TITLE: 05/16 Day Shift: 15:00-23:00 UTC (08:00-16:00 PST), all times posted in UTC

STATE of H1: Lock Aquisition

INCOMING OPERATOR: Jeff

SHIFT SUMMARY:

Morning locking thwarted by a variety of issues:

• Alignment of the Y arm seemed a bit off.
• There were issues with gain and pointing in the FIND_IR stage
• fiber polarization needed attention
• errors between Beckhoff and Guardian causing issues with X arm

LOG:

15:00 EY  300NM Dust alarm sounding

15:27 Set Observatory Mode to Commissioning - IFO down haven't started aligning yet. Seemed to be the only viable option.

15:30 Monday meeting

16:07 John called about  chiller issue at EY. He and Bubba are going to investigate.

16:27 Chandra out to investigate a RED condition on a diagonal annulus pump.

16:45 Peter and Jason into Ooptics lab

16:50 Karen and Chriatina to EX to put out mousetraps

17:30 Cheryl into optics lab

18:46 Dave and Jim re-starting the gateway between Guardian and Beckhoff in an attempt to resolve mysterious connection errors in the X-Arm.

19:01 turned of gateway and restarted guardian machine. 

19:22 Dave will power cycle the guardian macine

19:44 Cheryl out of the optics lab

20:04 Patrick restarted the H1ECATX1 IOC and this seems to have resolved the guardian woes of the day.

20:50 Gamma Ray Burst - IFO in higher stages of lock acquisition.

21:03 Ken to MY to do some wiring

21:30 Bubba out to repair instrument air at EY chiller yard

22:03 Ken back

22:11 DAQ restart

22:30 Bubba back from EY chiller yard