Reports until 13:40, Tuesday 17 December 2013
H1 CDS (DAQ, DCS)
david.barker@LIGO.ORG - posted 13:40, Tuesday 17 December 2013 (8986)
Tuesday Maintenance, RCG2.8.2 upgrade

Jim, Cyrus, Dan and Dave

We recompiled all front end models against RCG tag-2.8.2 with the execption of h1susim and h1sushtts which were left back at tag-2.8 (current models do not compile).

We first upgraded h1seib1 and h1asc0 because slow data errors were easily evident in the h1hpiitmy and h1ascimc models (due to EzCa and Phase parts respectively). These systems slow data was found to be correct, so we went ahead and restarted all user models and restarted the DAQ. The h1pemmx system did not restart, even after many attempts. Jim went to MX and power cycled h1pemmx and its chassis, it then restarted correctly but the return timing signal to the MSR master continues to have problems (started 22Nov2013).

Cyrus and Jim revisited MX and found that the return single mode timing line was loose at the IO Chassis timing slave SFP. The fiber was reseated and the return timing diagnostic signal is now good at the MSR master.

We added two new EDCU ini files into the DAQ: H1EDCU_GRD.ini and H1EDCU_PSLCENTROID.ini (Guardian and PSL image centroid channels). I also updated the H1EDCU_ECATX1PLC2.ini file against the latest Beckhoff file.

We reconfigured h1nds0 to serve commissioning frames (it was serving science frames as a check of this frame type). This gives the users full look back over the past weekend when h1fw1 was down due to disk issues.

Dan upgraded the h1ldasgw0 QFS file server. h1fw0 was down for about an hour.

We timed the recover time of the PSL when the h1psl0 models were stopped and restarted. We recovered the reference cavity in a record 2 minutes. Opening the diode room shutter via MEDM posed no problems today.