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H1 CDS
cyrus.reed@LIGO.ORG - posted 10:44, Monday 18 August 2014 - last comment - 13:31, Monday 18 August 2014(13464)
SataBoy Controller 0 Failures
So, apparently, the loss of a management network link causes the SataBoy controllers to fail, as evidenced by three simultaneous alarms when I powered off the management switch in preparation to swap it out.  Yay.  I have silenced the alarms, and so far C1 on each array appears to be working.  Message on serial console was 'Controller C0 has a firmware fault', and status LED was still green until I booted the switch, at which point the status LED went red and the serial console message changed to 'RAID controller 0 failed'.  More details to follow.
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cyrus.reed@LIGO.ORG - 13:29, Monday 18 August 2014 (13465)
Dan and I returned the failed controllers to operation by pulling, then re-plugging them in the chassis.  (Turns out you can do this from the GUI too, if that is accessible - probably preferable.  I'm assuming it can probably be done from the serial console as well, if you know where to look.)  We tested using the (idle) second h1fw1 array, and were able to reproduce the problem.  Looking at the logs, I noticed that the SMTP process was generating an exception when the ethernet link went down; when it came back up, the NSVC process logged an exception (and causes a controller failure).  We decided to turn off the 'E-Alerts' for network related events, and tested again - the problem did not re-occur.  So apparently, the arrays get very upset when they can't e-mail you that the network is down.  We updated the configuration on the other two arrays, and tested them to make sure the change works around this issue.

fw1 logged a reboot sometime during the initial instance of the problem, but there were no other problems recorded during recovery and testing so that work was non-intrusive.
cyrus.reed@LIGO.ORG - 13:31, Monday 18 August 2014 (13466)
Note: The affected arrays were raid-msr-h1a, raid-msr-h1b, and raid-msr-dmt.  (So, all of them.)  All should now be recovered and operating normally.  The redundant controller appears to have taken over in all cases while the primary controller was down.
H1 PSL
kiwamu.izumi@LIGO.ORG - posted 09:28, Monday 18 August 2014 - last comment - 09:45, Monday 18 August 2014(13462)
FSS was in a sad state, the temperature scan range re-adjusted

Keita, Kiwamu, Patrick,

Richard noticed that the PSL kept flickering once a minute or so. Looking at the PSL screens, we found that the FSS was unable to find a 00-mode. This kept unlocking the PMC because of the large temperature scan by the FSS auto-locker.

We changed the temperature scanning range from [-0.1 : 0.1] to [-0.2: 0] K. Immediately a 00-mode was found slightly below -0.1 K. This is why the FSS was unable to find it. Now the FSS seems happy.

 

Also, Keita and Patrick took at look at trend of some PSL temperature sensors. There was a clear coherence between the NPRO locking point in its temperature and the PSL room temperature. According to a sensor, the room temperature dropped from 73 to 71.5 F over the past month.

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keita.kawabe@LIGO.ORG - 09:45, Monday 18 August 2014 (13463)

See the NPRO temperature (left bottom) and the PSL room table temperature (right top).

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LHO General
patrick.thomas@LIGO.ORG - posted 08:37, Monday 18 August 2014 (13460)
Installation meeting notes
Doug working on optical lever for SR3
HAM6 fine alignment waiting for vacuum
tiltmeter hardware installed, analyzing data
charging measurements moving to end X
B & K hammering at end X
LHO VE
daniel.sigg@LIGO.ORG - posted 08:04, Monday 18 August 2014 (13459)
LVEA pumpdown

Pressure still at 0.77 Torr. Roughing valves opened at 0730.

H1 CDS (DAQ)
david.barker@LIGO.ORG - posted 07:17, Monday 18 August 2014 (13458)
CDS model and DAQ restart report, Sunday 17th August 2014

no restarts reported

LHO VE
john.worden@LIGO.ORG - posted 20:15, Sunday 17 August 2014 (13457)
Rough pumping of YBM+VERTEX+XBM is taking too long -> I (Kyle) have to leave now -> 2015 hrs @ 7.7 x 10-1 torr

Entry by Kyle

H1 SEI
timothy.macdonald@LIGO.ORG - posted 17:35, Sunday 17 August 2014 (13456)
B&K Measurement Update
T. MacDonald, J. Kissel

Initial measurements of the H1EX piers and floor were taken on 8-15-14 to establish that the B&K system and accelerometers were functioning as expected. These were done with a B&K 4506 
accelerometer on each north edge of the top of north side piers, and another on the north side of the chamber about 5 ft from the top. The B&K 8340 accelerometer was centered under the beam tube 
and 1 ft north of the center line between the north piers. During these measurements, no features were found near 8 Hz.

