State of H1: locking and going to NLN
Assistance: Betsy, Hugh, Richard, Jenne, Sheila, JeffK, Jason, Tara
Activities: all times UTC
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OAF died right before my shift - being worked on when I arrived
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H1 lock loss
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massive confusion about what happens when OAF dies and TCS goes with it
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final observation about how to restart TCS is to
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leave it completely alone
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don't touch the TCS guardian
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don't touch any settings
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restart the chillers and it will come back
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it would also be helpful to consider a rework of the medm screen to improve the operator's ability to diagnose issues
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H1 relocked and back to NLN
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OAF dies, Dave and Jim try to bring it back before TCS being off killed the lock, and we ran out of time (new cable, not sure if it helped)
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while H1 was still locked and OAF came back, no PI damping, since the safe.snap gets loaded
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I was working on PI mode 28 as OAF died, and it was increasing, since I hadn't yet found the new good phase
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PI mode 28 was 0.5 when OAF died, and when OAF came back 16 minutes later, it grew to 1.6 before lock loss
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PI mode 27 was not rung up when OAF died, but when OAF came back it was at 500, and rose to 2500 at lock loss
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when OAF came back, the PI damping was restored to SAFE, so off, and I was not able to locate a file to restore the damping before lock loss
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many parties used the H1 down down time for measurements
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Jenne, JeffK, Sheila, Daniel, Kiwamu
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all measurements are done
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H1 is relocked and past DRMI_LOCKED, and heading to NLN
Site Activities:
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Karen to MY, and back
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Chandra to MY, and back
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Fred to LVEA - tour, visitor is the first LIGO engineer and family
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Sheila to LVEA - PSL racks - IMC measurement
Dave Barker just informed me that we'll have a script on the OPS workstation that we can use to restart the OAF.
Details to come from Dave and Nutsinee.
Regarding TCS, I don't think it's quite true that people shouldn't touch anything. No one should be touching TCS Guardian, that is true. However, when TCS chillers trip that trips the interlock boxes in the LVEA which require human to go in, turn the keys to clear fault alarm and hit "gate" button to actually lase the laser. As mentioned in TCS Wiki.