Miranda, Dave:

Friday afternoon we updated the cable labeling for the ACC BNC coax cables at EX, MX and MY. EY cables were already complete.

At EX we reconnected the BNC for H1:PEM-EX_ACC_OPLEV_ETMX_Y_DQ which we had found to be disconnected. Plot shows it had a signal until the 23rd June of this year.

Miranda, Dave:

Over the past week we have documented the LHO PEM accelerometers and produced an as-built  wiring drawing

This was in response to a possible misreading of accelerometer(s) with the wrong channel names.

We found three accelerometers with incorrect names, which date back to pre-O4, so I'm tagging DETCHAR.

We fixed this at 16:00 Thursday 13th August 2026 PDT by remapping the BNC connections on the front panel of APC1. The cable going to port12 was moved to port13, that going to port13 was moved to port14 and that going to port14 was moved to port12.

We tap-tested the EBAY_FLOOR accelerometer at 16:10 and this showed up on H1:PEM-CS_ACC_EBAY_FLOOR_Z_DQ

Pending Filter Files:

h1calcs had a modified filter file waiting to the loaded. The running filter file was last loaded 16jul2026, H1CALCS.txt was modified at 10:52 27jul2026 and not loaded. I made a local copy of the modified file, then removed the changes by doing a subversion revert. This cleared the CFC flag on h1calcs.

SDF Diffs:

Several models have outstanding SDF diffs (screen shots attached below)

Links to all of the B&K'ing that has happened this year to wrap up the vent. List is in reverse cronilogical order.

Just noticed DM 10 has been steadly going up for last 6 hours. So has the wind - could be an unpropped door? Just adding it here for log. Screenshot attached.

TITLE: 05/26 Day Shift: 1430-2330 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Planned Engineering
INCOMING OPERATOR: None
SHIFT SUMMARY: Work continued today in HAM2 and currently there is still work going on at the test stand on the BBSS.

The LVEA is currently LASER SAFE

LOG:

J. Kissel, J. Warner
ECR: E2400026
WPs: 13237, LHO:13238
Final Design Doc: T2400145
Relevant Systems Level Drawings:
    . Mechanical Assemblies
        :: ISIJ Reflector D2400102
        :: HAM Table Baffles D1700335
        :: HAM2 Systems Layout D0901083 (not yet-inclusive-of-SPI)
    . Electronics Wiring Diagram 
    . Cable Routing In-vac Cable Routing Plan from G2401479 (pages )
    . Flange Layout D1002873-v11

Executive summary:
    - Removed ISIJ +X-side, center, HAM2 ISI table baffle from D1700265-v4 Type 2 
        :: Bracket mounting bolts left screwed into ISI optical table for this will eventually become a D1700265-v4 Type 3 and remounted.
    - Installed ISIJ Reflector + QPD Assembly D2400102 on +X ISI side wall (D071057-v2), with its shroud (D2500030) in place
        :: We didn't weigh it, but the SW Assembly predicts a mass of 1.96 [kg], which we can likely round up to 2.0 [kg] with the shroud installed.
    - Routed and connected QPD read-out cable system to D3 flange, F10 spigot.
    - Routed and connected picomotor cable system to existing D1101515 quadrupus leg Cable #3, J4 
        :: Cable #4, J5 is connected to IO PM5 mirror, Cables #2 J3 and #1 J2 were reset in neat coil with connectors floating to avoid electrical grounding as before.
    - Nudged make-shift baffle system using D1700261 ballast mass baffle mounted vertically on the +X / +Y / Beam Height corner of the chamber wall upon entry into beamtube.
        :: the will DEFINITELY need a technically-minded reset.

In at 10:30a PT and out by 12:30a PT. It's so lovely when everything goes to plan!

Pictures and further info to follow in the comments below.

