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H1 DAQ
james.batch@LIGO.ORG - posted 20:49, Wednesday 07 May 2014 (11758)
Raw minute trend files moved on h1fw0
WP 4615 is now complete.  Raw minute trend files that were on the nearly full SSD raid array on h1fw0 have been copied to the SATAboy hard drive array, verified to ensure the copy is complete and accurate, and then the old raw minute trend files removed from the SSD.  New raw minute trend files are being written to the SSD array.  Dataviewer was used to ensure that h1nds0 could serve data across the boundary between old and new files.
H1 ISC
keita.kawabe@LIGO.ORG - posted 17:41, Wednesday 07 May 2014 (11756)
EY IR transmission path

Since Stefan and Sheila weren't able to find the IR beam in ISCTEY the other day, I went there and looked inside BSC10 through the viewport.

The first thing was that the logic for open/close of the beam diverter is wrong AGAIN. When it's "closed" the beam comes to ISCTEY, when "open" the beam is cut by the beam diverter.

Second, I looked at the green beam retro reflected by ETMY leaking to the IR path, and was able to locate the beam in ISCTEY once the beam diverter state was set correctly ("closed"), but the beam passes about 6" below the periscope mirror (first picture) and hits the ISCT panel on the opposite side. We need to lower the periscope mirror by about 7". (Green leakage beam does not exactly follow the IR path because of the dispersion and the wedge of ETM, but it should be close enough to find the IR beam.) This could be done at any convenient time (maintenance, earthquake, ...).

Third, Aaron brought a good replacement cable for ISCTEY camera, we tested and it was good, but I didn't install it (I need to leave now), it's just sitting on the ISCTEY table. This camera is not useful until the periscope mirror is lowered anyway.

The second picture shows how high this periscope is as of now relative to the green injection periscope.

Images attached to this report
H1 ISC (CDS)
david.barker@LIGO.ORG - posted 17:26, Wednesday 07 May 2014 (11755)
h1asc model now compiling

Kiwamu and Dave

After the inclusion of the ADS (Alignment Dither System) part into ASC_MASTER.mdl the h1asc model would not compile. I spent some time this afternoon investigating this problem. I noticed that the rtdemod parts with were listed in the rcg error log all shared a from/goto tag call SPOP18 which was relatively new. When I removed these tags (10 receiver tags) and replaced with straight through connectors the model compiled.

On futher testing, I found the the addition of any more tags (even a single goto/from pair) caused the compile to fail. Perhaps we are seeing an internal part/tag limit.

I've attached the before and after pictures of the relevant part of ASC-ADS, the before has the yellow SPOP18 tags.

I've only performed a "make h1asc" at this point, if we choose to run this model a "make install-h1asc" will be needed. The ASC_MASTER was linking to an ASC_MASTERr7418.mdl file for the ADS block, I have broken this link and ingested ADS into the master model.

Images attached to this report
H1 AOS
jeffrey.bartlett@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:25, Wednesday 07 May 2014 (11754)
Install H1-SR3
Andres, Margo, & Jeff

   We have moved H1-SR3 into HMA5. The suspension is positioned on the ISI but only held down with 4 dog clamps. We will continue the install process tomorrow when the LVEA is laser safe.
H1 General
jim.warner@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:00, Wednesday 07 May 2014 (11753)
opslog 5/7/14
8:30 Fil to EX to look at ESD 
8:45 jeffb and andres to ham5 
9:00 betsy to ham4-5 
9:00 joed and gerardo to lvea 
9:00 DaveH to tcsx 
10:00 jimb restarting h1nds0 
10:30 betsy working on sr2 
13:00 travis to lvea for acb assembly 
13:00 karen to ey  back 13:45
14:30 arnaud ey monitor board testing 
15:00 keita to ey 
15:00 richard and fil to ey working on esd 
H1 AOS
travis.sadecki@LIGO.ORG - posted 15:10, Wednesday 07 May 2014 (11752)
H1 ITMy ACB build

Mitchell, Margot, Myself

 

Over the past two days, we have managed to re-launch ACB assembly in the LVEA teststand cleanrooms.  The first day was largely clearing space in the cleanrooms and locating and reclaiming parts (most of the parts had prematurely been put into 3IFO storage).  By the end of today, we have the baffle box mostly assembled, with the exception of the extension due to running out of, of all things, 1/4-20 washers.  More washers have been located in SUS stock.  Tomorrow, we plan to wrap up assembling the baffle and move onto the suspension.

H1 ISC
kiwamu.izumi@LIGO.ORG - posted 15:00, Wednesday 07 May 2014 (11751)
PRMI rehabilitation: PRX and PRY OK, PRMI far from OK.

