PSL is down today. Laser Status: SysStat: “Frontend lid open” and warning “Service mode” are red Output power is 0 W (should be around 30 W) FRONTEND WATCH is Red HPO WATCH is red PMC: It has been locked 0 days, hr 0 minutes (should be days/weeks)0 Reflected power is 0 Watts and PowerSum = 0 Watts. (Reflected Power should be <= 10% of PowerSum) FSS: It has been locked for 0 d 0 h and 0 min (should be days/weeks) Threshold on transmitted photo-detector PD = 0 V (should be 0.9V) ISS: The diffracted power is around 0.6 % (should be 5-15%)
The core swtich is low on memory, looks like it started on May 1 (this year). In theory we're not doing anything to require a large amount of memory, that probably means the possibility of a memory leak though so far it's not clear what process is responsible. I'll be able to do more to confirm this tomorrow when I can reboot it as part of other planned maintenance.
As part of the roll out of the new epics alarm cell phone alert system I have powered down the old service machine (sugarloaf).
no restarts reported.
Fred, Aaron, Gerardo, Jeff B, Bubba, Travis, Hugh, Mike, Thomas, Corey, Peter, Rick, Jodi, Jason, Patrick, Dale, Justin, Thomas, Arnaud, etc. • More preparations for ITMy deinstallation – Travis • Clean room work in LVEA - Apollo • Monolithic lower structure assembly ready to be hoisted onto the arm and reinstall it in-chamber (Not today) – Betsy/Travis • More ISI work on HAM6 – Hugh • Contamination and Control activity in LVEA – Jeff B. • AA-AI Chassis modifications in Electronics room – Filiberto/Aaron • Pulling RGA gate valve by HAM3 (East door) - Kyle • Staging building activities ongoing – Mitchell/Scott
I rebuilt the sysadmin login machine cdslogin with U12.04LTS and installed a minimal python/epics to run my epics_alarm_texter.py code (sends EPICS alerts to cell phones). Previously I was running this code for testing from sysadmin0. The plan is to test on cdslogin over the weekend, and then retire the old code which is running on sugarloaf (which permits removal of the computer rack from the Computer Users Room).
No restarts reported.
For the past few months we have been suffering from an unwanted stage 1 Z to stage 1 rZ coupling (the attached plot Z to Z Subtraction shows an example). It seems to have two component which show up in the T240 rZ signal.
There is a 1/f^2 component (in Force to displacement units, the plot is in force to velocity) and a flat component (again in Force to displacement)
The 1/f^2 part does not seem to represent center of mass motion of the platform, as shown by the optical levers (the black line in the Z to OpLev Yaw plot), it is not clear
for the flat component yet.
Speculation for the 1/f^2 has centered on magnetic coupling or local deformation of stage 1, current measurements and FEA on these two effects are off by about the same amount.
Since we believe that the signal is not CoM motion we are going to subtract it from the T240 rZ signal. The plot Z to Z Subtraction shows the predicted amount of subtraction based on the fitted filter.
where the red line is (TF - FIlter)/TF so we are hoping to get a factor of~ 50 subtraction.
The plot Z to OpLev Yaw shows some results.
The BLUE lines shows the transfer function from ISI stage 1 Z drive to the optical lever (solid line is yaw, dotted it pitch) while the ISI is in high blend with no T240 in the control path. So we expect to see
any mechanical coupling.
The PURPLE lines shows the same transfer function with the stage 1 of the ISI in low blend (~40mHz) and the T240s in the loop. Whatever extra pickup exists in the rZ T240 signal will be imposed onto the motion of the ISI
and show up in the optical lever signal (pitch as well as yaw because the suspension is not at the center of the ISI table and there is a translation to pitch coupling).
