TF's running on on ITMX ISI overnight (on opsws0), but a range of motion test will run tonight before TF starts. This will probably delay the completion of the TF until mid-morning. Local basis test was completed earlier this afternoon.

Stefan, Sheila, Dave

we took the opportunity of today's upgrade to time how long it takes to recover the PSL when the front end models (ISS,FSS,PMC) are restarted. This data is requested as input to the decision on whether to install Dolphin IPC into the PSL front end.

We recovered the PSL in approximately 30 minutes. The shutter was opened through the laser MEDM screen and did not require entry to the Diode room to press the shutter button on the Beckhoff console. Sheila completed the recovery.

Jim and Dave. We took the opportunity to rebuild the IPC file from scratch during today's RCG2.8 update to clean out orphaned channels accumulated as models have evolved over the past 6 months.

Here are the results

(Koji, Jeff B., Jeff L.)

The first contact protecting the optics was removed.  Koji put the eLIGO DCPD diodes into the aLIGO OMC and tested them in-situ.  New QPDs are being used.

The OMC was installed into the suspension and some of the cables were attached to the OMC.  Some other cables are finishing C&B and will hopefully be ready Wednesday.  The OMC will be balanced (masses added) once all the cables are attached.

After Jim locked down the ISI, we installed temporary TMS telescope alignment stabilization tooling (D1100613) so we can work conveniently without shaking things too much.

We replaced four out-of-spec washers in TMS seismic safety stop structure (D1001781) with the right ones so that conical washers can be oriented in the specified directions (which didn't change the floppiness of the structure that much).

We also replaced two class-B pear shaped links for the restraint chain with the class-A ones.

Tomorrow, SUS will align ETMX to compensate the PIT angle caused by the weight of the ETM first contact.

They will also pull first contact from ERM and two viewports but not from ETM.

Then ISC will start injecting laser into the chamber.

I did an autoburt of h1pslpmc, h1psliss, and h1pslfss this morning to 00:00 11/11/2013 after the RCG update. They came back fine (we are still in the state where the PMC trans PD is wrong), so I haven't updated the safe.snaps.

The ref cav alignment also seems to be off in pitch again, I noticed this a few days ago. 

(Alexa, Sheila)

We turned the ISCTEX prometheus laser on. With the current at 1.810A, we measured the power along the 532nm path. In particular:

• Immediatly after the laser: 55mW
• After the first Faraday: 46mW
• After the EOM: 44mW
• After the second Faraday: 38mW

CharlesC, JimB, HugoP,

The SEI WD plotting software was updated to the latest version today - r6273.

JimB added the nds2.py library to the python path, and SEI did a little troubleshooting, for it to work. It was tested and it appears fully functional here.

The plots produced by a click on "Plot trip", from the WD screen now feature:
- Drag plots (time series) to scroll along time
- WD state shown as background color
- Channel name display when clicking on a curve
- Current WD threshold display (+ and - limits)

This tool is to be used by the operators, and the commissioners, to figure out rapidely why an ISI tripped.

This update was approved in ECR-E1300774.

Work was performed under WP#4262, which is now closed.

The default nds2-client version is now nds2-client-0.10.3.  The nds2-client user setup script was modified to add the missing python path setup.  Also, the stddir.py setup script was modified to add paths to various packages that were missing. 

Jim and Dave. After the 2.8 upgrade this morning, we were able to remove the IRIGB pcie card from h1pemmx front end computer. Before the change the timing fiber went to an MX fanout, which in turn fed an IRIGB unit and the IO Chassis. The IRIGB in turn fed the FE PCIE card. Now the timing fiber connects directly to the IO Chassis, and there is no IRIGB card. We moved the single mode SFP from the timing fanout into the IO Chassis.

The IOP model had been changed to obtain its IRIGB time via the network from a remote EPICS IOC. We chose the GPS channel on the DAQ data concentrator H1:DAQ-DC0_GPS. The CDS block in the pemmx iop model has the parameter "remoteGPS=1" set.

On the first startup we got unlucky and started towards the end of the GPS second, which caused the DAQ DC to mark the front end with a 0x4000 timing error. On a second startup of the iop we got lucky and started close to the start of the second.

Note that the TIMING bit in the STATE_WORD for the IOP is RED because the IRIGB timing diagnostic is ZERO. I'll remove this bit from the overview because it no longer gives useful diagnostics.

Please remember to communicate with the control room when you are embarking on work in the VEA's.  There were enough people at BSC3 today to make a Shriner's convention, but ops didn't know who and when.  This makes it difficult to respond to questions that we receive in the CR.  Another nag -- carpool on trips to the outbuildings with site vehicles when possible on days like today when both end stations are in play.

