Got corner4 (NE) HEPI L4Cs leveled today.  Again aggregate motion is very small; no translation or rotation larger than 0.001" or 0.02mrad.

WHAM2 HEPI is ***UNLOCKED***

Filiberto pulling cables to IOT2L.
Corey to end Y to look at ALS table enclosure.
Tumbleweed bailing between mid X and corner station.
Jim B. to mid X to connect PEM channels.
Mid X PEM model built and started. Channels not added to DAQ (waiting on channel names).
ASC IMC model built and started. Channels not added to DAQ (waiting on check of data).
Apollo to move clean room from BSC5 to A-1E adapter spool for mounting viewports.
Apollo to move north side of BSC1 work platform away from the chamber to facilitate SEI work on support tubes.
Reverse Osmosis alarm.
Dust monitor 15 calibration failure alarms.

11:00 Hugh to work on HAM2 HEPI L4C leveling.
16:00 Rai soft closing GV18 for RGA measurements, plan to reopen around 17:00.

The h1pemmx computer has been started with models to collect mid-x seismometer, vault seismometer, and vault magnetometer data.  As soon as channel names are decided, the channels will be acquired.

Mark B.

Travis reports that he found some blade stops touching on the BS, so I'm starting another round of DTT TFs for the BS.

Attached are plots of dust counts > .3 microns and > .5 microns in particles per cubic foot from approximately 6 PM Jan. 13 to 6 PM Jan. 14. Also attached are plots of the modes to show when they were running/acquiring data.

The HEPI was unlocked, Corner 1 relocked, Horizontal Actuator disconnected etc, L4C Leveled.  Reassembled, Vertical L4C leveled, Corner 1 unlocked & positioned checked.
Upon first unlock, lock stress unloads and IPSs read larger numbers.  But in aggregate they tend to counter act one another and motion is very small: 0.0006" +X, 0.0018" +Y & 10urad.
After completing the job however, Corner 1 Horizontal IPS is possibly a bogus number since that Actuator was disconnected.  If I ignore that possibility though, the motion is still pretty small: 0.0019" +X, 0.0008" +Y & 32urad.  Dang those numbers look too good, I better check my spreadsheet eh!

I left HEPI ***UNLOCKED***

Jim and Dave.

We borrowed the modified One Stop card from x1fe3 and installed it into h1asc0's chassis. We started the front end and ran the h1iopasc0 model. 

As an aside, we found that x1psl0 had a non-modified One Stop card, it has been shipped to CIT for upgraded.

• Ken working at end stations installing plastic hose for cables
• Cable installation work on IOT1
• Hugh working on L4Cs by HAM2. The light pipe shutter was closed for this work, making the area laser safe
• Dave and Jim working on rebuilding SEI models
• Cheryl increased the power into the beam tube to 210mW

I adjusted the power in the IO path in the PSL to be 1.1W in front of IO_MB_M3.  The power incident on the top periscope mirror is 210mW.  This increase is necessary to align beams on IOT1/IOT2L...

I generated new EPICS database files with Daniel's updated parser. This splits the databases into separate files for input records and input/output records. It also splits the records into multiple files to limit the number of records in each. This was necessary because too many channels would keep the EPICS OPC gateway from running. We can also now scan the input and input/output records at different rates. I quit the EPICS OPC gateways that were running, and started new ones for these databases. There are now 17 instances of the EPICS OPC gateway running on h1ecatc1. This seems to allow more channels to connect, but I'm not sure how much it will help performance. As more instances are running they take longer to start up. We may have to try spreading the processes over multiple cores, but I don't believe there is currently a way to have this done automatically.

Installation of feedthroughs/blanks on BSC5/BSC9 was completed.
Assembly of TMS Lab cleanrooms got started.

Mark B.

Travis has corrected an EQ stop on the BS (see 5096), so I'm commencing DTT TFs.

Hugo rebuilt the h1hpiham1 model to use the one working ADC on this system (ADC card 0). We restarted the IOP model h1iopseih16, it had glitched earlier today. Both IOP and HAM1 models were added to the DAQ.

Currently the h1seih16 front end is not connected to the Dolphin fabric. There is no need for IPC currently on HEPI HAM1, so we will keep this off the Dolphin network until the ADC problem is resolved.

Michael, Rick, Kiwamu

All servos are now running on the aLIGO RF sources. The final step on Friday was to lock the FSS and tune up the servo. We used one full box for the delay line to set the phase, with 24 ns delay in the first half and 7 ns delay in the second. The common gain was set to 18 dB, up from 17 dB before. This gave us a UGF at 400 kHz with 58 degrees of phase margin. We are still running on the old RFPD and will have to install the new one at some point.

For the 35W beam. The DBB plots were taken with the modecleaner locked and driving the FSS.

The amplifier diode power level has dramatically dropped but it is hard to know if that is an actual drop or a result of the decreasing humidity in the laser room, which is now at its lowest point yet.

Efforts made months ago to fix the dryness of the instrument air supply to the Corner Station succeeded in drying out the instrument air but haven't fixed the freezing of the LLCV needle valves of CP1 and CP2 for sub 23F temperatures -> For tonight, I added low-wattage drop lights engulfed within foil tents to thaw stuck parts and then exercised/stroked the needle valves to free them up -> The next step is to stop flow through the transfer lines to allow them to warm-up to ambient and then to remove the needle mechanism to inspect/dry.  This will have to be done during the daytime.  

2225 hrs. local -> Leaving site now

Mark B.

I did some TFs on the BS using DTT:

/ligo/svncommon/SusSVN/sus/trunk/BSFM/H1/BSTST/SAGM1/Data/2013-01-11_1230_H1SUSBSTST_M1_*_WhiteNoise.xml

It's pretty sick - L and Y are not to bad, but R, T, V and P are nothing like what they're supposed to be.

IAS has given me numbers.  I am unable to move HEPI the requested amount (8mm -X) until the East side Caging Brace Front Faces are moved (removed).  Hopefully we'll be able to reinstall these which allows the HEPI to be locked.  Once this is done we can attempt the translation East.  I believe there is room otherwise for this move.  Caveat: The Actuators are not attached; they have interferences that are not directly determinable now.
For the record, contrary to many statements from SEI to date, BSC1 has only been marginally locked if it can be said it was locked at all.  Most lock bolts were not engaged and only a few of the 40 were doing anything.