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H1 SEI
hugh.radkins@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:06, Friday 08 December 2017 (39698)
WHAM5 ISI Final scan and Unlocked

Looks clean.  Unlocked ISI and left with covers pulled out so TFs can be run.  Have updated the positions for isolation and committed (HAMs 3 & 4 as well to svn:

hugh.radkins@zotws9:burtfiles 0$ svn st -u
        *    10241   ISI_ETMY.hughdonotmonitor~
        *    10241   ISI_ITMX.hughdonotmonitor~
        *    10241   ISI_ITMY.hughdonotmonitor~
M            15862   h1isiham4_OBSERVE.snap
M            16444   h1isiham3_safe.snap
M            16444   h1isiham4_safe.snap
M            16444   h1isiham5_safe.snap
M            15862   h1isiham3_OBSERVE.snap
M            15862   h1isiham5_OBSERVE.snap
Status against revision:  16483
hugh.radkins@zotws9:burtfiles 0$ svn commit -m "Update snaps for CPS control DC Position" *.snap
Sending        h1isiham3_OBSERVE.snap
Sending        h1isiham3_safe.snap
Sending        h1isiham4_OBSERVE.snap
Sending        h1isiham4_safe.snap
Sending        h1isiham5_OBSERVE.snap
Sending        h1isiham5_safe.snap
Transmitting file data ......
Committed revision 16484.
hugh.radkins@zotws9:burtfiles 0$ pwd
/opt/rtcds/userapps/release/isi/h1/burtfiles
hugh.radkins@zotws9:burtfiles 0$

H1 General
edmond.merilh@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:01, Friday 08 December 2017 (39688)
Shift Summary - Day

TITLE: 12/09 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
SHIFT SUMMARY:
LOG:

16:00 LVEA is LASER SAFE

16:12 Vanessa and Karen out

16:28 Kantoro and Umakant to visit the roof for the view.

16:40 Kantoro and Umakant back inside and going for a drive to EX to have a look around outside.

16:43 Mark and Tyler out

17:00 Kantoro and Umakant back

17:05 Hugh in to LVEA/ HAM5 for ISI locking/payload documenting

17:12 Fil into LVEA/HAM5 for ground loop checks

H1:IMC-PWR_IN_OUT1617:22 Travis in to biergarten and HAM5

17:26 Betsy into LVEA/HAM5

17:33 Mark and Tyler into LVEA (TMDS)

17:30 Jeff B and Rakesh into LVEA to inspect cleanrooms

18:00 LVEA is LASER SAFE

18:02 Richard into LVEA/HAM5

18:05 Rakesh out

18:15 Jeff B out

18:20 Sheila going into the opticslab/squeezer bay

18:23  Chandra in to LVEA/GV4

18:36 Stefan in to LVEA/HAM5

18:37 Bubba in to LVEA

18:47 Stefan out

18:55 Cheryl in to LVEA/HAM2 for vacuuming

19:30 Sheila into LVEA w/Umakant

19:35 N out of optics lab

19:54 N back to optics lab

19:55 Bijesh into LVEA/HAM5

20:02 TJ into LVEA/HAM5

20:05 Karen and Vanessa leaving EX for Corner

20:09 Richard out

20:12 TJ out

20:18 Richard out

20:20 Bubba, Mark, Tyler, Travis, Betsy and Terry out

20:40 N out

20:52 Cheryl out

20:56 Betsy in to LVEA/HAM5

20:57 Travis into LVEA

21:03 Hugh out

21:06 Betsy into LVEA

21:09 Richard into LVEA

21:23 Jeff B and Kantoro in to LVEA

21:28 Chandra in to LVEA

21:30 Mark and Tyler in to LVEA

21:31 Richard out

21:41 Chandra out

21:52 Cheryl in to LVEA/HAM2

21:51 Fil in to LVEA/TCS tables (testing access system)

22:03 Bubba to the LVEA

22:04 Kyle in to LVEA/HAM4-5 (top of tube)

