Stefan, Kiwamu,
We could not close the oplev damping loops today. It turned out that the oplev servo gains had been wrong since the model reboot on the last Tuesday. In fact, the signs were wrong in safe.snap file. We updated the safe file. Now they are 0.03 and -0.03 for pitch and yaw loops respectively.
After the BSC-ISI passed a coarse alignment check, went out to work on Post-Cartridge tasks for the TMS. Basically we want to remove excess mass from the TMS & get it ready for fine balancing of the ISI.
Restraint Tooling/Table Cover Removed & TMS Upper Mass Released
Went ahead and removed the TMS Restraint Tooling (turnbuckles, chains, & eyebolts). Then I went upstairs and released the Upper Mass. I then removed the Metal Table Cover. Some thing I missed were some questionable eyebolts attached to the Upper Structure. We we want to know whether these eyebolts (most likely) & an aluminum part (not sure) stay on the structure or get pulled off. Will probably have to address this on Monday BEFORE fine ISI balancing.
Safety Stop Structure (Disassembled & Assembled) & Installed
I then went about installing the Safety Stop Structure (D1001781) to the BSC10. First thing I noticed was this assembly was built for H2! (see photo #1) So I had to take the assembly apart and then rebuild it for H1. I then attached it to the ribbing of the BSC chamber. After some manhandling, I was able to get this structure up and needled through the eyebolts on the TMS Table. Other than the possible parts above, the TMS is pretty much ready for ISI balancing.
Note: will keep the TMS Upper Structure "free" (vs. locked).
After the coarse IAS checks were finished this morning, Travis and I fully unlocked the ETMy QUAD which repositioned all of the masses into their pre-aligned posistions. This also removed alot of extra locking bracket payload. We then pulled all of the shield and optic cap payload and added the witness plate mount such that the total payload of the QUAD was within ~a lbs of being correct. We then reclamped some of the masses lightly such that SEI can load masses around upstairs on top of the ISI in order to continue their work.
Kyle investigated.
Cyrus and Dave
around noon the /ligo file system became unavailable, causing the workstations to freeze up. We rebooted cdsfs0 and restored the file system. We are in the process of restarting the workstations to give them a clean NFS mount.
Seconded.
(Doug, Jason, Hugh, Betsy and CO) First look at the ETMy in chamber measurements are very encouraging. Results: Longitudinal was short by 0.5mm from absolute, tolerance is +/- 3.0mm, Lateral position is 0.35mm to the south, +/- 1.00mm Elevation position is high by 0.35mm, tolerance is +/- 1.0mm Optic is set lightly on EQ stops, but for a first look to identify any need to move the ISI or SUS this is very reasonable results. The arm cavity baffle was rough positioned to accommodate the line of sight from the spool and currently rests unattached on its installation table so use caution when working around it. When fully pay loaded, cabled with the ETM suspended we will do the the fine alignments of the positions and optic angles
Forgot to mention that the particle counts were 3-4 counts on the .3 microns scale and 1-2 counts on the .5micron scale at the spool while we occupied that area. Kudos to the folks that keep the VEA clean and well stocked with garb and cleanroom supplies.
The vertical position is actually high by 0.9 mm, not by the 0.35 mm originally stated.
J. Kissel, for F. Matichard, As mentioned in LHO aLOG 10397, Fabrice has installed a clean set of three blend filters on ETMX, ITMX, and BS. (I loaded ITMX filters this morning). Here're plots of the new blend filters for ST1 BSC-ISIs. "TCrappy" is exactly the same -- a version virtually identical to Ryan DeRosa's very-low-blend filters, "Start" are an improved "750mHz" that *actually* rolls off at high-frequency and does not include the T240s. "TStart" has the same displacement sensor / inertial sensor 750mHz crossover, but includes the T240s to get rid of L4C noise at low frequency. The plan is to use "TCrappy" when possible, and "TStart" under high wind conditions. 7:00 pm PT EDIT: I've now added the filters for both stages in all degrees of freedom for a BSC-ISI. I've done this using a newly committed version of /ligo/svncommon/SeiSVN/seismic/Common/MatlabTools/plot_current_blends.m Use it. All the time. When ever you install a new set of blends.
Help us, Arnaud.
The "save misalgined" command in IFO_OVERVIEW screen doesn't work for ITMX. I didn't check other suspensions. Please have a look when you have a chance.
The script align_save script running behind medm seems to work ONLY when the sitemap is opened from the terminal.
Jason and I are ready for the lateral and longitudinal ETMy position measurements in the AM. We won't know whether we will need to tweak the ACB position for any line of sight issues until the first look. Thanks Betsy and Travis for setting the ACB for us (temporary setup). We will not release the optic suspension for the fine positioning until we are satisfied that no large moves are needed.
Credit where credit is due: Mitch and Jim "installed" the ACB. Betsy and I just uncovered the SUS and mounted the corner cube.
For posterity - the ACB is sitting on the ACB "table" in the tube section between the chamber and the spool. This is to enable the IAS sighting of the ETMy optic without the ACB blocking the view while it is parked in the tube before install. We chose not to install the ACB on Stage 0 because it blocks access to the 3rd blocked side of the QUAD making alignment and sensor tuning extremely difficult. The ACB will be installed on Stage 0 after a few rounds of this is complete.
