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Reports until 17:08, Monday 10 February 2014
H1 SUS
jeffrey.bartlett@LIGO.ORG - posted 17:08, Monday 10 February 2014 (9962)
Phase 2a Testing of H1-SR3
	  After correcting some cabling problems with H1-SR3, we set the open light, offsets, and gains as listed in the table below. The BOSEMs have been centered and set to 50% light. M1 level TFs are running over night to establish the baseline ahead of the glass mass installation.

OSEM    OL     Gain  Offset
M1T1   20302 1.478 -10151
M1T2   31863 0.942 -15931   
M1T3   31528 0.952 -15764    
M1LF   23046 1.302 -11523    
M1RT   27603 1.087 -13802    
M1SD   23250 1.290 -11625   

M2UL   25177 1.192 -12589     
M2LL   24388 1.230 -12194    
M2UR   27146 1.105 -13573    
M2LR   25803 1.163 -12901    

M3UL   25486 1.177 -12743
M3LL   27961 1.073 -13980   
M3UR   25580 1.173 -12790   
M3LR   25809 1.162 -12905    
H1 SUS
jeffrey.bartlett@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:52, Monday 10 February 2014 (9961)
H1-SR2 Phase 3a Power Spectra
    We ran Phase 3a Power Spectra on H1-SR2 this morning. The results look acceptable. The data plot files are posted below. All scripts and data files have been committed to the SVN repository
Non-image files attached to this report
LHO VE
kyle.ryan@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:31, Monday 10 February 2014 (9959)
Soft-cycled GV7 -> Removed RGA assemby from HAM3 east door while GV7 soft-closed -> replaced by blank flange
Atmospheric pressure now on outboard side of 8" gate valve's gate -> Actuator now labeled "Do not Operate" -> Valve will be opened only when HAM3 is vented
LHO General
justin.bergman@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:01, Monday 10 February 2014 (9957)
ops

 

Heavy snow onsite – arms drivable with caution

PSL enclosure in Science Mode. LVEA in laser SAFE.

 

 

859 - JeffB and Andres out to HAM4 to make adjustments to SR2

900 – 1200, Mitch & Gerardo working at LVEA test stands

0920 - 1020  RichardM to EY to check on TMS signaling error

930 – MindyJ doing TCS plumbing inspection in LVEA

931 – Jim to CER to investigate H1IOPSUSAUXH56 failure

936 – 959 – Sheila out to LVEA racks

941 – 1025 Jax, Alexa to EX

1039 - 1124 – Karen to EX

1000 – Keita and Corey at EY for TMS work

1115-1200, 1322 – Jax working on ISCTEY in LVEA Squeezer Bay

1159 – LVEA rollup door near CER used

1310-1325 Betsy down to EY briefly for parts

1402 – 1310 JohnW plowing X-arm with tractor

1415 – Fire Alarm testing in OSB (HFD)

1426 – 1537 Kyle Soft Closing GV-7 (WP4430)

1450 – Arnaud taking measurements at EX

1523 – JeffL and JeffB working at HAM5 cleanroom

H1 CDS
james.batch@LIGO.ORG - posted 15:43, Monday 10 February 2014 (9958)
Rebooted h1build
The h1build computer needed to be rebooted, it appears there was a kernel panic.
H1 SUS (ISC)
jeffrey.kissel@LIGO.ORG - posted 15:42, Monday 10 February 2014 (9956)
H1 SUS MC2 M2 Stage Coil Drivers Poorly Compensated
J. Kissel, A. Staley

Alexa found that an odd discrepancy between her model and measurement of the ALS CARM open loop gain transfer function. It turns out this odd discrepancy uncovered an oversight in the suspension coil driver compensation for the MC2 M2 stage. While this compensation was corrected for the other two modified drivers on H1 PRM and H1 SRM back in September (see LHO aLOG 7644), correcting the compensation on MC2 was skipped in favor of keeping the IMC locked, and then it fell off the radar. While this favor is still in place for this evening's integrated testing activities, we'll fix the problem tomorrow.

