Kyle, Gerardo, John  

Found gross leak on dual 3-pin actuator power feed-through on BSC8 (NW) -> Vented YBM, replaced leaker with one that was bench tested and found not to leak.  As found, in-vacuum cables connectors were not screwed to feed-through connectors -> NOTE: flange-to-flange gap is uniform but conflat joint is not "metal-to-metal".  Seems as if flange bolts are bottomed out in blind holes, tapped holes may be too shallow on this one flange(?) -> Pumping YBM overnight with purge/vent valve "cracked" open.  

  

Kyle, Gerardo 

~0930 hrs. local

We isolated the chamber tubing from the feedline and then shut the pump down.  We drained almost two liters from the system before we decided enough for today.  We'll do some more before moving the lines next week.
We had no real problems except for having a ladder pilfered in the middle of the job.

EricA, HughR

AC units have been installed, work on make-up air ducting is in progress. Area for concrete pads for chillers to sit on has been cleared.

H2 SUS ITMY 

Open loop transfer function measurements were run on the H2 ITMY M0 & R0 top masses last night. The ISI damping loops were closed for the beginning of the measurements. There was a concern as to whether there was rubbing on the earthquake stops for ITMY after  evidence of such on FMY earlier this week.  These measurements show no preliminary signs of rubbing on the ITMY M0 & R0 masses and agree quite well with the models.



Data:
~/SusSVN/sus/trunk/QUAD/H2/ITMY/SAGM0/Data/2012-02-16_1013494514_H2SUSITMY_M0_0p01to50Hz_AllDOFs_tf.mat
~/SusSVN/sus/trunk/QUAD/H2/ITMY/SAGR0/Data/2012-02-17-1013510837_H2SUSITMY_R0_0p01to50Hz_AllDOFs_tf.mat

PDF Plots:
~/SusSVN/sus/trunk/QUAD/H2/ITMY/SAGM0/Results/2012-02-16_H2SUSITMY_M0_ALL_TFs.pdf
~/SusSVN/sus/trunk/QUAD/H2/ITMY/SAGR0/Results/2012-02-17_H2SUSITMY_R0_ALL_TFs.pdf

• Watched Apollo install H1 Mode Cleaner B Tube (and probably take FTIRs on MC A Tube). 
• Lost connection to the Vacuum Rack near H2 PSL.  Dave/Filiberto was able to get it back online
• 8:44 Rebolt on site
• Stoneway also came on site with delivery for Ken
• Several Annulus Pump alarms, but Kyle says only to worry about are the Beam Tube Gate Valve Annulus Ion Pumps
• Had several Chiller Yard Pump Failure & an RO Alarm (Ski said this was due to reboots)
• BSC8 ISI Cables disconnected for Leak investigations

Filiberto will be disconnecting external ISI cables from their respective feedthrus to help Kyle with his leak-checking work of BSC8.  Cables will be re-connected when Kyle gives the ok.

During phase I and II, the ISIs are tested in clean rooms and are subjected to an important airflow disturbance.  Consequently, it is quite difficult to have good quality measurements at high frequencies (100Hz to 1KHz). To improve the quality of the transfer functions, we can split the high frequencies transfer functions measurements into multiple frequency bands but the “quick high frequency transfer functions measurements” become time consuming.

Measurement limitations:
- at HF, the drive is the limit
- at LF, the drive is small and the sensors saturate easily

To reduce the measurement time, we can drive 1 DOF at low frequency and different DOF at high frequency simultaneously. During a test, stage 1 was driven at low frequency while Stage 2 was driven at high frequencies. In the attached plots, there is a comparison when the TFs are measured by exciting one DOF at the time and 2 DOFs simultaneously. It matches. Only, a light difference is observed on the 2 first resonances of the ISI (probablydue to a light change of the plant between the two measurements)

HEPI transfer functions
The first set of transfer functions was measured on BSC8 from 2mHz to 500Hz. The 700mHz-10Hz frequency band was measured in 2 configurations:
- ISI undamped (2012_02_15)
- ISI damped (2012_02_16)

