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H1 SEI
hugh.radkins@LIGO.ORG - posted 09:41, Friday 30 October 2015 (22977)
ITMY Coil Driver Tripped ISI Yesterday

In 22947, I said "...the coil driver sent a bad status..."  This is too broad and points fingers at the Coil Driver.  While the zero bit may have originated at the coil driver, as we believe that occurrance will latch the state it is very possible the bit dropping to zero may have originated down stream.  There is the binary interface chassis bundling all the 9pin channels into db37s and then the Bin I/O card in the I/O chassis.  Trouble shooting these doesn't appear easy, especially in O1 time.

It makes sense that we tailor the model side to not trip the ISI when these less than a second changes occur.  Otherwise we should just wait to see if it is a problem.  Looking back a month, the first time it occurred was during the power outage but that was legit.  Otherwise, it occurred Tuesday but Richard says that might have been him exploring, experimenting or some other exing.  And then yesterday.  So other than the model change which we'll discuss that what should be a simple code adjustment, we'll leave it til it breaks for now.

H1 General
nutsinee.kijbunchoo@LIGO.ORG - posted 08:27, Friday 30 October 2015 - last comment - 08:29, Friday 30 October 2015(22974)
Day Ops Transition

TITLE: "10/30 [DAY Shift]: 15:00-23:00UTC (08:00-16:00 PDT), all times posted in UTC"

STATE Of H1: Lock Acquisition

OUTGOING OPERATOR: TJ

QUICK SUMMARY: Wind ~30 mph. Switched to 90mHz blend. TJ reported he had trouble with DRMI when so he had to switched it back to 45 mHz. Just had a lockloss at DRMI so I'm gonna try switching the blend back to 45 before doing DRMI. Things don't look very hopeful.

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nutsinee.kijbunchoo@LIGO.ORG - 08:29, Friday 30 October 2015 (22975)

Lockloss at FIND IR when trying to swtich blend mid way. Now I know it can't be done....

LHO General
thomas.shaffer@LIGO.ORG - posted 08:03, Friday 30 October 2015 (22973)
Ops Owl Shift Summery
H1 ISC (Lockloss)
thomas.shaffer@LIGO.ORG - posted 07:16, Friday 30 October 2015 (22972)
PRMI to DRMI transition failure

Here is some info that Sheila wanted.

13:50 started to try PRMI

13:52 PRMI locked

13:56 Transition start and fail

(A few trends attached one just zoomed in more than the other)

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LHO General
thomas.shaffer@LIGO.ORG - posted 05:44, Friday 30 October 2015 (22971)
Lockloss

Lockloss at 12:42 UTC, seemed to be a few large gusts right before the we lost it. EX trace hit 50mph.

LHO General
thomas.shaffer@LIGO.ORG - posted 03:23, Friday 30 October 2015 (22970)
Ops Owl Report

Winds have picked up to into the high 20's with some gusts hitting 40mph. Looks like the IFO is really struggling to hold on, but has so far. Let's hope the wind dies down a bit.

H1 PEM
jordan.palamos@LIGO.ORG - posted 00:09, Friday 30 October 2015 (22968)
RF Sweep - PEM Injection Report

Jordan Palamos, Robert Schofield

 

Report attached: copying background and summary below

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Background

In early September as part of the PEM injection set we injected RF at specific frequencies where coupling to the interferometer was thought possible. The injections were done using dipole antennas and RF amplifier located by the water tank on site. For those injections the 9 MHz and 45 MHz injections were picked up by the PEM radio channels in the corner station electronics bay ~1000x louder than the background. Of the 10 frequencies chosen only the 45MHz injection showed up in the gravitational wave channel, barely visible over the noise. Those results have shown that RF coupling to the interferometer is small at these frequencies where coupling might have been expected and additionally for the coupling at 45Mhz any RF signal would have to show up very strongly in our auxiliary channels before it shows up in the gravitational wave channel. In order to check for strong and unexpected couplings outside of these frequencies we injected a swept sine spanning a wide range of frequencies.

