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LHO General
patrick.thomas@LIGO.ORG - posted 18:51, Tuesday 29 January 2013 (5302)
Ops Shift Summary
Work discussed in the morning meeting:

BSC1:
Hugh, Apollo: attach HEPI actuators
Doug: Check alignment after HEPI actuators attached

MC:
Recheck IMC cavity pole measurement
Hugo: Install blend filters for HAM2,3.

BS test stand:
Jim: Replace 2 broken Trillium sensors
Betsy: Move suspension

HAM6:
Greg, Apollo: HEPI install

LVEA:
Richard: Rebalance DC power load on ISC racks

HAM2,3:
Filiberto: Illuminator install

EY:
Kyle: Vent chambers

No Praxair delivery

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Replacement of floor mats
Sprague
Delivery for Ken
Dust monitor at location 4 moved into BSC2 cartridge test stand with BS
1:01 Filiberto attached power to HEPI
3:04 Cheryl to close the PSL laser shutter to realign camera on top of HAM 2
Daniel working on h1ecatc1 and h1ecatex Beckhoff computers

Kyle began a slow vent at end Y.
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Filiberto ran power cables for and installed illuminators in HAM2 and 3.
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All the front end computers and associated IO chassis were shutdown except for the test stands and mid X.
Richard redistributed the DC power at the ISC rack.
The fiber optics ports of the timing system were reconfigured to match LLO.
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2:18 - 4:11 Dan upgraded the firmware on the SATABOY controllers in the MSR
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Dave modified the h1ascimc model
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The glass BS optic was put in the suspension on the test stand
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The last of the HEPI actuators were attached to BSC1
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The PSL laser was accidentally tripped and shutdown.
Michael R. swapped out water filters for the diode chillers.
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Signed work permits: 3687-3690
LHO VE
kyle.ryan@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:53, Tuesday 29 January 2013 (5310)
BSC5 annulus pumping down too slowly -> will need to investigate


			
			
LHO VE
kyle.ryan@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:50, Tuesday 29 January 2013 (5309)
Y-end vent progress
Found the Y-end MTP shut down during the night -> Problem turned out to be the "over head"  chilled water supply valve to the mechanical room was closed for some reason -> Opened valve and restarted MTP -OK 

Upon measuring the vent/purge air dew point just prior to venting I discovered a problem -> Found that the left drying tower wasn't regenerating correctly -> problem ended up being a wore out swing-style check valve -> Replaced internal (wear) components -> OK -> These check valves (4 per vent/purge skid) have been trouble-free for the first fifteen years of operation but are now failing regularly due to excessive wear -> I will attempt to replace these site wide time permitting.

~1530 hrs. local 
Began "slow" vent of Y-end 

~1600 hrs. local 
Made small vent rate adjustment 

~1630 hrs. local 
Made a second small vent rate adjustment
H1 DAQ
david.barker@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:41, Tuesday 29 January 2013 (5308)
h1fw1 SATABOY RAID firmware upgrade

WP3690

Dan from LDAS upgraded the firmware on the SATABOY controllers in the MSR. This is the file system for h1fw1 and h1nds1. The data gap is shown below

 

-rw-r--r--   1 controls controls 257745931 Jan 29 14:13 H-H1_R-1043532768-32.gwf

 

-rw-r--r--   1 controls controls 257745931 Jan 29 14:13 H-H1_R-1043532768-32.gwf
-rw-r--r--   1 controls controls 265951676 Jan 29 16:13 H-H1_R-1043539968-32.gwf-rw-r--r--   1 controls controls 257745931 Jan 29 14:13 H-H1_R-1043532768-32.gwf

-rw-r--r--   1 controls controls 265951676 Jan 29 16:13 H-H1_R-1043539968-32.gwf

 

-rw-r--r--   1 controls controls 257745931 Jan 29 14:13 H-H1_R-1043532768-32.gwf
-rw-r--r--   1 controls controls 265951676 Jan 29 16:13 H-H1_R-1043539968-32.gwf

 

-rw-r--r--   1 controls controls 257745931 Jan 29 14:13 H-H1_R-1043532768-32.gwf
-rw-r--r--   1 controls controls 265951676 Jan 29 16:13 H-H1_R-1043539968-32.gwf
H1 AOS
jason.oberling@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:25, Tuesday 29 January 2013 (5306)
BSC1 ITMy Alignment
Measured the position/pointing of the ITMy this afternoon.  With the exception of the axial position, all measurements were done with the ISI unlocked (the axial position measurement required extra hardware mounted to the quad frame.  This would unbalance an unlocked ISI and introduce error, therefore the ISI was left locked for the measurement).
H1 SUS
betsy.weaver@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:21, Tuesday 29 January 2013 (5305)
BS optic in suspension

Gerardo, Betsy, Travis

Using the ergo arm, we stuffed the glass into the suspension.  The metal face shileds are in place.  Work to suspend it will resume another day.

