[K. Izumi, J. Kissel, J. Rollins] We had a small victory today: the guardian interpreter (the robust guardian environment Jamie has created for python) is now functional, and we have successfully written a transit and recovery script to go from the ALIGNED to LOCKED state. In other words, we've converted the portions of the "mcup" and "mcdown" scripts (written in perl) which interact with the SUS MC2 into functional guardian transitions. Tomorrow, our goal is to get at least one of the MC suspensions managed by a guardian automaton. The monitor/automaton is possibly working now, but we'll have to get it working and run it through its paces. The IFO has been left in the following state (as of ~6:45 PDT): Suspended Cavities Locked: None. Chamber HEPI ISI SUS HAM1 Locked n/a n/a HAM2 Floating, Alignment Offsets Only Level 2 Isolated MC1, MC3, PRM damped Level 1.5; PR3 damped Level 1.0 HAM3 Floating, Alignment Offsets Only Level 2 Isolated (eLIGO Blends) MC2, PR2 damped Level 1.5 BS Level 2 Isolated (Position Locked) WD Tripped BS damped Level 2.0 ITMY Locked Level 2 Isolated ITMY damped Level 2.1 ETMY Level 2 Isolated (Position Locked) Level 2 Isolated ETMY damped Level 2.1, TMSY damped Level 2.0
The part with incomplete tapped holes (D1200310) was fixed by using a clean tap. We pulled the same parts for the third IFO and they were all fine.
The combined tele/table was suspended from the alignment bridge.
Fiber coupled green laser was set up to mimic the injection angle in the chamber.
We started steering the input green beam using the fiber launcher and the first steering mirror on the ISC table. Since everything was aligned previously, the only thing we needed to do was supposed to be to center the beam on the green QPDs.
However, when the green QPDs were almost perfectly centered, we've found that the beam path towards the ETM was totally off and the beam was not even clearing the hole in the ISC table.
Apparently something happened after the ISC table was set up on the work table, maybe one of the mirrors was bumped, or maybe something was loose and it moved when the ISC table impacted the telescope top for mating (actually, the first time we tried to mate the table was kind of wedged into the telescope was stuck, we needed to lift it to unstick, and when the table was freed one side of the table hit the tele top hard).
We need to realign everything on the table, which is not a huge deal but would add another day of work. Today we only realigned the green QPD path, tomorrow we move to the telescope path and IR path. This is actually a good opportunity to move the pico mirror by the periscope away from the suspension wire.
Randy Scott Tyler & Greg; Jim & Keith--Apollo Pipe Fitters Almost everything is complete for the SEI transfer from BSC6 to BSC10: All the Actuators are moved, all the plumbing is moved. One pair of 4-way valves need to be secured to the hardlines. A piping modification will be made in the mechanical room to give access to the back side of the pump station. Once that is done, the system can be refilled with fluid for flushing & operation. Pier electronics can be reinstalled on BSC10...that is about it. A total of 15 liter of fluid has been removed so far, maybe a little more tomorrow with the MR mod.
Richard investigated the problem with the ETMX BIO reported in 7313 and got M0, R0 and L1 fixed, but not L2. I verified that actuation and damping now work for M0 and R0, but couldn't check L1 because the OSEMs there are still backed out.
To see whether it will be worth Doug and Jason's time to do alignment tomorrow or whether more mechanical adjustments are in order, I'm starting a round of undamped M0 and R0 TFs on ETMX from 4:10 pm.
The measurements had completed successfully when checked at 08:30:
M0: ^/trunk/QUAD/H1/ETMX/SAGM0/Data/2013-08-01-1059433785_H1SUSETMX_M0_0p01to50Hz_tf.mat
R0: ^/trunk/QUAD/H1/ETMX/SAGR0/Data/2013-08-01-1059452258_H1SUSETMX_R0_0p01to50Hz_tf.mat
For M0 there are a few small L/P peaks in Y in M0 and the fundamental pitch mode is a touch low, but otherwise everything is pristine.