 

Summary

We injected an rf sweep from 9 kHz to 100 MHz to check for coupling from environmental rf to the interferometer. We found no evidence for strong coupling at any frequency within the band. An initial upper limit for coupling is that a signal will need to show up with an SNR of 100 on the RF scanner to have an SNR of 1 in DARM, but further investigations may be able to lower that.

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LHO General
thomas.shaffer@LIGO.ORG - posted 00:04, Friday 30 October 2015 (22969)
Ops Owl Shift Transition
LHO General
patrick.thomas@LIGO.ORG - posted 00:00, Friday 30 October 2015 (22967)
Ops Eve End Shift Summary
TITLE: 10/29 [EVE Shift]: 23:00-07:00 UTC (16:00-00:00 PDT), all times posted in UTC
STATE Of H1: Observing @ ~77 MPc.
SHIFT SUMMARY: Remained in observing remainder of shift. Winds and seismic are mostly unchanged.
INCOMING OPERATOR: TJ

Quiet shift, not much to report.

Five SUS ETMY saturations since start of observing.

Intention Bit: Undisturbed (Oct 29 23:20:02 UTC)
Current time: Oct 30 00:00:00 UTC
SUS E_T_M_Y saturating (Oct 30 00:37:48 UTC)
SUS E_T_M_Y saturating (Oct 30 00:39:18 UTC)
Current time: Oct 30 01:00:00 UTC
Current time: Oct 30 02:00:00 UTC
Current time: Oct 30 03:00:00 UTC
SUS E_T_M_Y saturating (Oct 30 03:27:37 UTC)
SUS E_T_M_Y saturating (Oct 30 03:36:40 UTC)
Current time: Oct 30 04:00:00 UTC
SUS E_T_M_Y saturating (Oct 30 04:25:33 UTC)
LHO General
patrick.thomas@LIGO.ORG - posted 20:02, Thursday 29 October 2015 (22966)
Ops Eve Mid Shift Summary
Have remained in observing. No changes to report.
H1 CDS (DAQ)
david.barker@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:33, Thursday 29 October 2015 (22963)
CDS model and DAQ restart report, Wednesday 28th October 2015

O1 Day 41

model restarts logged for Wed 28/Oct/2015
2015_10_28 13:36 h1sysecaty1plc3sdf

restart of Beckhoff SDF node as part of testing (done when H1 out of observation mode)

LHO General
patrick.thomas@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:28, Thursday 29 October 2015 - last comment - 19:14, Thursday 29 October 2015(22962)
Ops Eve Beginning Shift Summary
TITLE: 10/29 [EVE Shift]: 23:00-07:00 UTC (16:00-00:00 PDT), all times posted in UTC
STATE Of H1: Observing @ ~79 MPc
OUTGOING OPERATOR: Nutsinee
QUICK SUMMARY:
Lights appear off in the LVEA, PSL enclosure, end X, end Y and mid X. I can not tell from the camera if they are off at mid Y.
Winds are less than 15 mph.
ISI blends are at 45 mHz.
Earthquake seismic band is between 0.01 and 0.1 um/s. Microseism is between 0.1 and 0.3 um/s.

Just reached NLN and went to Observing.
The ISS second loop engaged on its own just after I got setup to engage it manually.
Attached are the SDF differences I reverted (ASC DHARD loop gains and EMTY violin damping filter gains).
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patrick.thomas@LIGO.ORG - 19:14, Thursday 29 October 2015 (22965)
Forgot to run a2l.
H1 General (OpsInfo)
nutsinee.kijbunchoo@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:17, Thursday 29 October 2015 (22961)
Ops Day Shift Summary

TITLE: "10/29 [DAY Shift]: 15:00-23:00UTC (08:00-16:00 PDT), all times posted in UTC"

STATE Of H1: Lock Acquisition

SUPPORT: Evan

SHIFT SUMMARY: The ifo was locked for the most part. Few ETMY saturation alerts that seems to associate with DHARD Y amplitude increase during high wind. Kyle done with HAM3 ion pump work. Now relocking. Wind ~10mph. useism ~0.2um/s. Jeff also have asked operator to change the blend from 45 mHz to 90 mHz next time the ifo lose lock.

