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Reports until 11:40, Monday 11 November 2013
H1 SEI (SEI, SUS)
hugo.paris@LIGO.ORG - posted 11:40, Monday 11 November 2013 (8460)
BSC-ITMX - SUS WD connected

SUS WD were connected to BSC-ITMX model.

Every other BSC-ISI model has it implemented already: ETMX,BS,ITMY,ETMY. ITMY is slightly different than the other chambers - Should be adjusted before next phase of testing.
 
The simulink blocks used to monitor the payload state are not associated with a library. They were thus copied from h1isietmx.mdl into h1isiitmx.mdl. h1isiitmx.mdl was also cleaned up a bit (adjusted lines so they look straight and organized).
 
The BSC-ITMX was recompiled and restarted. The payoad monitor display of BSC-ITMX overview screen was used to check that SUS trips SEI correctly:
- PAYLOAD_MON rectagle turned from white to red with the update.
- Block turns greed when ITMX Suspension user WD are untripped.
- Block turns back to red when ITMX Suspension user WD are tripped.
 
The new version of h1isiitmx.mdl was commited under the SVN as revision #6244.
 
Work was performed under WP# 4259 which is now closed.
 
Note: It would be useful to have the payload state bit, which is sent by SUS, to also account for the SUS user dackill state, SUS master switch, and SUS Damping loops status.
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H1 INS (INS)
jodi.fauver@LIGO.ORG - posted 10:46, Monday 11 November 2013 (8458)
Apollo work for 11 Nov 2013
The re-assembly of the Test Stand cleanroom was started at Y End and continued for most of the day. Mark Layne went into BSC3 to re-install the two ICC Dust Barriers (slots off-set and covered with taped on foil) between BSC2 and BSC3. This activity was completed by 10:45 am. After the cleaning crew completed their work this morning, Bubba and Mark L. worked on the BSC9 viewports. The two viewports on the door were attached (FC on both sides) but not torqued. There was some confusion associated with the illuminator and video camera viewports: the serial numbers on the documentation did not match up with the viewports on hand. Bubba consulted with Keita and then we unsuccessfully tried to track down (H2 PSL enclosure x 3 calls with no answer, VPW, desk) Joe D. to clarify the issue. If Keita can't find Joe in the PSL enclosure later today, we will talk to Joe in the morning.
H1 CDS
david.barker@LIGO.ORG - posted 09:47, Monday 11 November 2013 (8457)
Added new Safety CDS subsystem called SAF

Richard requested a new CDS subsystem for the safety controls system. It is called "saf", I have added it to the userapps SVN repo with the usual directory structure.

We should add SAF as a subsystem to the ALOG.

H1 AOS (IOO, PSL)
cheryl.vorvick@LIGO.ORG - posted 15:06, Sunday 10 November 2013 (8456)
IO Alignment, PMC recovery, and prep for PSL ISS Array

Friday was a busy day!

 

--- PSL ISS Cable Install - Jim, Mitchel

They got the cables installed in the flange with the worst access.

 

--- PSL PMC recovery - Filiberto, Stefan, Sheila

Replaced PMC electronics and brought the PMC back to stable locking.

 

--- IMC alignment - Peter, Justin, Cheryl

Input beam from the PSL was aligned to the IMC irises.  I aligned the IMC and it is flashing.

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On Monday, there is still a fair amount of alignment to do in HAM2 before the PSL ISS can be installed.


1) IMC alignment check - check to see that the PSL beam is still well aligned, and flashing is good

2) Align through FI - requires aligning the beam to PR2 in HAM3

3) Reroute MC REFL as IMC TRANS

When these alignments have been completed, the PSL ISS Assembly can be installed in HAM2

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IO install work to do latter in the week:


- remove, rework, and replace the PR2 scraper baffle

H1 INS (SEI, SYS)
hugh.radkins@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:49, Saturday 09 November 2013 (8455)
Cable Baskets Removed bewteen BSC3 & BSC7

Had to pull these down to get access to the BSC3 North side actuators.  Main ground wire also disconnected.  Completely SEI subsystem fault for not carving out enough space to actually work around the HEPIs.  Baskets are on the floor nearby with hardware. These really should remain out of the way until HEPI is more completed.

H1 SEI
hugh.radkins@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:45, Saturday 09 November 2013 (8454)
WBSC3 ITMx HEPI Actuator Attachment Complete--HEPI is Unlocked

Completed the four Horizontal actuators attachment today.  Plenty pain but had worse.  Based on the Dial Indicators I may have knocked us out of the Yaw Spec.  Jason logged 35urads CCW and I measure 111CW putting us at 76urads CW.  This is averaging the four transversely oriented DIs and a few more or less here and there and we could be ok or we could be worse.  So, best to just let IAS look and see.  If it remains this smallish amount, SEI can likely crank it around with the HEPI DSCW Springs leaving the Actuators attached.  Translational moves are insignificant and level shift only improve on the level--gotta get lucky somewhere!  Still, the level should be check again as well.

