Given that it's a holiday, there are no operators on site to silence the alarm chorus. There are some CDS alarms that I can't quite identify the source of, but the CDS system looks ok on the whole, so I'm just silencing them temporarily.
There does seem to be a persistent alarm from the EY dust monitor. I ACK'd it once when I came in, but it was back again a couple minutes later.
The ALS-X BBPD appears to have gone dark around 2:30 PST on Friday. The EX laser IR PD and fiber monitor PDs appear to have been disturbed around the same time, but they have recovered.
Possibly this is related to Friday's work on installing WFS on the ISCTEX table, or the related editing of the X-end simulink models.
The +-18V PD power supply cable for the table was unplugged at the power strip on the field rack. All DC diodes connected to the DC diode interface were down.
Should work now.
Don't know why it was unplugged, it's hard to accidentally plug it off.
Over the weekend both frame writers have restarted in the early hours. fw1 just after midnight Sat morning (00:01) and fw0 this morning at 01:00. They had both been very stable over the past week.
(Blue Team)
Short progress report:
More details to follow.
I set up the H1 ODC master channel: H1:ODC-MASTER_CHANNEL_OUT_DQ The "H1 Interferometer Summary" bit (bit0) now includes the following bits: Bit4: PSL Summary (EPICS timing only) Bit5: IMC Summary Bit 21:ADC overflow (for PSL, EPICS timing only) Bit 22:DAC overflow (for PSL, EPICS timing only) Bit 23:EXC on (for PSL, EPICS timing only) Bit 28:Guardian Observation Ready Bit 29:Operator Science Mode Button The guardian that will be serving bit 28 is not running yet.
I noticed from the ODC summary that the ISS was running out of range again. I changed the set point (ISS_REFSIGNAL) from -1.93 to -1.88. I also verified that this was not due to a noise eater oscillation (ODC didn't indicate it as such, and toggling it didn't change it.)
Foton files were cleaned up for every SEI platform (ISI + HEPI). Details about the cleanup process can be found in SEI aLog #370
Every SEI platform was turned off, had its filter coefficient reloaded, and turned back on exepted ETMX ISI and HEPI, which ISC commissioners needed. ETMX's platforms will get their filters reloaded at the next window of opportunity.
Work started at 4:50PM and just finished. It was performed under WP #4435 which is now closed.
SEI crew (Jim, Hugh, Hugo) left its platforms in the following state:
Hugh and I mostly finished cabling ETMY ISI today, but were held up by an issue with the CPS's and some broken test feed thru components. After we powered up the CPS's, we were systematically disconnecting sensors to verify routing and we noticed that the corners 2 and 3 were acting weird. After rounds of calling Richard, plugging and unplugging various cables, we figured out that the ribbon cable that carries the sync signal from the satellite rack chassis to it's power/distribution board was plugged in backwards. The other racks have keyed cables to prevent this, but this rack had an unkeyed cable. After fixing this we found that we also have a dead sensor, further debugging has that narrowed down to a broken probe. We don't have time today to finish balancing, so we'll continue on Tuesday.
Late entry, DAQ restart performed at 15:59PST.
Restarted the DAQ for three reasons:
The frame broadcaster had the following channels added
8:50 PSL Check ok. NOTE: ISS Diffracted Power is low (1.4%) and unstable with peaks over 20%. It should be 5-15%) 9:00-12:00 Going to End X to do cabling – Luis/Filiberto 10:00-12:00 Baffle work (disassembling contaminated scrapple baffle, searching for parts for arm cavity installation, and general cleanup) in LVEA West bay – Mitchell 11:01-11:03 DAQ restart – Dave 11:10-11:45 heading into the LVEA to get parts – Gerardo 12:12-12:15 Change h1iopsusey model to remove the DC OSEM component from the software watchdog – Dave 14:15-15:51 PCAL assembly on H2 PSL – Joe 14:22- Taking some parts to End Y – Corey 15:02-15:50 Back into the LVEA West bay (Searching and organizing Baffle parts – Mitchell 15:59 DAQ restart - Dave NOTE: I noticed that the ISS Diffracted Power has been unstable today. It was about 1.4% in the morning with high peaks over 20% during the day (is this normal?). Based on one of the PSL trainings it should be 5-15%. I have added some pics from today and one from the last 5 days.
