Took transfer functions for the suspensions in HAM1 since they're now in a state where they're not being affected by air anymore. They're all looking good. RM1 and RM2 are flipped in phase, but they've been like that (84543).
Settings:
- ISI DAMPED
- DAMP OFF
- OPTICALIGN OFFSETS OFF
JM1
Data:
/ligo/svncommon/SusSVN/sus/trunk/HTTS/H1/JM1/SAGM1/Data/2026-03-03_1730_H1SUSJM1_M1_WhiteNoise_{L,P,Y}_0p02to50Hz.xml
Results:
/ligo/svncommon/SusSVN/sus/trunk/HTTS/H1/JM1/Results/2026-03-03_1730_H1SUSJM1_M1_ALL_TFs.pdf
r12929
JM3
Data:
/ligo/svncommon/SusSVN/sus/trunk/HTTS/H1/JM3/SAGM1/Data/2026-03-03_1800_H1SUSJM3_M1_WhiteNoise_{L,P,Y}_0p02to50Hz.xml
Results:
/ligo/svncommon/SusSVN/sus/trunk/HTTS/H1/JM3/Results/2026-03-03_1800_H1SUSJM3_M1_ALL_TFs.pdf
r12930
PM1
Data:
/ligo/svncommon/SusSVN/sus/trunk/HTTS/H1/PM1/SAGM1/Data/2026-03-03_1840_H1SUSPM1_M1_WhiteNoise_{L,P,Y}_0p02to50Hz.xml
Results:
/ligo/svncommon/SusSVN/sus/trunk/HTTS/H1/PM1/Results/2026-03-03_1840_H1SUSPM1_M1_ALL_TFs.pdf
r12931
RM1
Data:
/ligo/svncommon/SusSVN/sus/trunk/HTTS/H1/RM1/SAGM1/Data/2026-03-03_1855_H1SUSRM1_M1_WhiteNoise_{L,P,Y}_0p02to50Hz.xml
Results:
/ligo/svncommon/SusSVN/sus/trunk/HTTS/H1/RM1/Results/2026-03-03_1855_H1SUSRM1_M1_ALL_TFs.pdf
r12933
RM2
Data:
/ligo/svncommon/SusSVN/sus/trunk/HTTS/H1/RM2/SAGM1/Data/2026-03-03_1910_H1SUSRM2_M1_WhiteNoise_{L,P,Y}_0p02to50Hz.xml
Results:
/ligo/svncommon/SusSVN/sus/trunk/HTTS/H1/RM2/Results/2026-03-03_1910_H1SUSRM2_M1_ALL_TFs.pdf
r12935
Comparison
Results:
/ligo/svncommon/SusSVN/sus/trunk/HTTS/Common/Data/allhttss_2026-03-03_HAM1_BackinVac_ALL_TFs.pdf
r12936
This week, in the optics lab flow bench, I started doing the assembly of the ISIJ SPI reflector assembly. There were a few stumbles, the biggest being a custom peek retaining ring that looks very similar to an incompatible catalog part that got mixed in with the JAC stuff. Once that was found, the reflector assembly more or less went together as described in Sheon's procedure, T2500318. I think the only thing missing is an accuglass cable clamp, but we can add this later or come up with a zip tie to capture the cable.
First photo is the is the reflector assembly itself. This is where I finished yesterday. Second, third and fourth images are the reflector assembly with the shroud attached. Jeff said we may not use this, but it will provide some protection for the time being.
Fifth, sixth and seventh images are the information I have for the lens, beamsplitter and QPD.
Tagging for EPO photos
Tue Mar 03 10:08:36 2026 INFO: Fill completed in 8min 33secs
Laser Status:
NPRO output power is 1.84W
AMP1 output power is 70.39W
AMP2 output power is 138.9W
NPRO watchdog is GREEN
AMP1 watchdog is GREEN
AMP2 watchdog is GREEN
PDWD watchdog is GREEN
PMC:
It has been locked 0 days, 0 hr 0 minutes
Reflected power = -0.4136W
Transmitted power = -0.02846W
PowerSum = -0.4424W
FSS:
It has been locked for 0 days 0 hr and 0 min
TPD[V] = 0.003508V
ISS:
The diffracted power is around 4.1%
Last saturation event was 0 days 0 hours and 36 minutes ago
Possible Issues:
FSS TPD is low (dropped at ~1710 UTC today)
PSL stabilization systems were shut down for Fil's PMC and JAC PZT power supply work (alog 89349). Work was completed in the late morning and all PSL systems turned back on, everything is working as it should.
