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kyle.ryan@LIGO.ORG - posted 17:48, Wednesday 20 September 2017 (38728)
LVEA purge-air duty cycle
With (6) ea, chamber doors removed and with (6) ea. soft covers in place, the Kobelco air compressor duty cycle is 

270 seconds LOADED vs 18 seconds UNLOADED = 94% df.  

This isn't, necessarily, unexpected but I noticed that the load/unload thresholds don'tt appear to be dictated by the receiver tank's pressure.  I'll investigate tomorrow, but my recolection is that the compressor should load at a receiver tank pressure of  80psi and unload at 110 psi.  This wasn't happening while I was observing a few cycles this evening.  Instead, the unloading appeared to be based on elapsed time as opposed to receiver tank pressure.  

I surveyed the open chambers and all soft covers are on and in-chamber work seems done for the day, so I reduced the purge flow a bit.  
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