In the mean time, the details of the difference in compensation filters are below, so one can include the ratio in one's model:
       Current                              Should Be
FM1    zpk([8.99999],[81.9932],1,"n")       zpk([13],[64.9966],1,"n")
FM2    zpk([1.05],[45.9988],1,"n")          zpk([11;20.9999],[1;209.887],1,"n")
FM6    zpk([81.9932],[8.99999],1,"n")       zpk([64.9966],[13],1,"n")
FM7    zpk([45.9988],[1.05],1,"n")          zpk([1;209.887],[11;20.9999],1,"n")
where "should be" is confirmed by the definitive list of measured poles and zeros for each state of each driver, LLO aLOG 4495
H1 SEI (SEI)
hugo.paris@LIGO.ORG - posted 15:38, Monday 10 February 2014 - last comment - 15:23, Tuesday 11 February 2014(9955)
HAM ISI Command Scripts Work Again

HAM3-ISI tripped recently and needed to be turned back on. Commissioners noticed that the command buttons were not working anymore.

It turns out that someone ran an SVN update on the following file: /opt/rtcds/userapps/release/isi/common/scripts/HAMISItool, which was to be updated along with new models, screens and scripts, after testing at MIT. Having a model/script mismatch, the command script would be looking for inexistent channels, and fail.

I reverted HAMISItool to -r5830. This script should not be updated from the SVN again, until the latest HAM-ISI update gets propagated.

HAM3-ISI was turned back on with Isolation Lv3 and 01_28 blend filters. Target values were not changed to ensure returning to previous alignment.

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hugo.paris@LIGO.ORG - 10:53, Tuesday 11 February 2014 (9980)

The WD plotting software, which lives in the same folder, had stoped working too. It turns out that the related scripts were updated too, while they should not have been yet.

I reverted opt/rtcds/userapps/release/isi/common/scripts/wd_plots/ to -r6477, and the WD plotting software works again.

arnaud.pele@LIGO.ORG - 15:23, Tuesday 11 February 2014 (9991)

My bad, I updated the directory before modifying BSCISItool !

H1 SUS
betsy.weaver@LIGO.ORG - posted 13:30, Monday 10 February 2014 (9953)
ETMy QUAD stages locked

Brett is visiting to measure specific modes of the QUAD, so this morning we setup equipment and prepped the QUAD for this.  Working around the ongoing TMS work, we clamped only the top mass of the main chain, and the UIM and PenRe of the reaction chain.  Richard laced some cables in order to access some temporary PEM channels for this use - the BNCs are running under the rollup door corner from the high bay racks.  Brett has a QPD setup on an IAS tripod which easily moves around the QUAD as he needs.

H1 SYS
daniel.sigg@LIGO.ORG - posted 12:53, Monday 10 February 2014 (9951)
Commissioning calendar for next 2 weeks

Here is the list of commissioning task for the next 7-14 days:

Green team:

  1. Noise measurement between red and green.
  2. Switch the arm cavity locking to red.
  3. Make a mode scan of the red resonances.
  4. ETM drive diagonalization
  5. Commission the length feedback path to the ETM top suspension point to suppress microseism.
  6. Asses the status of the reference cavity temperature controls.

Red team:

  1. Center the red QPDs in EX.
  2. Optimize 3f locking.
  3. Investigate the robustness of the 3f lock in presence of an arm cavity.
  4. Start commissioning the alignment system.
  5. Optimize the thermal compensation of ITMY.
  6. Investigate the REFLAIR45 whitening filter issue.

Blue team (ISCTEY):

  1. Complete the feedthrough panels.
  2. Install the on table cabling.
  3. Prepare for move to the end station.
  4. Check out ALS electronics in EY.

TMS:

  1. Finish up with beam dumps and alignment.

SEI/SUS team:

  1. Improve stability under high performance in ETMX.
  2. Continue working on ITMY and BS.
H1 SUS (PEM, SUS)
richard.mccarthy@LIGO.ORG - posted 12:33, Monday 10 February 2014 (9950)
Temporary Channels EY
In support of EY SUS installation installed 3 temporary BNC cables to PEM AA chassis
H1:PEM-EY_TILT_VEA_FLOOR_X
H1:PEM-EY_TILT_VEA_FLOOR_Y
H1:PEM-EY_TILT_VEA_FLOOR_T
For an ontrack photo diode readout.  
H1 SEI
hugh.radkins@LIGO.ORG - posted 11:44, Monday 10 February 2014 (9948)
ETMX ISI Condition

The Green Team was able to give up the machine for a moment and so the ISI was put back to where it should be.  The GT had Stage1 at Lvl2 with TCrappy and Stage2 with 750mHz blends at lvl1 Isolation.