22:13 Bubba out

22:19 N in to LVEA/Squeezer

22:20 EX HEPI Pump Controller restarted

22:43 Terry in to LVEA squeezer bay

22:45 N out

23:00 TJ and Sheila in to LVEA

23:02 Fil in to EY

23:20 Hugh into LVEA/HAM5

23:25 Travis out

23:26 Chandra in to LVEA

23:27 Betsy out

23:38 Chandra out

32:41 N into LVEA

23:43 Hugh out

H1 AOS
betsy.weaver@LIGO.ORG - posted 15:27, Friday 08 December 2017 (39696)
HAM5 Closeout Status COB

Betsy, Travis, Hugh

So, turns out we couldn't get the doors on HAM5 by COB because everything took longer than expected today (cable entry below) and everyone has already put in ~6 days of work this week.  However, we completed the entire list up to actualy putting the doors back on.

 

Things we did to enable doors going on first thing Monday morning were:

SR3

Pulled F.C. from HR surface, blew N2 for ~ a full min.

Unlocked optic.

Recenter some M1 flags - after 20 mins of knocking the optic around we decided they were good enough because we didn't want to risk breaking a magnet off or compromising cables again this late in the game.

Recentered M3 stage AOSEMs.

Fought with DTT and the suspension to eventually get quick TFs in all 6 DOFs at top stage - L has low coherence after 0.7 which doesn't look great, but below that where all of the peaks are, things line up nicely - PASS

SRM

Pulled F.C. from HR and AR surface, blew for ~30 sec on each.

Unlocked optic.

Took quick TFs of 6 DOFs - all look good - PASS

OSEM centerings are good.

 

Executed Exit Chamber procedure for tool sweeps, cleaning, 3" horizontal wafer placement, 1" witness optic FC removal, subsystem signoffs, etc.

Hugh unlocked ISI.

Jim will take the opportunity to run measurements on HAM5 ISI tonight.

BUBBA - YOU ARE A GO FOR DOOR INSTALL ASAP MONDAY MORNING.  I will follow up on text, and let you know if any status changes.

 

LHO VE
chandra.romel@LIGO.ORG - posted 15:18, Friday 08 December 2017 (39695)
shroud fit on GV4

[Bubba, Chandra, Mark, Tyler]

11am-12:15pm local

Test fit first article shroud on GV4 today and used west crane.

Particle count in biergarten looked ok.

Ken can reconnect power cables at his convenience.

 

Images attached to this report
H1 SEI
hugh.radkins@LIGO.ORG - posted 13:59, Friday 08 December 2017 (39693)
WHAM5 ISI Table Balance

After the cable replacement on HAM5 as BWeaver noted, I consolidated weights on a few corners where needed.  This and the re-cabling with a few more clamps added resulted in some changes to the counter weights.  But it all balances nicely now and I'll update the weight plan shortly.  I left it locked for SUS to continue and will unlock when needed.

H1 SYS
betsy.weaver@LIGO.ORG - posted 12:48, Friday 08 December 2017 (39691)
HAM5 Closeout activities - this morning

Since Hugh had done some cable lacing on the ISI during yesterday's payloading exercise, Fil wanted to check the grounding on HAM5 again.  Of course, he found issues with ZM2.  Hugh, Richard, Fil, and I embarked on quite a bit of troubleshooting whereby we ended up replacing the entire D1000225 (SRS) and D1000234 (quadrapus) cables from ZM2 to the feedthru.  It turned out that the SRS cable had a bad end at the feedthru, and the quadrapus was fussy at one or more BOSEM connections.  We think that the grounding checks yesterday were actually null because during the troubleshooting, we discovered a few connections that hadn't had their fasteners secured in this chain yet.  It seems the ZM2 is everyone's problem, therefore it is no one's problem.

Meanwhile, Travis climbed into the HAM5 Table West tube section, removed baffles (again), locked the SR3 and SRM and painted FC on their HR surfaces.  We replaced the baffles (which have to come off again in order to pull the FC) so that Hugh could recheck the ISI balance, which he is doing now.

Travis and I will head back in shortly to finish the FC and cleanup work - hopefully doors will go on this aft.

