Kyle R., Joe D.

After years of tolerating "hit or miss" micro-production runs of made-when-ordered vendor spec'd wire seals for Vacuum Bake Oven D (VBOD), we finally convinced them to make a custom batch using our own, in-house, specifications.  No leaks now, so far so good.  The defining difference is that now the seals are slightly undersized and require a slight "stretching" to snap into place on the female flange.  The vendor spec'd ones are fabricated to the final design length and then annealed to the point that they are so soft that they can't be handled without causing them to become elongated during packaging so, by the time we receive them, they are too long and are usually so loose as to be unreliably captured between the flanges.  These, then, and end up leaking 1/2 of the time after the bake cycle (which is very expensive in time and labor to gamble). 

Title:  09/13/2016, Day Shift 15:00 – 23:00 (08:00 –16:00) All times in UTC (PT)
State of H1: IFO is unlocked. Scheduled maintenance day.  
Commissioning: Daniel & Keita commissioning the ISS Second Loop
Outgoing Operator:  N/A
 
Activity Log: All Times in UTC (PT)

14:45 (07:45) Chris – Going to both end stations VEAs
15:00 (08:00) Christina & Karen – Cleaning in the LVEA
15:00 (08:00) Jeff B. & Peter – Forklift old chiller to Mechanical Building (WP #6147)
15:07 (08;07) Chris – Back from End Stations
15:20 (08:20) Jeff & Peter – Finished with chiller move
15:25 (08:25) Alfredo & Elizabeth – Going into Biergarten to make measurements
15:38 (08:38) Alfredo & Elizabeth – Out of LVEA
15:41 (08:41) Filiberto – Going into LVEA to swap ISS Second Loop chassis
15:42 (08:42) Cintas on site to swap mats
15:45 (08:45) Ed – Transitioned LVEA to laser safe (WP #6156)
15:52 (08:52) TJ – Guardian BCS work (WP #6152)
15:55 (08:55) Hugh & Jim – LVEA ITMX HEPI work (WP #6140)
15:56 (08:56) Alfredo – Going into LVEA to look for boards
16:00 (09:00) Filiberto & Marc – Going into CER
16:00 (09:00) Mike L. – Safety audit inspection tour (WP #6150)
16:11 (09:11) Alfredo – Out of the LVEA
16:12 (09:12) Jason – Going into the PSL to reset Power Meter & Check DBB PD
16:15 (09:15) Travis – Going to both End Stations to reset P-Cal camera
16:23 (09:23) Christina – Out of LVEA – Going to End-X to clean
16:43 (09:43) Kyle – Going to End-X for RGA work (WP #6157)
16:44 (09:44) Karen – Finished in the LVEA – Going to End-Y
16:55 (09:55) Filiberto & Marc – Out of CER
17:10 (10:10) Filiberto – Going to Mid-Y to recover cards
17:13 (10:13) Richard, Ed, - Working on BS Binary IO problem
17:15 (10:15) Elizabeth & Alfredo – Out of the LVEA
17:19 (10:19) Jenne – Taking a guest on LVEA tour and to the roof observation platform
17:23 (10:23) Karen – Finished at End-Y
17:30 (10:30) Dave – DAQ restart
17:35 (10:35) Norlco – Delivery of Nitrogen to End-X
17:37 (10:37) Christina – Finished at End-X
17:39 (10:39) Mike L. – Safety Audit finished in LVEA – Going to End-Y
17:40 (10:40) Jason – Out of the PSL
17:47 (10:47) Filiberto – Back from Mid-Y
17:48 (10:48) Filiberto – Pulling cable around HAM4
17:50 (10:50) Hugh – Finished in LVEA
17:53 (10:53) Hugh – Going to End Stations to check HEPI pump stations
18:14 (11:14) Karen – Going to Mid-Y
18:16 (11:16) Jenne – Finished with tour – Out of the LVEA
18:22 (11:22) Karen – Finished at Mid-Y
18:22 (11:22) Christina – Forklifting pallet into the OSB Receiving 
18:25 (11:25) Travis – Finished with P-Cal cameras
18:31 (11:31) Filiberto – Finished in the LVEA
18:41 (11:41) Patrick – Updating user accounts on h1brsex & h1brsey (WP #6154)
18:57 (11:57) Hugh – Back from End Stations
19:52 (12:52) Dave – DAQ restart
20:00 (13:00) Kyle – Leaving End-X
20:10 (13:10) Dave & Nutsinee – TCS Chiller card upgrade
20:50 (13:50) Nutsinee – Going to restart TCS Chillers – Then to LVEA to check TCS
21:00 (14:00) Nutsinee – Out of the LVEA
22:21 (15:21) Ed – Going into CER to check HV power Fast Shutter supply
 

Title: 09/12/2016, Day Shift 15:00 – 23:00 (08:00 – 16:00) All times in UTC (PT)
Support:  Jenne, Dave   
Incoming Operator: Corey

Shift Detail Summary:  Working on relocking after maintenance window.  

