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kyle.ryan@LIGO.ORG - posted 17:44, Tuesday 03 May 2016 - last comment - 19:10, Tuesday 03 May 2016(26975)
I am too old now for this level of "exitement"
Today my heart stopped when, after checking the Vertex pressure, I combined the Vertex RGA volume to that of the pump system to be used during its bake out via opening the valve that separated them and, a few minutes later, re-checked the Vertex pressure.  I couldn't help noticing an indicated pressure increase of more than two decades!  Not good for the old "TICKER"!  

It turned out that, by dumb coincidence, something that the CDS people were doing resulted in an incorrect pressure being indicated in the MEDM screen that I was viewing.  This would be fine if the anomalous value was obviously bogus but instead it looked like a "real" pressure!  Anyway, it wasn't clear to me that the activities described in the CDS WP were going to have this byproduct.  These initial anomalous values have since been normalized but now PT120B and PT140B seem to have improved by a factor of 2.  Does this mean that the old pressures were incorrect or are the new values incorrect?  
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patrick.thomas@LIGO.ORG - 18:08, Tuesday 03 May 2016 (26979)
Is there a way to independently check the readings outside of CDS? Sorry for the bad communication.
patrick.thomas@LIGO.ORG - 18:10, Tuesday 03 May 2016 (26980)
I noticed that I no longer needed to force the cold cathode on for PT140. This may be somehow related to the h0velx code change, but I'm not sure how. The PT120 mystifies me. It is on the h0vely computer that was not touched today.
patrick.thomas@LIGO.ORG - 18:35, Tuesday 03 May 2016 (26981)
The jumps are in the raw counts as well (see attached).
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patrick.thomas@LIGO.ORG - 18:56, Tuesday 03 May 2016 (26982)
Attached are pressures for the gauges in the LVEA for the last 2 days.
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patrick.thomas@LIGO.ORG - 19:10, Tuesday 03 May 2016 (26983)
Both the Pirani and Cold Cathode dropped for PT140. Only the Cold Cathode dropped for PT120 (see attached).
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