Stage2 was ctrlDown'd but when Stage1 was ctrlDown'd it triggered Stage2 to damping only.  Stage1 was then Isolated with Lvl3; this now includes a 60Hz notch.  Stage2 was brought up to Lvl3 with TCrappys but after a minute or two it was obvious it was ringing up.  Stage2 was ctrlDown'd again and Isolated again with Lvl2 and TCrappy blends.

The Green Machine seems to be content with the performance for now.

The problem with the Position Target setting has not been investigated.

H1 ISC
alexan.staley@LIGO.ORG - posted 11:36, Monday 10 February 2014 (9947)
Comm handoff measurements

COMM PLL

IMC Servo Board

CM Servo Board

LSC:REFL_SERVO_SLOW Filter

LSC-CARM Filter

MC2_M3_ISCINF Filter

MC2_M3_LOCK_L Filter

MC2_M2_LOCK_L Filter

  1. CM Slow Path TF mag/phase: SCRN0119.txt/SCRN0120.txt
  2. CM Fast Path TF mag/phase: SCRN0123.txt/SCRN0124.txt
  3. CM Common Path open loop TF mag/phase: SCRN0121.txt/SCRN0122.txt
Non-image files attached to this report
H1 ISC
alexan.staley@LIGO.ORG - posted 11:26, Monday 10 February 2014 (9946)
EX PDH Measurements

PLL Servo Board Settings

PDG Servo Board Settings

 

  1. PDH Error signal amplitude spectrum: EX_PDH_NoiseSpectrum.txt
  2. PDH "shot" noise: EX_PDH_ShotNoiseSpectrum.txt
  3. PDH open loop TF: EX_PDH_TFOpenLoop_mag/phase.txt
Non-image files attached to this report
H1 AOS (AOS)
douglas.cook@LIGO.ORG - posted 11:06, Monday 10 February 2014 (9944)
ETMy P-cal Periscope IAS Alignment
Doug, Rick, Craig
Friday we finished the P-Cal periscope installation and alignment
Final results after periscope lock down with the steering mirrors added:

Pitch: -6.0 micro radians (desired +/- 200 micro radians)
Yaw: 22 micro radians (desired +/- 200 micro radians)

Longitudinal: EDM reading 1,575 mm (desired 1,574.56 mm) L= 5,629.8 mm (HR to monument) - 4055.237 mm Periscope to HR face)= 1,574.56 tolerance +/- 3.0 mm

Latitude: within the 0.5mm width of the vertical target cross hair. (tolerance +/- 2.0 mm)
Vertical: within the 0.5mm width of the horizontal target cross hair. (tolerance +/- 2.0 mm)
Roll: within the 0.5mm width of the vertical horizontal target cross hair. (tolerance +/- 2.0 mm)

All measurement made in relationship to the beam line perpendicular to the HR face (00. 02'.12" pitched down (639 micro rads. total station pointing up -89deg 57'48"

P-cal doc E1300477; IAS alignment doc E1200953 ( both are being update to the as built versions with corrects)
H1 PSL (PSL)
justin.bergman@LIGO.ORG - posted 10:12, Monday 10 February 2014 (9942)
PSL check
 
Laser Enclosure in Science mode
Laser Enclosure shows no environmental alarms

Laser Status:
SysStat is good
Frontend power is 29.1 W 
FRONTEND WATCH is Active
HPO WATCH is red (PSL operating in low power mode)

PMC:
Last lock loss 4d 12h
Ptrans 11.0W, Prefl 1.1W


FSS:
Last lock loss 0d 0h 14m
Threshold on transmitted photo-detector PD = 0.488V

ISS:
The diffracted power is around 5.6% 
Last saturation event was 0 h and 19 minutes ago 
H1 SUS (CDS)
james.batch@LIGO.ORG - posted 09:43, Monday 10 February 2014 (9941)
I/O Chassis for h1susauxh56 has died
The I/O chassis attached to h1susauxh56 failed Feb. 8, 19:35:30 PST, causing the h1susauxh56 model to stop running (along with the IOP model).  Power cycling the I/O chassis is ineffective at getting it to run again, so it will need repair.
H1 SEI
sheila.dwyer@LIGO.ORG - posted 07:37, Monday 10 February 2014 (9940)
ETMX ISI

Sheila. Alexa.