As a preparation for the upcoming dual arm experiments, I started revisiting the PRMI lock.

PRX and PRY locking:

I started it from PRX as usual. The alignment at the beginning was not terrible: the beam was multiply-bouncing in the power recycling cavity. Aligning PRM immediately gave me good fringes in POP18 and REFLAIR PDs. Note that I assumed that the input pointing had been already good so that I don't have to tweak IM4, PR2 or PR3. Once I got the right LSC settings, it locked reliably as it used to be. I had to set the state definition to be manual for LSC-PD which toggles either only analog or digital sides of the whitening filters. Also I enabled the PR2 and PRM L2P filters because they were not on. I simply put a gain of 1 on them. It didn't seem to do something bad.

I steered BS to get the highest buildup in PRC when I was locking PRY. I had to move the pitch by 7 urad and yaw by 2 urad. Note that they had been originally adjusted for the ALS-Y beam and the alignment sliders had at 190.10 and -268.40 for pitch and yaw respectively before I steered it.

PRMI locking:

BS didn't have the oplev servos running, so I enabled them. All the LSC settings were done by the guardian. I am not sure why it doesn't lock at this moment. I am hoping that tuning the LSC gains will give a smooth lock once we (re-)figure it out. There were several times of short-lock: each of them stayed locked approximately for 1 sec. It looked as if the PRC gain was not big enough. However, increasing the PRC gain did not improve the situation. Hmmmm. I tried different gain settings, but no luck so far.

Some other notes:

Also, I was not sure how well the beam pointing had been adjusted. We may want to revisit the pointing because it can repeatedly lead to unnecessary alignment exercise in PRMI.

H1 SUS (AOS)
betsy.weaver@LIGO.ORG - posted 14:27, Wednesday 07 May 2014 (11749)
HAM 4 status

In HAM 4, today I:

H1 ISC
daniel.sigg@LIGO.ORG - posted 13:33, Wednesday 07 May 2014 - last comment - 16:54, Thursday 08 May 2014(11748)
ISCT1 work

(Alexa, Daniel)

Continuing yesterdays work we locked on PRX and installed the beampspitter in the POP path in front of POPAIR_A. The beam was very weak and we had some fun aligning it. We needed an additional lens (ROC 500mm) to keep the beam small. After the beam combiner we measured 170nW of power. Another short focal length lens was installed after the combiner to focus the beam down. We are still missing a photodetector.

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alexan.staley@LIGO.ORG - 18:11, Wednesday 07 May 2014 (11757)

We have set up the ISCT1 ALS-Y-GREEN digital video camera (number 05 on the camera overview screen). We have left the CCD on the table in case we need it for any reason. We are still using the CCD camera for the x-arm, but the digital video camera is ready and in place when we want to swap that out. 

I also brought BBPD (S1200247) from MY to ISCT1. The PD is mounted. Power and cables are still needed, but Kiwamu indicated we can borrow the 3f PD power from the legacy PD interface.

alexan.staley@LIGO.ORG - 16:54, Thursday 08 May 2014 (11781)

I have removed the CCD camera used for the y-arm beam and returned it to the shelves by the field racks.

I placed an ND06A (25±4% transmission for 1064nm) before the 50/50BS to reduce the power coming in from the PSL reference path. We also have a ND10A (10±4% transmission for 1064nm) readily avaliable (and it's an easy swap) if need be. The BBPD max incident power is 50mW for 1064nm. I have not measured the incident power yet.

Thanks to Stefan and Kiwamu, we got PRMI locked. This is much easier to work with :). I was able to do a rough aligmnet of the two beams by adjusting the BS. It remains to install the BBPD, but we have everything ready, so this should not take long and we should be able to finally do our measurement tomorrow.

H1 DAQ
james.batch@LIGO.ORG - posted 10:27, Wednesday 07 May 2014 (11747)
Restart h1nds0 daqd proces
The h1nds0 NDS server has been restarted to allow it to read the recently archived raw_minute files. This is not the default server, so users should not have noticed.  Maintenance is ongoing, and will finish tomorrow afternoon.
H1 INS
jim.warner@LIGO.ORG - posted 09:07, Wednesday 07 May 2014 (11746)
Installation Meeting Summary
-TCSx a few hours work left TCSy has problems with control box, on hold. Continuing work on HWS. More projections to do.
-HAM4 baffle install ongoing. Cleanroom clearance issues being negotiated.
-SR3 going into HAM5.
-Ey ESD short center pin to shield, RichardM will cut shield. Fil will double check Ex.
-Adding 2 GigE cameras to system, Cyrus will modify switches to allow connection.
-ALS diff ongoing, top mass and UIM working. ESD not working, saturation at .5hz.
H1 CDS (DAQ)
david.barker@LIGO.ORG - posted 08:43, Wednesday 07 May 2014 - last comment - 14:54, Wednesday 07 May 2014(11745)
CDS model and DAQ restart report, Tuesday 6th May 2014

model restarts logged for Tue 06/May/2014
2014_05_06 03:27 h1fw1
2014_05_06 11:17 h1isiham4
2014_05_06 11:34 h1fw0
2014_05_06 17:02 h1fw0

