Reports until 16:25, Saturday 17 December 2016
H1 General
edmond.merilh@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:25, Saturday 17 December 2016 (32688)
Shift Summary - Day
TITLE: 12/18 Day Shift: 16:00-00:00 UTC (08:00-16:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Aligning
INCOMING OPERATOR: Cheryl
SHIFT SUMMARY:
Day dominated by Beckhoff trouble and LOTS of phone calls
LOG:

6:09 Bubba on his way to the site to investigate instrument air.

16:25 Initial alignment: Input align not showing any IR. Trended IM4 and PR2 after successfull ALS alignment. Still no luck. Going to full lock to further assess the need(s) for continuing IA.

16:35 Bubba on site

16:40 Johnathan called to inform me of a tour that he's meeting on site at 10:00PST

16:45 Both TCS Lasers tripped off. 

16:49 Set H1 Observatory Mode to Unknown due to investigation of TCS issue.

16:57 John W on site going to assist Bubba

18:30 Checked on and cycled the TCS lasers

18:38 contacted Aiden and then Alistair

19:00 Granted remote access to Alastair

19:26 Carlos granted remote access

19:45 I spoke to Fil on the phone. It has been determined that there's a hardware error. He's heading to the site to troubleshoot.

23:43 Having an unusually hard time re-aligning arms

16:25 Handing off to Cheryl