WP13054 h1guardian1 reboot
Ryan S, Dave:
At 07:59 PST we rebooted h1guardian1. This was a maintenance reboot, it had been running for 74 days (since 19dec2025). No changes to the OS were made.
18 nodes had been pending loading the modified ISC_library.py common file. Ryan had checked that none of these nodes were using the modified section of this file.
There were no problems with the reboot and restart of the 176 guardian nodes.
ALIGN_IFO NOT LOADED ISC_library.py 13:08 Tue 24feb2026 13:12 Fri 19dec2025
ALS_COMM NOT LOADED ISC_library.py 13:08 Tue 24feb2026 13:11 Fri 19dec2025
ALS_DIFF NOT LOADED ISC_library.py 13:08 Tue 24feb2026 13:11 Fri 19dec2025
ALS_XARM NOT LOADED ISC_library.py 13:08 Tue 24feb2026 13:12 Fri 19dec2025
ALS_YARM NOT LOADED ISC_library.py 13:08 Tue 24feb2026 13:11 Fri 19dec2025
CAMERA_SERVO NOT LOADED ISC_library.py 13:08 Tue 24feb2026 13:11 Fri 19dec2025
H1_MANAGER NOT LOADED ISC_library.py 13:08 Tue 24feb2026 13:34 Fri 19dec2025
INIT_ALIGN NOT LOADED ISC_library.py 13:08 Tue 24feb2026 13:11 Fri 19dec2025
ISC_DRMI NOT LOADED ISC_library.py 13:08 Tue 24feb2026 13:12 Fri 19dec2025
ISC_LOCK NOT LOADED ISC_library.py 13:08 Tue 24feb2026 13:12 Fri 19dec2025
LASER_PWR NOT LOADED ISC_library.py 13:08 Tue 24feb2026 13:11 Fri 19dec2025
OMC_LOCK NOT LOADED ISC_library.py 13:08 Tue 24feb2026 13:12 Fri 19dec2025
SEI_CONF NOT LOADED ISC_library.py 13:08 Tue 24feb2026 13:11 Fri 19dec2025
SEI_ENV NOT LOADED ISC_library.py 13:08 Tue 24feb2026 13:12 Fri 19dec2025
SQZ_FC NOT LOADED ISC_library.py 13:08 Tue 24feb2026 13:11 Fri 19dec2025
SQZ_MANAGER NOT LOADED ISC_library.py 13:08 Tue 24feb2026 09:21 Tue 23dec2025
TMS_SERVO NOT LOADED ISC_library.py 13:08 Tue 24feb2026 13:11 Fri 19dec2025
VIOLIN_DAMPING NOT LOADED ISC_library.py 13:08 Tue 24feb2026 13:11 Fri 19dec2025
After the reboot, there were a handfull of nodes I requested to different states:
All other nodes I left either to their initial requests or INIT, which is how they come up by default.
TITLE: 03/03 Day Shift: 1530-0030 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Planned Engineering
OUTGOING OPERATOR: None
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
SEI_ENV state: MAINTENANCE
Wind: 7mph Gusts, 4mph 3min avg
Primary useism: 0.02 μm/s
Secondary useism: 0.15 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY: HAM1 pumpdown had to be stopped last night and will be restarted this morning. Cable pulling, cleanroom moves, and a reboot of the Guardian machine are also planned for today.
Workstations were updated and rebooted. This was an OS packages update. Conda packages were not updated.
(Travis S., Gerardo M.)
Pumpdown was started this morning, sorry no blowdown data. By the time I remembered to take the reading there was no more pressure inside the chamber. Travis connected all of the equipment while I wrestled with the viewport inspection.
Pumpdown was started without an issue. We started with the scroll pump from the super sucker 500, the scroll pump of the SS500 cart brought the pressure down to 3.7x10-01 Torr, then we switched the cart to start pumping with the turbo pump/scroll pump. We had one trip of the system, usually due to a time out, but it only took a restart of the turbo pump and the pumpdown to continue.
Unfortunately the pumpdown had to be stopped at 8:00 PM local time, with a pressure of 4.0x10-05 Torr, at that pressure the set points had not activated on the SS500 cart controller, the set points are hard set and can't be modified from the SS500 controller screen.
Pumpdown will be restarted tomorrow morning.
Note, on the attachment, regarding the screens, no set points for channel 1.
Pumpdown Update.
