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chandra.romel@LIGO.ORG - posted 15:48, Monday 22 January 2018 - last comment - 17:20, Monday 22 January 2018(40220)
GV-11 mid-y work

[Kyle, Chandra]

Note:  this activity caused expected Y-arm pressure alarms.

Verified we have an outer o-ring leak on GV-11 gate that needs to be addressed before CP4 bake. We back filled the gate annulus with dry N2 and allowed pressure to rise for 7 minutes to see if it would flatten out (it did not as it approached 1e-7 Torr). Once we're back on its AIP, we will re-seat the gate and retest. If that doesn't fix the o-ring we will install a valve at the 1-1/3" gate port so we have the ability to pump on it during bake. If need be, we can soft close GV-10 (which will isolate mid-Y's large ion pump from Y1 arm) and valve in the small ion pump attached to CP1.

Then we repeat for GV-12.

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chandra.romel@LIGO.ORG - 17:16, Monday 22 January 2018 (40222)

We re-seated GV-11 gate which made the outer o-ring leak worse. Shoot.

Side note:  when we stroked GV-11 to a yellow state, GV-12 open/closed status turned yellow too.

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chandra.romel@LIGO.ORG - 17:20, Monday 22 January 2018 (40223)

Also note that hard closing GV-11 was quiet second time around.

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