Changed out the 9 pin cable that connects this dust monitor to the 485 loop in the hopes of reducing data problems.  The cable that was connected was twice as long and may have had too much voltage drop to properly power the dust monitor when the motor was running.

The End-X network switches for front-end and daq traffic have been connected, allowing the front end computers for the end-x to be started when needed.  The RFM switch has also been connected between the corner and end-x.

Network reconfiguration is complete, h1pemmx has been restarted.  As a bonus, the timing master to timing slave issue has been solved, so the timing is no longer out of sync.

HAM HEPIs 4 and 5 were brought into run mode yesterday, June 20th. 

current HEPI Status: 

[Alexa, Chris, Matt, Kiwamu]

Currently our focus is on two main tasks : refinement of Alexa's control model and the CARM control with the PFD (Phase Frequency Discriminator).

Yesterday we did the following items :

• Transfer function measurement at EY for the PLL and PDH loop
• Increased the input gain of the PDH common mode board by 4 dB to push the UGF higher. Now the UGF is -14 dB.
• Measured the readout gain of the PFD at the floor.
  • A coarse measurement gave ~ 40 deg / V. This sounds reasonable as the number written in the schematic 36 deg / V.
• Unable to find the beatnote at the corner station
  • This was probably due to the alignment of the arm cavity as we had touched them to quiet them for the transfer function measurement. TISCThis changed the alignment of the arm transmitted ligjt at the recombine BS at ISCT1.
  • We decided to bring them back to the nominal alignment
• Realigned ETMY and ITMY based on the oplev and L2 OSEMs respectively (as the ITMY oplev doesn't look trustable).
  • We didn't get a chance to check if this alignment recovered the beatnote signal

Level 2 and level 3 control loops have been designed for the BSC-ISI, BS chamber. Level 3 unity gain frequency is 40 Hz on Stage 1, and 30 Hz on Stage 2, like for the units previously commissioned. 

The loops have been installed along with the sensor correction and feed-forward filters.

I ran a quick measurement, the results are attached. The loops seem to work as they should. We'll take more data and we'll do more analysis tomorrow. We'll also turn on a blend/sensor correction configuration that induces less motion amplification at low frequency.

Like for ITMY, we still have to tune the sensor correction and feed-forward gains as it was done on ETMY.

Lab Humidity:  39-42%

Virginio continued building the Telescope and he's ready to install mirrors (more on this later).

The ISC Telescope Assy is complete and is ready for Lisa & Matt to layout optics on it.  Started making an ICS Assembly Load for the Telescope Sub-Assembly, here.

Lisa started cleaning Ag-coated Telescope optics.  Since the humidity at the lab is over 20%, we've decided to hold off on installing until we receive desicant pouches from CIT (humidity is detrimental to the silver coating).

Following Mark B. work on decoupling longitudinal top mass excitation to test mass pitch motion, filters have been designed, installed in the TEST top mass filterbank and are ready to be tested.

After getting some good performance last week on BSC6, more aggressive controllers (feedback - level 2 and Level 3) were installed on BSC1. Feedforward and sensor corrections filters were also implemented but some tuning will be necessary to get the best of these approaches.

I have attached calibrated spectra of stage 2 in the X and Z directions when the ISI is damped and controlled (Damping + Isolation feedback + Sensor correction + feedforward). HEPI at BSC1 is still locked and we can notice the resonance of the pier around 10Hz.
It seems that the sensor correction effect is limited in the Z direction (poor tuning or filters not engaged? – A second measurement will be performed tomorrow).
 

Betsy, Travis, Giles

Good progress had been made on successfully welding 2 of 4 fibers to the ETMx and it's PUM this morning.  However, upon completion of the 5th weld we noticed a small feature had appeared behind the top left corner of one of the prisms on the PUM.  While observing the feature for another 10 minutes, the feature grew and became an obvious fracture in the glass mass.  The fracture started while we were welding in close proximity to the prism.  Once we noticed the feature we stopped welding.  Note, the prism takes a compressive load when the QUAD is fully suspended, so it is not yet obvious that we should or should not continue to use this mass.  We have been in contact with SYS, in an attempt to catch COC before COB today - we plan to talk in the morning with a wider audience about what to do next.