H1 SEI
jim.warner@LIGO.ORG - posted 10:18, Friday 08 December 2017 (39647)
SR2 cage B&K measurements look different

I took JeffK's recent B&K data for SR2 and plotted it against Arnaud's data from 2014 (alog 12089). Jeff's measurement is very different from what Arnaud found. There is a new resonance at 50 hz in both degrees of freedom that is sharper than any of the resonances from the 2014 measurement. Talking to Jeff and looking at Arnaud's setup, it looks like the sensors were in different spots, but the strike locations were the same.  It also seems that my tfs on HAM4 on Nov 8th show this some, second attached image is the gs13 cartesian tfs from that measurement. The 50hz feature shows up most in the rotational dofs, but is pretty small. I don't think it's hepi, because the other chambers don't see a similar feature.  Not sure if this will be an issue for the ISI controls yet, but probably not. Jeff also suggested SR2 was locked for this measurement, so I'll try a shorter set of tfs tonight before I leave, if the LVEA gets quiet.

Images attached to this report
H1 General
edmond.merilh@LIGO.ORG - posted 08:18, Friday 08 December 2017 - last comment - 14:42, Friday 08 December 2017(39689)
Shift Transition - Day

TITLE: 12/08 Day Shift: 16:00-00:00 UTC (08:00-16:00 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Planned Engineering
OUTGOING OPERATOR: None
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT:
    Wind: 2mph Gusts, 1mph 5min avg
    Primary useism: 0.02 μm/s
    Secondary useism: 0.40 μm/s
QUICK SUMMARY:

15:07 Vanessa and Karen into LVEA

15:29 Mark and Tyler into LVEA HAM5 (doors)

15:30 lost comms w/EX HEPI pump controller

 

Comments related to this report
patrick.thomas@LIGO.ORG - 14:42, Friday 08 December 2017 (39694)
Hugh walked me through the instructions in the wiki for restarting the end X HEPI EPICS IOC and recovering the PID.
H1 SUS
jeffrey.kissel@LIGO.ORG - posted 17:50, Thursday 07 December 2017 (39686)
H1SUSSR2 TF Done Post Doors On -- The Look Great -- SUS is Free
J. Kissel

Took Doors ON, but still at-air transfer functions of SR2. Data looks clean and clear. Well done team! First Chamber closed!

Data lives here:
/ligo/svncommon/SusSVN/sus/trunk/HSTS/H1/SR2/SAGM1/Data/
   2017-12-08_0102_H1SUSSR2_M1_WhiteNoise_L_0p01to50Hz.xml
   2017-12-08_0102_H1SUSSR2_M1_WhiteNoise_P_0p01to50Hz.xml
   2017-12-08_0102_H1SUSSR2_M1_WhiteNoise_R_0p01to50Hz.xml
   2017-12-08_0102_H1SUSSR2_M1_WhiteNoise_T_0p01to50Hz.xml
   2017-12-08_0102_H1SUSSR2_M1_WhiteNoise_V_0p01to50Hz.xml
   2017-12-08_0102_H1SUSSR2_M1_WhiteNoise_Y_0p01to50Hz.xml


I post a teaser of the raw Pitch to Pitch top mass (M1) transfer function for proof.
Images attached to this report
H1 TCS
jason.oberling@LIGO.ORG - posted 17:24, Thursday 07 December 2017 - last comment - 09:00, Friday 08 December 2017(39685)
TCSx and TCSy Realigned

J. Oberling, T. Shaffer, T. Sadecki, B. Weaver, A. Brooks (remote support)

Today we completed the initial alignment of the TCS tables (after Greg placed them in their new positions last week) to their respective in-vacuum mirrors.  Both tables were aligned via the following steps:

That being said, it wasn't that easy.  Both alignment lasers needed to be realigned to the irises.  In fact, the alignment laser for the TCSy table needed to be installed before it was aligned.  The real problems, however, came when attempting to align the beam through the ZnSe viewport and onto the 1st in-vacuum mirror.  Regardless of how we adjusted the periscope mirrors, we always ran out of range before we could center the beam on the viewport and the 1st in-vacuum mirror.  The top periscope mirror (TPM) is bolted to a plate, that then bolts to the periscope structure itself via slots in the plate; this plate can therefore be moved up and down on the periscope structure (the drawing for the periscope assemble lives at D1200953).  We tried moving the TPM up and down, but regardless of its position on the periscope structure, we always ran out of adjustment range before the beam was aligned.  The problem is due to an apparent design flaw in the plate.  The plate holds the TPM at a fixed angle, and this angle is apparently not the correct angle for properly aligning the beam.  In order to center the beam on the ZnSe viewport and the 1st in-vacuum mirror, we had to remove all the screws from the TPM plate except for one, rotate the plate on the periscope structure, and secure it with whatever screws lined up.  This was necessary for both TCSx and TCSy.  TJ has pictures of the results that he will post as a comment to this alog.  Long story short, the TCSx TPM is now held on by 2 screws and 1 dog clamp, while the TCSy TPM is held on by 1 screw and 1 dog clamp.  We are not in love with this solution, but it was the only way we could align the beam to both the ZnSe viewport and the 1st in-vacuum mirror.  We emailed Aidan about this and he informed us this was not too surprising due to the table being further away from the chamber.

Once we had the beam in-vacuum, Travis and I entered the chamber and, with TJ assisting from the outside, we aligned each beam to its respective CP.  The alignment from the 1st to the 2nd in-vacuum mirror was trivial, but adjusting the 2nd in-vacuum mirror to align the beam onto the CP was very difficult.  The mirror has 8 screws that are arranged in what appears to be a pattern that allows for push-pull adjustment of the mirror alignment, but in reality that doesn't work at all.  All the screws screw directly into the mirror, so there is no push-pull.  The only way we could reliably align this mirror was to loosen all the screws, and then slowly re-tighten them one at a time in such a way that the beam remained centered on the CP.  This was made difficult by the fact that tightening/loosening each screw had a counter-intuitive effect on the beam alignment; i.e. we would tighten a screw on the right side of the optic expecting the beam to move right (since we're pulling the mirror in that direction) but it was a toss-up as to whether the beam would go right, left, or just not move at all.  After several iterations of tightening and loosening screws we finally got the beams aligned to the center of their respective CPs.  This completes the initial alignment of the TCS tables to their in-vacuum mirrors; a fine alignment will be done once the HWS table is re-installed and aligned and the CO2 lasers are hooked up and running again (the HWS is used to image the heating provided by the CO2 lasers, and the TCS TPMs are then adjusted to center the CO2 beam on the CP).

Comments related to this report
thomas.shaffer@LIGO.ORG - 09:00, Friday 08 December 2017 (39690)

TCSY & TCSX top periscope mirror mount pictures are attached.

Images attached to this comment
H1 SEI
hugh.radkins@LIGO.ORG - posted 17:07, Thursday 07 December 2017 (39684)
WHAM5 ISI Balanced--TFs Started for tonight

Hugh & Brijesh

We finally got the ISI unlocked after letting OFI crew remove a final iris and securing the new OFI OSEM cables.  The unlock was very difficult as the payload was very light.  Ultimately we had to move a 10kg mass from the edge of the table top to the center and then still add almost all the additional payload I had available in the LVEA.  Finally though, we got it well balanced and the lockers of course are much easier now.

We left the covers pulled out and JimW has already started the long TFs to run overnight.

In the morning, I will consolidate a few masses and document the new payload for SYS As-Built.

H1 IOO (AOS, SEI, SUS)
jeffrey.kissel@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:58, Thursday 07 December 2017 (39682)
HAM2 B&K Hammered
J. Kissel, J. Warner

Jim and I hammered components in HAM2 this morning, including:
    - IMs 1-4 with Baffles re-installed with Viton (LHO aLOG 39654)
    - PRM Cage (hammering the cage instead of the baffles)
    - PR3 Cage (hammering the cage instead of the baffles)
    - All three HAM table baffles (Minus Y, Middle, and Plus Y)
    - PR3 Table Top Baffle

Pictures attached, analysis to-come.
Images attached to this report
H1 AOS (AOS, DetChar, SEI, SUS)
jeffrey.kissel@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:41, Thursday 07 December 2017 (39678)
ITMX, ITMY, and BS Elliptical Baffles B&K Hammered
J. Kissel, T. Sadecki

We've closed out B&K hammering of BSC2 today by grabbing transfer functions of the ITM elliptical baffles (D1101806) and the Beam Splitter Cage and elliptical baffles (D1200750).