INCOMING OPERATOR: Patrick

ACTIVITY LOG:

15:24 Joe driving down the x arm to work on the beam tube

17:08 Joe was back, and going out again.

18:46 Joe back

20:08 Kyle to HAM3

          Joe to X arm again

20:18 Kyle out. He said he did climb on HAM3. The ifo didn't lose lock.

          Evan driving ETMY to find 3rd harmonics violin modes

21:00 Evan done. Back to Observing.

22:14 Joe back for the day, but Chris is still out there.

          Kyle to LVEA. Switched to Commissioning.

22:38 Kyle out.

           Evan wanted to do more measurement.

22:39 Lockloss.

23:00 The ifo is half way to NLN. Handing off to Patrick.

LHO VE
kyle.ryan@LIGO.ORG - posted 15:43, Thursday 29 October 2015 (22960)
~1515 - 1535 hrs. local -> Isolated and removed pump cart from HAM3 annulus
I had energized the ion pump before lunch (time?) such that the ion pump had been pumping in parallel with the pump cart for a few hours -> New ion pump is OK.  
H1 SUS (SUS)
borja.sorazu@LIGO.ORG - posted 15:41, Thursday 29 October 2015 - last comment - 17:15, Thursday 29 October 2015(22959)
Violin mode injections at the 3rd harmonics

(Evan Hall, Borja Sorazu)

This is  a preliminary entry on the identification of 3rd violin mode harmonics with test masses (figures and further analysis will be entered later on). This information will be used to estimate mechanical losses.

Dates and times of injections: 2015-10-28 from 20:42:30 to 20:45:00 --> Injection on ITMX

                                                     2015-10-29 from 20:20:00 to 20:32:00 --> Injection on ITMY

                                                     2015-10-29 from 20:37:30 to 20:45:00 --> Injection on ETMX

                                                     2015-10-29 from 20:53:00 to 21:00:00 --> Injection on ETMY

 

Injection description: Fed back, in phase, DARM to penultimate mass coil drivers in pitch after bandpassing it between 1450 to 1500Hz.

Frequency modes identification (preliminary):

ITMX:

     1463.09Hz, increased by factor 4

     1467.96Hz, increased by factor 4

     1462.31Hz, decreased by factor 1.3

ITMY:

     1461.41Hz, increased by factor 4.6

     1462.03Hz, decreased by factor 4

    1463.09Hz, increased slightly

    1470.38Hz, decreased slightly

    1470. 83Hz, increased by factor 2

    1472.5Hz, decreased by factor 9

ETMX:

     1463.09Hz, decreased slightly by factor 1.077

     1471.93Hz, increased by factor 6.6

    1474.08Hz, increased by factor 4

    1475.25Hz, increased by factor 9

    1478. 17Hz, increased by factor 4

ETMY:

     1482.6Hz, increased by factor 1.75

     1484.67Hz, increased by factor of PI

 

Future measurement: We will do a similar injection with DARM fedback 90 degrees out of phase.

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evan.hall@LIGO.ORG - 17:15, Thursday 29 October 2015 (22964)

The filters we used do do the feedback are scattered somewhat randomly, based on what SFMs were not in use for damping:

  • ITMX: mode 5, FM6
  • ITMY: mode 8, FM10
  • ETMX: mode 5, FM7
  • ETMY: mode 6, FM7

As Borja said, each of these FMs is a bandpass from 1450 Hz to 1500 Hz. They have 120 dB of gain, and we use an additional 100 dB in another filter module.

