when thinking about the auto-bleed-down rate. This sort of shenanigans should be cleared by an operator - under the belief that if this sort of thing were happening to the HPI, then someone should know about it.