Alastair, Aidan, Jamie, Dave:

To support this weekend's TCS guardian development, I have temporarily added two new EPICS channels to the alarm manager IOC on script0. Their permanent location will most probably be the h1tcscs front end model, we will schedule this install for Tuesday maintenance. The channels are:

Ryan, Lisa, Evan

We have been locked for more than 1 hour with CARM controlled by digital REFL9I (at 0 pm offset) and DARM controlled by ASAIR 45Q. The power buildup is 1100 times the single-arm buildup, giving an interferometer recycling gain of 33 W/W. The REFL_A_LF power is 1.35 ct, compared to 21 ct with the arms held off resonance. This means the interferometer visibility is about 94%.

The new element today was a higher-bandwidth DHARD pitch WFS loop. The loop time constant is a few seconds or so, and is fast enough to suppress the appearance of the microseism in ASAIR 45Q. Next steps are probably to close the analogous yaw loop. Ryan had to adjust ETM differential yaw by hand several times to keep the AS beam reasonably round. Also, Ryan had to add a DC-coupled oplev servo to ETMX L1 pitch in order to keep the optic from drifting.

Details will be posted later.

During breaks in the locking action this week, I have tuned up the OMC alignment loops that use OM3 and the OMC suspension to align the beam into the cavity.  These loops are now stable; I've measured the OLTFs and everything looks robust.

I also fixed the dither alignment loops, though a combination of adjusting (audio) demod phases, moving frequencies around to avoid peaks in the intensity noise, and lowpass filters to get rid of the high-frequency junk.  These might need some attention later, we should change the dither frequencies to match L1.

The first plot attached is a figure of the noise suppression with the AS WFS DC centering and the OMC ASC turned on.  Top panel is beam jitter on the AS WFS, lower panel is beam jitter into the OMC.  References 0-4 are with no loops closed, 8-11 are with the AS WFS centering loops closed, and the current traces are after the OMC ASC loops are closed.  The AS WFS centering is fairly high gain, something like 3Hz, we could turn this down.  The OMC ASC loops are around 1-2Hz UGF, when the QPD signals are used.  (The dither loops are much slower.)

Second plot attached is an example of an OMC ASC loop transfer function.  The inversion of the OMCS plant leaves a broad peak, but there's plenty of phase margin.

Third plot attached is the new output matrix, there were a few sign errors in the picture from the earlier post.

I have updated the OMC safe.snap file with the new filters, gains, etc.

This evening I also checked the balance of the OMC DCPDs, using an excitation in the cavity length, and changing the DCPD_BALANCE slider to minimize the peak height in the nullstream channel.  I found that an exact 50-50 split was the best choice.  Might need to check this again with a variety of amplitudes and frequencies, the result is seems a little too perfect.

Since the wind has been bad all afternoon, we took the chance to look at the filters in the suspension offloading path known as tidal.  I copied the plant inversion we are using for the UIM in DARM, with this we were able to puch the bandwidth up to about 0.03 Hz.  We also raised the limit on this to about 10 um.  With this change we went from being able to lock the arms with green for less than about a minute to being able to lock for about 5-10 minutes.  Eventually the "tidal" feedback reaches the limit, and within a minute of that happening the VCO rails.  We could increase the limit further to possibly hold things a few more minutes, but the wind is getting worse. 

Attached is a screen shot showing the new arrangement of filters and gains for this. 

If you are wondering what to do when you try to open Firefox and you get an error message which tells you "firefox is already running", but it is not, and you don't want to reboot your machine, here is the solution (from Dave & Jonathan):

- cd /ligo/home/lisa.barsotti/.mozilla/firefox

- rm lock

- rm .parentlock

During ISI commissioning today the total number of channels being monitored by SDF which were changed exceeded 40. Hugh asked if I could give him the full list and the total number of changed channels.

Here is the procedure (h1isietmy is shown as an example)

On the H1ISIETMY_SDF_RESTORE.adl medm screen, in the yellow "save" section:

Set the "FILE TYPE SELECTION" to "EPICS DB AS SDF"

Ensure the the "FILE OPTIONS SELECTION" is set to "TIME NOW"

Press the Blue "SDF SAVE FILE" button, which will save the current settings as a time-stamped file (e.g. h1isietmy_sdf_150206_170209.snap)

In a terminal, type the following:

target

cd h1isietmy/h1isietmy/burt

listsdfdiffs.bsh

The output from this command is shown in the attached file

On Nov 7 I added smoothing to the terribly noisy channels generating the differential pressure.  I revert these back to no smoothing.

I updated the EDT frame grabber driver on H1HWSMSR. The ring buffers now work. HWS v1.1.8 now works.

1. The symbolic link /opt/HWS now points to v.1.1.8 again

we just found out that the tpchn files for the new ALS end station models were not added to the DAQ on Tuesday (though the ini files were). We'll correct this next Tue.