H1 TCS (AOS, TCS)
greg.grabeel@LIGO.ORG - posted 19:12, Friday 08 November 2013 - last comment - 10:54, Monday 11 November 2013(8452)
TCS install BSC 1,2,3
Alastair H. Thomas V. Joe D. Greg G.
The install of the steering mirrors went really smoothly today. Alignment will for Y-Arm will begin this weekend.
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greg.grabeel@LIGO.ORG - 10:54, Monday 11 November 2013 (8459)AOS, TCS
Alastair H. Thomas V. Joe D. Greg G.

A rough alignment for ITM-Y was done on Sunday using the temporarily attached TCS viewport, a tripod, and a laser. The alignment went really smoothly with the only roughness being fighting the SM2 mount. 

BSC 1 had the blank removed and was temporarily fitted with the TCS viewport. The TCS viewport has been failing leak test checks due to a leak issue with the viton seal and the wedged optics. Using a laser and a tripod mount we approximated the TCS periscope location and shot down to Steering Mirror 1 in BSC 1 then to Steering Mirror 2 in BSC 2 and back to ITM-Y.

The next step is to repeat this for ITM-X when the BSC 3 door can be put up on the East side and the West door removed.
X1 DTS (CDS)
james.batch@LIGO.ORG - posted 17:16, Friday 08 November 2013 (8451)
Added python 2.7 and nds2 client software to x1boot
I have added python 2.7 and nds2 client v0.10.4 software to x1boot.  
H1 CDS
david.barker@LIGO.ORG - posted 17:04, Friday 08 November 2013 (8450)
testing conlog epics connectivity

Patrick, Dave

To test reconnection rates of conlog vs edcu, h1susetmy model was stopped for 30mins this afternoon and restarted at 16:47.

H1 SEI
hugh.radkins@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:43, Friday 08 November 2013 (8449)
WBSC3 ITMx HEPI Actuator Attachment 1/2+ complete--HEPI is mostly unlocked sans SW Pier

Mitchell & I got the four Vertical Actuators attached.  We got started on the Horizontal at Pier2 (SW) when we ran out of time, steam & opportunity--Thomas & MarkL were getting ready to head into chamber.

H1 General
jeffrey.bartlett@LIGO.ORG - posted 15:55, Friday 08 November 2013 (8448)
Ops Summary
TSC Install work at BSC1, 2, 3 from 16:00 to 00:00 Friday 8th
Electronics cabling work at HAM6
Apollo craning various items in the LVEA
Apollo working on spool install at End-X

09:02 Patrick & Thomas working on IOO Rotation State in H1-PSL enclosure
09:13 Hugh & Mitch HEPI actuator install at BSC3 
09:20 Cheryl working at HAM2/3 and in the H1-PSL
10:05 Kyle working on GV6
10:15 Dave add SUS ITM-X to IOP watchdog
11:45 Justin transition LVEA South bay to local laser hazard
13:15 Frank & Louis pulling cables at End-Y
13:25 Dave recycling H1SUSETMY
13:40 Keita & Koji in H2-PSL enclosure working on OMC
H1 SEI (CDS, SEI)
hugo.paris@LIGO.ORG - posted 15:27, Friday 08 November 2013 (8447)
HEPI Science frame Channels Added

Adjusted channel names in the master model of HEPI so channels would be recorded in the science frame - Per E1300742

Commited the new master model (hepitemplate.mdl)  -r6229

Every HEPI model of H1 (11) was restarted.

Restarting HEPI-HAM2, and then the DAC added 25 channels to the science frame, as expected.

Restarting HEPI HAM3, HAM4, HAM5, HAM6, ETMX, ITMX, BS,ITMY, ETMY, and then the DAC, added 225 (9*25) to the science frame.

Work was performed under WP# 4256 which is now closed.This was performed in the scope of Bugzilla bug #385

Details are attached in log file.

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H1 INS (INS)
jodi.fauver@LIGO.ORG - posted 14:51, Friday 08 November 2013 (8446)
Apollo work for 07 Nov 2013
We performed in the three-ring circus today. 

There were many items that needed to be craned into position in the LVEA in preparation for both this weekend's and next week's work: the Work Space cleanroom from the X Arm Spool area went to the south side of BSC1 for viewport installation, an additional work table and two shelving units for OFI assembly were needed in the West Bay and an enclosure was flown to the optical table at the foot of the mezzanine stairs for IO modification. All that activity took place this morning.

Work related to the X End reconfiguration continued. The Work Platform was transported to Y End. The E-Module was picked, turned and placed by BSC5. The BSC Storage Container Top was hauled to the End to be mated with the bottom and then the entire unit was moved back to X Mid. The spool piece was transported from X Mid to X End and placed in the VEA. That concludes the dirty work on the checklist and the space is ready for a good cleaning on Monday morning.