Last Tuesday, HAM1 pumpdown was stopped for a few minutes to move the SS500 cart, the cart was moved away from the -Y door to open up space for the table. After the relocation of the SS500 cart the pumpdown for HAM1 was restarted.
On Thursday we assisted Filiberto with the installation of a "split" cabling for the high voltage interlock at HAM1 gauge. Attached is a photo of the screen of the SS500 cart and its response to loosing gauge signal, the signal cable was removed from the vacuum gauge to install the "split". I set valve control to "open" and the override to "override" on the SS500 cart to prevent it from tripping, it worked. BTW, when the cart reported the Error-S it cleared the setpoints. Once the cable was restored and we had a signal at the SS500 cart, the setpoints were restored manually.
Pumpdown continues, pressure is currently at 2.77x10-06 Torr, attached is a trend of the pumpdwon pressure.
We migrated the last system to the new VM cluster and powered down cdsproxmox0, cdsproxmox1, cdsproxmox2, cdsfs0 cdsfs1.
Cdsfs0, cdsfs1 have been moved into the DTS to become part of a cluster there along with the old commvault machine.
cdsproxmox2 was a spare w2275 and Dave will be using that to support some of the upcoming work.
I'll close the work permit tomorrow after we pull cdsproxmox0 & 1 from the racks.
TITLE: 03/03 Day Shift: 1530-0030 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Planned Engineering
INCOMING OPERATOR: None
SHIFT SUMMARY: HAM1's main volume is pumping down nicely as of this morning. Cable pulling and parts cleanup also took place out in the LVEA.
LOG:
| Start Time | System | Name | Location | Lazer_Haz | Task | Time End |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15:38 | FAC | Randy | LVEA | N | Changing HAM1 cleanroom bolts | 16:02 |
| 15:39 | VAC | Richard | LVEA | N | Checking HAM1 annulus | 15:41 |
| 15:53 | FAC | Kim, Nellie | LVEA | N | Technical cleaning | 17:30 |
| 16:55 | EE | Jackie | LVEA | N | Pulling chassis from SUS-R7 | 17:02 |
| 16:55 | VAC | Travis | LVEA | N | HAM1 pumpdown | 19:30 |
| 17:22 | FAC | Nellie | EY | N | Technical cleaning | 18:07 |
| 17:37 | FAC | Kim | EX | N | Technical cleaning | 18:38 |
| 17:47 | ISC | Jennie, Masayuki | LVEA | N | Parts cleanup at HAM6 | 18:42 |
| 17:57 | VAC | Gerardo | LVEA | N | HAM1 pumpdown | 19:31 |
| 18:11 | ISC | Elenna, Oli | Optics Lab | N | BHD optics build (Elenna out @ 18:54) | 19:59 |
| 18:51 | SAF | Richard | LVEA | N | Checking on HAM1 | 19:10 |
| 20:35 | SPI | Jeff | Opt Lab | N | Taking pictures | 23:01 |
| 20:37 | FAC | Richard | LVEA | N | Rebooting PSL environment controller | 21:10 |
| 20:42 | FAC | Randy | LVEA | N | Plugging in scissor lifts | 21:15 |
| 20:46 | ISC | Elenna, Oli | Opt Lab | N | BHD optics build | 23:42 |
| 20:53 | AOS | Betsy | LVEA | N | Putting away parts | 21:18 |
| 21:24 | ISC | Jennie | LVEA | N | Parts cleanup at HAM6 | 21:43 |
| 21:29 | EE | Fil, Marc | LVEA | N | Pulling cables | 21:39 |
| 21:30 | ISC | Camilla | Opt Lab | N | Looking at parts | 21:57 |
| 21:51 | AOS | Mitchell | EX, EY | N | FAMIS checks | 22:32 |
| 21:57 | AOS | Betsy | Opt Lab | N | Checking parts | 22:57 |
| 21:57 | VAC | Gerardo, Travis | LVEA | N | HAM1 pumpdown | Ongoing |
| 22:39 | EE | Fil | EY | N | Grabbing power supplies | 23:38 |
| 22:44 | SAF | Richard | LVEA | N | Looking for Travis | 22:52 |
| 23:39 | EE | Marc, Fil | LVEA | N | Pulling cables | Ongoing |
| 23:51 | ISC | Betsy, Jennie | LVEA | N | Looking at parts at HAM6 | 00:05 |
| 00:06 | ISC | Elenna, Oli | Opt Lab | N | BHD optics build | Ongoing |
FAMIS 31127
Jason made a brief trip into the enclosure 4 days ago, which is seen in the usual places. Also, the differential pressure between the laser room and anteroom changed around that time. Nothing much else to report this week.