Picture of setup attached. Results to be processed and posted later.

Measurement Notes:
- For the ITM elliptical baffles (which were freely suspended during measurement), we attached the accelerometer to the inner-most thru-hole on the bottom plate.

- For the BS Cage, the accelerometer position shown in 5468 seemed no longer available at the time (though now looking at pictures, it was), so we went for using the thru-hole in the center of the structure as pictured.

- To reach BSC2, we extended the manufacturer's hammer and accelerometer cables with newly constructed 20 ft. cables courtesy of Richard and Filiberto (THANKS Y'ALL!).
Images attached to this report
H1 SUS
betsy.weaver@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:26, Thursday 07 December 2017 (39681)
ITMY test mass cleaning started

This afternoon I

- maked the First Contact spray solution

- brushed up on the spray procedure

- staged supplies near door

- donned the PPE

- aligned the cone to seal onto the ITMY HR surface

- sprayed the ITMY HR

- removed the cone.

Tomorrow I will finish reinforcing the outer ring of the coating and add the pull tab.

LHO VE
chandra.romel@LIGO.ORG - posted 15:51, Thursday 07 December 2017 - last comment - 15:38, Friday 08 December 2017(39679)
HAM 4 annulus pump down

Pumping HAM 4 annuli with aux cart #5 and hung turbo. Started at 3:39pm local. After 10 minutes of pumping, CC gauge reads 4.3e-4 Torr.

Comments related to this report
chandra.romel@LIGO.ORG - 17:07, Thursday 07 December 2017 (39683)

5pm local:  1.0e-4 Torr

chandra.romel@LIGO.ORG - 13:28, Friday 08 December 2017 (39692)

Dec. 8th:  pressure 7.8e-6 Torr at noon

chandra.romel@LIGO.ORG - 15:38, Friday 08 December 2017 (39697)

3:30pm local:  7.2e-6 Torr

H1 IOO (IOO)
cheryl.vorvick@LIGO.ORG - posted 14:41, Thursday 07 December 2017 - last comment - 00:02, Sunday 10 December 2017(39674)
unexplained alignment change in IM3

I checked the alignments of the IMs since I finished working yesterday, and found that IM1, IM2, and IM4 recoverd their alignments when restored this morning, but IM3 did not, it has a significant change in alignment in pitch and yaw.

IM3 change in pitch is ~-1000urad, and change in yaw is ~-1500urad, however the alignment sliders are at (0,0), and have been since yesterday, so there's no apparent reason for the change.

Images attached to this report
Comments related to this report
cheryl.vorvick@LIGO.ORG - 20:00, Thursday 07 December 2017 (39687)

My investigation into IM3 found the source of the change in alignment.  Set screws on the upper OSEMs and bolts on one blade assembly were not tightened to the same spec that I'm using during this vent (to correct the torque of all of the bolts in the IM towers).  

These are easily identified as bolts that were loosened for the recent bias relief and wire shift on IM3, so mystery solved.

Before correcting the bolt torque, I tapped the IM3 tower and the IM3 OSEMs/blade spring shifted, changing the optic alignment. 

Bolt/set screw torques were corrected, however the OSEMs still need to be recentered, which will happen tomorrow.

cheryl.vorvick@LIGO.ORG - 00:02, Sunday 10 December 2017 (39712)

UPDATE - SEE ALOG 39702:  

These shifts were actually due to the 4 bolts that hold the top plate of the IM cage to the rest of the IM cage, which are hidden under the blade spring EQ stop brackets, so have not yet been torqued to spec.  While a few incidental set screws and bolts were not quite torqued to spec in other areas on the IM cage, as I noted in my comment, those were not actually the cause of the shifts.  The root cause of the shifts are the 4 hidden loose bolts that are allowing the entire top plate of the IM cages to move, altering the IM alignment.

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