FAMIS 39862 Vibration Sensors To Gauge Health Of HVAC Fans Site Wide
 

Samantha Callos, Genevieve Connolly, Robert Schofield, Ryan Short, Carlos Campos

The detchar presentation summarizing the injection analysis can be found on the DCC at: https://dcc.ligo.org/LIGO-G2600768

A PDF of this report has also been attached to this alog along with a spreadsheet of the injections.

TITLE: 04/14 Day Shift: 1430-2330 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Planned Engineering
INCOMING OPERATOR: None
SHIFT SUMMARY:

Iluminators for HAM3 BSC1 and 2 are now on.
HEPI and ISI for BSC2 is locked out. tagging PEM. and there is now a Red H1:SYS-ETHERCAT_DEVICE_1_SLAVECOUNTACTUAL due to the iluminator Chassis device that Fil turned on between BSC1 and BSC1 in the beergarden to allow the illuminators to turn on. tagging CDS. 

PCAL troubleshooting: 
Dripta and I were trying to take FFT's of PCAL Lines for more Power budget work and we noticed that the PCAL Y laser is off with no current on H1:CAL-PCALY_LASERDIODECURRENT. I trended the channel back and compared it with some channels that I thought may link it to the IOP restarts. 
Dripta went to EY to toggle the Laser power rocker switch just in case it was just a simple issue of a turn it off and back on again.  Tagging CDS again.

I noticed that MC1 & 3 were saturating. 
IMC H1:IMC-WFS_GAIN was set to 0 and the history was cleared to solve the problem of MC1 & MC3 were being saturated.
Trending some channels that were suspected to perhaps  be the cause of the junk signal and thus the cause of the saturations.
The IMC ASC has it's own block to do power normalization, different from the LSC power normalization. The output of this block is "INNORM" used to normalize MC2 NSUM for the IMC WFS triggering.
Relavent FRS ticket: 
https://services1.ligo-la.caltech.edu/FRS/show_bug.cgi?id=9387

More IOP model restarts happening again for HAMS 7,8 then HAM 5,6, & BSCs 1,2, & 3.
Please see the attached SDF Diffs for HAMs 5, 6 and the BS: 
SUSSR3
SUSRM
SUSIFOOUT
SUSSQZOUT
SUSBS (my bad I had sort on substring selected with an old Optical Align string in the search field.)
All SDFs were accepted before the IOP restart. 
ITMS  IOPs have not been rebooted yet. Tagging SUS, SQZ & ISC

MC2_trans Beam Dump twas Twissled today, then put back into original place. 

The ITMs had their IOP's restarted after a time cable swap today as well.
All SUS were turned back to Aligned.
SEI for HAM 2,3,4  and BSC 1 & 2 still have their HEPI's and or their ISI's WD tripped or other wise in a ISI Damped Hepi offline state.

As you can see from this ITMY trend, Jim went inside to lock the ISI and tripped the ISI, then Jason went in and tripped it again, then there was an IOP restart. 

A slightly less exciting trend of ITMX.


LOG:
 

(Jordan V, Corey G)

In prep for upcoming BBSS Install, "broke" bolts (which is slang for loosened them) on:

• BSC1's +Y Door in the Beer Garden
• BSC2's Dome (to see if giving the Dome's O-Ring some time to "decompress" helps us out at all with removal next week).  

BSC1's +Y Door Bolts (mostly) Removed & Accelerometer Cable Disconnected

BSC1's door had all bolts but (4) removed.  Sadly, I removed the bottom (easy ones) bolts first and then when I got to the top bolts they were very hard to loosen because of some sag.  Additionally, their access is horrible with:  a stiffening plate for the chamber right above the rear access to these bolts, then there are cable trays also in the way, and the C3 fabric cover is draped in your face the whole time.  Jordan helped out and we were able to get the last top bolt removed.  We also loosened the (4) bolts 1-turn which is the typical procedure.

There was an accelerometer still cabled up to this door.  I disconnected the cable (labeled "PEM:BSC1_ACC_X") and stuffed the cable into the cable tray above this door.