After lunch, we worked on modifying the Work Space cleanroom at the south door of BSC1 for TCS viewport install under clean conditions. The cleanroom and surrounding area were cleaned. Mark and Thomas started viewport installation at about 2:45 pm.  Once Mark is done with that, he will make an entry into BSC3 to remove the dust/laser barriers so that BSC1-2 are accessible for TCS install over the weekend. The barriers will be stored in the west nozzle of BSC3.

LHO VE
kyle.ryan@LIGO.ORG - posted 14:24, Friday 08 November 2013 (8445)
Helium leak tested 5 of 5 gate annulus CFFs on GV6
Kyle

Used LD to back "hung" 50 L/s turbo -> LD baseline at start of testing = 2.3 x 10-9 torr*L/sec helium indicated -> 20 sec audible helium blast at each gate annulus CFF joint on GV6 -> no response -> LD baseline at end of testing 2.2 x 10-9 torr*L/sec helium indicated -> Briefly energized annulus ion pump controller and observed expected cross-talk helium indication -> Restored GV6 annulus pumping to 50 L/s turbo backed by scroll pump -> Leaving GV6 hard-closed and will continue pumping combined annulus volume over the weekend
H1 CDS (SUS)
david.barker@LIGO.ORG - posted 12:12, Friday 08 November 2013 (8442)
susb123 IOP Watchdog Changes

WP4225

I modified the h1iopsusb123 model to add ITMX into the software watchdog switching logic. At the request from Jeff K and Arnaud P, I ammended the WP4225 to include replacing the RMS+DC OSEM parts with the RMS-ONLY OSEM parts. Note these are temporary parts since they have their DC monitors completely removed. After the upgrade to RCG2.8 I will install the new OSEM parts which monitor DC but will not trigger on them.

The install procedure was: kill user models (h1susitmx, h1susitmy, h1susbs), restart the IOP, test the watchdogs to SEI BSC1,2,3, restart the user models. I pressed the DIAG-RESETs to clear latched IPC errors.

I modified the WD MEDM screens accordingly.

This closes out WP4225.

H1 PSL (PSL)
stefan.ballmer@LIGO.ORG - posted 11:08, Friday 08 November 2013 - last comment - 13:08, Friday 08 November 2013(8440)
PMC (and whole PSL) working again
(Richard, Stefan)

After some tail chasing (which included verifying that the spare PMC board works too), we found the 35MHz PMC EOM feed cable ripped out of the connector.
Fixing this obviously restored all PSL functionality. A better connector is currently being installed.

I also did a burt-restore to 10/26/2013 9am UTC (back when it was still working) to make sure we didn't pick up any spurious settings.

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stefan.ballmer@LIGO.ORG - 13:08, Friday 08 November 2013 (8443)PSL
Phil fixed the connector - the PMC is now working again.

The EOM cable length changed by maybe 2in in the process - we did not re-phase it now because the beam is needed for HAM2 work.
H1 SUS (CDS, DAQ)
jeffrey.kissel@LIGO.ORG - posted 23:11, Wednesday 06 November 2013 - last comment - 14:05, Friday 08 November 2013(8414)
ECR E1300578 Progress -- Never Closer
J. Kissel, D. Barker, J. Batch, A. Pele

Another harrowing day of front-end code changes. 

In summary, I've now completed and committed all the simulink / front-end model, MEDM screen, and macro file modifications for the HLTS, HSTS, and OMCS. This involved several more recompiles, reinstalls, restarts, and restores of all 10 models involved, a couple of more crashes and restarts of the DAQ, and a whole lot of eye-crossing details. The final modification -- to the OMCS front-end code -- has crashed the h1sush56 front end again (as the rest of these installs have, save h1sush2a for some reason), and almost undoubtedly because of the usual mx_stream failure. Thankfully, if did not crash the rest of the DAQ, so data taking should still hold over night.

Though I'm confident every thing I've done is legit, we should give a day to get things back up and running before we officially release everything to LLO. (Though I know they're not interested in more changes until they vent next Wednesday.)

Of note -- It was not until I got to the MC_MASTER parts today, and getting some feedback from ISC folks that I realized -- for calibrated, interferometric control channel purposes (think IMC_X, PRCL, SRCL, MICH, DARM) -- we need to send out the output of each LOCK filter bank (including the top stage) to the top level to be sent over IPC to the OAF / Calibration model. For those SUS that aren't involved in global control, we'll just terminate the unused connections at the *top-level* of each model (currently only h1susmc2 is *actually* using this type of spigot to form IMC_X, the remaining IFO DOFs' control signals are pulled out for calibration in the LSC model). There are a couple of ways to do the calibrated channel thing; I'll bring up with ISC / Systems as to how we want to do it (because it's currently inconsistent across the ISC / IO models). Unfortunately, this means I've gotta go back to the QUADs and BSFM, but I'll wait for the discussion to conclude before I do so.

