TITLE: 1/14 Day Shift: 16:00-00:00UTC (08:00-16:00 PDT), all times posted in UTC"

STATE Of H1: Calibration on going

SHIFT SUMMARY: Calibration work for the majority of the day. Lockloss at 23:15 tripped the OMC WatchDog. It would not untrip so Dave had to restart the IOP, but this also tripped HAM5/6. Now SRM will not UNtrip. Dave and Jeff B are currently working to figure it out.

INCOMING OPERATOR: Jeff B

ACTIVITY LOG:

• 17:10 Out of Observing, Robert to LVEA to start inj
• 17:11 Bubba, Chris to mech room to fork lift
• 17:40 Bubba, Chris done
• 18:35 Cheryl driving to clean and bake
• 19:10 ISI ETMX X blend change from 45 to 90
• 23:15 Lockloss
• 23:35 HFD at gate, needs to check a box at EndX
• 23:54 Restart H1OMC
• 23:58 Restart H1SUSOMC
• 00:02 RestartIOPSUSH56
• 00:25 Charge measurements complete (I did not do anything with the data, I just ran the scripts)

OMC WD would not UNtrip, Dave had to restart IOPSUSH56 to clear this. By restarting these, HAM5,6 also tripped.

We are currently untripping everything.

The SSD RAID for h1tw0 has failed, so h1tw0 is down until we can get it fixed.

FRS 4228

I reduced one heater, HC1B, from 10ma to 9ma control current at 1:47 local time.

I have revamped my initial alignment lazy script and made a new medm to help operators and commissioners bring up what they need a bit faster.

The Script:

Location: /userapps/.../isc/h1/scripts/Init_align_lazy.py

Action: This will bring up 5 StripTools(XARM_GREEN_WFS.stp, YARM_GREEN_WFS.stp, PITCH_ASC_INITIAL_ALIGNMENT.stp, YAW_ASC_INITIAL_ALIGNMENT.stp, initall_alignment.stp) as well as the new medm I made (INIT_ALIGN.adl). The script will arrange them on the left monitor in a 3x2 grid. They can then be moved if so desired. If any of these windows are open in another workspace, the window manager will get confused and move the other one, so keep that in mind of they aren't in their proper positions.

I have aliased this in for "ops" as 'initial_alignment'

The medm:

Location: /userapps/.../isc/h1/medm/INIT_ALIGN.adl

Combines the ALIGN_IFO, X and Y ALS Guardians with the alignment sliders for ETMX, ETMY, ITMX, ITMY, BS, and PR3. These are the most commonly adjusted optics for IA.

I have not linked this medm off of the sitemap yet, but if/when I do it will most likely be under OPS.

Comments adn questions are always welcome.

Jenne noticed the control room symptoms of the ETMX ISI starting to ring up (H1:IMC-F_OUT16 on our Tidal.stp will be gin to oscillate [shot attached] along with the ASC control signals). I brought up the template to watch it and sure enough, ISI ETMX X was ringing up. I switched the X direction blend to the 90mHz and it imediately settled down.

I'm attaching screen shots of the environment control room tools to hopefully help.

TITLE: 1/14 Day Shift 16:00-00:00UTC (08:00-16:00 PDT), all times posted in UTC"

STATE Of H1: Observing at 78Mpc for 2hrs

OUTGOING OPERATOR: Travis

QUICK SUMMARY: wind <10mph, useism 0.4um/s, CWinj running, More calibration measurements today to come.

Title: 1/14 Owl Shift 8:00-16:00 UTC (0:00-8:00 PST).  All times in UTC.

State of H1: Observing

Shift Summary:  Unlocked at the beginning of my shift.  After an IA, it locked up pretty quickly.  Then there was an lockloss due to EQ.  After EQ ringdown, we stumbled through the CARM section a few times before getting back to NLN.

Incoming operator: TJ

Activity log:

9:27 Locked at NLN

9:30 cleared ETMx TIM error

9:32 Observing

10:06 Set to Commissioning to tweak TMS in an attempt to get POP power higher (it wasn't drifting down, just not as high as usual,15800).  Unsuccessful.

10:13 Observing

11:42 Lockloss.  EQ?

13:50 Locked NLN, attempting to tweak POP power again

14:08 Another unsuccessful POP attempt.  I did however manage to ring up the ASC loops like crazy!  Waiting for them to ring down.

14:21 Observing

Finally back to Observing after a few failed attempts.

According to our seismometers, it appears to be an EQ.  The only thing showing on Terramon or USGS at the moment is a 5.1 near Wallis and Futuna with Terramon prediciting 0.17 um/s R-Wave.  However, our seismos are already at ~1 um/s a few minutes before the predicted arrival time for this EQ.