H1 SUS
mark.barton@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:05, Tuesday 29 January 2013 - last comment - 10:52, Wednesday 30 January 2013(5304)
ITMy TFs
Mark B. and Arnaud P.

Starting TFs with Matlab on ITMy.
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mark.barton@LIGO.ORG - 09:55, Wednesday 30 January 2013 (5314)
The TFs ran largely without incident - only one case of failing to read from NDS, in the 0.01-0.4 band for L.

M0 undamped: ^/trunk/QUAD/H1/ITMY/SAGM0/Data/2013-01-29-1043539447_H1SUSITMY_M0_0p01to50Hz_tf.mat
R0 undamped: ^/trunk/QUAD/H1/ITMY/SAGR0/Data/2013-01-29-1043558145_H1SUSITMY_R0_0p01to50Hz_tf.mat

M0 L, P, Y and T, and all R0 plots are good. M0 V and R show anomalies that don't look like anything in the Coloring Book and may be a measurement artifact. There's a discontinuity at 0.4 Hz, as if the gain of some component had mysteriously increased between bands.
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mark.barton@LIGO.ORG - 10:52, Wednesday 30 January 2013 (5316)
I reran the M0 V TF with DTT and it's fine, with none of the strange steps in the Matlab TF. So it's presumably a measurement artifact of some sort.
Non-image files attached to this comment
H1 General
filiberto.clara@LIGO.ORG - posted 14:47, Tuesday 29 January 2013 (5303)
Installation of Illuminators for HAM2 and HAM3.
Per documents T1200220 and D0901084:

Illuminator for HAM2 was installed in viewport VPA1F1.
Illuminator for HAM3 was installed in viewport VPA1F3.

Filiberto Clara
H1 ISC
david.barker@LIGO.ORG - posted 12:55, Tuesday 29 January 2013 (5301)
h1ascimc model changed to remove conflicting epics names

The ISC group discovered another conflict in EPICS names between the h1ascimc mode (a copy of l1ascimc) and the new Beckhoff ISC slow controls system.

Similarly to the WFS_A and WFS_B Gain channels, the MC2_TRANS_WHITEN and the IM4_TRANS_WHITEN were removed. The change was applied when h1asc0 was restarted after this morning's shutdown.

H1 CDS
david.barker@LIGO.ORG - posted 12:52, Tuesday 29 January 2013 (5300)
CDS maintenance

A big maintenance day today. While the DC power to the front end IO Chassis was being worked on, we shutdown all the CDS frontends with the exception of h1pemmx.

We then reconfigured the fibrer optics ports of the timing system. The MSR master, the two H1CER fanouts and the EY fanout were recofigured to the standard as agreed between LHO and LLO. The temporary fanout in the LVEA for the test stands and the MX fanout were not changed.

All the front end machines were powered down for this work. The MSR front ends were powered up in the order:

h1psl0

h1seib1,h16,h23

h1susauxh2

h1susb123,h2a,h2b,h34

h1lsc0,h1asc0, h1oaf0

EY front ends

LVEA Test Stand Front Ends

Some problem with h1pemey IO Chassis timing, moving the tcs SFP over to the pem IO Chassis fixed this.

All system should now be burt restored and switch on.

H1 SEI
hugh.radkins@LIGO.ORG - posted 12:19, Tuesday 29 January 2013 (5299)
WBSC1 HEPI Actuators all Attached
Completed the last three attachments.  No real problems encountered.

Post attachment Dial Indicator readings suggests only a little bit of shift:

Level/Tilt--The West and South sides dropped down ~0.1mm; how this actually translates into the suspended ISI tilting is difficult to deduce but I'd say the effect is less.  If it does fully tilt the Optical Table, using my level observations of the ISI table Thursday 24 January, we are still in spec; runout of 0.2mm.  It may possibly cause some grief to SUS though, SEI's condolences.

Horizontal position--I see about 0.1mm of maximum translation with most readings 1/2 or even less than that.  I would forecast a maximum rotation of 50urad CCW.

So all & all pretty good; thanks to Randy Thompson.

There is one issue with this system though.  The South Crossbeam is only about 1mm away from the HEPI Housing on the SE Corner.  This is enough room for nominal operation but over time if the system walks North for what ever reason, we may have to address that.  Attached is a photo.
Images attached to this report
H1 PSL
michael.rodruck@LIGO.ORG - posted 10:26, Tuesday 29 January 2013 - last comment - 16:33, Tuesday 29 January 2013(5297)
PSL tripped

The laser shut down earlier today due to a communication failure between the control boxes and the Beckhoff computer. What I think happened is the power to the ethernet to fiber converter for the LVEA control box was lost - this is plugged into an AC outlet and the prongs were barely in, so it probably got bumped. I'll wait until the CDS work is done to bring the laser back up.