Next on the chopping block -- tackle the severe upgrades and merging needed on the HAUX / HTTS models. Then that finally, finally, OMG finally, will close out this gosh darn ECR. Then we can do it all over again with the watchdog modifications. #facepalm.
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keith.thorne@LIGO.ORG - 06:12, Thursday 07 November 2013 (8415)
It would be worth checking that scripts use to restart the mx_stream each front-end (such as /etc/start_streamers.sh ) are simplified to just do an mx_stream restart (i.e. /etc/init.d/mx_stream restart).  The /etc/init.d/mx_stream script is customized to specify the MX slot and destination port on the the data concentrator.  Old versions of /etc/start_streamers.sh did not call /etc/init.d/mx_stream but did their own restart that used slot 0, port 0 instead of unique slot/port.  
jeffrey.kissel@LIGO.ORG - 14:05, Friday 08 November 2013 (8444)CDS
CDS has brought all associated front-ends back up (see details in LHO aLOG 8424), and we've confirmed that we can get damping loops running and excitations can be sent out. As such, these modifications described above are clear of flaws, and are therefore ready for LLO to install.
H1 ISC (ISC, SUS)
sheila.dwyer@LIGO.ORG - posted 12:47, Sunday 03 November 2013 - last comment - 14:31, Monday 11 November 2013(8364)
Tip tilts for HAM 6 finsihed

Alexa, Keita, Stefan and Sheila-

We have the last optic mounted and balanced in a tip tilt (SN 33) for HAM 6 (OM3).  We had difficulty balancing this the optic in this tip tilt,  even with a short bolt, 2 nuts and a washer on the back side we could not balance it.  Keita brought out SN20 and 25 which are intended for India (and do not have cables attached).  We had a similar problem balancing one of these.  Keita then noticed that there is slop in the four scews that attach the piece that clamps the wire to the rest of the mirror holder (picture attached, these are the 2 bolts on top and the 2 bolts on the bottom of the photo.) The tip tilts we were able to balance had those screws centered in their holes while they were off center in the tip tilts we were unable to balance.  We centered them on the india tip tilt and then we were able to balance it using a dummy optic.  We then did the same thing on the TT that was originally intended to be the H1 spare (SN33).

In the process we used a dummy optic from iLIGO that has a scratch in the center to avoid chipping more real optics.  

We took parts from TT SN9:  the peak nudge  (which was missing from SN33), the small screw that tightens the balancing bolt (we dropped this) and one of the OSEM flags (one flag on SN33 was bent).  

In the end, we have not changed anything for the india tip tilts (SN 20 and 25) except correcting the position of the small bolts, we have 3 balanced and ready for HAM6 (SN2,4, and 33) and one H1 spare (SN9) which is missing parts and needs the wires reclamped.  

On monday I will double check all of the serial nubers written in this alog to make sure they are right.  

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alexan.staley@LIGO.ORG - 14:31, Monday 11 November 2013 (8462)

As mentioned, last time we swapped the UL flag on SN 33 with the UL from SN 09 since the original one was slightly bent. I confirmed that the swapped flags have the same polarity, and is consistent with the previous polarity measurements done in this alog.

H2 SUS
jeffrey.garcia@LIGO.ORG - posted 00:22, Friday 30 March 2012 - last comment - 13:29, Monday 11 November 2013(2507)
H2 SUS ETMY impulse response measurements
The attached pdf contains plots of the accelerometer response from B&K impact hammer tests.  There were six locations on the ETMY sleeve structure selected for impacts.  Each plot displays the response in each degree of freedom (X,Y,Z) of the accelerometer.  The orientation of the accelerometer was such that the X direction is vertically up the structure, and the Y,Z directions in the horizontal plane of the optic.  Each measurement has five averages with 0.5Hz resolution.  

Data:
'~/sus/trunk/QUAD/H2/ETMY/Common/VA_Testing/2012_03_26_h2etmy_hammer_test/'

Plots: 
'~/2012_03_26_h2etmy_hammer_test/plots/'
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arnaud.pele@LIGO.ORG - 13:29, Monday 11 November 2013 (8461)

Locations are described as below (note from Jeff G left in folder containing original pulse files) :

location 1 : between test mass and tms. On tube side hitting cage corner towards roll up door

location 2 : on roll up door side hitting on corner of cage towards acceleromoter

location 3 : downwards on cross brace on test mass side in front of PUM

location 4 : upwards on cross brace on reaction side

location 5 : reaction mass, roll up door corner hitting inwards near the top

location 6 : cross brace on side of PUM by the roll up door

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