F. Clara, M. Pirello, J. Kissel D2400111 G2401479 Fil and Marc have been doing the bulk of the work installing the diversity of cabling for SPI, as governed by D2400111 (and aided by slides in G2401479). What they started in LHO:89641 they've continued to the point of "we're as ready as we can be before we get the last of the electronics from the optics lab." Here're some pictures of the status as of this afternoon. I'll attach them as comments to group them into a more digestible format. A further step we can and will take in the coming days is to set up and power-budget the RF signal chain up to the point of the double mixer chassis, since this is not needed for the remaining optics-lab testing of the ISIK transceiver (which now must be redesigned; see E2600106).
FAMIS 28641
pH of PSL chiller water was measured to be between 10.0 and 10.5 according to the color of the test strip.
Jennie W, Ryan S, Sheila D
We changed the calibrated JAC trans power readout to be the front-end channel H1:JAC-TRANS_A_LF_OUTPUT. This is now the channel displayed on the OPS_OVERVIEW_CUSTOM screen labelled as 'IMC INPUT POWER'.
The calibration filter for 'H1:JAC-TRANS_A_LF' is in FM10 labelled W_in_HAM2.
This was previously set as the Beckhoff channel H1:JAC-TRANS_A_DC_POWERMON but this is too noisy and was also not calibrated correctly as it displays in mW and was on the ops screen as W.
I have changed the calibration for this channel so it is actual mW leaking out of the JAC towards JACT_BS1 beamsplitter, which reflects approximately 1% (alog #89251) of light that hits it towards the JAC-TRANS PD (see image).
After checking the calibration measurements we took in chamber, I have realised that the amount of power we get out of the JAC curved mirror (the beam of which goes to the JAC TRANS after reflecting off a laser window) is too high to match the input power we inferred. Looking at the power budget Masayuki and I took at CIT (see elog #863). This predicts a transmission through the curved mirror of 7.5e-5 and from our calibration measurements (alog #89251) we saw (2.7e-3W/1W) = 2.7e-3. The other measurements we took in that entry (BS1 reflectivity ~ 1%, JAC throughput ~ 96mW/115mW = 83 %) don't seem unrealistic.
I can use instead the 7.5e-5 transmission of the curved mirror to calculate that the HAM 2 input power for a certain value of W on the JAC-TRANS_A_LD PD is ~ 1.11e6.
As JAC-TRANS_A_LF has some high frequency noise multiplying by this large number causes it to show high values when there is no light on it. Therefore I propose adding another filter bank to the model where I can low-pass this noise so the display of the HAM2 input power makes sense.
Jenne has turned off FM10 in the JAC TRANS A LF filter bank (see image of the filter banmk with the filter still on here) so the value on the screen looks close to zero for the moment. See Jenne's alog #89823.
Folks in the control room have continued to note that the "IMC Input Power" on the ops overview screen didn't make sense, and was causing confusion (eg, how do we have "700" Watts into the IMC, when there are zero Watts coming from the PSL).
Jennie let me know that the channel that's used is not yet conditioned and calibrated, so it was amplifying noise.
I set the offset in H1:JAC-TRANS_A_LF, and also turned off the giant gain in the "W_into_HAM2" filter FM10, so now it at least looks like the output is fluctuating a small amount around zero, and should no longer be confusing on the overview screen.
I've saved the offset and filter state in SDF.
Per WP13110 we have upgraded the IO chassis listed below.
This link contains the asbuilt for all of the H1 IO Chassis: https://dcc.ligo.org/LIGO-D1301004
This link contains the ECR for the IO Chassis sync cable upgrade: https://dcc.ligo.org/LIGO-E2600069
This link is to the work in progress spreadsheet LHO Front Ends Upgrade Status
Corner:
SUSB2H34 has upgraded firmware and sync
SUSAUXB2H34 has upgraded firmware and sync
SEIH7 has upgraded firmware and sync
OMC0 has upgraded firmware and sync
OAF0 has upgraded firmware and sync
ASC0 has upgraded firmware and sync
LSC0 has upgraded firmware and sync
Here is the current IO Chassis upgrade status:
Completed the following upgrades today. While making rounds I took time to check the Kepco power supplies and found one failed but not tripped, EX-VDD2-U22-RHS Rotor Locked, +/-18V ISC_C1 S1203039. Will exchange at earliest convience.
