Reports until 05:06, Monday 20 February 2017
H1 PSL (PSL)
corey.gray@LIGO.ORG - posted 05:06, Monday 20 February 2017 - last comment - 09:19, Wednesday 22 February 2017(34256)
H1 Lockloss: PSL Is Down (looking into why)

13:01utc:  H1 & the H1 PSL Front End went down.

Will make a call to Jason.

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corey.gray@LIGO.ORG - 06:23, Monday 20 February 2017 (34259)

On the PSL SYSSTAT medm, we had the Oscillator/Head 1-4 flow error in a Fault/red state.  Jason said this meant that we had a "glitch in laser head flow sensors".  Jason brought back the PSL remotely.  I topped off the PSL Chiller (the cap did NOT pop off) with 375mL of water.  

  • ISS was oscillating afterward, so we adjusted the REFSIGNAL (from -1.1 to -1.5).  
  • But later noticed DIAG_MAIN message saying the NOISE_EATER was faulted.  So I went out to toggle this on/off.  
  • ISS was oscillating again and this time took REFSIGNAL to a more reasonable -1.08.

13:58 Back to LOCK ACQUISITION

FRS #7460 Filed For ~1hr of CORRECTIVE_MAINTENANCE DOWN time.

jason.oberling@LIGO.ORG - 09:19, Wednesday 22 February 2017 (34316)

Cause appears to be a trip of the Laser Head 1-4 Flow interlock, specifically Head 2.  The first attachment shows the 3 laser head flow rates (the 4th is currently being forced to a value in the Beckhoff software, so cannot contribute to the trip).  It is clear that head 2 became erratic and began to drop in flow, eventually passing below the trip point and tripping the laser.  The 2nd attachment shows a zoomed in view of only the Head 2 flow.  Possible debris passing through the flow sensor?

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