WP 6140 FRS 4650 II 1151

DeIsolated ITMY HEPI and cranked on the DSCW Springs to put platform close to target position.  Succeeded generally; 1/12 turn of spring does ~30um shifts--about as small a turn as we can repeatably do (must turn multiple springs the same amount to get desired result.)  But, reduced the 4 horizontal Actuator Drives from ~5000 cts to 10s & few 100s, and, 3 of the 4 vertical drives a good bit.  See 1st attachment.

Different from the BS last week, looking at the local IPS positions, the local postions are pretty much what they were before the drag and drop.  All the IPS readings are within 2 or 300 counts, < 0.0005", see 2nd attachment.  Hmm, now that I revisit the BS numbers, the BS verticals maybe moved 2 or 3x the ITMY...  So maybe all in all not too big a deal given the overcontrolled/constrained nature of the HEPI.

MarcP, Fil, Hugh

This morning, the 'additive' Jameson gave to H1:ISI-BS_BIO_IN_BIO_IN_TEST was still in place and giving a fault to Stage1 V3 Status.  I removed it and it has remained good since except during our testing.

Historically, this has not been glitchy for the past 60 days.  The CD BIO IN must be bad for 10 seconds before the ISI WD triggers and that first occurred at 1230 PDT yesterday.

Around 9am today, monitoring the output from the BIO Chassis going to the I/O computer, the indications were that the V3 channel responds the same as others with very similar logic voltages when the input from the CD was present and absent.  Not terribly satisfying but maybe suggesting the BIO Chassis is okay and implicating the I/O Computer.

Our best test would be to actually have the fault state and repeat this check of the BIO Chassis outputs.

Meanwhile, I hear Richard instructed EdM to power things down and reseat the I/O Computer cards but I haven't heard that directly or seen a log.

FRS 6203

Gerardo M., Kyle R.

Today we transported pumps, variable alternating current source transformers and leak detector etc.. to the X-end station Residual Gas Analyzer (RGA), removed the redundant 1 1/2" valve and installed the 60 liter/second turbo molecular pump in its place.  At the next opportunity, we will need to vent the RGA volume and re-flange the RGA as it still has the "factory" fasteners which are inadequate to achieve the desired "metal-to-metal" connection (which has proven to be impervious to bake cycles as far as leaking is concerned).  We will then helium leak test all of the bolted joints and wrap up the assembly with aluminum foil and heat tapes. At that point we will await a five day window of opportunity to run the pumps 24/5 and do a 200C bake of the RGA assembly.  

In summary, the current WP is partially complete and will remain active until completed (dependent upon Interferometer downtime(s))

WP 6154

I created a controls account on h1brsex and copied the files over from the Administrator account. These were the folders 'C:/Users/Administrator/My Documents/BRS2 C#' and 'C:/Users/Administrator/My Documents/BRSX'. I also copied the Desktop shortcuts from the Administrator account to the controls account and changed them in the controls account to point to the controls directory.

I stopped the BRS code running in the Administrator account and started it in the new controls account.

During this time I changed the ISI configuration from WINDY to SC_OFF. It is now back to WINDY.

PS: It is confusing that in the Windows explorer the folder named 'My Documents' is named 'Documents' in the Command Prompt.

I did not run the matlab plots, if I get a chance later I'll run and post them but no guarantees.

I went into the enclosure this morning and power cycled the power meter that measures the power reflected from the PMC.  After the power cycle it is now working as expected.

While there I also reset the PSL power watchdogs (FAMIS task #3615).

I analyzed the Sep. 12th lock to see if any of the suspension drive signals were suffering from DAC calibration glitches. There were no suspension drive signals that showed glitches coupling into DARM, PRCL, or SRCL when the MASTER_OUT signal sent to the DAC crossed values of zero or +/-2^16. We'll continue to monitor for DAC calibration glitches, this should be running automatically on a daily basis for O2.

Today CP4 reservoir overfilled to 100%+ after a Dewar fill because the lower limit of LLCV in PID settings was left at 37% from CP4 flow meter data collection. This was my mistake. All lower limits are normally set to 20%. I reset it to the default 20%. While I was at it, I lowered CP1 and CP2 lower limits to 10% since these two pumps normally run at a lower % open. 

New susprocpi model with daq restart. h1seib2 restart in attempt to clear BIO error.

(Test frame writer fw2 was restarting, not shown). 

WP 6153

I updated h0vaclx to add the X1 PT140 BPG402 gauge. For now both this gauge and the pirani/cold cathode pair will run simultaneously. Dave is adding the channels to the DAQ.

The restart tripped the ITMX ESD high voltage (as expected) and Filiberto reset it.

Added new ST2 SEI configuration nodes today. These are very similar to the ST1 nodes but perhaps a bit more simple. As of right now they are not managed by the SEI_CONF manager nodes, but will be once Jim W gets them all set up where he wants them.

Screenshot of the Guardian overview with the new nodes.

