Reports until 16:30, Tuesday 25 August 2026
LHO General
ibrahim.abouelfettouh@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:30, Tuesday 25 August 2026 (91682)
OPS Day Shift Summary

TITLE: 08/25 Day Shift: 1430-2330 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Planned Engineering
INCOMING OPERATOR: Ryan S
SHIFT SUMMARY:

Very Busy Maintenance Day at the End Stations and the Corner Station. The biggest update is that ALSY now reliably works with WFS Converging! As such, PRMI has been locked consistently with some instability in the BBSS. Commissioners Elenna and Louis are working on improving it in various ways. 

Broken down by station

EX:

PCAL Measurement - Tony and Caroline (PCAL)

ETMX BOSEM Measurements and Troubleshooting - Oli, Fil, Betsy (SUS, EE)

EY:

UPS Access System Replacement - Fil (EE)

Beckhoff Chassis Swap, Repair ALSY WFS Demod RF Level Monitor - Marc (EE)

Corner:

Gate Valve, Leak Check and Output Tube Gauge Work (Gerardo, Jordan, Travis)

TCS Line Inspection and TCS Inventory Work (TJ, Christina, Camilla)

ITMY Optical Lever Relocated for CHETA:

CDS:

Work stations rebooted

Control Room Screens:

Vacuum Electronics Work (Patrick, Jordan, Gerardo, Travis)

CDS DAQ Restart (Dave):

IOC Container Host Cluster Update (Jonathan):

Commissioning/Ctrl Room Work - Started at 12:40 (approx.)

Other:

LOG:                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Start Time System Name Location Lazer_Haz Task Time End
15:24 FAC Kim EX N Technical Cleaning 16:26
16:19 EE Fil, Oli EX N Troubleshooting 16:47
16:23 VAC Jordan, Gerardo LVEA Y Gate valve work, Output Tube Guage 18:01
16:23 TCS TJ LVEA Y Chiller disposal, Line inspection 17:23
16:25 FAC Kim EY N Technical Cleaning 17:52
16:25 EE Marc EY N Beckhoff chassis swap 17:47
16:27 FAC Eric Wood Shop N Fire pump 16:54
16:39 TCS Jason, Camilla LVEA Y IY Oplev table move to make room for CHETA 17:17
16:41 PCAL Tony, Caroline PCAL Lab N Grabbing things for EX PCAL Measurement 16:55
16:47 EE Fil EY N UPS Access System replacement 18:58
16:57 PCAL Tony, Caroline EX Y PCAL Measurement 19:45
17:11 FAC Richard LVEA, Y-arm N Walkabout + Y-arm padding accessibility check 17:59
17:18 VAC Travis LVEA Y Gate Valve and Output Tube Guage work 18:01
17:48 TCS TJ, Christina LVEA Y Planning of diisposal of old TCS equipment 19:21
17:52 FAC Kim LVEA Y Technical Cleaning 18:38
18:01 TCS Camilla LVEA Y TCS Equipment Disposal/Removal/Recycle 19:21
18:08 EE Marc EY N Continued troubleshooting of local oscillator malfunction 18:55
18:44 VAC Gerardo, Jordan, Travis LVEA Y HAM7 Leak Checks 19:03
19:45 FAC Randy EX N Garb room curtain pack-up 22:43
19:46 PCAL Tony, Caroline PCAL Lab N Pack up PCAL equipments 19:49
20:54 PCAL Tony, Caroline PCAL Lab Local PCAL Measurements 22:37
20:57 TCS Camilla Optics Lab N Tidying 21:34
22:52 EE Marc LVEA Y HAM6 Chassis Inspection 22:59
23:12 TCS TJ LVEA Y Inventory of chiller equipment SNs and then chiller line management 01:12
23:22 SUS Sheila, Betsy EX Y Troubleshooting ETMX Issues 01:22
23:25 VAC Gerardo, Jordan EX Y Parts search 01:25