Reports until 11:28, Monday 08 October 2018
H1 TCS (TCS)
corey.gray@LIGO.ORG - posted 11:28, Monday 08 October 2018 - last comment - 16:55, Monday 08 October 2018(44399)
TCS Chiller Check/Fill (FAMIS #11460)

Time To Perform Task:  14min

TCSx:  Chiller level was at "Max Level" & no water added.

TCSy:  Chiller level was at 8.4cm & 1200 mL of water was added to [get] level to the "Max Level".

NOTE:  I only removed the GRAY chiller cap for TCSy Chiller.  I was not sure where/how to remove the mesh filter.  Thomas later informed me we are supposed to remove the Chiller Cap "Panel" to gain access to this Mesh Filter.  So there is a chance the level I filled to might be erroneous.

Comments related to this report
thomas.shaffer@LIGO.ORG - 16:55, Monday 08 October 2018 (44416)

This is the first FAMIS task for the TCS chillers. TCSY was just given a marker on its water level last week (and by marker, I mean it's a ruler taped to the side of the water level). We had paper logs for these chillers on the chillers themselves, but they were never checked consistently. Enter FAMIS task. Hopefully, combined logs and consistent checks will give us quicker indicators of leaks and normal/expected water loss rates. So yeah, there is a bit of slop here that we are cleaning up :)

 

thomas.shaffer@LIGO.ORG - 14:06, Monday 08 October 2018 (44409)

This seems like a large amount of water for TCSY. I have been keeping a close eye on the chillers, and the level for the Y chiller has been stable for the past few weeks. I only put the ruler on that chiller last week, so I can't say at what level it was at previously, but I would guess ~2cm below the max line. Either way, this warranted a leak check.

Jason and I walked the lines and checked on table to look for any hints of a leak and found nothing. Looking back at the chiller, the water level was a touch above max, and I could see that 1.2L could squeeze in there from the previous level. There seems to be no leak, that we could find, but we will continue to watch these chillers closely.

stephen.appert@LIGO.ORG - 16:08, Monday 08 October 2018 (44413)

A couple of (maybe not so helpful) observations:

  • It seems that there is maybe too much slop in the Chiller Level Check / Refill procedure.
  • If it doesn't make sense to track / fill ~100 mL at a time, that should be clearly indicated by tracking 1) the expected water loss per week, and 2) the last time the expected water loss was refilled / reset. The FAMIS task seems like the right place for these items to be tracked / commented, but it probably needs to be done within every instance of the task.
  • (procedure document number? I might expect it to be related to T1600431, PSL Chiller Maintenance Documents)

I think tightening up the procedure and sorting out the fill date tracking will help avoid confounding a leak with an accumulation of expected water loss in the future.