While in the chamber, we also connected the 5 SUS and 1 ring heater cables to the feedthru and confirmed signal throughput on the 5 sus. We pulled the C3 covers from both of the ETMy and TMSy suspensions before installing the corner cube.
Jason and Doug should have a clear shot of the corner cube (and probably the edges of the optic) through the ACB from the spool. We await X,Y,Z measurements.
In-vacuum ETMy SUS cable serial numbers:
Floor 1 of CB D1000225-S1104879 to D1000234-88"- 941
Floor 2 of CB D1000225-S1l04881 to D1000234-88" - 942
Floor 3 of CB D1000225-S1104882 to D1000234-88" - 940
FLoor 4 of CB D1000225-S1104880 to D1002522 - 924
Floor 1 of CB D1000225-S1104883 to RH cable
Floor 2 of CB D1000225-S1104878 to D1002522 - ? (ETMy L2 stage)
All are plugged into feedthrus on the F3 port of the chamber as per the WBSC10 D1200111 cable routing doc.
The readback channels for the corner station ring heaters seem to not have been working properly since last Friday. I've attached a graph that shows that the ring heaters seem to have turned off at 02-21-2014 22:5:32 UTC. Judging from the ALOG around that time, there were a lot of reboots going on in software, I'm not sure about hardware reboots. However, Kiwamu says that the PRC power level is looking like the ring heaters are on just based off of the amount of loss he measured. He also advised that since the system is working well, I should hold off on trying to power cycle the TCS chassis until a later time but at the first chance I get, we should try to resolve this issue. The ITMX ring heater is also displaying similar weirdness, which is expected since they share the same chassis and PLC.
Kiwamu, Sheila, Thomas This morning seemed to be a good time to investigate this issue. At first we saw that the PLC3.pro was connected to EPICS but not to the System Manager, i.e. the ADC channels were not getting from the hardware to the TwinCAT software. We tried re-running the install scripts but it did not fix the problem but it did help us figure out that there were some channels deleted recently. Daniel let us know that if there are some additions or deletions, we should re-map the configuration before recompiling. This solved the problem!
(Alexa, Jax, Stefan)
Alexa was trying to hunt down a missing gain factor for her model and instead found a busted COMM PLL board (serial number S1200564). The op-amp for the VCO compensation stage (U37) was blown. I recalled replacing the same op-amp on the DIFF PLL about a month ago, suggesting that there's something that makes this particular op-amp vulnerable. After discussing with Richard McCarthy, we opted to change resistor R96 from 0 to 2k ohms to protect the poor thing. Lab tests show that it's in good shape, and it'll be back to the ISC rack as soon as we're done with the ISC meeting.
Should this resistor change be propagated to all PLL boards?
No, we're still thinking about it. It's going in as modified and if it keeps having problems, we'll burn that bridge when we get to it.
This smells of an ISC integration issue so we don't forget...
We thought it prudent to have a spare PUM in-hand for the upcoming monolithic builds, so yesterday we started bonding ears to the PUM ITM03. Gerardo sucessfully placed an ear on the S4 surface with an error of under 0.01mm misplacement (0.1mm is the tolerance, so well done Gerardo!). On to the S3 ear...
Like NBC jinxed all of the ice skaters by praising them just before they fell at the latest Olympics, I spoke too soon about the PUM ITM03 ear. Just after writing the above alog, Gerardo and I inspected the S4 ear and discovered a large bubble near the corner of the ear. It had a small fiberous particulate in the bubble. SOmehow, after monitoring for 2-3 hours, this fiber migrated into the bond. We had placed a LIGo-approved Vectra Alpha 10 cleanroom wipe over the S4+ear flat for the night in the event a random bug decided to perch, so possibly this added to the particulate. Da*m.
With Mr. Barton's assistance, we loaded the mass into the ultrasonic cleaner and bathed it in water. Within 4 minutes the ear came off. The mass is now reloaded at the wash station and we'll work on the S3 ear we were already prepped for today.
Bubble is shown in far corner of ear in this picture.
Further comment to the events above - Margot and Gerardo found this PUM to be dirtier than normal when they pulled it out of the cake tin many weeks ago. AT that time, they did a methanol cleaning of the entire mass. When Gerardo and I were cleaning the flats of this mass, we also noticed that it still seemed dirtier than "normal" - meaning, when rinsing, the water did not run on the surface as we had seen on other flats. After we performed the standard cleaning of the flat, the water behaved "normally", meaning it clung to the full surface and "sheeted" off. After we removed the contaminated ear, we recleaned the flat, expanding the surface area getting cleaned to the entire flat, not just the area when the ear gets bonded as is the typical procedure. We hoped this would remove particulate that was previously closer to the bond area. During the second ear bond attempt, we also did not cover the bond overnight with an alpha 10 wipe, since we were skeptical of the origin of the fiber which showed up in the bond.
The attached is the open loop transfer function with the WRONG sign (i.e. OLDAMP_P_GAIN = -0.03 ) in pitch