R0 has the usual issue where the pitch mode is higher than in the model due to the stiffness of the cables but otherwise looks good.
The Y issue in M0 is similar to past cases of misaligned OSEMs rather than touching, so the suspension is OK to do alignment on.
Besides some discussions about OS, below there is a summury of activities:
- Y-arm road works (ask Ski for more details)
- End-Y works:
Hugh
Richard
- Rick gave to UTB students a LVEA tour
- Several DAQ restarts (ask Dave)
~ 11:30 Dale tour at the control room
Cheers
pablo
Noticed system pressure below min value when left drying tower regenerating -> Found fouled valve seat on left tower's 3/4" Y-pattern check valve -> Replaced "flapper" mechanism -> Reusing existing housing and "flapper" hinge pin
Phase 3b top mass (M1-M1) damped and undamped transfer functions on the beamsplitter under vaccum have been measured two days ago with the ISI floating, using the automated matlab script.
The attached pdf are showing in order the results for :
(1) Comparison between M1-M1 measured damped (red) and modeled (blue) transfer function for the 6 DOF
(2) Comparison between M1-M1 measured undamped (red) and modeled (blue) transfer function for the 6 DOF
(3) Comparison between M1-M1 phase 3a undamped (in air april 22nd 2013, orange curve), phase 3b undamped (in vacuum July 30th 2013, blue curve), phase 3b damped (in vacuum July 30th 2013, pink curve), and undamped modeled transfer function (in blue)
(4) Comparison between M1-M1 vertical DOF hanford beamsplitter phase 3b (in vacuum, July 30th 2013, orange curve), and livingston beamsplitter phase 3a (in air, April 16th 2013 black curve) and undamped modeled transfer function (in blue)
Most of measurements are in good agreement with the model. Although, the 1.70 Hz longitudinal mode cross coupling into the vertical degree of freedom, cf 3rd page of (1) and (2)
When looking at the comparison between phase 3a and phase 3b for the vertical DOF (3rd page of (3)), it appears that the cross coupling was not present in April when the suspension was in air.
Livingston beamsplitter seems to also have cross couplings in their vertical degree of freedom, but with roll and pitch mode instead of longitudinal (cf (4))
After discution with J.Kissel, the cross coupling might come from the top mass touching an earthquake stop. This would be due to the sag of the suspension after the air have been evacuated from the chamber.
BS (in chamber, in vacuum, ISI damped (both stages), suspension undamped, no offsets) vertical degree of freedom transfer function has been re-measured yesterday, and isn't showing any signs of coupling anymore (blue curve of attached plot). In order to understand why an extra resonnance was present previously, a series of tests has been carried out, to try reproducing the coupling.
1) First, a vertical offset (-200000 cts) has been applied to the top mass osems, to push down the suspension by ~1mm, and a transfer function has been taken from 1.5 to 2Hz (green curve of attached plot). The cross coupling was still not present
2) The active control of the ISI has been turned off with the vertical offset still on, and an other tf has been taken from 1.5Hz to 2Hz (Red curve). This time, the cross coupling reappeared
3) To reproduce the theory, the offset has been turned off, with the ISI still undamped, and a last tf from 1.5Hz to 2Hz has been taken, still showing the cross coupling, but with a really poor coherence.
Conclusion : When the ISI is floating, and the BS is being excited in the vertical degree of freedom, stage 2 (Rx dof) of the ISI resonates @ ~1.6Hz which then excites the third longitudinal mode (~1.69Hz) of the suspension, creating the cross coupling between vertical and longitudinal we were seeing in our transfer functions
Due to a longstanding bug in a script (fixed on 6/28/13), there were a bunch of pdf files in ^/trunk/QUAD/Common/Data in the SUS SVN with names starting "allhstss...". I did svn mv commands on all of them to change the prefix to "allquads".
Found a bunch more under ^/trunk/HLTS/Common/Data and fixed in the same way.