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michael.rodruck@LIGO.ORG - 16:33, Tuesday 29 January 2013 (5307)

Restarted the laser. I had noticed that the diode chiller flow level was slowly decreasing over the past two months, and thought it might be due to clogged filters. I swapped both filters out from the diode chiller but the flow was less than it was before. I increased the flow as high as I could, to 22 lpm, but it has continued to decrease, although it looks like it is slowly settling down.

I included a 60 day trend of the flow rate, which shows that something happened at the end of December which decreased the flow and hasn't stopped. I don't believe it is due to anything we have done, as this occured over holiday.

Images attached to this comment
LHO General
patrick.thomas@LIGO.ORG - posted 19:48, Monday 28 January 2013 (5296)
plots of dust counts
Attached are plots of dust counts > .3 microns and > .5 microns in particles per cubic foot requested from 5 PM Jan. 27 to 5 PM Jan. 28. Also attached are plots of the modes to show when they were running/acquiring data. Dust monitor 10 in the H1 PSL enclosure is still indicating a calibration failure.

The data was taken from h1nds0.
1260 seconds worth of data was unavailable on this server
1440.0 minutes of trend displayed
Non-image files attached to this report
H1 SEI
vincent.lhuillier@LIGO.ORG - posted 18:03, Monday 28 January 2013 (5295)
TF - BS - T240s (corners 2-3) not working right

Transfer functions were measured during the week-end. Stage 1 and stage 2 look good (cf TF_L4C & TF_GS13). On the other hand, the TFs from stage 1 actuators to T240s in corner 2 and corner 3 don't look right (gain and resonance). These 2 instruments don't seem to work properly.

Images attached to this report
H1 IOO
keita.kawabe@LIGO.ORG - posted 17:23, Monday 28 January 2013 (5294)
IMC MC2 M2-M3 cross-over, rehash

Matt, Keita

As noted in entry 5279 we had some trouble with changing MC2 acuation after the MC2 model change/restart.  It is not clear if the state before the change was the "right" one, and no explanation for the change was found (all MC2 coil driver bits were flipped, with no apparent change).  This should be looked at again with a model of the system in hand so that the measurements can be compared with expectations.  Since the "new" MC2_M2 TFs make the L1 filters stable, I am inclined to guess that we have returned to the "right" state.

In this state I changed the M2 stability filter to be very simple (zero at 2Hz, pole at 8Hz).  This gives the M2 cross-over resonable phase margin for all UGFs below 10Hz.  The attached images show the MC2 TFs with the M2 gain set to zero (no M2 actuation), M2 gain set to 0.03 (generally enough, and good for locking), and M2 gain of 0.1 (good for ISI work or high seismic times).  The maximum "good" value of the M2 gain is about 0.2, more than 0.3 is unstable.

Note that in the TFs involving MC2_M3, this system is working with heirachical control, so the measurement includes M3 and M2 (e.g., the whole MC2 actuation, or combine MC2 M2 and M3 actuator).  These TFs show that the M3 gain has about 8dB of gain margin, so gains more than about -2000 are likely to cause problems (-1000 is the nominal value).

Images attached to this report
H1 SUS
arnaud.pele@LIGO.ORG - posted 17:20, Monday 28 January 2013 (5293)
Modification of plot****_dtttfs.m
Mark suggested to modify the "plot****_dtttfs.m" scripts for QUAD HLTS HSTS HAUX and BSFM. 
From now, it will automatically create a Results folder in the right path (if it is not already existing) to save the pdf figures.

For example .../SusSVN/sus/trunk/HAUX/Common/MatlabTools/plotHAUX_dtttfs.m 
line 108 to 113 :

DIR=exist(resultsDir,'dir');
if DIR==7
else
    system(['mkdir -p ' resultsDir])
end
H1 SEI
hugh.radkins@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:33, Monday 28 January 2013 (5292)
WBSC1 HEPI Actuators 5/8 Attached
We (Randy & I) got the 4 Vertical Actuators attached along with the SE Horizontal.  Hopefully we'll wrap this up mid-day tomorrow.
LHO VE
kyle.ryan@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:26, Monday 28 January 2013 (5291)
Closed GV18, started purge air skid and rotating pumps at Y-end
Ready to vent Y-end

LHO VE
kyle.ryan@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:25, Monday 28 January 2013 (5290)
Finished roughing X-end -> Switched over to Turbo (MTP)


			
			
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