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H1 SYS
david.barker@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:38, Thursday 22 February 2018 - last comment - 07:44, Friday 23 February 2018(40672)
h1ecaty1 EPICS IOC not responding

looks like all slow controls epics channels from h1ecaty1 stopped working at 15:55 PST. Unless anybody needs these channels we will wait until tomorrow to restart.

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patrick.thomas@LIGO.ORG - 07:41, Friday 23 February 2018 (40677)
Restarted.
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patrick.thomas@LIGO.ORG - 07:44, Friday 23 February 2018 (40678)
EY ECAT PLC1 and PLC3 SDF appear crashed. I don't know how these get restarted.
H1 General
yannick.lecoeuche@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:01, Thursday 22 February 2018 (40671)
Shift Summary - Day

TITLE: 02/22 Day Shift: 16:00-00:00 UTC (08:00-16:00 PST), all times posted in UTC

STATE of H1: Planned Engineering

INCOMING OPERATOR: None

LOG:

16:00 (8:00) Start of shift

16:18 (8:16) Maik to laser enclosure

16:26 (8:26) Bartlett swapping out laser chillers

16:52 (8:52) Corey to LVEA -- grab a screw

16:56 (8:56) Corey back from LVEA

17:02 (9:00) Ed and Fil to EX -- work on safety system

17:05 (9:05) Gerardo to LVEA -- retrieve items

17:05 (9:05) TJ to Optics Lab -- VOPO work

17:14 (9:14) Gerardo out of LVEA

17:14 (9:14) Gerardo to End-X

17:17 (9:17) Bartlett to LVEA -- Getting parts

17:24 (9:24) Jeff to Optics Lab -- VOPO work

17:25 (9:25) Jason to PSL enclosure

17:28 (9:28) Chandra to Mid-Y

17:30 (9:30) Richard to HAM6 -- put up warning signs

17:35 (9:35) Jeff and TJ out of Optics Lab

17:35 (9:35) Jeff and TJ to End-Y -- pick up component

17:36 (9:36) Bubba and Chris to End-X -- swapping batteries, straightening up

17:38 (9:38) Ed and Fil back from End-X

17:47 (9:47) Richard out of HAM6

17:48 (9:48) Bartlett out of LVEA

17:49 (9:49) Alvaro to Optics Lab

18:05 (10:05) TJ and Jeff back from End-Y

18:05 (10:05) TJ and Jeff to Optics Lab

18:29 (10:29) Nutsinee and Sheila to Optics Lab

18:40 (10:40) Nutsinee out of Optics Lab

18:44 (10:44) Corey to SQZ Bay -- grabbing panel

19:17 (11:17) Sheila out of Optics Lab

19:18 (11:18) Fil and Ed to End-X

19:20 (11:20) Keita Georgia and Betsy back from End-Y

19:25 (11:25) Rick and Travis to End-Y -- PCal work

19:39 (11:39) Jeff out of Optics Lab

19:42 (11:42) Bartlett back from chiller swap

19:59 (11:59) Rick and Travis back from End-Y

20:00 (12:00) TJ and Alvaro out of Optics Lab

20:02 (12:02) Fil and Ed back from End-X

20:02 (12:02) Richard to LVEA -- look at squeezer table

20:04 (12:04) Jason and Maik to diode room

20:13 (12:13) Jason and Maik out of diode room

20:22 (12:22) Nutsinee to ISCT6

20:32 (12:32) Sheila and Terry to Optics Lab

21:41 (13:41) Peter to Diode Room -- move equipment

21:42 (13:42) TJ to Optics Lab -- VOPO work

21:44 (13:44) Sheila Georgia Salvo Terry to Optics Lab

21:45 (13:45) Nutsinee out of ISCT6

21:46 (13:46) Peter out of Diode Room

22:02 (14:02) Ed and Fil to End Stations -- set up emergency stop buttons

22:04 (14:04) Rick and Marek to LVEA -- grab headsets

22:12 (14:12) Georgia and Salvo out of Optics Lab

22:30 (14:30) Nutsinee out of ISCT6

22:35 (14:35) Corey to SQZ Bay -- Deliver panels

22:43 (14:43) Gerardo back from End-X

22:50 (14:50) Corey out of SQZ Bay

23:08 (15:08) Chandra to Mid-Y

23:14 (15:14) Ed and Fil back from End Stations

23:29 (15:29) Ed and Fil to HAM6 -- high voltage cabling

23:50 (15:50) TJ out of Optics Lab

00:00 (16:00) End of shift

H1 General
yannick.lecoeuche@LIGO.ORG - posted 13:23, Thursday 22 February 2018 (40669)
Thursday Vent Meeting Minutes

Corner:

PSL going well, working on wiring

CER ISC cabling almost finished

ISCT6 cable connection finished

VOPO balanced and cabled

HAM6 feedthru proof, function testing

EX:

Staging at End-X planned for upcoming week

EY:

Installs at End-Y planned for next week

PCal alignment check complete

MY:

MCE electrical being finished, will begin testing

HAM6:

No in-chamber work during pump down

VOPO install Monday

Tuesday Maintenance:

SDF work complete

ISI Model

SUS EY RCG Boot

Framewriter work

DAQ restart

H1 PSL
jeffrey.bartlett@LIGO.ORG - posted 12:12, Thursday 22 February 2018 - last comment - 09:37, Friday 23 February 2018(40667)
Swap PSL Chillers
   Swapped the running chiller (Gromit) with the backup chiller (Wallace). No problems encountered with the swap or during the initial run-up. Ran Wallace for about 20 minutes to due leak checks and top up the reservoirs. The chiller is off right now, and is set for remote start control. 

   Will prep Gromit for warn stand-by backup.  

   Close WP #7338    
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matthew.heintze@LIGO.ORG - 17:01, Thursday 22 February 2018 (40670)

Maik, Matt

 

There is a problem with the Diode Chiller when trying to do remote operation. Once in remote operation setting, with the chiller powered ON, but not running, the chiller puts out a signal (we checked by looking with a breakout board on the interlock cable connection on pin 3 and pin 7 and it gives a voltage/resistance when the chiller is turned on at the power but not running...this shouldnt be the case...there should be no resistance/voltage if there is no flow) that indicates there is flow (even though there isnt). When we power off the chiller completely, the resistance/voltage signal disappears (as expect). Beckhoff sees this supposed flow also and so thinks the chiller is ON (even when its not), thus not enabling any control via Beckhoff.

 

We are currently looking into if this is a setting in the chiller itself that we can change.

 

Pics are of when the chiller is powered at the wall, but not running. This isnt what we believe should be happening. With the chiller not running, there should be no resistance/voltage.

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jason.oberling@LIGO.ORG - 09:37, Friday 23 February 2018 (40682)

Jeff swapped out the front panel controller for a spare this morning.  The diode chiller now functions normally.

H1 General
yannick.lecoeuche@LIGO.ORG - posted 11:51, Thursday 22 February 2018 (40664)
LVEA transitioned to LASER HAZARD

Betsy and Sheila are transitioning the LVEA to laser hazard. They plan to run it overnight and into tomorrow, but can transition back if someone needs it.

 

H1 SUS (AOS, ISC, SUS)
keita.kawabe@LIGO.ORG - posted 11:36, Thursday 22 February 2018 - last comment - 12:34, Thursday 22 February 2018(40663)
Using another beam on EY OPLEV restores ALS retro-reflection (Georgia, Betsy, Keita)

After Betsy's observation that a wrong beam might have been used for EY oplev (alog 40653), she and Georgia went into the chamber and faked the "correct" EY alignment by pushing the optic using EQ stops until the right beam is on oplev. It's not quite centered but it's not very far. The OPLEV SUM dropped to about 11k.

After this we turned on the ALS laser, and got retro-reflection well within the adjustment range of TMS OSEM. It seems like Betsy found the right beam for EY oplev.

When the REFL was on ALS REFL PD, TMS sliders were P=-88 urad, Y=-168 urad (full range is +-298 for P, +-608 for Y).

Rick and Travis are going back to EY to see if this EY angle is also better for PCAL. IF that's the case EY needs to be properly realigned (not faked by EQ stops but by adjusting the cage etc.).

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richard.savage@LIGO.ORG - 12:34, Thursday 22 February 2018 (40668)CAL

TravisS, RickS

We switched on the Pcal laser and checked the alignment of the two Pcal beams into the Rx module integrating sphere.

Both beams were reasonably well centered.  They were slightly offset from eachother vertically, but only by about 1-2 mm and they were very close to the center of the Rx integrating sphere aperture.

It seems that work on the periscope structure DID NOT impact the Pcal alignment significantly (GREAT NEWS!).

H1 General
yannick.lecoeuche@LIGO.ORG - posted 10:25, Thursday 22 February 2018 - last comment - 11:58, Thursday 22 February 2018(40661)
EY is now LASER HAZARD

Keita has transitioned EY to laser hazard.

     -Niko

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yannick.lecoeuche@LIGO.ORG - 11:58, Thursday 22 February 2018 (40665)

EY is now LASER SAFE

H1 SEI
yannick.lecoeuche@LIGO.ORG - posted 10:01, Thursday 22 February 2018 (40660)
BRS Driftmon Trends - 7 weeks

7 weeks of BRSX and BRSY driftmon channels. BRSX is below between 2017-12-28 and 2018-01-04, and above between 2018-02-01 and 2018-02-15. BRSY is within boundaries.