After running through an initial alignment, we are back to Observing.  The issue with PRM align mentioned in Jeff's summary seems to have been due to PRM alignment being far off (hundreds of urads).  I restored them to earlier values and it locked without issue. 

Activity Log: All Times in UTC (PT)

00:00 (16:00) Take over from TJ
00:19 (16:19) Kyle – Going to Mid-Y to overfill CP3
00:22 (16:22) Robert & Vinny – Going to End-X
00:54 (16:54) Kyle – Back from Mid-Y
01:50 (17:50) Robert & Vinny – Back from End-X
02:39 (18:39) Robert – Swept LVEA
03:11 (19:11) Lockloss – Commissioning activities
03:25 (19:25) Mag 6.7 EQ near Japan – R-Wave 12.9um/s estimated arrival at 04:00 (20:00)
03:25 (19:25) Mag 6.0 EQ near Bolivia  
03:57 (19:57) Reset WD trips on BS ST1, ST2, and SUS
04:00 (20:00) Put IFO into DOWN until the ground settles down
08:00 (00:00) Turn over to Travis


End of Shift Summary:

Title:  01/13/2015, Evening Shift 00:00 – 08:00 (16:00 – 00:00) All times in UTC (PT)

Support: Jenne, Evan H.,   
 
Incoming Operator: Travis

Shift Detail Summary:  Hardware injections scheduled to start at 08:10 (00:10). 

   While doing an initial alignment after a commissioning lock, were hit with two earthquakes at same time (6.7 near Japan, 6.0 near Bolivia). Seismic has rung up to 5um/s. Reset WD trips on BS. Put the IFO in DOWN until the earth calms a bit.  

   Seismic calmed down enough to try initial alignment and locking. The initial alignment took longer than normal, but was mostly OK. Tried a couple of times but could not get PRM_ALIGN to move past REFL_WFS_CENTERING_PRX. I skipped this step. Trying to relock. 

   Evening Mid-Shift Summary
   
   While doing an initial alignment after a commissioning lock; hit with two earthquakes at same time (6.7 near Japan, 6.0 near Bolivia). Seismic has rung up to 5um/s. Reset WD trips on BS. Put the IFO in DOWN until the earth calms a bit. 

    

   Robert did a sweep of the LVEA. 

1615 - 1650 hrs. local -> To and from Y-mid 

Next CP3 manual over fill scheduled for Friday, Jan. 15th before 4:00 pm

     Transition Summary:
Title:  01/13/2016, Evening Shift 00:00 – 08:00 (16:00 – 00:00) All times in UTC (PT)
	
State of H1: IFO locked in Commissioning mode for calibration work.  

Outgoing Operator: TJ

TITLE: "1/13 Day shift: 16:00-00:00UTC (08:00-16:00 PDT), all times posted in UTC"

STATE Of H1: Nominal Lo Noise, Calibration ongoing

SHIFT SUMMARY: Locked for entire shift while Robert and commissioners did their calibration measurements.

INCOMING OPERATOR: Jeff B

ACTIVITY LOG:

• 16:54 Carpet truck at gate and driving fast on site
• 17:12 Robert to LVEA to start inj
• 17:41 Bubba, Chris to mech room to fork lift
• 17:58 Nutsinee to LVEA to join Robert
• 18:02 Nutsinee back
• 18:19 Bubba, Chris done in mech room, but rolling up door
• 18:22 Robert out
• 22:30 Betsy to clean and bake by automobile
• 22:45 Robert taking lunch, Evan H starting measurement

I have scheduled 2 runs of 5 burst injections. The first run will begin at 12:10am PT (8:10 UTC), and end at 1:30am PT (9:30 UTC), the 5 injections are spaced 20m apart. The second run will begin at 4:30am CT (12:30 UTC), and end at 5:50am CT (13:50 UTC). Here is the updated schedule:

1136794217 2 1.0 burst_GPS_76.259_
1136795417 2 1.0 burst_GPS_76.262_
1136796617 2 1.0 burst_GPS_76.263_
1136797817 2 1.0 burst_GPS_76.264_
1136799017 2 1.0 burst_GPS_76.266_
1136809817 2 1.0 burst_GPS_76.259_
1136811017 2 1.0 burst_GPS_76.262_
1136812217 2 1.0 burst_GPS_76.263_
1136813417 2 1.0 burst_GPS_76.264_
1136814617 2 1.0 burst_GPS_76.266_

O1 days 115-117. End of O1.

No restarts reported on all 3 days. No maintenance on Tue 12th.

While investigating an issue with x1seibsctim04 Jim Batch and I noticed that the power supply on the x1seiex IO chassis was dead.  We replaced the power supply with a spare unit from the self.  The new power supply appears to be getting 5v (some leds where lit), but it would not turn on (the fans would start to spin up and then stop).

Further investigation is needed.  For now x1seiex has been disconnected from the dolphin network and turned off.