Displaying reports 69661-69680 of 77088.Go to page Start 3480 3481 3482 3483 3484 3485 3486 3487 3488 End
Reports until 15:28, Friday 06 September 2013
LHO General
bubba.gateley@LIGO.ORG - posted 15:28, Friday 06 September 2013 (7669)
Apollo crew
We relocated the E-module to the east side of BSC 3 and placed the small garbing/clean room back on the platform. We positioned the BSC clean room over the chamber and started retro fitting the curtains and entry access from E-module.
Tyler had some small jobs in the machine shop for Corey G.
LHO General
patrick.thomas@LIGO.ORG - posted 15:18, Friday 06 September 2013 (7668)
couldn't bring the end X dust monitor back
I tried:

restarting the IOC
power cycling the dust monitor (Corey did this for me)
power cycling the Comtrol
removing the weather station from the Comtrol (I left it removed)
screwing in the DB9 connector from the Comtrol on the breakout box (it was connected but not screwed in)
checking the fuse in the breakout box (it looked fine)

The IOC can connect to the port, but it doesn't seem to be able to establish communication with the dust monitor. Corey looked at the dust monitor from inside the clean room and said that it is showing numbers on the front panel.
H1 SEI
hugh.radkins@LIGO.ORG - posted 15:15, Friday 06 September 2013 (7667)
WHAM6 Corner1 Vertical HEPI Actuator Hoses Switched
Well the problem reported previously was caused by an issue we did not imagine we could have done.  However, it was not only possible but in fact was done.  We crossed the hoses so the flow was backwards through the Actuator.  Not sure how/why this causes it to perform so well only backwards but it does.  This has been corrected and the Actuator is now back in bleed mode.  We did lose some fluid (expected and all captured) so we will remain in bleed mode at least through the weekend.

We also checked the hoses on HAM 4 & 5 and believe there are no other instances of this error.  Thanks Celine!
H1 SUS
arnaud.pele@LIGO.ORG - posted 12:09, Friday 06 September 2013 (7662)
ITMX clear of rubbing

A spectra of ITMX has been taken this morning, and the frequencies of the peaks were compared with the ones from the "wire-hang model". They were matching very well, meaning the main chain of ITMX is currently freely suspended.

H1 PSL
david.barker@LIGO.ORG - posted 12:05, Friday 06 September 2013 - last comment - 14:21, Friday 06 September 2013(7661)
opening the PSL shutter, latched closed by the PMC front end model

The PSL PMC model controls a PSL shutter via ezcawrites to the EPICS record H1:PSL-EPICSALARM which runs on the Beckhoff IOC/OPC in the diode room. It was discovered that the shutter was being driven closed. We tried reading the status of H1:PSL-EPICSALARM using caget on the OPS and H1FE LAN, but did not get a value. Later we found that caget does not work with this PV, but PROBE and EDCU are able to give its value. This slowed up our investigation slightly. Looking at the MIS part of the PMC model, we found that the coolant flow is in range, but the FLOW_OK was latched bad. We pressed the FLOW_ERR_RESET button, and the FLOW_OK came good and the shutter opened. Trending H1:PSL-EPICSALARM shows it transitioning from ONE to ZERO at this time.

Comments related to this report
keith.thorne@LIGO.ORG - 14:21, Friday 06 September 2013 (7664)
which would be why I suggested looking at this LLO aLOG entry which detailed the use of ezcaread/ezcawrite for setting/reading this variable.
H1 AOS
lisa.austin@LIGO.ORG - posted 11:51, Friday 06 September 2013 (7660)
SLC activities at LHO
Thomas Vo, Mitchell Robinson, Tyler Guidry, Lisa Austin

Arm Cavity Baffle for ETM-x (BSC9) assembly complete and ready for balancing.
For balancing, Extender Shelf distance must be set; Sliding Weights must be set; & Magnet damping spacing must be set.

SR2 Scraper Baffle ready for installation in H1-HAM4. Needs to be packaged for transport from cleanroom. [pic3]
 
SR2 Scraper Baffle ready for packaging and storage for 3rd IFO - HAM4. [pic2]

H1-HAM5 SR3 AR, SR3 HR and SRM Baffles ready for installation. Needs to be packaged for transport from cleanroom. [pic 1]

H1-HAM4 SR2 AR and Hartmann Baffles ready for installation. Needs to be packaged for transport from cleanroom. [pic 4]
Images attached to this report
H1 CDS
david.barker@LIGO.ORG - posted 11:05, Friday 06 September 2013 (7659)
Front ends power cycled, daq restarted

The MSR UPS unit did not log any power problems yesterday, but h1susb123 froze up completely and all Dolphin connected front end computer models crashed. Following previous power glitches we have had supposedly running models not actually working correctly until the computer was power cycled, so this morning we power cycled all H1 front ends to be safe.

h1seih23 showed an initial IRIGB/DuoTone error which went away after about 10 mins, this phenomena has been noted at LLO as well.

