Reports until 20:25, Wednesday 23 April 2014
H1 INS (ISC)
stefan.ballmer@LIGO.ORG - posted 20:25, Wednesday 23 April 2014 - last comment - 20:28, Wednesday 23 April 2014(11550)
ALS DIFF work
Alexa, Stefan

- With the y-arm o.k. (the remaining glitches were actually bleeding in from x-arm locking), we realigned the x-arm.
- Note: we need to switch back to a better camera view for the x-arm transmitted light. The current one does not provide a lot of information because a) it is completely saturated and b) it is in a guoy phase that is not very sensitive to TMS alignment.
- Once we had both arms aligned and locking fairly reliable, we looked at the DIFF electronics:
- First we found 3 switches on the VCO and FDD that were left off.
- Next we noticed that the DIFF beat note was only -32dBm - we verified the EPICS read-back with the scope.
- So we hooked up the scope on ISCT1, but right then an earthquake struck and knocked out every ISI on site. Thus we went home.
Comments related to this report
stefan.ballmer@LIGO.ORG - 20:28, Wednesday 23 April 2014 (11551)
The earthquake was reported as a 6.7 94km S of Port Hardy, Canada (Vancouver Island), at 2014-04-23 20:10:13 UTC-07:00