The Black lines are the same transfer functions with the subtraction path enabled (i'm not even going to try and explain how we got 3 orders of magnitude of suppression)
One disclaimer I calculated a filter gain of 3 and ended up using a gain of 3.24
This is the subtraction results from ETMY
Also I've changed the basis matrices back to what they are supposed to be a defined in T1000388, I used the script Populate_ETMY (X)_Matricxs.m which is in the MISC folder under Scripts
It is just a reduced version of the Populate_MEDM_Screens function
The OPLEV Yaw signal shows the expect factof of ~50 improvement
Some Performance Data on ETMX and EtMY (both are running level 3 controllers with TBetter Blends)
the only new thing here is that the optical lever signals are mostly in the noise. Since we are looking at in loop sensors the injected noise would have been suppressed, so what is new is that
the r suppression is (most likely) real
the xml files are /ligo/svncommon/SeiSVN/seismic/BSC-ISI/H1/ETMX/Data/ETMX_Performance_060914.xml
and /ligo/svncommon/SeiSVN/seismic/BSC-ISI/H1/ETMY/Data/ETMY_Performance_060814.xml
Sheila has for less gain peaking at the microsiesim in rX and rY and at 60mHz in rZ so i'll make a new set of blends
Per bugzilla integration issue 463, looked at AA/AI chassis to verify units have the proper insulating film used to isolate the -15V regulators to the chassis metal wall. All SUS AA/AI chassis in the CER have been modified or verified to have the appropriate insulating film. S1100318 S1105214 S1105311 S1105301 S1105305 S1200297 S1200299 S1200300 S1200301 S1200281 S1200298 S1202115 S1202091 S1202111 S1202112 S1202113 S1202114 S1202110 S1100323 S1100334 S1100322 S1105310 S1105304 S1105302 S1105303 S1100324 S1104376 S1100319 S1107602 S1105298 S1105307 S1104366 S1103817 S1104353 S1202535 S1202538 S1202534 S1202607 S1202608 S1202606 S1202613 S1103953 S1103952 S1105308 S1105309 S1105297 S1202537 S1202536 S1202533 S1202539 S1202540 All SEI AA/AI chassis in the CER have been modified or verified to have appropriate insulating film. S1203356 S1203357 S1203131 S1203329 S1203133 S1203036 S1202072 S1202073 S1202069 S1202074 S1202075 S1202068 S1202070 S1202071 S1203361 S1203359 S1203134 S1203358 S1203360 S1203135 S1203330 S1203331 S1203108 S1203098 S1203099 S1203144 S1203033 S1203268 S1203103 S1203104 S1203105 S1203332 S1203136 S0900066 S1300137 S1300133 S1300134 S1300141 S1300143 S1300610 Both SUS and SEI electronics have been reconnected and powered up. All units were placed back in appropriate rack and slot location. Will need to coordinate with Keita when we can do the ISC AA/AI electronics in the CER and LVEA racks without interfering with HAM6 work. All AA/AI electronics in both end stations still need to be verified sometime next week.
Per L1200193 connected grounding plugs to all SUS coil drivers in the CER. The plug is attached to the DB9 connector labeled Test Input.
All tip-tilts (OM1, OM2 and OM3) are free, BOSEMs centered, and the eddy current damper anywhere from 0.8 to 1.5mm. Some of the tiny tiny set screws to fix the back eddy current dampers are completely loose, so they were tightened.
M4 (the mirror behind OM1) needed to be pushed about 2" toward east from nominal position specified in https://dcc.ligo.org/D1000342, it was physically impossible to go very close to tip tilt because the cable connector sticks out to the back. Not a big deal.
M8 (a small mirror by OM3 to receive OMC REFL light) was flipped, as the AR coating and the peek ring were facing the OMC.
I found that LLO did the OMC REFL beam diverters (BDV2) better than what was reported yesterday by me, i.e. their peek washers are behind the black glass, though the aluminum will cut the beam first when the thing engages. I decided that their way is better than pontentially burning PEEK and making a nice PEEK coating on OMC, and copied their configuration.
Total of four V beam dumps were installed, one behind OM2, one by the OMCS, one on the QPD sled to receive reflection of BDV2 and one near OM1 to receive reflection of BDV1. The latter 2 are not on the drawing and I simply copied the way it was done at LLO.
All BOSEMs including the tip tilts and OMCS were centered, and they're working fine.