On Christina's request, the PSL models were burt restored to 19:00 29th August rather than using the safe.snap.

Vincent had made an INI change to h1hpiitmy, I restarted the DAQ to capture the new configuration.

X1 SUS
james.batch@LIGO.ORG - posted 10:49, Friday 06 September 2013 (7658)
X1 Triple Trest Stand IOP Started, Other Test Stands OK
The IOP model for the X1 triple test stand has been restarted following the power glitch Thursday evening.  The DAQ was restarted as well.  

The other staging building test stands are also OK.
X1 DTS
james.batch@LIGO.ORG - posted 10:31, Friday 06 September 2013 (7657)
X1 DAQ Test Stand restarted
As a result of the Thursday evening power glitch, all computers on X1 DTS have been restarted.  The system is now functional.  
H1 CDS
cyrus.reed@LIGO.ORG - posted 10:26, Friday 06 September 2013 (7656)
Updated h0digivideo0 and 1
h0digivideo0 and h0digivideo1 both restarted last night as they are not on UPS power.  Before restarting the camera iocs, and the camera code (h1cam12 on h0digivideo1 only as it is the only one currently installed), I took the opportunity to run the Ubuntu OS updates for both servers and reboot them.
H1 SEI
hugh.radkins@LIGO.ORG - posted 10:23, Friday 06 September 2013 - last comment - 15:04, Friday 06 September 2013(7655)
WHAM6 Corner1 Vertical HEPI Actuator Response still backward
Since it seems like we have done all we can (although Richard is game to look at a few more things), we have inserted a -1 gain  in the Output Filter bank of HAM6 V1.  This is not standard and none will rest peacefully with this pea under our mattress.
Comments related to this report
hugh.radkins@LIGO.ORG - 15:04, Friday 06 September 2013 (7666)
Found the problem--Installation error!
LHO General
patrick.thomas@LIGO.ORG - posted 10:11, Friday 06 September 2013 (7653)
restarted and burtrestored the IOC for the dust monitor in the H1 PSL diode room
See Cyrus's entry below (7652).
H1 CDS
cyrus.reed@LIGO.ORG - posted 10:09, Friday 06 September 2013 (7652)
sw-lvea-aux0 Inadvertently Powered Off
The LVEA ethernet switch sw-lvea-aux0 was inadvertently powered off in the LVEA electronics room when the AC power cord supplying the switch was knocked out of the wall socket at about 08:40 PDT.  This also affects sw-lvea-aux1 which is PoE powered and supplies network connectivity to (mostly) the PSL.  I corrected the cord issue, and both switches were back up and operational by 09:40 PDT, downtime therefore was about an hour.  Patrick has been alerted to restart any dust monitors that are reliant on the network connections through this switch.  Long term this switch will be DC powered once the required 48V source supplies are in place, and this weakness due to the 'temporary' AC cord will go away.
H1 SUS
betsy.weaver@LIGO.ORG - posted 10:05, Friday 06 September 2013 (7651)
ITM06-PUM cure profile interupted

(On behalf of Gerardo.)

The power glitch last night during the evening storm caused the air bake oven controller to do...something unknown.  It appears that the controller went into STBY mode after the power cycled and thus likely quit applying heat to the ITM06-PUM.  So, the ITM06-PUM prism cure profile will now look like this:

 

Prism cured at room temp for ~24-48 hours (depending on which prism).

Mass loaded into oven and 2 hour heat ramp to 34 degC started at 5pm THUR the 5th.

Power glitched at ~6pm so 34 degC was likley not reached.

(So, more room temp curing - another 16 hours)

Restaring the controller at ~10am FRI the 6th.  WIll observe controller today and hope for no more storms.

H1 CDS
james.batch@LIGO.ORG - posted 09:00, Friday 06 September 2013 (7650)
Recovery from Thursday Evening Power Glitch
Found that all computers were running except for h1susb123, it was frozen, unresponsive in every way.  Power cycled h1susb123, almost all models started when h1susb123 returned.  Had to start h1susprm and h1sussrm manually.

Could not clear bad DAQ status on h1sush2b or h1seib1.  Finally power cycled both computers, they came back up in a good state.

ALL SYSTEMS NEED TO BE BURT RESTORED!  Vincent will burt restore itmy and bs, as he has a specific time which he considers good.
H1 CDS
david.barker@LIGO.ORG - posted 19:52, Thursday 05 September 2013 (7649)
summary of CDS following electrical storm

After getting my home internet connection back I was able to log in remotely and take a look at the CDS systems.

The DAQ survived the storm, it it on UPS power.

Of all the front ends, those on the Dolphin networks are down. I tried to get h1seib1 back, but was only partially successful (models started but their DAQ data is bad). I have stopped the HPI and ISI ITMY models.

The Vacuum Controls system looks good, it is on UPS power.