TITLE: 03/02 Day Shift: 1530-0030 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Planned Engineering
OUTGOING OPERATOR: None
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
SEI_ENV state: MAINTENANCE
Wind: 3mph Gusts, 0mph 3min avg
Primary useism: 0.01 μm/s
Secondary useism: 0.14 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY: The HAM1 annulus has been pumping over the weekend, and if that's reached a low enough pressure, then pumping can start on the HAM1 main volume today. A few decent-sized earthquakes rolled through overnight as well.
Sun Mar 01 10:09:25 2026 INFO: Fill completed in 9min 21secs
Sat Feb 28 10:10:32 2026 INFO: Fill completed in 10min 28secs
Richard, Marc, Jonathan, Erik, Dave:
On Monday 23rd the CHETA slow controls chassis was installed in the Vacuum Prep Lab (VPL). We connected its ECAT ethernet port to the MSR Beckhoff chassis AUX-1 port partially by copper (VPL to Rm163 into CUR) and partially by fibre (CUR CDS edge switch to MSR edge switch).
This appeared to work, but later we found out that the CDS core switch was complaining constantly of rapid movement of a MAC address on the ports used by CHETA. Further reading suggests ECAT does not strictly support unique MAC addresses per Beckhoff terminal, and it appears they may all have the same non-standard MAC address.
In addition, since Monday we have been seeing regular dropouts of the CUR network switch stacks, every 6 hours at 00:41, 06:41, 12:41 and 18:41 for about a minute apiece.
This afternoon we ran a long 148' cat5e ethernet cable from room 163 to the far end of the MSR. At 16:01 we routed the CHETA chassis connection to use this cable, we now have contiguous copper run between the two chassis.
This will fix the MAC movement issues on the CDS core, and time will tell if if fixes the CUR switch dropout.
Initial reports suggest the 6-hourly drop outs of sw-cur-aux-stk has been fixed by this move.
EtherCAT terminals do not have MAC addresses. Typically, the network adapter sends an Ethernet frame with its own Ether type that will flow through all terminals without being absorbed. Terminals will just read or write individual bits and bytes of this frame as it passes by, and eventually this frame will be reflected back to the adapter. This is called EtherCAT direct mode and has very good latency characteristics, but it is not comaptible with an IP based infrastructure.
Jennie W, Jason O, Tony S, Olli P
Yesterday we put the viewport simulator on the -Y door of HAM1 to enable us to check the JAC REFL path, we had to move the in-vac mirrors for this path a couple weeks ago because the beam hit the side of a beam dump before hitting the second steering mirror after the JAC input coupler and so was mis-aligned.
The viewport simulator has tape marking the centre of the real viewport for this beam that was put in last time we had it up on this door.
We also rolled up the IOT1 table and plugged it in.
We had to move the table in -x direction from its ground markings as the periscope was too far right in the relative to the bellows hole and the viewport simulator, we also moved JACR-M1 as it was one row of holes too far in plus x direction.
The beam hit too high on the periscope, so it was missing the mirror by an inch, this will need to be corrected with pitch on the in-vac steering mirrors.
Pictures of the JACR-M1 move. First is the mirror position before the move, second is after the move, and third is a zoomed out view showing the input area of the JAC (temporary JM1 to be replaced with a tip-tilt suspension, JACR-M1, and JACR-M2).
Tagging for EPO photos
Randy, Ibrahim
Randy and I put the BBSS in the can today, as shown by pictures.
Following LLO's advice from their experiences in alog 79950, we were able to use the aluma lift to can the BBSS. What we did in order:
1. Strip locked-mass BBSS of all cables, check for looseness, bring alum-a-lift into position to lift BBSS from lifitng bars
2. Undo dog clamps to let lift take suspension load, ensure suspension is secured on the lift. Move BBSS out of test stand - as LLO said, very small clearance.
3. Prepare temporary platform for lift fork adjustment
4. Set BBSS on temporary platform - this part was successful but needed extra blocks to avoid interference with Y-bracks on the Lower Structure.
5. Adjust forks to be allow for canning without bottoming out, relift.
6. Put into wiped-down can and check for looseness. Rewipe, check for particulate and ensure secure fit
7. Close doors.
See pictures below.
EPO taggin'.
Ibrahim, Randy
Randy and I opened the can to:
See pictures below for each and another overall image.
We then buttoned the BBSS and tightened all screws. It is now ready for transport.