Reports until 17:44, Tuesday 04 December 2012
H1 SEI
hugo.paris@LIGO.ORG - posted 17:44, Tuesday 04 December 2012 - last comment - 09:26, Wednesday 05 December 2012(4831)
HAM3-ISI - Unlocked, Balanced and Measurements Running

Jim, Hugo,

IO signed off on HAM3 this afternoon. We went in and balanced the ISI. The payload is not supposed to change anymore. We recorded the CPS readouts for both locked and unlocked configurations:

  Locked (Counts)

Unlocked 
(Counts)

Shift
(Counts)
H1 -380 87.98 467.98
H2 170 504.36 334.36
H3 -60 139.12 199.12
V1 120 145.64 25.64
V2 -350 -518.82 168.82
V3 250 108.37 141.63

Requirements are (E1000309-v12): 
shift<1600cts 
Readouts<2000cts

The locked/unlocked shifts are way within requirements. We are looking forward to hearing back from IO on how unlocking affected them, if it did.

All electronics are powered back up. covers are held up with clippers and testing signs are on. The first measurements for the final in-chamber testing of HAM3-ISI will start tonight.

 

Note: The HAM-ISI master model was updated by LLO today. We are still running the previous version. I will soon transfer the update here.

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hugo.paris@LIGO.ORG - 09:26, Wednesday 05 December 2012 (4839)

Giacomo, Hugo,

We checked that the cavity was still flashing with the ISI unlocked. It is.

We then tried turning on the damping and the controllers level 2. The cavity was still flashing.