Web, alog, wiki, login, auth services are all good.

H1 SUS
mark.barton@LIGO.ORG - posted 17:14, Thursday 05 September 2013 - last comment - 14:26, Friday 06 September 2013(7644)
PRM and SRM model updates

Following on Filiberto's upgrade of the M2 driver boxes on PRM and SRM per alog 7630, I updated the h1susprm and h1sussrm models to match, piggybacking on his work permit 4117:

* I changed the PRM and SRM blocks at the top level to use the MC_MASTER part (as for MC2 which was modified earlier) rather than HSTS_MASTER.

* Per Stuart's suggestion, I terminated the three new outputs MC_X_M*_OUT on the new part (rather than feeding them into an IMC block as for MC2).

* I copied the matching M2_COILOUTF filter definitions from the latest copy of L1SUSMC2.txt in the SVN after checking that they corresponded to LLO alog 4495.  (Ideally I would have gotten them from H1SUSMC2.txt, but it appears we've never updated them there. I held off doing that at this time because it will need a separate WP and because there's a risk of breaking the IMC locking if something is counting on the existing poor compensation, but we should get to it soon, after we confirm that it's working for PRM and SRM.)

* I rebuilt and restarted both models. h1sussrm came up with no problems except for a few bad entries in the safe.snap, which I corrected. (There were lines like H1:SUS-SRM_M1_DAMP_L_STATE_GOOD 1 H1:SUS-SRM_M1_DAMP_L_STATE_GOOD 100676356" which were hangovers from a faulty script used at one time. I deleted the first half of each line. The PRM safe.snap had the same issue, but BURT didn't complain (see next item). I fixed it in the same fashion anyway.)

* Initially the PRM model showed a red DC bit and many of the EPICS values were not properly initialized. I realized after posting the initial version of this alog that I hadn't saved after the last edit, so the MC_MASTER block was still called MC_MASTER, so all the channel names were wrong. I saved the model, rebuilt and restarted it and this time the DC bit was green. I'll follow up with Dave Barker tomorrow to see if there's any corrective action needed re the MC_MASTER channels that were being written temporarily. The hourly backup for 16:00 hours is corrupt but the 15:00 and 17:00 ones are good.

* I committed the new models, filters and safe.snap files.

Comments related to this report
mark.barton@LIGO.ORG - 14:26, Friday 06 September 2013 (7665)

My  fix of yesterday for the dud lines in the PRM and SRM safe.snap files wasn't quite right - I had deleted the erroneous second copy of the channel names, but I should have left the "1":

H1:SUS-PRM_M1_DAMP_L_STATE_GOOD 1 100676356
H1:SUS-PRM_M1_DAMP_P_STATE_GOOD 1 113258548
H1:SUS-PRM_M1_DAMP_R_STATE_GOOD 1 113258548
H1:SUS-PRM_M1_DAMP_T_STATE_GOOD 1 113258548
H1:SUS-PRM_M1_DAMP_V_STATE_GOOD 1 113258548
H1:SUS-PRM_M1_DAMP_Y_STATE_GOOD 1 113258548
 

H1:SUS-SRM_M1_DAMP_L_STATE_GOOD 1 100676356
H1:SUS-SRM_M1_DAMP_P_STATE_GOOD 1 113258548
H1:SUS-SRM_M1_DAMP_R_STATE_GOOD 1 113258548
H1:SUS-SRM_M1_DAMP_T_STATE_GOOD 1 113258548
H1:SUS-SRM_M1_DAMP_V_STATE_GOOD 1 113258548
H1:SUS-SRM_M1_DAMP_Y_STATE_GOOD 1 113258548

I committed the new fix.

H1 SEI
hugh.radkins@LIGO.ORG - posted 13:37, Thursday 05 September 2013 - last comment - 10:19, Friday 06 September 2013(7636)
WHAM6 Corner1 Vertical HEPI Actuator Parker Valve swapped
Hugo & Jim reported a response error of HAM6 V1.  The IPS (Inductive Position Sensor) responded with opposite sign but good amplitude.  We visually checked the IPS and verified its sign was correct.  EE was called in for assistance and the outputs of the Pier Pod was verified to be consistent and correct.  Cables were swapped and we even drove V1 with the V4 Pod.  All suspects eliminated leaving the Actuator itself.  The Parker Valve has been swapped and the Actuator is now in bleed mode.

Old Valve SN: L170 replaced w/ L221.
Comments related to this report
hugh.radkins@LIGO.ORG - 10:19, Friday 06 September 2013 (7654)
The Actuator was put back into run mode at 1405 pdt giving us 165minutes of bleed time.  More than enough for this vertical actuator given the reported experiences at MIT and LLO.

We ran another test and the sign anomaly still exists...?  Don't know what to say about that...
Displaying reports 69661-69680 of 77088.Go to page Start 3480 3481 3482 3483 3484 3485 3486 3487 3488 End