(Cheryl, Corey, Keita)
The TMS Telescope & TMS In-Vacuum ISC Table were connected to each other today. It's a tight fit, but we were able to make the connection no worse for wear. After these were mated, we installed Tooling to suspend the system. While trying to install bars which mimic the suspension wires, we noticed that the threaded holes for a part (D1200310, Spreader Bar) of the ISC Table were bad (looks like the machinist didn't completely tap the hole and so the threads on one end of the hole were too tight for a bolt). We were able to remove the part, and will repair or fix the part, and then re-install it.
Started to set up for alignment with the green laser .
Just started a measurement on ISI-HAM3 (on the computer 'opsws0' in the control room). Should be done in the morning around 9am.
[K. Izumi, J. Kissel, J. Rollins, S. Biscans, A. Pele] We are in the middle transporting over LLO IMC stuff, but are calling it a night. We have installed new SUS-MC2 filters (but not committed to the repo yet) and changed the LOCK gains, but no other filter banks have changed. We're in the process of updating the up and down scripts. Thus the mode cleaner remains unlocked. State of the IFO this evening: All suspensions that are on are damped at the same level they've been for the past two weeks. HPI BS -- OFF, floating ISI BS -- OFF, floating HPI ITMY -- LOCKED ISI ITMY -- Isolated Level 2 HPI HAM2 -- OFF, floating ISI HAM2 -- Isolated Level 3 HPI HAM3 -- OFF, floating Sebastian is running measurements on HAM3 ISI
Greg Scott Tyler & Hugh A bit more fluid drained, total of about 10 liters so far. May not get much more til other breaches accessed. Moved all four Horizontal Actuators to BSC10; first Vertical Actuator is out. Should finish everything tomorrow. Welder will be here for tubing changes tomorrow too.
Travis, Betsy, Mark
Today, we continued on the ETMx monolithic suspension assembly. We fixed a few course misalignments, plumbed in all 12 of the top stage BOSEMs, and launched damping loops. Mark is now doing a few checks of the BOSEM actuation as well as taking a sneak peek at the resonances to check for rubbing before we invoke IAS for fine alignment sometime tomorrow.
I attempted to enable damping and take TFs but it appears that actuation is disabled. Changing the BIO state request doesn't give changes in the readback flags, so probably the BIO chassis is powered down or broken.
In the meantime, to get Betsy and Travis a quick go/no-go, I started a set of spectra at 16:40 Pacific. (Obviously the damped will be the same as the undamped.)
QDP80 roughing the vertex volume. For Mike Z.
Volume pumped would be the Y Beam Manifold + HAM2,3 + BSC1,2.
Volume pumped should be Y Beam Manifold + HAM2,3 + BSC 1,2,3
A note on Siskiyou actuators:
When you tighten the lock screw of the Siskiyou actuators, the mirror angle changes considerably. When we were doing this for the mirror holder in front of the green QPD sled, the beam fell off of the second QPD. The QPD sled is designed such that the second QPD monitor far field, which means that the beam displacement on that QPD caused by the angle change is much much larger than the angle change multiplied by the lever arm, but that doesn't make me less annoyed.
I don't understand why this happens, but this is quite repeatable and it's not only one mirror holder either, we also experienced this with telescope alignement.
This makes it extremely difficult to work with these actuators (if you want to lock them), because after you tighten the lock screw, the actuator screw becomes hard to move and you cannot get the mirror back to where it should be.
My work around was not to overly tighten, just make it such that it's not easy to move the actuator by hand but it's still possible to do it using an Allen key, and only use Allen keys to make adjustment. Yes it's against the idea of locking if I'm only sort-of-but-not-really locking.
If tightening the lock screw makes such a big change in the mirror angle, I have to wonder if it drifts with the temperature change. Actuator screw is stainless steel, the threaded thing for the actuator screw seems like bronze, thermal expansion coefficients are different depending on the composition of alloy (quick googling tells me that 304SS is about 17E-6/K, 310SS about 14E-6/K, bronze about 19E-6). Therefore when the temperature changes the actuator might become tighter or looser just like when you tension the lock screw.