Dew point measurement taken this morning read at -43.7 ^oC.  Measurement taken before any activity inside chambers.  Soft covers were on HAM5 and HAM6, HAM7 remains isolated and a bit pressurized.

FAMIS 26468 -Capture Monthly--Trend HEPI Pump Pressures and Drives

There was a number of spikes over a few days, that I expect to be associated with the venting and jumping on the HEPI platforms.

Mon Jul 29 08:11:00 2024 INFO: Fill completed in 10min 56secs

Gerardo confirmed a good fill curbside.

TITLE: 07/29 Day Shift: 1430-2330 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Corrective Maintenance
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Oli
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
    SEI_ENV state: MAINTENANCE
    Wind: 9mph Gusts, 4mph 5min avg
    Primary useism: 0.44 μm/s
    Secondary useism: 0.10 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY:

• More KTP/OFI work today, LVEA laser HAZARD today likely
• We're being shaken by a 6.0 from Tonga

Sun Jul 28 08:10:21 2024 INFO: Fill completed in 10min 17secs

Sat Jul 27 08:09:47 2024 INFO: Fill completed in 9min 43secs

At the EX station, the purge air supply was switched on from 09:46 until 18:16 with the highest load possible, according to WP #12001. The temperature of the mechanical room and the environment was monitored periodically.
It can be concluded, that the HVAC system was able to hold a ~5 deg F temperature difference with the outside temperature. For more details, see graph.
The temperature was rising rapidly after switching on the purge air supply. Then, a big decrease can be seen - this could have 2 reasons: (i) the sunlight just went away from the front of the building, and/or (ii) the HVAC system reacted like this.
In the end, the HVAC system consolidated the temperature at 91.4 deg F.

This whole measurement was carried out as additional information for the installation of the new purge air supplies.

TITLE: 07/26 Day Shift: 1430-2330 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Corrective Maintenance
INCOMING OPERATOR: Tony
SHIFT SUMMARY: More KTP work in the optics lab, the wedge broke during work today but we have a spare. The LVEA remains in SAFE.
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Keita, Sheila

Summary:  We chipped the spare KTP crystal this morning, and this afternoon installed the back up spare that Rodica had shipped.  We've adjusted the roll, and the pitch angle seems better than the crystal that we removed.  So this should be ready to go into the chamber first thing Monday morning.  We have many photos from today, which will be attached and annotated to this alog later. 

Following on From Jason's alog 79319

With this placement of the damaged KTP in it's assembly, where the assembly is bolted perpendictular to the beam path, and a wave plate to mix the polarizatoins upstream of the KTP,  we have 13.5mW in the p polarized beam (see first attachment which is a diagram Paul sent us this morning), 16.3mW in the s polarized beam, and 2.3 mW in the AR surface.  This is not set up with the AOI that the AR coating is designed for, which is why the AR beam is large, we can take advantage of this to set the pitch by setting the AR reflection parallel to the table.. 

With the original KTP in place, the AR reflection isn't parallel to the table it is pitched up by 10/(530 +405 mm) about 11 mrad. The optic lab beam is hitting the KTP a little below the burned spot, which would have been on the +X side in chamber.  The burned spots are on the side closer to our alignment laser.

Before taking it out of the mount we took a variety of photos showing the damage spots position.  We did not find any indium foil in the mount, Paul had warned us that there might be indium between part 5 and part 9 of D2000038. 

As we were placing the new crystal in the mount, we left the set screws (11) that hold the peek loose, and held the piece upsidedown while we screwed in the bolts labeled #10 to hold on the aliuminum plate.  It chipped as we were tightening the bolts labeled 10 in D2000038. After some discussion with Rodica, Paul, Gabriele, we went back to the lab to take photos of the chip and try to understand how the chip happened.  We have photos showing that the crystal was proud of the top of part 5, the orientation of the black metal piece.  After we removed the black front plate, we could see that the KTP was firmly stuck in part #5, with the wedge stuck.  Keita had to push on the back of the crystal to get it loose. 

