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corey.gray@LIGO.ORG - posted 18:02, Thursday 04 December 2025 - last comment - 19:20, Thursday 04 December 2025(88350)
Thurs DAY Ops Summary

TITLE: 12/04 Day Shift: 1530-0030 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Planned Engineering
INCOMING OPERATOR: None
SHIFT SUMMARY:

After CDS & H1-Locking work of yesterday, today we transitioned to starting prep work for the upcoming vent of HAM7.

However, there was more CDS work today which was related to ISC Slow Controls....but in the middle of this...

There was a 90min power outage on site!!
 

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oli.patane@LIGO.ORG - 18:36, Thursday 04 December 2025 (88370)

Recovery milestones:
22:02 Power back-up
22:04 CDS / GC seeing what's on/functional, then bring infrastructure back up
22:10 VAC team starts Kebelco to support the ar pressure that's keeping the cornerstation gate valves for closing
22:13 Phones are back
22:17 LHO GC Internet's back
22:25 GC wifi back up, alog and CDS back up
22:40 RyanS, Jason, Patick got PSL beckoff back up
22:55 VAC in LVEA/FCES back up
22:57 CDS back up (only controls)
23:27 PSL computer back
00:14 Safety interlock is back
00:14 HV and ALSY on at EY
00:35 opslogin0 back up
00:37 CS HV back up
00:53 CS HEPI pump station controller back up
01:05 CO2X and CO2Y back up
01:10 HV and ALSY on at EY
01:22 PSL is alive

Note: EY 24MHz oscillator had to be power cycled to resync

Casualties:
- lost ADC on seiH16
- 18V power supply failure at EY in SUS rack

Log:

Start Time System Name Location Lazer_Haz Task Time End
22:32 VAC Gerardo MX, EX, MY, EY n Bringing back VAC computers 23:41
23:32 VAC Jordan LVEA, FCES n Bringing back VAC computers 22:55
22:54 PSL RyanS, Jason LVEA n Turning PSL chiller back on 23:27
23:03 VAC Jordan LVEA n Checking out VAC computer 23:41
23:56 SAF Richard EY n Looking at safety system 00:25
00:02 JAC Jennie JOAT, OpticsLab n Putting components on table 01:24
00:19 SAF TJ EX n Turning on HV and ALSX 00:49
00:38 TCS RyanC LVEA n Turning CO2 lasers back on 01:06
01:03 EE Marc CER n Power cycling io chassis 01:14
01:06 PSL RyanS, Jason LVEA n Checking makeup air for PSL 01:10
01:07 JAC Jennie LVEA n Grabbing parts 01:14
01:08 beckhoff patrick cr - BRSx recovery 02:20
01:08 sei jim EX.EY - HEPI pump station recovery 01:58
01:25 SEI Patrick EX n BRSX troubleshooting 01:54
01:27 EE Marc EX n Looking at RF sources 02:09
02:00 EE Fil EY n Power cycling SUSEY 02:19
02:09 VAC Gerardo MX N Troubleshooting VAC computer 02:27
02:12 EE Marc CER N Checking power supplies 02:16
ryan.short@LIGO.ORG - 19:20, Thursday 04 December 2025 (88372)OpsInfo

Since Oli's alog, I tried to keep a rough outline of the goings-on:

Marc and Fil went down to EY to replace the failed power supply, which brought life back to the EY frondends.

Dave noticed several models across site had timing errors, so he restarted them.

Gerardo continued to torubleshoot VAC computers at the mid-stations.

Once CDS boots were finished, I brought all suspension Guardians to either ALIGNED or MISALIGNED so that they're damped overnight.

I started to recover some of the Guardian nodes that didn't come up initially. When TJ started the Guardian service earlier, it took a very long time, but most of the nodes came up and he put them into good states for the night. The ones that didn't come up (still white on the GRD overview screen) I've been able to revive with a 'guardctrl restart' command, but I can only do a couple at a time or else the process times out. Even this way, the nodes take several minutes to come online. I got through many of the dead nodes, but I did not finish as I am very tired.

Main things still to do for recovery:  (off the top of my head)

  • Finish reviving dead Guardian nodes
  • Maybe restart the main file server (Dave suspects this is the cause of general slowness of CDS machines)
  • Ensure seismic is in a good place
  • Finish Beckhoff software updates that were in-progress at the time of the outage
  • Clear up remaining IPC errors across CDS land
  • Turn lasers back on
  • Check suspension positions
  • Lots of other things probably
  • Thank everyone for their tireless efforts
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