Pictures of the fracture are on Resource Space in a collection with:

https://ligoimages.mit.edu/?r=25246

The h1pemmx front-end is powered down to move network connections and reroute timing.  We anticipate that it will be back Friday by 12:00 Noon.

Valved-in YBM turbo backed by leak detector for 4 hours today -> While valved-in, starting signal 9 x 10-7 torr*L/sec, ending signal 9 x 10-7 torr*L/sec -> While valved out < 2 x 10-10 torr*L/sec

Relatively quite day

- PSL down until noon (ask Michael R. for more details)

- Vacuum Cryopump alarm, Kyle mention refilling of one of them

- Work ongoin in End-Y (ask Kiwamu and Alexa for more details)

Have a great evening.

pablo

The laser shut off last night around 6 pm. It looks like this was due to low water flow through laser head 4. PSL_TRIP_1 shows this shutdown. Channel HEAD4FLOW drops to 0.45 lpm and the interlock trips at this point. The time scale for this plot is 20 seconds.

I turned the laser back on but before I could leave the laser room it shut off again for the same reason. PSL_TRIP_2 shows the trip, as the flow through head 4 drops and trips the interlock. I'm not sure what the threshold here is but it must be around 0.45 lpm. I turned the laser back and and increased the flow through the crystal chiller from 17.6 lpm to 18.2 lpm to try and give some more head room for the flow sensor, but it did not have much of an effect. The flow sensors have always had some erratic behavior, as you can see in the 2 week plot attached. LLO found the filters in their laser heads were quite dirty, so maybe we are starting to see the effect of particle buildup.

I have updated the ODC EPICS settings for all SUS, ISI and HPI ODC channels.

I have also updated the safe.snap files containing these EPICS records, so that they are correctly set on reboots.  The attached files contain the list of changes made to the safe.snap files (nothing listed in the changes_*.txt file under the snap file name means no changes were made), and the modified files have been committed to the SVN.

(Corey, Virginio)

Continue to build up the Telescope and In-Vac ISC Table assemblies.

Spent time contemplating how to make TMS Assy Loads in ICS.

Topic of humidity came up in the Weekly TMS Meeting came up yesterday---namely the negative effects of humidity on Optic coatings.  We have a Dust Monitor in the Lab, but it isn't "online".  (For a "first Humidity data point", had a humidity of 21% mid-afternoon time yesterday)  In the future, we'll be receiving desicant packs from CIT and will make "Ameristat bags/covers" for our assys with optics and place desicant within these "bags".

Lisa has completed cleaning of all 2" optics which go on the In-Vac Table.  We will gather opto-mechanical hardware for these optics & then transport this to EX.

Continue to add photos of progress here.

Following Ryan's recent odc label update, the "damp" ODC bit has been updated for MC1 MC2 MC3 PRM PR2 PR3 ETMY ITMY BS SRM SR2 SR3, and is now properly working (cf exemple on picture attached)

In order to do that, I set every suspensions in their "damped state", and ran the attached bash script to update the "STATE_GOOD" epic value "H1:SUS-${OPTIC}_${MASS}_DAMP_${DOF}_STATE_GOOD", with the "STATE_NOW" epic value "H1:SUS-${OPTIC}_${MASS}_DAMP_${DOF}_STATE_NOW".

The "damp" bit (here, BIT 6 on the picture) is ONLY a function of the filters engaged in the damping filterbank. It won't turn red when a gain is changed for instance.

New code was loaded to add an integrator to the low noise VCO which allows the frequency to be be stabilized to a set value. The DC offset slider is used as the actuator. Since the frequency is only read once every second, this is only useful for drift control.

A temporary Agilent frequency counter has been set up in the CER to independently monitor the VCO frequency (ALS DIFF). At first glance the measurements are comparable.