There were some concerns about the coherence of the 4506 accelerometers at 8 Hz, which was generally below 0.5. The 8340 accelerometer coherence was much better, so on 8-16-15 it was mounted on the 
top of the northeast pier next to one of the 4506s. Measurements were taken again at several points on the ground and the pier, with still no features at 8 Hz. However, an impact on the crossbeam
showed a clear feature in the frequency response at 8 Hz. To characterize this response, a full set of measurements was taken around the floor and along the pier and crossbeam. Results were
consistent and key measurements are outlined. Full results and files are also available on the SVN at https://svn.ligo.caltech.edu/svn/seismic/Common/PierMotionStudy/EXH1/20140816.

Following these measurements, the 8340 was moved to the crossbeam and a measurement sequence covering the full north side was created to examine floor motion and mode shapes of the structure. These measurements
were completed and further analysis will follow. More extensive measurements of all four piers will also be completed.
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LHO VE
kyle.ryan@LIGO.ORG - posted 10:37, Sunday 17 August 2014 (13455)
1030 hrs. local -> Resumed pumping of YBM+VERTEX+XBM


			
			
H1 CDS (DAQ)
david.barker@LIGO.ORG - posted 07:49, Sunday 17 August 2014 (13454)
CDS model and DAQ restart report, Saturday 16th August 2014

no restarts reported

H1 CDS (DAQ)
david.barker@LIGO.ORG - posted 21:22, Saturday 16 August 2014 (13453)
CDS model and DAQ restart report, Friday 15th August 2014

model restarts logged for Fri 15/Aug/2014
2014_08_15 13:20 h1iopsusauxex
2014_08_15 13:20 h1susauxex
2014_08_15 14:06 h1ioppemmx
2014_08_15 14:09 h1ioppemmx
2014_08_15 14:21 h1ioppemmx
2014_08_15 14:22 h1ioppemmx
2014_08_15 14:23 h1ioppemmx
2014_08_15 14:25 h1ioppemmx
2014_08_15 14:27 h1pemmx
2014_08_15 15:12 h1ioppemmx
2014_08_15 15:13 h1ioppemmx
2014_08_15 15:15 h1ioppemmx
2014_08_15 15:17 h1ioppemmx
2014_08_15 15:20 h1ioppemmx
2014_08_15 15:21 h1ioppemmx
2014_08_15 15:21 h1pemmx
2014_08_15 15:22 h1pemmx

no unexpected restarts. Recovery of h1susauxex after power outage, testing channel access parts in rcg2.8.5 on h1pemmx.

H1 SEI (DetChar, PEM)
jeffrey.kissel@LIGO.ORG - posted 20:03, Saturday 16 August 2014 - last comment - 20:25, Saturday 16 August 2014(13451)
B&K Hammer Work Done for the Day
J. Kissel, T. MacDonald

We've whacked on the HEPI piers and surround floor some more today. We think we finally have a good combination of hit locations, hit strengths, and accelerometer locations that we're measuring the real flagpole motion of the pier at 8 [Hz]. Lots of plots, data, and analysis to come (as we know it's torturous to get data off the B&K system). Glancing at the rotation sensor signal, we found it had rung up to +/- 500 [nrad] during our activity and a visit by Robert, so we did the gravity dance a little bit, such that it now is moving +/- 250 -- Krishna is much better than us at this. We've left the end station as of 2014-08-17 8:00p PDT, or 2014-08-17 03:00 UTC.
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krishna.venkateswara@LIGO.ORG - 20:25, Saturday 16 August 2014 (13452)
The dance is easy once you anticipate your partner (the balance). Just takes a bit of practice :) 
LHO VE
daniel.sigg@LIGO.ORG - posted 18:29, Saturday 16 August 2014 (13450)
Stopped pumping at 6:20PM

After roughly 10 hours of pumping we reached a pressure of 20 Torrs.

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LHO FMCS
keita.kawabe@LIGO.ORG - posted 18:06, Saturday 16 August 2014 (13449)
LVEA dust count alarm

Alarm handler was complaining about LVEA dust monitor 2 and 5.

In the attached 2-days plot, I see nothing today that was larger than on Friday, except there was a one time glitch for dust monitor 5 at around 6AM today which immediately got back to zero-ish, so I acknowledged both of the alarms.

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H1 SEI (DetChar, PEM)
jeffrey.kissel@LIGO.ORG - posted 17:26, Saturday 16 August 2014 (13448)
H1 EX BRS Now in aLIGO Front End
J. Kissel, K. Venkateswara

Krishna and I completed the installation of the H1 EX Beam Rotation sensor today by inserting the analysis laptop's output (via a USB DAC NI-6343). The tilt signal channel, H1:ISI-GND_BRS_ETMX_RY_OUT_DQ (fs = 256 [Hz]) is filtered to produce a calibrated tilt signal in [nrad]. Pictures and data to come!