EX:
H1SUSAUX_EX already had latest firmware, sync cable upgraded
H1SUS_EX already had latest firmware, sync cable upgraded *
H1ISC_EX already had latest firmware, sync cable upgraded
H1SEI_EX already had latest firmware, sync cable upgraded
* H1SUS_EX has 2 LD32 DAC's without heatsinks. It also has a 3rd fan installed.
MX:
H1MX already had latest firmware, sync cable upgraded
EY:
H1SUSAUX_EY already had latest firmware, sync cable upgraded
H1SUS_EY already had latest firmware, sync cable upgraded
H1ISC_EY already had latest firmware, sync cable upgraded
H1SEI_EY already had latest firmware, sync cable upgraded
MY:
H1MX already had latest firmware, sync cable upgraded
Started the day upgrading IO chassis:
Corner:
PSL0 has upgraded firmware and sync
SUSAUXH2 has upgraded firmware and sync
SUSAUXB13 has upgraded firmware and sync
SEIH16 has upgraded firmware and sync
SUSAUXH56 has upgraded firmware and sync
FCAV:
CDSH8 has upgraded firmware and sync
Mechanical Room Mezzanine:
SUSH6 has upgraded firmware and sync
SUSH7 has upgraded firmware and sync
CER:
SEIB1 has upgraded firmware and sync
SEIB2 has upgraded firmware and sync
SEIB3 has upgraded firmware and sync
SEIH23 has upgraded firmware and sync
SEIH45 has upgraded firmware and sync
SUSH56 has upgraded firmware and sync
SUSB13 already had latest firmware, sync cable upgraded
SUSH12 already had latest firmware, sync cable upgraded
All IO Chassis Upgraded, closing WP13110.
erik v, dave b, filiberto c, marc p.
We started the venting process for the corner today, including the FCB1 section of the filter cavity attached to BSC3
GVs Closed:
GV2, GV5 (GV7 remains soft closed until repairs are done on the piston cylinder), RV1, FC1, 2, 4, 5.
Dry air dewpoint at vent port = -40.3C
We followed the venting procedure E2300169, until the small burp of dry air into the corner volume, during this "burp" we noticed a small pressure increase at PT114 (CP1 gauge on beamtube side of GV5). There was a clear pressure step from 2.02E-9 to 2.04E-9 Torr at the same time as the dry air burp, see attachment.
We waited for ~15 minutes and repeated the air burp into the corner, again we saw another pressure increase at PT114, though the pressure gauge on the opposite side of CP1 PT124 showed a small decrease at the same time as the pressure increases.
We paused the vent to investigate, PT120, PT114 and PT124 are all pirani/CC gauge pairs and we are investigating if there is any potential crosstalk at the vacuum rack that could be causing this.
More to come.
Corner Vent resumed today, we burped purge air one more time to ~1 torr no pressure step seen on the opposite side of the gate valves.
Continued procedure E2300169, dew point at the purge air point of entry was -44.0C
No further issues encountered, total vent time was ~4 hours, with PT110 up to ~770 torr (PT120 pirani needs atmosphere calibration currently reading ~900 torr).
XBM is currently isolated via GV2 and soft closed GV7, pressure is being maintaned by the XBM turbo station.
Closing WP13153
TITLE: 04/08 Day Shift: 1430-2330 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Planned Engineering
OUTGOING OPERATOR: None
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
SEI_ENV state: MAINTENANCE
Wind: 2mph Gusts, 0mph 3min avg
Primary useism: 0.01 μm/s
Secondary useism: 0.17 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY:
Some Workstations were rolled back to Debian 12 last night this will likely continue today.
HAM1 is closed.
GV 2 and GV5 are both closed.
Looks the VAC team is Venting BSC2's volume to prep for the up coming work.
Most workstations in the front of the control are back on debian 12 after numerous crashes in debian 13.
workstations directly across the aisle (cdsws 27 etc) are still debian 13. All front workstations are downgraded to debian 12 except cdsws39 and cdsws28, which are still debian 13. Operator workstations are downgraded.