Site support:
** The rug vendor now arrives early on Tuesday mornings (~7:00 AM)
** The office trailer came off the gravel today and is resting on the roadside near the front of the corner station.  It's scheduled for final departure near 9:00 AM tomorrow.
** Lots of noisy activity on the corner station roof today 
** Insulation removal continues on the near section of the Y arm (Y1).  The control room strip chart now reads the Y1 vacuum.
** There appeared to be no Praxair delivery today, but I may have missed it.
** Update of the GC switch occurred.  Network and phone outages appeared to cease at midday.

Interferometer activities:
** Apollo worked on viewports at EX this morning.  Alexa and Sheila removed one side of the first contact on these this afternoon (no work permit on this because the network was down.  John W cleared the work).
** LVEA has been in laser hazard all day.  EX entered laser hazard near 3:30 PM.
** Kyle is delivering instrument air to the controls of GV6, which remains hard closed as of 4:00 PM.  He'll leave it closed tonight.
** EE crew grounded power supplies at EX this morning.
** Rich A made measurements on an ISCT1 PD, and he checked ESD cables at BSC3
** Patrick relocated the dust monitor code
** Dave and Jim installed RCG 2.8, which seems to be working properly
** When the PSL controls went down this morning because of the upgrade, Sheila did a burt restore to re-lock the mode cleaner
** Work continues at HAM2 (possibly the PD array installation which was scheduled for today).

Alarms:
** Lots of CDS alarms due to system work (none were surprising)
** Occasional dust alarms in areas where work was occurring.  There was one episode of 80,000(+) 3um early in the afternoon at BSC3 that was not repeated.

Thomas V, Mitchell R
Today the newly modified lower Copper plates (for the eddy current damper) were installed. This completes the remaining installation work. Also time was spent cleaning up and re-bagging parts and tools. This will be completed tomorrow after tracking down the proper size Ameristat bags. Once clean up is complete the smaller clean room will be available for the next task.

West door was removed from BSC 9 and broke bolts on west door of BSC 3 in preperation for that door removal. At E Y we completed assembly of the work platform around BSC 6 and moved the clean room over same. We began moving test stand clean rooms and work station clean rooms into position. I took some measurments for the test stand/e module interference at BSC 10 and it appears we will NOT have to redrill for the test stand, however it does appear that we will need to place a second sprial stairway (from E X) in position before the e module move.

Alexa reports that she and Sheila will transition EX to laser hazard very soon.  They need a beam to check some alignments on the out-of-vacuum table.

Rolf, Jim and Dave. We are declaring a success on the RCG2.8 upgrade. All user models are running under 2.8.

The DAQ was recompiled against 2.8. It was reconfigured to acquire FE slow data on the DAQ network. It still writes 32 second full frames, one minute second trends and one hour minute trends. These will be extended in the future when more memory is acquired.

The commission frames were renamed from H-H1_R-GPS to H-H1_C-GPS so science frames (R) and commissioning frames (C) now have different names.

LDAS will start permantly archiving the science frames from now onwards.

Following LHO's upgrade to MATLAB 2012whatever, I was disproportionately dismayed to see that the nice system shortcuts for loading working folders did not make the transition. Hugo was able to help me figure this out by:

1. First we tried just copying the shortcuts.xml from the 2010 (/ligo/home/controls/.matlab/R2010b) folder into the 2012 (/ligo/home/controls/.matlab/R2012b) folder. This didn't work.

2. Matlab seemed to make a shortcuts2.xml at this point. We opened the old shortcuts.xml in a text editor and copied the contents into the new shortcuts2.xml. After another MATLAB restart, this fixed it. Shortcuts restored.

I'm attaching the old shortcuts.xml file as a txt.

Arnaud and Kissel took the opportunity of today's DAQ and internet outages to re-do the B&K Hammer testing of the ITMx (since we had moved the suspension on the ISI last week by 6mm, thus compromising the mating stiffness between the 2).  They discovered that the corner cube was still mounted to the ITMx, which unfortunately surprised Jim.  They removed the corner cube and are leaving it off.  Jim will recheck his table balancing.

We have recompiled all user models (saved with matlab2012b) with RCG2.8. The exception is the HEPI models which are currently compiled with a 2010a version of hepitemplate.mdl (we ran into the feCode error today when recompiling).

All front ends are now running 2.8 code. The DAQ is recompiled, and is reconfigured to get slow data from the front ends directly. The EDCU only acquires non-FE slow data, its channel rate is reduced to 3656.

Next we will work on reconfiguring the DAQ to rename the commissioning frames from H-H1_R-GPS to H-H1_C-GPS, renaming existing files in /frames/full

We shutdown the PSL front end last and started it first. The PSL laser was down for about 30 minutes due to the upgrade. This is representative of the PSL recovery time if the experts are on hand at the time the front end is taken down.