Demonstrated MTP safety valve closes and turbo spins down with the removal of AC to the scroll pump -> This mimics the functionality of a loss of "Motor Run" signal from the nominal backing pump -> Shut down QDP80 and purge air supply
model restarts logged for Tue 01/Apr/2014
2014_04_01 12:39 h1susetmy
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2014_04_01 12:42 h1broadcast0
2014_04_01 12:42 h1dc0
2014_04_01 12:42 h1fw0
2014_04_01 12:42 h1fw1
2014_04_01 12:42 h1nds0
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2014_04_01 12:51 h1susitmx
2014_04_01 12:52 h1susetmx
All restarts expected and part of Tuesday maintenance.
The attached log/log plot gives the estimate that it will take a little over three weeks for the pressure to get to 3 x 10^-7 torr which will reduce to 1 x 10^-8 torr when the chamber is open to the cryo pump.
There was a magnitude 8 earthquake in Chile, all BSC ISIs tripped.
How did the new BSC SEI guardians do in recovering everything? Where there any problems or hiccups? Did it go smoothly?
Thanks for posting the data, Sheila. We (by which I mean Hugo) will look at this a bit more. A quick look makes it seems that all three vertical drives on 3 of 4 platforms were pushed to the max within 1 second of each other. Many people (W. Hua, Rana, Dan Clark, me, Peter F, et. al.) have suggested that using that using the sensor correction to only isolate against differential motion, rather than trying to get rid of the absolute motion as the whole site heaves up-and-down would be a smart thing to do. I think this will be a good example to look at. -Brian
TIme series were collected on both BS (ground STS, high gain) and ETMX (ground T240, low gain) at LHO.
They can be found on the svn at:
ligo/svncommon/SeiSVN/seismic/Common/Data/2014_04_01__Chile_Earthquake_Data/
For reference, LHO ground sensor time series were also colected for previous earthquake data, recorded on March 3rd of 2014. ligo/svncommon/SeiSVN/seismic/Common/Data/2014_03_10__Earthquake_Data/
Y-end pumping interrupted for ~15 mins during valve install -> Flex line from MTP to Turbo Header can now be isolated at the MTP plumbing -> Flex line from MTP to locally mounted scroll pump can now be isolated at the MTP plumbing -> Currently both QDP80 and scroll pump are running, QDP80 backing MTP and scroll running but isolated from MTP -> ~500 watt scroll pump is currently being powered via an extension cord plugged into local vacuum 120VAC receptacle -> Would like to add a dedicated 120VAC receptacle local to the MTP control panel and eliminate the "scurge" of the extension cord
Since oplev damping might be used for Y arm commssioning as it is currently for X arm, I modified the QUAD_MASTER simulink model to have oplevs feedback on all the quads.
Only FOUROSEM_STAGE_OPLEV.adl part was commited to the svn
Day Shift Summary LVEA Laser Hazard Apollo – End-Y drilling holes for Op-Lev 08:30 Jeff – LVEA beer garden checking dust levels 09:40 Thomas – in LVEA looking for parts 09:53 Andres – Working near HAM2 10:21 Water delivery 10:30 Apollo – finished at End-Y 10:30 Apollo – LVEA working on N2 plumbing near H2 Input Arm 10:39 Arron – Going to End-Y to pull op lev cables 10:45 Kyle – At End-Y running HEPI vacuum near spool 10:56 Betsy – LVEA welding area 12:36 Dave – Restart SUS-ITMY model, SUS-ETMY model, and DAQ 12:50 Dave – Restart SUS-ITMX model and SUS-ETMX model 12:55 Karen – Cleaning at End-Y 12:55 Cris – Cleaning at End-X 13:05 Dave – LVEA working on TCS 13:10 Thomas going to End-Y 13:30 Praxair Nitrogen delivery to CP-2 13:32 Ops – Recover ITMY, ETMY, ITMX, and ETMX after model restarts 13:45 Sheila – At End-X to remove viewport covers to look for green beam clipping 14:00 Kyle – Shutting down pumping at End-Y to make plumbing change 14:11 Apollo – Starting drilling at H2 Input Arm
Aidan. Eric G. Dave H. Alastair H. Greg G.
The third laser we plumbed in started leaking from the housing this morning. We contacted the manufacturer. It turns out that this is a known problem to them.
The photos show the old and new manifolds on the lasers.
SUS (Arnaud and Dave)
Cleaned up SUS QUAD models and added optlev input into L1 and L2 fourosem parts. Recompiled, installed and restarted the models h1susitmx, h1susitmy, h1susetmx, h1susetmy. We are leaving the common model QUAD_MASTER.mdl a local mod for now and not commiting to SVN.
GDS: Jim:
New version of GDS installed, please see Jim's entry for details
DAQ (Dave)
DAQ was restarted to take the SUS changes.
Conlog (Dave)
Conlog was reconfigured for the new channel list.
LDAP (Jonathan and Dave)
The CDS LDAP server was reconfigured to define user groups.
Model/DAQ restarts as of time of writing:
2014_04_01 12:39 h1susetmy
2014_04_01 12:39 h1susitmy
2014_04_01 12:42 h1broadcast0
2014_04_01 12:42 h1dc0
2014_04_01 12:42 h1fw0
2014_04_01 12:42 h1fw1
2014_04_01 12:42 h1nds0
2014_04_01 12:42 h1nds1
2014_04_01 12:51 h1susitmx
2014_04_01 12:52 h1susetmx
Here is the status of the YEND pumpdown.
