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stefan.ballmer@LIGO.ORG - posted 20:52, Tuesday 03 May 2016 - last comment - 22:12, Wednesday 04 May 2016(26992)
Banging noises from the GN2 pipes at End X

While I was at End X (around 7pmish) I heard repeaded banging noises coming from the GN2 pipes (GN2 BURST, GN2 VENT and GN2 REGEN). Not sure whether that's a know isssue, but it was rather loud, and the support piers were shaking noticably.

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stefan.ballmer@LIGO.ORG - 09:02, Wednesday 04 May 2016 (26994)

This was observed between 00:46 and 0144 UTC on May 4th (17:46-18:44 PDT on May 3rd).

Also, the observation was done inside the building. I did not investigate the outside.

vernon.sandberg@LIGO.ORG - 11:41, Wednesday 04 May 2016 (26998)

GN2 = "gaseous nitrogen"

LN2 = "liquid nitrogen"

for those tracking our jargon.

kyle.ryan@LIGO.ORG - 22:12, Wednesday 04 May 2016 (27025)
John and I investigated Wednesday afternoon and found everything quite -> John excited the ambient-air vaporizer (large finned aluminum ambient heat exchanger mounted on the concrete slab near the supply dewar outside of the building and piped in-line with the GN2 REGEN connection to the pump and which is easily mechanically excitable with wind) while I was in the VEA listening - Nothing -> We also created excessive LN2->GN2 boil-off in CP8 by filling in manual mode at a "high" LLCV %OPEN setting - Nothing.  

We did note that, nowhere in the piping between the ambient air vaporizer and CP8 was the piping clamped to anything.  In fact, it was just resting on pipe stands.  Also, an "ice ball" had formed on the bellows at the pump penetration - reminding us of the fact that all of the ambient air vaporizers on the X-arm have severed welds at the ASA connection flange which results in a parallel path for the GN2 exhaust to exit he pump -> We then capped the piping to eliminate this as an excitation mechanism
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