2014_05_06 21:03 h1fw0
2014_05_06 22:34 h1fw0
2014_05_06 23:48 h1fw0

h1fw1 perhaps still slightly unstable despite solaris reboot. Tue maintenance on HAM ISI. h1fw0 offloading min trends from SSD, looks like this has made fw0 unstable.

Comments related to this report
james.batch@LIGO.ORG - 14:54, Wednesday 07 May 2014 (11750)
The h1fw0 daqd process will continue to be unstable while verification of data that was copied and removal of the data from the SSD continues.  This is very disk intensive work, so it will cause occasional restarts of daqd on h1fw0.  Work should be complete sometime Wednesday evening.
H1 General
jeffrey.bartlett@LIGO.ORG - posted 08:09, Wednesday 07 May 2014 (11744)
Particle Counts in HAM5
Took particle counts in and around the HAM5 chamber before installing the SR3 cookie cutter. 

   Before opening the chamber (soft cover) clenaroom counts were 0 for all particle sizes. 
   After opening the soft cover particle counts outside the chamber were <100 for all particle sizes.
   After opening the soft cover particle counts inside the chamber were 0 for all particle sizes.
   After installing the cookie cutter for SR3 the in chamber particle counts jumped to just below 500 for 0.3 micron sizes and dropped off as particle size increased. 
   After 5 minutes the highest counts for all particle sizes had dropped back to <35 counts.

Note: The RH of the out of chamber cleanroom air was 26%. The first check of the in chamber environment showed a RH of just 7%.  
   
H1 General
jeffrey.bartlett@LIGO.ORG - posted 07:57, Wednesday 07 May 2014 (11743)
PET Swipe Samples
Took PET swipe samples from 05/06/2014 of HAM4, HAM5, & HAM6. These samples were taken after the SR2 alignment was completed and before any suspensions are installed in HAM5. 

Margo P. did a wipe down on the HAM5 chamber. 
H1 ISC (ISC)
stefan.ballmer@LIGO.ORG - posted 22:23, Tuesday 06 May 2014 (11742)
Most Things Haven't Worked Out (Junior Kimbrough)



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Kiwamu, Stefan, Sheila

We again tried the the ESD feed-back - see title for conclusion:

In detail:
 - We patched the UIM transfer function above 2Hz with a LISO fit.
 - We verified the sign of all 3 involved states - they are all negative.
 - We checked the measured transfer functions against the suspension model - they looked all right.
 - We checked the model (assuming ideal inverted plants) for proper x-ing (plot attached).
 - Trying to engage the TST drive we ran into TST mass ESD saturations at 0.5Hz.
   The blend high pass still lets signal through at that frequency.
 - We started a detailed transfer function measurement for TST (L3) from 2Hz to 0.2Hz, but were interrupted by a small earth quake.


Remarks:
 - Some useful LISO and foton tools are in ~controls/sballmer/bin:
   - LISO2FotonZPK: convert a LISO fit file into a zpk design string readable by foton.
   - mkfotoncal:  convert a foton zpk design into a list of poles and zeros readable by the DTT calibration feature.

 

Images attached to this report
H1 AOS (AOS)
matthew.heintze@LIGO.ORG - posted 18:05, Tuesday 06 May 2014 (11741)
TCS/HWS summary

(Alastair H, David H, Greg G, Thomas V, Matt H)

Summary of work:

 

HWS

TCSy

TCSx

 

Thanks to everybody who was patient and allowed us to stay laser safe and the gate valves closed until we got both visible beam alignments done for both tables (I know we took a little longer than said we might)

 

And fingers crossed that the much talked about off table projection for TCSx occurs tomorrow at some stage :-)

H1 CDS
david.barker@LIGO.ORG - posted 17:49, Tuesday 06 May 2014 (11740)
Projector bulb replacement

We replaced the bulb on the right-hand projector today (the one closest to the MSR).

LHO VE (VE)
gerardo.moreno@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:22, Tuesday 06 May 2014 (11739)
Gate valve operations

Kyle soft-closed GV7 and GV5 for TCS alignment work on BSC1 and BSC3 at 9:00 am.
I opened GV7 and GV5 after alignment work was done, last valve open by 3:00 pm.

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