All segments of all QPDs (OMC REFL sled, AS_C QPD, and OMC QPDs) and WFS DC responded to flash light.
Both of the OMC DC PDs responded to flash light.
Cables are tied down to the ISI surface using peek cable clamps.
The only thing remaining is the electronics testing of picomotors, OMC PZD, and beam diverters.
I took some pictures (but I'll let Corey take a better ones later).
Still have 16 10Kg masses to load onto the table both + & - X area.
3IFO #3 is being tested now. #4 Optical Table is assembled and will go onto Stage0 Monday. Mitchell Scott & Jim
[Mark B Jeff B Arnaud P]
Yesterday we did some software debugging in the staging building in order to run transfer functions on the assembled quad 08.
When driving the top mass, we usually monitor the lower stages osems, in both osem and euler basis. For some reason the model running for the quad doesn't record those channels (particularly the ones in the euler basis "WIT_{L/P/Y}_DQ"). We decided not to spend too much time understanding what the model situation was, and instead simply not monitor the lower stages channels during the top mass TFs.
The undamped transfer function measurements for the main and the reaction chain are attached.
[Mark Jeff Arnaud]
QUAD08 should be compared to the model called "wireloop" (=wires from UIM to PUM looping around PUM) instead of the "wire" one (=cable segments between UIM and PUM). The first attachment from the alog above was modified since I was using the wrong model for comparison. With the wireloop model there is still a small discrepancy in the second pitch mode (modeled at 1.33Hz and measured at 1.45Hz). By playing with the d values (defined p7 of T080188) I came up with a good match, cf attachment.
Here are the modified d values for reference :
new_dm = old_dm + 0.7mm
new_dn = old_dn + 0.7 mm
new_d4 = old_d4 - 0.8 mm
Also, after an other round of matlab debugging (pb with channel sampling rates in the matlab scripts, path definitions etc...) we were able to get spectra of TOP and UIM osems, with the suspension undamped. Results are attached in the second pdf.
The only thing to notice is the noise content at high frequencies for the left osem of M0 (cyan curve, 1st page). This might be harmonics from the large 60Hz signal.
Jeff B Andres Arnaud
This afternoon we tested the noise seen in the left bosem of the main chain. We swapped left and right osem cables (at the osem output), and measured a spectra before and after. When plugging the right channel to the left osem, the noise was still present in the spectra (cf screenshot) meaning the noise comes from the left osem itself.
Second attachment is a comparison of the transfer functions between different "wireloop" quads. The 2nd pitch mode frequency is varying from quad to quad, but the largest discrepancy is on QUAD08.
[Andres Arnaud]
Today we replaced the left osem of the main chain of QUAD08 in the staging building with an other BOSEM (stolen from one of the 3rd IFO TMS). New OLV were stored, offsets and gains were set in medm.
Results of individual osems spectra are attached. The M0 LF channel dosen't show the elevated noise seen yesterday anymore
(Travis, Betsy, Margot)
This morning, we rearranged the new ITMx (ITM03) monolithic lower structure sections and the now "old" ITMx sections and restowed them for the weekend in the storage container. We pulled the FC from the CP-front and the ITMx-AR prior to putting the main and reaction chains together. As planned, this involved swapping out the UIM on the reaction chain such that it matches the UIM on the new main chain. For the record, we are reusing all OSEMs from the "old" ITMx on the new monolithic one, so testing will be straight forward.
We will be ready to hoist the reassembled monolithic lower structure assembly onto the arm and reinstall it in-chamber on Monday.
We also paused to catch a moth that we observed fly into the cleanroom mid-morning.