Keita made a series of measurements using calibers:

Chipped KTP: (agrees well with the drawing: E1900284)

• height on thicker side: 0.8850 inches
• heght on thinner side: 0.8845 inches
• width (center to center): 0.8870 inches
• width from one corner to the other (longest width): 0.9360 inches
• thickness: 0.5055 for thicker side

part 5: https://dcc.ligo.org/DocDB/0171/D2000567/001/D2000567_A%2B_OFI_KTP_Wedge_Holder.pdf

• side to side width of the opening for the crystal (measured on the side where the black part attaches) 0.9225 inches
• depth of the slot 0.515 inches on the deeper side.
• depth of the slot 0.458 on the thinner side
• height of the slot, including space for peek, 1.003 inches

peek:

• thickest part 0.1105 inches
• thinnest part: 0.1095 inches

total height (max): crystal + peek = 0.885+0.1105 = 0.9955 inches, smaller than 0.2mm than the height of the slot.

cratered KTP:

• height of crystal at thick side 0.8855 inches
• height of crystal at thinner side: 0.8835 inches
• width (center to center): 0.887 inches
• width diagonal: 0.9345 inches
• thickness of thicker side: 0.5095 inches

We then did a trial run (using the chipped KTP) of an approach that we think avoids the problem of letting the KTP get wedged in the holder.  We set the KTP on several wipes on the bench, and set the peek underneath it.  We then slid the holder (part #5) over this whole thing, which went smoothly, and tightened the set screws.  After flipping it over, we can see that the KTP is not proud of part #5, and it sits nearly flush to the front of the holder.  We could then easily attach the black front plate.  We decided to do this with the final spare, which had 2 small chips on the edge. 

With that spare installed in the assembly, we adjusted roll using the alignment laser that Camilla and Jason set up.  We wanted to adjust roll so that the transmitted beams were level to the table, since we know that the laser bea we started with were parallel to the table.  The roll adjustment was sticky, and tightneing the set screw tended to lower the transmitted beams.  The beams transmitted are off in yaw compared to the ones from the cratered KTP, by about 7mm/870mm + about 8 mrad.  We had difficulty seeing the AR reflected beam, but we can see a tiny beam with all the lights off (this suggest that the reason the beam was so bright before was the coating damage, not the AOI of the crystal in our set up.). At 820 mm from the KTP, the AR beam was about 1 mm too low, so it's pitched down by 1mrad. 

We think this is about as good as we can do by adjusting with this mount, so we are satisfied and will leave the KTP assembly under wipes and foil to be reinstalled on Monday.

Closes FAMIS26445 last checked in alog78733

BRS-X appears to be drifting towards the upper limit, the temperature seems stable.

Closes FAMIS26319 , last checked in alog79120.

For the out buildings there were some fans turned off and on, EX looks like a fan was repaired yesterday.

For the CS, MR_FAN3_170_1 looks like it has gotten a touch more unstable the past day, and MR_FAN5_170_1&2 is quite noisy.

Fri Jul 26 08:08:56 2024 INFO: Fill completed in 8min 52secs

TITLE: 07/26 Day Shift: 1430-2330 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Corrective Maintenance
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Ibrahim
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
    SEI_ENV state: MAINTENANCE
    Wind: 0mph Gusts, 0mph 5min avg
    Primary useism: 0.01 μm/s
    Secondary useism: 0.07 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY:

• Currently getting hit by a 4.8 from Texas
• The docket for today from E2400260:
  • Reinstall KTP (1)  D2000038 assembly.  
  • Check that optics lab roll adjustment was good enough by checking beam sent to sqz path (TFP rejected beam), 
  • measure OFI throughput, and check that alignment beam is still going to both irises and SR2 center.
  • Pull out whole FS (1) D2000037 Assembly  SEE NOTES FROM PAUL BELOW
    • Remove XX
    • Disassemble XX
    • Ultrasonic clean mount to remove spatter from KTP
    • Reinstall XX
  • Transition back to Safe when done.

Dew point measurement taken this morning read at -43.4 ^oC.  Measurement taken before removing HAM6 -X door.  Some demand from HAM5, and HAM6 with soft covers on.

Today's activities:
- The purge air dew point was measured at the purge port: (9:15 am) -43.9 deg C, so it is consistently dropping in time. Some more specifics here: https://alog.ligo-wa.caltech.edu/aLOG/index.php?callRep=79306
- HAM6 -X door has been removed. The O-rings seem to be intact
- The opportunity was taken for replacing the HAM6 RGA. It will be also re-wrapped with heat tapes, and after the chamber work ends, will be baked out.
- Pressures: the arms' pressures slowly dropping (probably because of the weather is getting colder). The Y-manifold pressure is stabilized around 2-3E-8 Torr.