Reports until 17:13, Monday 13 April 2026
H1 General (CAL, ISC, PEM, SUS)
anthony.sanchez@LIGO.ORG - posted 17:13, Monday 13 April 2026 (89876)
Ops Monday Morning report

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:
 

Start Time System Name Location Lazer_Haz Task Time End
14:47 FAC Randy LVEA n Prep for dome removal and other moves 16:06
15:09 FAC Kim, Nelly LVEA n Tech clean - HAM3, Biergarten 16:07
15:47 FAC Randy LVEA BSC2 N Working on removing BSC2 Dome 16:06
16:07 VAC Randy MID Y N Picking up matieral 17:53
16:09 FAC Nellie Mid & End Y N Technical cleaning & Resupply 18:09
16:13 SEI Jim & Ibrahim LVEA BeerGarden N Locking Hepi , ISI on BSC2 18:05
16:26 FAC Kim LVEA Output Arm N Technical Cleaning & Resupply 17:40
16:33 CBEX Tyler's C&E Trentching Mid Y N trenching for CBEX Building 02:33
16:41 VAC Gerardo LVEA BSC2 N Removing Vac Equipment from BSC2 dome 18:10
16:43 IAS Jason LVEA N Warming up the FARO system 17:13
17:25 CHETA Camilla Optics Lab n Grabbing optics. 18:26
17:36 VAC Jordan LVEA BSC2 N Helping Gerado 18:10
17:38 EE Fil & Corey LVEA N Setting up cameras and turning on Illuminators 19:38
18:11 PCAL Dripta & Disha EY N Power Cycling PCAL laser 19:02
18:29 IAS Jason & Crouch LVEA HAM3 to BSC1&2 N FARO surveying HAM3 & BSCs 19:57
19:37 IAS Ibrahim LVEA BeerGarden N DeBaffling 19:53
19:41 VAC Randy LVEA BeerGarden N BSC2 Dome removal prep 20:02
19:51 EE Marc & Erik HAM Shaq & HAM7 N Swapping power supply Power cables inside chassis 20:23
19:58 PEM TJ EX N Checking Dust Mon Pump 20:29
20:30 TCS Camilla & Maddi , TJ EX Yes Hartman troubleshooting &work 22:05
21:01 IAS Jason & Ryan, Jim, Ibrahim LVEA HAM3, BSC1&2 N Faro work inside the Vac chambers 00:05
21:43 VAC Gerardo & Jordan LVEA HAM1 N taking parts off of HAM1 22:38
22:12 IAS Sheila LVEA Ham3 N Helping with Faro work 22:38
23:19 IAS TJ Optics Lab & LVEA N looking for a Class B Ruler in mm. 23:49
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