Time lapse of me removing half the bolts in this LINK (since we only files allowed in alog have to be smaller than 15Mb.)  :(

BSC2's Dome Bolts (mostly) Removed, But Have A Galled Bolt!

BSC2's dome bolts were removed.  4-bolts were left in place (they were loosened and then tightened up a little).  One notable, is there is 1-galled dome bolt.  Jordan and I used the long wrenches to see if we could use more force to help it break loose, but no luck.  We did not try pouring some alcohol on the bolt to help as a lubricant.  The bolt is loose and has about 1-2mm of a gap on it.  So, the pros could try use even longer cheater bars, a saw cutter, or they were also chatting about a tool to cut the nut off.  At any rate, 

TITLE: 04/09 Day Shift: 1430-2330 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Planned Engineering
INCOMING OPERATOR: None
SHIFT SUMMARY:
Vacuum team has been Venting the corner station still. 

OMC's were taken to SAFE for a model reboot then taken back to aligned.

Dave and Marc  swapped some cables and restarted the following IOP's & models today. Please check your SDF's haven't been reverted.

H1IOPOMC0 
H1IOPOAF0 
H1IOPASC0
Tagging teams that may have SDF issues in the future.

SRM taken to aligned. (I have no idea Why it was misaligned.)

IMC Input Power Channel is no longer "Cray Cray" and is now reading correclty as of Jennie D's alog.

Restart ISI models BSC 1,2, & 3 
FW1 Down 19:15 UTC
DC0 down 19:20 UTC 
DC0 Re-established at 20:36 UTC  

ISI BS Stage 1&2 watchdog tripped 20:36 Likely due to Vac activities. 
ISI HAM3 WD tripped 23:33

VAC team says BSC2 annulus is vented & Dome bolts ready to be broken. 
 

LOG:

TITLE: 04/07 Day Shift: 1430-2330 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Planned Engineering
OUTGOING OPERATOR: None
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
    SEI_ENV state: MAINTENANCE
    Wind: 5mph Gusts, 3mph 3min avg
    Primary useism: 0.01 μm/s
    Secondary useism: 0.15 μm/s 
QUICK SUMMARY:

Things on the menu for today, HAM1's +y door, venting the corner, and a lot of prep (HAM3 doors should also be coming off this week & more prep for BBSS work!). 

h1seih7 is still down (so HAM7 SEI & SUS systems are all red). 

The Ops Overview also continues to have "IMC INPUT POWER" flashing from 0-200W (but I was assured this was not real and purely a calculation error; light pipes have been closed since last Fri morning).

OPS Note:  I will leave the con around 1045amPDT for a tour and then to attend a BBSS preparation meeting at 1pm PDT and RyanC has graciously offered to cover for me.

To test out new infrastructure for running IOCs and other services in CDS I put the MX weather station into a podman container and started it on our new service-host cluster (a high availbility cluster for services).

As part of this I created a generic container that should work for the other weather stations and the dust monitors (until those are migrated to beckhoff).

This work is part of an effort to improve our infrastructure, including how we track, monitor, and manage our IOCs.  There should not be any user visible change with this, other than the IP address that the IOC responds from is different.

Notes:

 * We run these older IOCs in the background with screen as they are iocsh shells and want a terminal.  For this setup I no longer need to run with screen, we just tell the container system (podman) to run the container with a tty in interactive mode in the background.

For FAMIS #39861: Fans look mostly flat (Corner's FAN5 looks faintly noisier the last 1.5 days).

Closes FAMIS39860, last checked in alog89375

Everything looks as it did during the last check, except MR_FAN4_170_1 looks noisier than during the last check.

Betsy wanted a look at the last few months of dust trends for BSC2.

(This is Dust Monitor LVEA10 which was moved to BSC2 in Feb [alog89137].)

For FAMIS #39857: All fan trends look nice and flat.

Closes FAMIS#39856, last checked 89201

Corner Station Fans (attachment1)
- All fans are looking normal and within range.

Outbuilding Fans (attachment2)
- All fans are looking normal and are within range.