Following the fix of the DAC problem on h1seih7 and the re-install of the 3 ADCs, we restarted the DAQ to cover the WPs:
WP13132: +1 ADC SUSB2H34
h1iopsusb2h34 fully up to date
h1suslo12 DAQ update, EDC update needed
WP13133 +1 ADC SUSAUXB2H34
h1iopsusauxb2h34 fully up to date
h1susauxb2h34 needs model changes to use new ADC (Oli)
WP13100 +3 ADC SEIH7
h1iopseih7 fully up to date
h1susauxh6 DAQ updated, EDC update needed
WP13142 SPIH23
h1spih23 DAQ updated, EDC update needed.
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So all WPs have some tasks left before I can close them.
New h1isiham7 model
Jim, Dave:
We took the opportunity during h1seih7 restarts to apply a pending change to h1isiham7. The model was built against the latest versions of the common files blend_switch_library.mdl and isihammaster_2022.adl.
this added 12 slow controls to its DAQ INI file
++: slow channel H1:ISI-HAM7_PMON_GS13_P3_CTS added to the DAQ
++: slow channel H1:ISI-HAM7_PMON_GS13_P2_CTS added to the DAQ
++: slow channel H1:ISI-HAM7_PMON_GS13_P1_CTS added to the DAQ
++: slow channel H1:ISI-HAM7_PMON_GS13_D3_CTS added to the DAQ
++: slow channel H1:ISI-HAM7_PMON_GS13_D2_CTS added to the DAQ
++: slow channel H1:ISI-HAM7_PMON_GS13_D1_CTS added to the DAQ
++: slow channel H1:ISI-HAM7_PMON_FF_L4C_P3_CTS added to the DAQ
++: slow channel H1:ISI-HAM7_PMON_FF_L4C_P2_CTS added to the DAQ
++: slow channel H1:ISI-HAM7_PMON_FF_L4C_P1_CTS added to the DAQ
++: slow channel H1:ISI-HAM7_PMON_FF_L4C_D3_CTS added to the DAQ
++: slow channel H1:ISI-HAM7_PMON_FF_L4C_D2_CTS added to the DAQ
++: slow channel H1:ISI-HAM7_PMON_FF_L4C_D1_CTS added to the DAQ
All ISI HAMs have been updated with the exception of h1isiham6.
Tue07Apr2026
LOC TIME HOSTNAME MODEL/REBOOT
09:19:56 h1seih7 ***REBOOT*** <<< Multiple reboots/restarts of h1seih7 to fix DAC FIFO-EMPTY issue
09:21:25 h1seih7 h1iopseih7
09:21:38 h1seih7 h1isiham7
09:42:47 h1seih7 ***REBOOT***
09:44:16 h1seih7 h1iopseih7
09:44:29 h1seih7 h1isiham7
09:56:37 h1seih7 ***REBOOT***
09:58:07 h1seih7 h1iopseih7
09:58:20 h1seih7 h1isiham7
10:21:46 h1seih7 ***REBOOT***
10:23:14 h1seih7 h1iopseih7
10:23:27 h1seih7 h1isiham7
10:50:12 h1seih7 ***REBOOT***
10:51:44 h1seih7 h1iopseih7
10:51:57 h1seih7 h1isiham7 <<< New h1isiham7 model installed
11:10:01 h1susb2h34 h1suslo12 <<< First run of h1suslo12 model on h1susb2h34 using new ADC
11:11:30 h1seih7 h1susauxh6 <<< First run of h1susauxh6 on h1seih7 using the 3 new ADCs
11:15:06 h1daqgds0 [DAQ] <<< DAQ restart for all recent model changes
11:15:10 h1daqfw0 [DAQ]
11:15:11 h1daqnds0 [DAQ]
11:15:11 h1daqtw0 [DAQ]
11:15:41 h1susauxh56 h1edc[DAQ] <<< EDC restart using puppet controlled INI files
11:23:20 h1daqdc1 [DAQ]
11:23:28 h1daqfw1 [DAQ]
11:23:28 h1daqtw1 [DAQ]
11:23:33 h1daqnds1 [DAQ]
11:23:39 h1daqgds1 [DAQ]
11:24:15 h1daqgds1 [DAQ] <<< GDS1 needed a manual restart
11:43:10 h1daqfw1 [DAQ] <<< Spontaneous FW1 restart
Mon06Apr2026
LOC TIME HOSTNAME MODEL/REBOOT
14:42:08 h1susb13 h1iopsusb13 <<< susb13 restart to reduce SWWD trip times
14:42:22 h1susb13 h1susitmy
14:42:36 h1susb13 h1susitmx
14:42:50 h1susb13 h1susitmpi
14:56:29 h1susb2h34 ***REBOOT*** <<< susb2h34 +1 ADC installed
14:58:13 h1susb2h34 h1iopsusb2h34 <<< New iop for ADC addition
14:58:26 h1susb2h34 h1susbs
14:58:39 h1susb2h34 h1susmc2
14:58:52 h1susb2h34 h1suspr2
14:59:05 h1susb2h34 h1sussr2
15:02:38 h1susauxb2h34 ***REBOOT*** <<< susauxb2h34 +1 ADC installed