Meeting Minutes:
model restarts logged for Thu 05/Jun/2014
2014_06_05 12:55 h1isietmx
2014_06_05 13:26 h1isietmy
2014_06_05 14:12 h1iopsush56
2014_06_05 14:12 h1susomc
2014_06_05 14:12 h1sussr3
2014_06_05 14:12 h1sussrm
2014_06_05 14:18 h1isiitmy
2014_06_05 14:39 h1isibs
2014_06_05 14:42 h1susbs
2014_06_05 14:53 h1isibs
2014_06_05 15:00 h1isiitmx
2014_06_05 15:42 h1isiham2
2014_06_05 15:52 h1isiham3
2014_06_05 15:56 h1isiham4
2014_06_05 15:58 h1isiham5
2014_06_05 16:00 h1isiham6
2014_06_05 16:08 h1broadcast0
2014_06_05 16:08 h1dc0
2014_06_05 16:08 h1fw0
2014_06_05 16:08 h1fw1
2014_06_05 16:08 h1nds0
2014_06_05 16:08 h1nds1
2014_06_05 16:09 h1nds1
ISI model work, timing error on sush56, daq restart to support ISI.
All optics except two steering mirrors (one behind OM1 and one close to OM1) were fixed down to the nominal position. We need to move these two steering mirrors tomorrow.
Two V beam dumps are to be installed tomorrow.
OMC was freed, OMCS BOSEMs were centered.
OM1 was freed, OM1 BOSEMs were centered.
OM2 and OM3 are going to be freed and BOSEM centered tomorrow. Damping magnet gap for all Tiptilts are to be set tomorrow.
All 5 QPDs, WFS(DC) and OMCDCPD will be tested tomorrow.
Detailed alog will follow.
Details: WFS path was made different from documents (documents are wrong), small difference from LLO.
Have found that all HAM6 layout drawings are wrong about WFS position. The distance from the lens on the sled to WFSA should be 191mm and WFSB 475mm (T1000247), but layout on documents like D1000342 both of them are about 3.5 to 4 inches too short. This is not a problem for WFSA because there is a room to move it, but moving WFSB back to gain extra 3.5 to 4 inches would make WFSB base interfere with one of the balast masses on ISI.
LLO originally changed the sled layout (see alog 2888), Corey didn't know about it when he made the sled (Corey's alog 12083), but anyway we thought that this was how LLO did it, and making this change would require swapping both of the mirror mounts (from left handed to right handed) which sounded like a hassle, so we decided to move the steering mirror M102 for WFSB as well as WFSB itself about 3inches downstream to the west. Later I found that LLO installation look more like D1000342 (see the picture of alog 8224), it's hard to see how it was exactly done but I'm asking Chris and Valera.
Some measurements:
There's some uncertainty in where exactly the diode face sits, and the accuracy of the above is probably something like +-2mm.
Details: AS_C QPD (not sled) had a smudge and was swapped
Fresh out of the bag, there was a smudge on the AS port QPD window in D1101654 S1202409 QPD/cable assy, and it was very close to the center. We didn't have to use any special light to see that it's there, but we needed to look at it from a certain angle.
I attempted to clean it on the spot using a wipe and alcohol, but it didn't go away, maybe it's some kind of scratch or abrasion. It's probably fine for some other purposes but I didn't want to put it in the AS path.
We pulled the QPD out of the assy and dropped the spare QPD in.
For future rerefence:
Bad IR QPD: #8. This is stored in a bag, not in the spare QPD cage.
Replacement IR QPD: #18
We have now only one spare IR QPD in the spare QPD cage, which is #15.
But we still have one spare IR QPD cable assy pre-assembled with two QPDs.
Other details:
Confirmed that serial # of OM1 TT stage is 002, OM2 004, OM3 033, as per Rich's alog 8612.
I didn't like the way OMC REFL beam diverter (BDV1) was assembled, as the peek washers face upstream. There's some (admittedly small) possibility that they are burnt when three things happen at the same time, i.e. IFO loses lock, TT or OMC is shaken, and the fast shutter is non-existent or malfunctioning. Flipped things such that these washers are downstream of the black glass piece, but Corey found that with this new configuration the beam diverter will interfere with balast masses. So, unhappily I flipped everything back.
At LLO two dedicated beam dumps for beam diverters were installed (Chris's alog 7573), we need to copy it.
IN-VACUUM DCQPD LOCATION MAP E1101174-v13 updated accordingly.