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LHO VE
chandra.romel@LIGO.ORG - posted 07:38, Thursday 22 February 2018 (40658)
Valved out CP4 turbo again

Pressure will rise at CP4 PT-245 while the turbo is valved out again today.

H1 ISC (ISC, PEM)
sheila.dwyer@LIGO.ORG - posted 19:18, Wednesday 21 February 2018 (40656)
Field meter measurements at EY

Jim Warner, Georgia Mansell, Sheila Dwyer

This morning we went back to EY to make some follow up measurements with the electric field meter that Rai brought. (40599 and 40597).  Our main result was to confirm that below 300 Hz the measurements we made on Monday were dominated by acoustic noise from the purge air and clean room, and that some care should be taken to mount the meter so that it has some isolation from acoustic noise and ground motion. It also seems like the line we identified as being from the CPSs on Monday is not actually the CPS line, and we are not currently seeing any signal from the CPSs in the field meter.  

Today the field meter was oriented to measure fields parallel to the beam direction and we did not rotate it.  We first repeated the measurement we did on Monday with the cleanrooms and purge air on.  We then turned off the cleanroom over the BSC chamber (leaving the others alone) and repeated the measurement, then repeated it with the purge air also turned off (top panel of attached plot).  We saw that a line at 33.8kHz was coming from the cleanrooms, and that the noise below 300 Hz was driven both by the cleanroom and purge air motion, as we suspected on Monday after seeing that the spectrum didn't change when we added a tin foil Faraday cage. 

We made a single measurement where we attempted to turn off many of the expected sources of fields in the chamber.  

We repeated the measurement with the clean room and purge air off and saw that powering off all of these items didn't make a difference in our spectrum (bottom panel of attached plot).  To confirm that we had really turned of the CPSs, Jim unplugged one of the cables from the CPS interface that is a silver chassis on the cable tray, no error light lit up when he did this. 

Hugh looked up for us the frequency of the CPS clock signal, which is 25.725kHz.  The second attachment  shows the spectra zoomed in around 25kHz, and you can see that the line we see is at 24.8kHz, so it may be due to something other than the CPSs. 

We will take a break from making these measurements for a few days while the end station alignment work is going on, but if we have an opportunity Rai has requested that we try the measurement with the neutral pin of the power supply grounded to the box and floating.  If possible we would also like to mount the meter so that it is held off of the bench and has some vibration isolation. 

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LHO VE
chandra.romel@LIGO.ORG - posted 18:33, Wednesday 21 February 2018 - last comment - 10:02, Thursday 22 February 2018(40654)
Progress on CP4 bake enclosure

Framing is erected and most of the insulation pads are up. Need to work out some bugs in the electrical. Reworked a few areas of strut interference. Designer will create as-built drawings. Thanks everyone for your help today: Ken, Mark, Richard. Tomorrow we resume.

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chandra.romel@LIGO.ORG - 18:39, Wednesday 21 February 2018 (40655)CDS

We have an adapter cable to swap CP4's pressure reading from PT-245B to the {temporary} full range hot cathode gauge installed on turbo inlet, since we'll lose PT-245B (electronics) in the heat. Patrick T. is working on software code for this swap. Thanks!

chandra.romel@LIGO.ORG - 10:02, Thursday 22 February 2018 (40659)
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H1 SUS
betsy.weaver@LIGO.ORG - posted 17:59, Wednesday 21 February 2018 (40653)
ETMY SUS misalignment possibly due to wrong beam on the OPLEV

After hearing that both the TMS and PCAL beam alignments did not recover after we swapped the ETMY and aligned it to the OPLEV, I did some brainstorming with Daniel, Sheila, and Keita who were in the CR.  A few trends of OPLEV data later, and I'm thinking that Travis and I have aligned the ETMY to the incorrect OPLEV beam.  

There are 4 red beams heading towards the ETMY OPLEV receiver, of which Travis and I convinced ourselves that we understood the second from the bottom to be the main reflection beam based on the wedge orientation (it's also the brightest, which maybe doesn't matter based on the coating).  Even if this is the correct OPLEV beam, it is not obvious that this was the beam that was used for the "before" alignment of the ETM.  However, a quick look at the trend attached shows that the SUM of the OPLEV was much lower than it is now prior to the test mass swap, maybe arguing that we've got the wrong beam.

Tomorrow we will point one of the other 2 possible beams onto the OPLEV and see if the PCAL and TMS pointing are restored.