Raw data is output with a very-low frequency high-pass to limit the range of what goes into the ADC
2 zeros @ 0 [Hz], 2 poles @ 1 [mHz]

Once in the aLIGO DAQ, there are two calibration filters,
FM1
Rotation sensor gain calibration
Filter File: /opt/rtcds/userapps/release/isi/h1/filterfiles/H1ISIETMX.txt
Filter Bank: (FM1) H1:ISI-GND_BRS_ETMX_RY_Name00
Filter Name: "ct2nrad"
3.5e-6 [rad/pixel] * 1 [pixels/V_sing] * 1/2 [V_sing / V_diff] * 40/2^16 [V_diff/ct] * 1e9 [nrad/rad] =  1.0681 [nrad/ct]

FM2
Rotation sensor pendulum response inversion
Filter File: /opt/rtcds/userapps/release/isi/h1/filterfiles/H1ISIETMX.txt
Filter Bank: (FM1) H1:ISI-GND_BRS_ETMX_RY_Name00
Filter Name: "ct2nrad"
2 complex zeros at 8.8 [mHz], with a Q of 100
2 poles at 0.001 [Hz] to roll off inversion
Normalized to 1 at high frequency
zpk([4.4e-05+i*0.00879989;4.4e-05-i*0.00879989],[0.001;0.001],1,"n")gain(77.4401)
LHO General (SUS, VE)
rainer.weiss@LIGO.ORG - posted 15:03, Saturday 16 August 2014 (13447)
Report on charging research: Discharge of etmy, future work on ionizer,state of knowledge of charging
G. Moreno, K. Ryan, B. Sorazu, J. Worden, R. Weiss
Please look at the attached document. It is also in the DCC as T1400535
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H1 SEI (DetChar)
krishna.venkateswara@LIGO.ORG - posted 11:56, Saturday 16 August 2014 (13446)
H1 EX BRS Installation, Day 9 and 10: d measurement, leaky valves and ringdown Q measurement
Jeff K., Krishna V.

The tilt transfer function measurements were yielding inconsistent results and ultimately I decided that the error bars on the measurement are much larger than previously anticipated. The main reason is that I dont have a simple way of producing pure tilt on the platform, therefore cross-couplings are preventing few percent level accuracy on the transfer function measurement needed to measure d to better than ~ +/- 5 microns. Based on the GRND_T240 comparison, and the average of the transfer function measurements, we have reason to believe that the displacement rejection is better than 1E-4, which I decided was sufficient for now. Once plugged in to the LIGO DAQ, there may be other ways of estimating "d".

In the afternoon, I added multiple layers of aluminum foil and foam insulation to the vacuum can and the autocollimator. I then tried to turn the Ion pump on. To describe the problem, let me briefly summarize the pumping arrangement: Vacuum can --> Valve 1 --> Ion pump --> Valve 2 --> Temporary pumping station (Turbo).
The pressure at the Turbo was about 5E-7 torr.

The Ion pump turned on just fine and the current dropped down to <0.1 mA in minutes. I then closed Valve 2. The current went up to ~ 3 mA and then started going back down. SO far so good. I then turned the Turbo off and the current started rising! Valve 2 was leaking through flanges (not to outside), which was a surprise. I tested it again and same result.

Luckily, I was able to find a replacement valve very easily at the corner station. I closed Valve 1 and replaced Valve 2. I then pumped overnight with the Turbo.

On Saturday morning, I turned on the Ion pump and closed Valve 2. This time the current went up to 3 mA but then went down normally and did not rise when the Turbo was turned off. Whew! The current after an hour of pumping was 0.5 mA.

Overnight, I also took a ringdown Q measurement for the balance beam. The first plot shows the ringdown over 40k seconds. A second plot shows a zoomed in view. The log(Amplitude) is mostly flat but tends to get better at late times which was probably just due to the improving pressure. A straight line fit to the log(Amp) gives a Q of ~4800 and since the resonance frequency is 8.8 mHz, this gives a damping/decay time of 173k seconds or ~ 2 days!


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LHO VE
keita.kawabe@LIGO.ORG - posted 08:50, Saturday 16 August 2014 - last comment - 10:49, Saturday 16 August 2014(13444)
Started pumping down at 8:30AM

We're starting from HVE-LY:Y2_180ATORR = 450 torr.

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john.worden@LIGO.ORG - 10:49, Saturday 16 August 2014 (13445)

THX

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