We could not close the ISO loops on HAM4-ISI yesterday, even thought those are Level 1 generic loops. We ran transfer functions overnight, which allowed me to tweak the symmetrization filters. I also corrected a few minor typos in the unit-specific scripts.
ISO Lv1 loops are now stable with any of the 4x blend filters installed:
I duplicated ISO Lv1 into the filter modules reserved to Lv2 and Lv3. Those use more that one filter bank. I filled the extra filter banks with gains of one. Same goes for the Boost filters. Those only use 1x filter module though.
Here is what is loaded in the ISO filter banks:
I tried turning on different combination of ISO and DAMP with the control scripts. They all worked. HAM4-ISI good to go as far as starting Guardian testing goes! ![]()
Will resume on Tuesday
The SR2 Scrapper Baffle (D1200922) was found to have been contaminated sometime during storage. This was discovered while staging for install on HAM 4. The baffle has been dis-assembled and taken to clean and bake to be re-classed.
WP#4447 Created new h1iopsusey model to remove the DC components of the ETMY software watchdog. At the same time I did the same for TMSY though this is not used in the WD trigger circuit. Related changes to the safe.snap and the MEDM screen were made. at 12:17 local time the h1susey models were stopped to install the new IOP model. I tested the WD using the PANIC button on the SUS DACKILL. I then restarted the h1susetmy and h1sustmsy models, burt restoring to 11am today. A DAQ restart is needed for the IOP model, can wait till later.
ETMX hepi tripped, there was activity in the end station electronics rack when the trip happened.
The scripts for plotting the trip, the command scripts for HEPI and the ISI and the buttons to switch the blend filters don't work on the Imac's at the end station. Alexa is working on bringing ETMX back up from the control room.
Jim and I emulated the Sensors and they look correct so we are go for complete sensor plug in. We are still rigging up the CPS and some of the coil driver feedthrus need replacing. It might be optimistic that we'll run transfer functions tonight but maybe. We should be floated and balanced for sure though by the end of the day.
11:01PST restarted DAQ to support Hugo's change of the h1isiham4 model.
h1isiham4.mdl was updated to receive SUS WD signals from h1sussr2.
HAM4-ISI's model was recomiled and restarted successfully (See attached Log.txt). The new version of h1isiham4.mdl was commited to the SVN:
/opt/rtcds/userapps/release/isi/h1/models/h1isiham4.mdl -r7133
The DAQ had was restarted at 11:01AM.
The Safe.snap of HAM4-ISI was updated with the latest matrices and filers to be engaged and commited to the SVN:
/opt/rtcds/userapps/release/isi/h1/burtfiles/h1isiham4_safe.snap -r7132
h1sussr2.mdl still needs to be updated, as it current sends out a constant (coding SUS untripped) to the ISI model. See attached screenshot.
Work was performed under WP #4445 which is now closed.
Yuta, Evan, Kiwamu
We steered the picomotors on TMSX again tonight to center the red transmitted light on the QPDs. After a couple of hours of struggling, we managed to bring both of them within their linear range. This is good enough for now as this should be able to monitor some alignment-related signals. The numbers below are the current picomotor settings:
M4 X = -12813, Y = 38475
M14 X = -12810, Y = -75268
Because of this alignment work, we lost the red trans signal and red trans camera view again. We don't have energy to realign them on ISCTEX table at the moment and therefore are leaving it as it is.
This morning we found the beam was clipped coming out of the viewport onto the ISC table, so we moved M4 to get it back. The current position is X:9267 Y: 1665
Also, the IR camera was moved so that the beam was directly incident on it. This doesn't work, you can't se the difference between the different modes. I put it back the way I had it set up originally, with the beam incident on the baffle and the camera focused on the baffle. This was kind of a pain to redo, Alexa and I replaced the dichroic with a green optic to find the image of the green beam, re set up the camera, then replaced the optic.
We see now flashed of up to 60000 counts on the TR X PD.
I am sorry. That's me who changed the camera setup (alog 10086).
For future reference: the CCD was OK without the TV lens last night as the camera automatically adjusts the gain. The higher spatial mode was distigushiable from the 00 mode. Also, the alignment could be done by the infrared when it is on a resonance either by ALS or infrared locking.