When we got here this morning the ETM ISI was tripped.  We decided to use the chance to roughly aling the cavity (using the SUS offsets) with it tripped, and reset the CPS targets.  Hopefully this will reduce the ringing up of trilliums when we isolate by reducing the amount that the ISI has to move. We only did this for stage 1, since stage 2 was already pretty cose to the target values.  Before and after screen shots of what we started with is attached.  The ! Store target offsets button didn't seem to do anything, so I copied the numbers by hand. 

After this I tried to follow hugh's alog 9926

first I set all the blends to 750mHz, then tried to isolate stg1 level3.  However, when I tried to move the blends to tcrappy it kept tripping, so now I have it at level 2 and tcrappy doesn't trip it.  On stage 2, I tried level 2 (starting with 750 blends) moving to tcrappy would cause it to trip.  Stage 2 level 2 tripped, 1 when I tried to change from 750 to Tcrappy, then even when I left it at 750.  Now it is at level 1 with 750 blends.

Images attached to this report
H1 AOS
keita.kawabe@LIGO.ORG - posted 20:40, Sunday 09 February 2014 - last comment - 21:41, Monday 10 February 2014(9938)
TMS as of Friday

Modified black glass holders worked only for some Siskiyou mounts, not all.

Some screw heads are sticking out more than the others. I could have forced it really hard and probably it would have fit, but I didn't want to risk changing the alignment. Another round of clean milling job was done, parts will go to air bake again on Monday.

TMS was balanced nicely at the level good for IAS.

We put everything except the black glass holders on the table (we put black glasses themselves directly on the table at their approximate positions).

Added two 200 grams masses to compensate for the fact that we removed Hartman reference path mirrors and mounts (480 grams together). Combined with 8 pieces of black grasses, this should be close enough.

We changed the cable bracket position to prevent cable interference.

After these, we balanced both the top mass and the table by using slide masses.

No signal from TMS BOSEMs.

BOSEM cables were connected but I don't see anything in the digital world.

Ideally, we'd like IAS to work while TMS is damped.

Comments related to this report
betsy.weaver@LIGO.ORG - 12:15, Monday 10 February 2014 (9949)

This morning Richard powered up the TMSy AA chassis and I plugged in the satellite box end of the test cables.

corey.gray@LIGO.ORG - 21:41, Monday 10 February 2014 (9952)ISC

TMS Cable Installed

Unfortunately, we installed the Lower Structure before installing a cable, so an easy job was made much harder, but it was done.  Our damaged D1000223 cable for the Beam Diverter was replaced with a D1000225 s/nS1106887.  This is a variance from the Cable Harness Routing Config (D1200111).

H1 ISC
stefan.ballmer@LIGO.ORG - posted 21:11, Sunday 02 February 2014 - last comment - 21:15, Sunday 09 February 2014(9741)
PRMI locking
The MC2 roll mode notch (FM6 in ISCINF) was left off overnight, resulting in a rung up 28Hz peak in MC_L, which was producing a huge signal in PRCL. Once on the peak slowly disapeard.

PRMI locking is now quite reliable. However we still have relatively big power fluctuations.

I recorded today's settings in a setup script: sballmer/tempfixes/setPRMI
Really, this should be fed to a guardian.

Images attached to this report
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stefan.ballmer@LIGO.ORG - 21:13, Sunday 02 February 2014 (9742)
I left the PRMI locked tonight.
stefan.ballmer@LIGO.ORG - 10:06, Monday 03 February 2014 (9747)
PRMI stayed locked for 9h with only 1 lock loss in the middle.

1st lock: 2014/02/03  05:03:00  to  08:39:00 (duration 3h36min)
2nd lock: 2014/02/03  08:41:00  to  14:31:00 (duration 5h50min)

All times UTC.
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shivaraj.kandhasamy@LIGO.ORG - 21:15, Sunday 09 February 2014 (9939)

The coherence analysis using STAMP-PEM revealed strong correlation (0.5 Hz) between H1_SUS-ITMX_L3_OPLEV (YAW and PIT) and H1:ALS-X_ARM_IN1_DQ. The coherence plots produced by Patrick can be accessed from here. Josh did follow up studies confirming the presence of 0.5 Hz strucutre in ITMX oplev signals and also saw strong correlation between ITMX oplev and POPAIR signals. The coherence plots Josh made can be accessed from here.

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