Daniel, Dave:

new h1psliss code was installed and the DAQ was restarted. Main DAQ change was the addition of 9 fast channels at 2048Hz  to the commissioning frame:

H1:PSL-ISS_OUTERLOOP_PDSUMINNER_OUT_DQ
H1:PSL-ISS_OUTERLOOP_PDSUMOUTER_OUT_DQ
H1:PSL-ISS_OUTERLOOP_PD_CAL_OUT_DQ
H1:PSL-ISS_OUTERLOOP_RIN_AC_COUPLING_OUT_DQ
H1:PSL-ISS_OUTERLOOP_RIN_CTRL_OUT_DQ
H1:PSL-ISS_OUTERLOOP_RIN_ERR1_OUT_DQ
H1:PSL-ISS_OUTERLOOP_RIN_ERR2_OUT_DQ
H1:PSL-ISS_OUTERLOOP_RIN_INNER_OUT_DQ
H1:PSL-ISS_OUTERLOOP_RIN_OUTER_OUT_DQ
 

I have created a new GDS calibration FIR filters file.  The included filters are designed to correct output of the front-end CALCS calibration, improving accuracy at high frequencies on ~10% level.  This new filters file contains more aggressive high-pass filters with a cutoff of 9 Hz and contains accurate values for EP1-9 for use in the kappa calculations.  The new filters file can be found in the calibraiton SVN:

aligocalibration/trunk/Runs/PreER10/GDSFilters/H1GDS_1156183417.npz

This filter was created using calibration SVN version #3295 and following instructions outlined here.

Attached are plots of the corrections applied to DELTAL_RESIDUAL and each of the DELTAL_CTRL_PUM/UIM/TST/ channels (all DELTAL_CTRL_* channels receive the same corrections).  Attached are also plots comparing the h(t) spectrum for some ER9 data (1152076416-1152076544) calibrated using this filters file with output of the front-end CALCS model.  The agreement is at the expected level given the corrections include in the GDS filters.

Apparently the PEM EY wind sensor EPICS IOC is malfunctioning causing the H1:PEM-EY_WIND_ROOF_WEATHER_MPH channel to be dead.  This channel is checked in one of the DIAG_MAIN PEM tests, so the dead channel was causing DIAG_MAIN to go into a connection error state, thereby not executing any of the diagnostic tests.

I temporarily bypassed the test with the faulty channel, replacing it with a notification that the sensor channel is dead.  This change should be reverted once the channel is restored.

While I was at it, I did a little maintenance on DIAG_MAIN:

• I split up the PEM_CHANGE test (which included the broken test above) into separate PEM_WIND and PEM_EARTHQUAKE tests, just because they're logically distinct.
• I removed the avg_no_print module and any references to it, and replaced them with cdsutils.avg.  avg_no_print was a copy of the cdsutils.avg module with print statements removed.  Those print statements were removed from cdsutils.avg a while back, so this module is redundant.
• Fixed some ezca.LIGOFilter calls that were requiring an unnecessary import of LIGOFilter from the ezca module.

Keita Daniel

We were able to engage the new ISS with the most recent modifications, see alog 29570. The offset adjustment is very finicky. Trying to run with high ISS gain at low input power requires offset adjustments below the 0.1 count level as function of the gain value. We decided to leave the ISS gain fixed at 5 dB and set the offset through the 3rd loop filter module to 25.5 (or near there). This yields a unity gain frequency around 200 Hz. Ramping the power up to 50 W will then move the ugf up to about 4 kHz.

The first plot shows the transfer functions at 2.1 W (red), 50 W (blue) and 50 W with the boost engaged (green). The ISS gain was 5 dB for all measurements.

The second plot shows the PSD calibrated in RIN/√Hz. The red trace shows the error point which has not been corrected for the AC coupling, whereas the magenta trace shows the sixth PD (hooked up to channel 2). Both traces were taken at 50 W without boost. The black trace shows the error point at 2 W. The amber and dark blue traces show the RIN without the outer loop engaged. The dark blue trace is limited by ADC noise above 2 kHz. The ISS gain was again fixed at 5 dB.

The CO2 heating power was calculated based on Aidan's CO2 power vs. PSL power plot (alog25932). With the new thermal lensing measurement (alog28799) I fine-tuned the equation.

CO2 power = slope * PSL power + offset

ITMX slope was -0.01, now -0.012

ITMY slope was -0.01, now -0.014

ITMX offset was 0.5, now  0.6

ITMY offset was 0.3, now 0.4

The GDS calibration filters were updated for ER9 on July 7, 2016. These filters are designed to correct the output of the front-end CALCS calibration model.

These filters were generated using the script run_td_filters.m located in the calibration SVN under aligocalibration/trunk/Runs/PreER9/H1/Scripts/TDfilters with SVN version #3176.  Information on the exact parameters files used to generate these filters and the version of DARMModel used for these filters can be found in the run file run_td_filters.m.

In addition to the residual and control chain correction filters, the updated filters also include dewhitening filters that are unity since the pipeline is now run by ingesting double precision channels that are no longer whitened.  The next generation of the GDS calibration code will not require dewhitening filters to be present in the filters file.

The new filters file can be found in calibration SVN under aligocalibration/trunk/Runs/ER9/GDSFilters/H1GDS_1151960706.npz.

Attached are plots of the residual and control correction filters.  These plots compare the frequency response of the GDS FIR filters to the true frequency domain model they are based on.