H1 SEI
hugh.radkins@LIGO.ORG - posted 09:30, Thursday 29 October 2015 - last comment - 15:19, Thursday 29 October 2015(22947)
LockLoss from ITMY Stage2 Coil Driver Chassis Bio Trip

This trip appears to have occured twice with the lock dropping on the first one.  The second was about 20 minutes later.  The watchdog registers tconvert 1130165885 Oct 29 2015 14:57:48 UTC.  The guardian first detected a problem at:

2015-10-29T14:38:52.53819 ISI_ITMY_ST2 [HIGH_ISOLATED.enter]
2015-10-29T14:57:49.03752 ISI_ITMY_ST2 [HIGH_ISOLATED.run] USERMSG: SETPOINT CHANGES. see SPM DIFFS for differences
 

After the WD detected a problem so it doesn't look like the guardian should be suspected.

Looking through the Coil Driver BIO channels, the Stage2 V3 CD status is the only element that registers a change.   The first attached 1 hour plot shows the BIO signals, the lock loss, and the stage3 coil driver outputs.  I don't see the V3 response any different than the V1 or V2 so nothing clear there.  The shift to zero is expected as the DC position is reset to zero offset at each Isolation.  The second 10 day plot shows this drive reset to zero each time and then slowly drift away from zero during the Isolated period.

Next I'll look through the model for meaning and why.

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hugh.radkins@LIGO.ORG - 09:49, Thursday 29 October 2015 (22949)

Here are Stage2 Coil Driver Voltage and Current spectra from 3 & 1/2 hours and 10 minutes ago.  Reference traces are before the trip.  Again, no obvious problem revealed in the current traces.

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hugh.radkins@LIGO.ORG - 15:19, Thursday 29 October 2015 (22958)

Looks to me like the coil driver sent a bad status which tripped the watchdog.  Hopefully others can weigh in on this too.

First is the V3 BIO Status (what tripped the WD) and the OUTF Output fro V3.  Little hard to tell who/what happened first.  The X axis is zoomed in, the status is bad for less than 1 second.  As we understand it, this requires a button reset to unlatch.  No one was in the CER at the time.

On the second plot here is a zoom into full data.  There are the Coil Driver Monitor channels and the WD state.  I've scaled the Current and the WD amplitude to better compare times.  I've also zoomed into the X axis--this is less than 1 second of data.  It sure looks like the Watchdog state change leads Coil Driver Changes.  Hope to get some more info from Caltech EE.

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H1 PSL (ISC, SEI)
hugh.radkins@LIGO.ORG - posted 11:12, Tuesday 27 October 2015 - last comment - 10:26, Friday 30 October 2015(22881)
Tidal Trip 25 Sept--Looks like Temps in PSL

Kiwamu reported in 22781 about a couple lock losses due to the drive to HEPI hitting the 250um limit.  HEPI can handle more than this but should not need to if the PSL (likely Ref Cav) temperature does not trend off somewhere.

Attached are several PSL Temp channels for 14 days with the limit hit time noted on the run away Tidal Channel.  Certainly many of the PSL Temp channels show a trend that correlates pretty well with the run away.  In iLIGO we had tight temp control of the Ref Cav, do we have a temp of the Ref Cav now or is there another signal that would best represent that?

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hugh.radkins@LIGO.ORG - 11:17, Tuesday 27 October 2015 (22883)

The Oct 11 near miss shows some trend as well but things are very suttle in this regard.  We would be well served to tighten the ref cav temp.

jason.oberling@LIGO.ORG - 10:26, Friday 30 October 2015 (22976)PSL

The signal for the RefCav temp is H1:PSL-FSS_DINCO_REFCAV_TEMP.  Unfortunately this channel is not calibrated to degrees, it just reads out in counts.  I've attached a trend over the same time scale as Hugh's above (14 days) of the ETMx HEPI tidal channel and PSL laser room temperatures, and also including the RefCav temp. 

At ~13:45 on 9/23 (~48 hours before ETMx HEPI hits its tidal limit) the RefCav temp seems to respond to a temperature rise in the PSL laser room; the temp in the laser room rose ~0.5 °F over the course of ~12 hours, leveling out at ~01:30 on 9/24.  The RefCav shows a quick rise over the first ~45 minutes and then a slow rise and leveling off over the remaining 11 hours, also leveling out at ~01:30 on 9/24.  And although the laser room temp continues to slowly increase over the next several days the RefCav temp remains steady.

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