Reports until 09:26, Wednesday 13 April 2016
LHO VE
chandra.romel@LIGO.ORG - posted 09:26, Wednesday 13 April 2016 (26564)
IP5 PS
IP-5 power supply was giving a polarity error since Friday. Suspect this was due to receptacle activities at rack last Friday. Reprogrammed PS for "spare" pump with LIGO specific parameters. One channel fired up. The other gave an "over temperature" error. Waited many minutes, raised voltage from default stepping 3000V to 5000V on fixed V setting. Second channel started to work again (external fan is blowing on it). We are ordering more Gamma PSs as these old Varians are failing at a fast rate.