15:03:41 h1susauxb2h34 h1iopsusauxb2h34 <<< New iop for ADC addition
15:03:54 h1susauxb2h34 h1susauxb2h34
15:46:41 h1seih7 ***REBOOT*** <<< seih7 +3 ADC installed
15:48:14 h1seih7 h1iopseih7
15:48:27 h1seih7 h1isiham7
16:03:38 h1seih7 h1iopseih7 <<< Many reboots of seih7 attempting to fix DAC FIFO-EMPTY issue
16:03:52 h1seih7 h1isiham7
16:10:37 h1seih7 ***REBOOT***
16:12:11 h1seih7 h1iopseih7
16:12:24 h1seih7 h1isiham7
16:21:23 h1seih7 h1iopseih7
16:21:36 h1seih7 h1isiham7
16:22:35 h1seih7 h1iopseih7
16:38:30 h1seih7 ***REBOOT***
16:46:55 h1seih7 ***REBOOT***
16:48:25 h1seih7 h1iopseih7
16:48:38 h1seih7 h1isiham7
17:02:45 h1seih7 ***REBOOT***
17:04:14 h1seih7 h1iopseih7
17:04:27 h1seih7 h1isiham7
17:18:41 h1seih7 ***REBOOT***
17:20:11 h1seih7 h1iopseih7
17:20:24 h1seih7 h1isiham7
TITLE: 04/07 Day Shift: 1430-2330 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Planned Engineering
INCOMING OPERATOR: None
SHIFT SUMMARY:
HAM1 +y door removed (installed, thanks Betsy!) in the morning and Corner venting has begun (continues tomorrow). h1seih7 was fixed and there was a daq restart for all the model changes from yesterday/today. With the CDS work, guardian reboots, and other work which took SEI/SUS to non-standard states, everything looks mostly green on the OPS OVERVIEW for SUS & SEI.
LOG:
1830-1920: I stepped away to give a tour for kids on spring break and staff members of the Yakama Nation (Many thanks to RyanC for covering the chair in my stead).
Corey meant HAM1 door went ON this morning, not off.
(Travis, Randy, Gerardo)
On Monday, the -Y door went on the HAM1 chamber with some minor issues not noted on previous installations, for some reason we had two minor misalignments: one, the door did not hung parallel to the HAM's flange,small tilt towards the outside on the upper part of the door, maybe the pick point slid forward. Two, the door required a clocking move, we pinned two holes spanning 5:12 O'clock, then rotated the door clockwise a bit until all of the holes aligned, then a small movement on the -Z to complete the alignment about 1/8". After all of that the door looks pretty concentric to the chamber flange.
Something to note, a dirty glove was found inside the chamber, yes inside the chamber under the support tube on the -Y side of the chamber, as I write, I nod, because it does not take much time to get this dirty thing out of the chamber.
HAM1 +Y door was installed today after replacing the inner o-ring, which had fallen out during door removal.
O-ring install went fairly smooth, only popped out of the groove a couple times, but we were able to get it seated properly and continued with door install.
No issues encountered, and we started pumping the HAM1/2 annulus volume to confirm there were no door o-ring leaks. Currently both aux carts are at ~2E-5 Torr.
Update on annulus sytem
Pumping continues with two aux carts, one connected to each chamber (HAM1 and HAM2 annulus), last thursday we turned the ion pumps (see trend data attached), and HAM1 responded well, however the ion pump for HAM2 railed, after a couple of wake up hits it started working. Currently both systems are doing good, probably they'll be ready to run on ion pumps soon.
Both aux carts are now removed from the annulus system for HAM1/HAM2. The annulus system is back to nominal, at vacuum and under ion pump management, the main volume for HAM1 is at atmosphere and ready to pump down as soon as it is requested.