TITLE: 08/16 Eve Shift: 23:00-07:00 UTC (16:00-00:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 146Mpc
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Tony
INCOMING OPERATOR: Ryan C
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
SEI_ENV state: CALM
Wind: 19mph Gusts, 14mph 5min avg
Primary useism: 0.03 μm/s
Secondary useism: 0.13 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY:
Acquired the IFO in manual Initial alignment.
had troubles with SRM in ACQUIRE_SRY . Touched SRM one last time and it locked just fine.
Started Locking, and ALSX & Y were way off.
Interveined and eventually Jenne said we should redo intial alignment with ITMs due to the ITM Camera Servo Error signals were large.
Initial_Alignment started Got to PRC_ALGNING and PRM was continuously saturating.
We then took ISC_LOCK to down and MANUAL_INITIAL_ALIGNMENT.
Worked through PREP_FOR_PRX and manually moved PRM to maximize Peaks and Valleys on H1:ASC-AS_DC_NSUM_OUT16.
Then moved through MICH_BRIGHT OFFLOADED and SR2 ALIGN manually.
I did have to move SRM again.
After this Locking happened quickly.
Dust alarms in the optics labs are going off. Wind is only 15 mph.
Unknown cause Lockloss 02:51:18 UTC
https://ldas-jobs.ligo-wa.caltech.edu/~lockloss/index.cgi?event=1376189496
https://alog.ligo-wa.caltech.edu/aLOG/index.php?callRep=72261
Elena and I tried Walking through LOWNOISE_LENGTH_CONTROL manually by running the commands in the terminal to find out where the 102Hz noise is coming from.
Lost lock after running line 5481: ezca['LSC-SRCLFF1_GAIN'] = lscparams.gain['SRCLFF1'] * lscparams.dc_readout['sign']
Tried walking through that state again and we lost lock again. Same Line as above. 4:14 UTC
https://alog.ligo-wa.caltech.edu/aLOG/index.php?callRep=72262
Made it back to NOMINAL_LOW_NOISE @ 5:26 UTC
Made it back to OBSERIVING at 5:40 UTC