I installed v1.1.8 of the HWS code on H1HWSMSR and it doesn't work (it worked fine at LLO). After some digging, it turns out that the EDT software that runs the camera does not run with 'ring buffers' at LHO. Basically, if you issue the command 'take -N 4' on H1HWSMSR, you get 'Bus error', where this works fine at LLO.

After some digging, I discovered that the framegrabber drivers are v4.2.6.8 at LHO and v5.4.1.1 at LLO. I'm going updating the drivers here and see if that helps.

Here are the changes that I made to H1HWSMSR computer

1. Downloaded latest version of SVN
2. Created symbolic link /opt/HWS that points to /opt/Hartmann_Sensor_SVN/release/HWS_v1.1.8
3. Updated alias for HWS X&Y code in bashrc. Run_HWS_H1ITMX now points to /opt/HWS/Run_HWS_X/distrib/Run_HWS_X
4. Couldn't get v1.1.8 of the code to run
5. Changed symbolic link /opt/HWS so it points to /opt/Hartmann_Sensor_SVN/release/HWS_v1.1.6
6. The aliases don't need changing. They automatically point to v1.1.6 now. V1.1.6 is running for HWSX. HWSY is down at the moment because there is no Hartmann plate on the sensor

7:00 Karen, Cris - LVEA cleaning exits

8:18 Betsy - To LVEA

8:42 J. Kissel - To EX to turn on coil driver

8:43 Sudarshan - To EX for Pcal work

8:58 Andres - LVEA for 3IFO work

8:58 Doug - To EX to take pictures

8:59 P. King - To H2 Enclosure

9:00 Bubba - To LVEA Moving SEI stuff

9:25 Andres - Back

9:27 J. Kissel - Back with fixed ETMX sensors

9:39 Doug - Back

9:40 Travis - To LVEA to meet up with Betsy

9:47 Travis, Betsy - Back

9:58 Sudarshan - Out of EX

10:06 Bubba - Back

10:39 P. King - Back

11:47 R. Savage, Nutsinee - To MY for check on storage

J. Kissel

ETMX UIM Driver's rocker switch tripped last night at 8:44:30 UTC (Feb 06 2015 00:44:30 PST), which cause all OSEM output on the L1 / UIM stage (and the sensor signals as well) to fail. 

I've turned on the rocker switch, and the stage appears functional.

Other points:
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There is no smoking gun for this chassis power outage. There are not enough diagnostic tools in the frames to look at all possible suspects (power surge to the chassis [no power monitors], chassis overheating [no temperature sensors], an inconsequential component on say -- a monitor board -- smoking [only one of the four monitor signals for each channel are stored], too large a current request [the NOISEMON is stored, not the FASTIMON]).

Output request of DAC (from any ISC) does not appear to coincide with trip, but difficult to tell with dataviewer. There is an Longitudinal request to drive really hard, but it's unclear whether it's a the cause of or a result of the driver's power being shut off.

Output request is roughly 42 [mA] (according to FAST_I_MON) on all four coils leading up to trip, switch trips on 3 [A]. Even the sudden, very large output request does not cause any current larger than the 42 [mA] -- as reported by dataviewer / EPICs. Reqrettably, only the severely-high-passed-at-5-[Hz] noise monitor signals are stored in the frames, but I attach the time series of one of the coils anyways to indicate the exact time. It shows a nice smooth ramp down at the time of the chassis power down. 

Serial number of this box is S0900303. I attach pictures of the box after I'd turned it back on. When I first approached the box, the front "power" LED lights were OFF, and the rocker switch was in the opposite (powered off) position. 

I'm not sure if there is good way to make this power shut-down control-room visible. I did notice that all the coil driver monitor signals were frozen at -16 [ct], and that the OSEM sensor speed dials were zero for this stage and this stage alone, which is what immediately clued me in that it was a flaw with the entire coil-driver chassis or satellite amplifier. 

This last happened (according to collective analog CDS crew's memory) on H1 SUS ITMX UIM driver, some time ago, 19 November 2013. See LHO aLOG 8635.

Alexa, Kiwamu

In response to the commissioning alog from the last night (alog 16501), we spent an hour or two to study the DRMI lock acquisition with ETMs miasliged in this morning. The key item we checked this time was the BS limiter. We took a few lock acquisition samples with and without the BS limiter which was suggested by Ryan.

It seems that the limiter improved the locking time. We will tentatively keep the limiter on.

The alignment was adjusted initially so that we observed consistently high build up in each lock. We tried repeating the same test with the arm cavities aligned, but we ran into some aligment issues which prevented us from completing the test with the arm cavities aligned. Note that this limiter method is something we used to use in the past, but  apparently we decided not to use it for some reason at some point.

(The test without the limiter)

(The test with the limiter)

(The limiter)

The limiter resides in BS_M3_ISCINF_LIMIT and the value was set to 5x10⁵ cnts.