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H1 PSL
patrick.thomas@LIGO.ORG - posted 17:07, Wednesday 21 February 2018 - last comment - 12:01, Thursday 22 February 2018(40649)
Weekly PSL Chiller Reservoir Top-Off
FAMIS 6563

Added 100 mL H2O to the H1 PSL crystal chiller. The lower left canister filter is discolored. The top right canister filter is white and clear of debris.

The fault light on the diode chiller is not lit.
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jeffrey.bartlett@LIGO.ORG - 12:01, Thursday 22 February 2018 (40666)
   Discoloration in the Crystal Chiller filter is due to the 70w install. The filter is downstream from the new amp and supporting plumbing and caught the gunk from them. Will swap in a new filter when the PSL work is finished. 
H1 SUS
betsy.weaver@LIGO.ORG - posted 15:58, Wednesday 21 February 2018 - last comment - 07:06, Thursday 22 February 2018(40645)
TCS Laser keys removed by me

In prep for removing the BSC1 door, I turned to OFF, and then removed the keys to the TCS lasers in the LVEA. 

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betsy.weaver@LIGO.ORG - 07:06, Thursday 22 February 2018 (40657)

After we were finished putting the door back on yesterday I put the keys back in the TCS power supplies and turned them back on. Beam blocks have been in place on the table for a few weeks mow however so this was just extra caution.

H1 CAL
evan.goetz@LIGO.ORG - posted 10:55, Wednesday 21 February 2018 - last comment - 05:13, Thursday 10 May 2018(40630)
DARM model in Python
Summary:
The core functionality of the Matlab DARM model has now been replicated in Python. Attached are figures in a single PDF file showing the primary results. By eye, these look reasonable. A more detailed study comparing to the Matlab model is forthcoming. I also replicated a study made for the L1 detector by Joe B. (see LLO aLOG 29622). I propose to call this code pyDARM.

Details:
I have ported most of the core functionality of the DARM model from Matlab into Python. So far, I have done spot checks by eye to make sure that the results look sensible. I have not yet done a detailed study comparing to the Matlab version, but will do so soon.

I have produced plots showing:
1) DARM digital filters
2) Sensing function
3) Actuation function
4) Open loop gain
5) Frequency dependent actuation authority of each stage compared to inverse sensing
6) Ratio of each stage to the overall calibration

As can be observed, the scale of each figure appears reasonable (comparing with, e.g., G1700316), the OLG is stable, and with a UGF with the correct value (by eye). The contribution of each suspension stage is closely matching L1's results using the Matlab model (see LLO aLOG 29622).

What was done:
- Write python version of Matlab functions to parse Foton filter files and to compute IOP downsampling filters from RCG code coefficients
- Exported numerical values of zeros, poles, gain, delay from analog AA and AI models (these are objects in .mat files)
- Exported ASCII file of the frequency response for the suspension force-to-length for each stage. This is read in and used in the python DARM model, and so far can only be at specific frequency points
- DARM filter bank digital filters computed, sensing function and actuation functions are computed from parameters
- Intermediary data products can be accessed
- Code structure is "flatter", meaning less jumps between different functions/files. Hopefully this makes the code more accessible and readable.

Required python modules (so far): scipy (e.g., filters), numpy (e.g., arrays/array math), collections (for namedtuples), matplotlib (for plotting)

Quirks found along the way:
- You can't directly multiply or add filter objects together in Python (the + and * functions are not overloaded in Python). I had to code up my own version to 1) add filters by using polynomials from roots, computing a transfer function filter, and then converting to a zpk object, all using scipy built-in functions; and 2) multiply filters by appending zeros together, poles together, and multiplying gain.
- The scipy sos2zpk() function is not exactly like Matlab's version. I found an extra zero and pole when converting because Matlab removes any zeros in the 3rd and 6th positions of an sos section before computing a filter from the sos coefficients

To do list (short term):
- More detailed study comparing Python with Matlab models
- Read in a config file
- Make an L1 model to check for any differences
- See if there is a way to read Matlab .mat file and objects therein. This didn't look trivial when I tried at first, which is why the analog AA and AI models were exported as well as the frequency response of each suspension stage
- Address how to get the force-to-length transfer function for each stage for arbitrary frequencies
- Add computations for GDS / DCS pipelines

Longer term:
- Hook this into a pipeline from measurement to model to uncertainty estimate pipeline
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evan.goetz@LIGO.ORG - 10:32, Thursday 22 February 2018 (40662)
Attached is an updated figure to include the inverse sensing contribution ratio to the overall calibration. Observe that the inverse sensing has impact on the overall calibration above ~10 Hz.
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duncan.macleod@LIGO.ORG - 05:13, Thursday 10 May 2018 (41925)

Evan, this looks great, but I don't see any links to the actual pyDARM code? Can you push that to a git repository somewhere? I would be happy to help with python packaging if needed so that this is trivially distributable.

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