Roughing started at 18:20 utc on the 29th The cold cathode(PT410B) trace begins at 3:40 utc on the 30th.
See attached PT410B data.
For reference here is the XEND data from January - https://alog.ligo-wa.caltech.edu/aLOG/index.php?callRep=9154
Data viewer allows me to offset a data set by 120 days in order to display both the X and Y pumpdowns together.
At first glance it looks like YEND (green) is slower than XEND(red) - however, not shown is the pause during roughing of XEND. Correcting for this delay lines up the two curves as shown in the second plot.
The correction on the plot is 1 day while the delay in roughing was approximately 18 hours.
Values in the system manager are flat lined. There are multiple lines of errors in the EPICS IOC of the following (screen shot attached): Error code 4: ~~~MYSTERY ERROR!!!~~~ Go Google "ADS return codes"! and Error code 1861: ~~~MYSTERY ERROR!!!~~~ Go Google "ADS return codes" Googling "ADS return codes" gives: 4 Insert mailbox error No ADS mailbox was available to process this message. Reduce the number of ADS calls (e.g ADS-Sum commands or Max Delay Parameter) 1861 timeout elapsed Check ADS routes of sender and receiver and your firewall setting
Recovered BSC1, BSC3, BSC9 and BSC10 after ITMX, ETMX, ITMY, and ETMY SUS models restart.
We measured the WFS sensing matrix yet again.
ETMX PIT | ITMX PIT | ETMX YAW | ITMX YAW | |
WFS A | -2062 | 1114 | -584 | 985 (23 degrees) |
WFS B | -1158 | 694 | 617 (good coherence) |
1061 |
The green ones are consitent acros the measureemtns we've made to within a factor of 2. ETMX PIT is the most consistent WFS B pit signal, the sign has stayed the same but the gain has changed by a factor of 3 .
We have some new settings for the Comm Handoff, so I repeated the usual measurements:
COMM PLL Servo Board
CM Servo Board
LSC-CARM Filter
LSC-REFL-SERVO-SLOW
MC2_M3_LOCK_L
MC2_M2_LOCK_L
MC2_M1_LOCK_L
MC2_M3_ISCINF
The UGF of the comm handoff is now 3kHz with 80 deg phase margin. The crossover between the fast and slow path is at 13 Hz with 19 deg phase margin.
The gds tools (awggui, diaggui, diag, etc) have been updated to 2.16.12 to provide access to the dmt servers using dmtviewer. The dmtviewer program connects to dmt servers specified by the DMTWEBSERVER environment variable. Since the dmt servers are not part of the cds system, a kerberos ticket is required to access the servers. The command "kinit username" where username is your LIGO.ORG username will give you a ticket. Don't forget to use the command "kdestroy" when you're finished to remove the kerberos ticket.
Chris, Sheila
Our measurements of the COMM noise with the WFS locked have an rms of 20Hz, measured down to 0.1 Hz. To make sure this was reasonable, we turned off the refl bias path so that the laser was locked only to the green beat note. The transmitted power fluctuations are noticably less than the HWHM of 40Hz, so this seems believable. (StripTool is the second screenshot attached).
We wanted to try locking the arm half way down the fringe so we could make a measurement of the noise using the transmitted power. Since the IR trans PD is normalized to 1 when the cavity transmission is maximized, the calibration of this signal is just a high frequency gain of 84 (FWHM of the arm cavity), and to correct for the refl bias loop gain we have a pole at zero and a zero at 3Hz. The correct calibration has a more complicated frequency dependence, so we would have to do the real calibration to make a comparison above about 42 Hz. Neither of these traces have the cavity pole at 42 Hz corrected for. You can see that the side of fringe measurement agrees with the normalized refl PD signal well up to 100 Hz . (1st screen shot attached)
We repeated the measurement in the normal configuration, where we lock on resonance using the refl bias path, and the noise is the same (30Hz rms down to 0.02Hz). The RMS is dominated by the pitch mode, so we will work on increasing the WFS bandwidth tomorrow. Tonight we tried OpLev damping (this added noise around 1 Hz) and turning up the pitch OSEM damping gains (inconclusive so far).
We redid the measurement with the WFS outputs held, and saw that the noise was high again (100Hz rms down to 0.1Hz), with the WFS on again we were back to the low noise state. So we can safely say the WFS are helping.
We also checked that the noise is the same from 3-100Hz with and without the refl bias path engaged.
For future reference I took a spectrum of the 5 HSTS (MC1 MC2 MC3 PR2 PRM) from monday morning before the corner station was vented.
The isolation and damping on HAM2 and HAM3 ISIs were ON, and feedforward was OFF. The suspensions damping loops were closed. The chambers were under vacuum.
The attached pdf shows a comparison between the 5 HSTS, for every "mass" levels (M1 M2 and M3) and every degree of freedom.
Few things to notice on the plot :
- The performances are really consistent from one chamber to an other
- Signal is really close to sensor noise, especially at the bottom mass
- There is an interesting feature between ~0.1Hz and ~1Hz seen for longitudinal transverse and vertical dofs. This is something I would need to double check, but I'm pretty sure it is transmitted ground motion.
For future reference and ACCEPTANCE REVIEW I attached the undamped/damped version of the spectra, adding the local osem basis to the plots for the 5 HSTS in HAM2-HAM3 chamber.
FIRST PDF = UNDAMPED
SECOND PDF = DAMPED
NOTE : 60Hz spike for some of the osems spectra, especially top mass osems of PRM.