Reports until 17:17, Monday 02 February 2026
H1 General (CDS, OpsInfo, SEI, SUS)
anthony.sanchez@LIGO.ORG - posted 17:17, Monday 02 February 2026 (88997)
Monday Ops Day of Mysteries

TITLE: 02/03 Day Shift: 1530-0030 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Planned Engineering
INCOMING OPERATOR: None
SHIFT SUMMARY:
LVEA was Bifircated via a Laser Hazard areas around HAM 1& 2, while the rest of the LVEA is LASER SAFE unless at height. See M2600004 for details.

PM1 was mysteriously dancing & Saturating too much for Rahul's transfer function measurement all day long. While he was troubleshooting. Update!!! Rahul dragged the EE guys out and found a dead Coil Driver! Mystery solved!

JAC work continued all day starting with mode matching in HAM1, and starting a JM2 swap. JAC table now has all the mounts and Cables but no optics yet. 

HAM7 & ITMY ISI Watchdogs tripped at 23:33 UTC due to mysterious high frequency ground noise that was louder at HAM7 than ITMY.  Jim & Betsy went to go look for fallen wrenches or other watchdog tripping phenomena..... No explanation was ever found. 

OPS info: 
New conda ENV doesn't run watchdog untripping scripts unless you run Conda Kill first.  Tagging CDS. 

LOG:

Start Time System Name Location Lazer_Haz Task Time End
22:49 SAF LVEA IS LASER SAFE LVEA NO* LVEA IS LASER SAFE *BIFURCATED HAM1/2 bring ur LASER GOGGLES 16:49
15:35 FAC Nellie Optics Lab n Tecnical cleaning 15:55
15:37 JAK Betsy LVEA y checking status of LVEA 16:37
15:44 FAC Kim LVEA y technical cleaning 17:55
16:50 SAFETY Travis LVEA yes Setting up barriers for Bifurcated laser hazard  conditions. 17:26
16:56 Cheta Camilla, Matt, Sophie CHETA  lab Yes Updating Camilla on CHETA lab status 18:55
17:06 FAC Nellie LVEA y Technical Cleaning 17:55
17:16 Cheta Ryan CHETA Lab y Getting Optics 17:23
17:21 PSL Jason LVEA yes Energizing the rotation stage to 1 W. 17:30
17:22 Safety Jenny D LVEA y Setting up barriers for Bifurcated Laser zones. 17:26
17:26 SUS Rahul Remote n Taking TF meas. of PM1 18:26
17:28 VAC Travis LVEA y Reducing purge air in HAM1 17:30
17:35 SPI Jeff Optics lab Yes Working on SPI in the Optics Lab. 20:34
17:57 CHETA Ryan S CHETA LAB y Getting optics parts 18:12
18:06 FAC Kim Mid X n technical cleaning 18:54
18:09 SEI Jim LVEA HAM7 n Balancing HAM7 ISI 19:19
18:15 SEI Mitchel LVEA HAM78 N Balancing HAM7 19:19
18:28 VAC Travis LVEA HAM1 y Turning up purge air 18:33
18:30 SUS Rahul LVEA & Optics lab y getting & cleaning parts 18:55
18:31 Laser Trans Oli LVEA Y Laser transitioning to Strange Laser Bifurcated State 18:41
18:34 SQZ Sheila & Karmeng SQZr Racks n Checking on SQZr racks 21:31
18:45 JAC Masayuki & Jason LVEA HAM1 YES JAC Mode matching 20:19
18:48 JAC Ryan S LVEA HAM1 YES Taking picures of JAC & pluggin in the JAC Table. 19:06
18:55 FAC Kim HAM SHAQ N Technical Cleaning 20:25
19:12 TCS Matt OptLab y(local) Putting stuff away 19:18
19:45 VAC Gerado LVEA yes/no Anulus pump work 20:24
19:47 ISC Mitchel LVEA West bay n Getting parts. 20:07
20:09 JAC Jennie LVEA HAM1 YES Checking on Jason and Masayuki 20:19
20:49 LASER SAFETY Travis LVEA HAM1 YES Adjusting the LASER Curtain. 21:03
20:55 FAC Randy LVEA n heading to the WEST Bay area for parts. 22:20
20:56 JAC Betsy Optics Lab y Checking for parts and progress. 22:56
21:01 SPI Jeff & Jim Optics lab Yes Working on SPI 23:01
21:11 EE Marc LVEA HAM1 yes Working with the HAM1 crew 22:56
21:21 JAC Ryan S LVEA JAC Table N working on the JAC table 01:51
21:27 VAC Travis LVEA HAM1 yes Adjusting the Purge air back down for a SUS measuremnent 22:29
21:28 SUS Rahul Remote. N JAC PM1  SUS TF Measurement 22:13
21:36 JAC Jennie W LVEA JACt & HAM1 n/Y working with Ryan S on JAC table, & Waiting for HAM1 crew. 00:00
21:37 SUS Rahul LVEA HAM1 Y Checking PM1 SUS  status 22:12
21:58 FAC Mitchel LVEA West bay N Checking inventory & Parts 22:35
22:05 JAC Betsy LVEA N Running parts 23:59
22:23 JAC Masiuki & Jason LVEA HAM1 Yes Working on Mode matching with JAC 01:58
22:31 JAC Keita LVEA HAM1 Yes Helping HAM1 crew 01:56
22:34 VAC Travis LVEA HAM1 Turning up the Purg air in HAM1 22:43
23:00 JAC Betsy LVEA yes Running parts 23:30
23:39 VAC Travis HAM Shaq N Getting parts. 23:45
23:54 CHETA Camilla Optics Lab N Checking supplies. 00:00
00:06 SUS Rahul LVEA yes Power cycling Satilite boxes 00:10
00:06 SEI Jim LVEA N Walking through the LVEA looking for fallen wrenches & unwatched dogs 00:46
00:10 SEI Betsy LVEA yes Walking around looking Unwatched Dogs 00:30
00:18 SUS Fil & Rahul LVEA HAM1 yea power cycling sat amps to troubleshoot SUS OSC rahul out early 00:57
00:28 EE Marc LVEA HAM1 yes Giving Fill a hand 00:57

 

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