The HEPI transfer functions can be seen at:

https://svn.ligo.caltech.edu/svn/seismic/HEPI/H2/ITMY/Data/Figures/Transfer_Functions/Measurements/Undamped/

-          LHO_HEPI_BSC8_TF_L2L_Raw_from_ACT_to_IPS_2012_02_16.fig

-          LHO_HEPI_BSC8_TF_L2L_Raw_from_ACT_to_IPS_2012_02_16.pdf

-          LHO_HEPI_BSC8_TF_L2L_Raw_from_ACT_to_L4C_2012_02_16.fig

-          LHO_HEPI_BSC8_TF_L2L_Raw_from_ACT_to_L4C_2012_02_16.pdf

The ISI damping loops are effective between 1Hz and 8Hz. The effect on HEPI transfer functions is limited but visible on the 1.25Hz and 5 Hz resonances. A comparison between the two configuration can be found at:

https://svn.ligo.caltech.edu/svn/seismic/HEPI/H2/ITMY/Data/Figures/Transfer_Functions/Comparisons/L2L/

-          LHO_ISI_BSC8_Comparison_TF_L2L_ACT_H_to_L4C_H_20120215_vs_20120216.fig

-          LHO_ISI_BSC8_Comparison_TF_L2L_ACT_H_to_L4C_H_20120215_vs_20120216.pdf

-          LHO_ISI_BSC8_Comparison_TF_L2L_ACT_V_to_L4C_V_20120215_vs_20120216.fig

-          LHO_ISI_BSC8_Comparison_TF_L2L_ACT_V_to_L4C_V_20120215_vs_20120216.pdf

If you look carefully, you can see light bumps at the junctions between the different sections (10mHz for instance) of the transfer functions. To evaluate the non linearity, I drove a sine wave at 200mHz and 4Hz using different amplitudes (100cts, 300cts, 1000cts, 3000cts, 5000cts) (attachment).

Low gain on the HEPI pier interface D080521
It is quite surprising to see that the HEPI L4C signals don’t overshoot +/-100 counts on the ADC (attachment 1) when the actuators are not driven.  After checking that all elements of the readout chain were turned on, we measured the L4C gain of one HEPI pier interface D080521. The gain is 22 and a 0.1V input offset gives 3600counts on the ADC as expected.
After comparing calibrated spectra of the HEPI L4Cs (on top of the piers) with spectra of the ISI L4Cs (stage 1), the HEPI L4Cs spectra don’t look wrong.
L4C gain in D080521 seems low.

The default NDS server assignment that is made for new shells has been changed to use h2nds0 instead of h2nds1.  This will affect any program or shell started after 10:38 AM PST on Feb. 17, 2012.

Attached are plots of dust counts > .5 microns for February 15 and 16.

Kyle, Gerardo, John

Had valved-out QDP80 pump from YBM before leaving last night.  YBM pressure was 20 torr at that time.  Pressure rose to 200 torr in ~18 hours, i.e. large unexplained gas load in YBM volume -> Resumed pumping YBM with QDP80 this morning.  Pumped adjacent annulus volumes (BSC8, GV1 and GV3-GV5 already under vacuum).  Connected leak detector in parallel with QDP80 pump path and set detector up for high pressure leak testing (10 torr max inlet pressure).  Once YBM pressure reached 10 torr, Gerardo and I did a "rehearsal" exercise by spraying some feed-throughs on BSC8 -> Noticed a large delayed response after tens of seconds.  Time constant believed to be around 1800 seconds for these conditions.  Signal continued to rise for ~30 minutes after initial (10 sec/flange dwells) until signal "railed" the leak detector at 9.9 x 10-4 torr*L/sec. -> Surprisingly, Gerardo was unable to find this "wopper" leak by utilizing the stethoscope!  We probably could hear this leak with our unaided ear if there wasn't so much background noise in the LVEA. -> For tonight, I am leaving the YBM vent/purge valve "cracked" open a little so as to keep a viscous stream flowing in the correct direction in the event of a QDP80 stoppage during the night.  This way we won't have to valve-out the pump overnight and we can resume leak testing in the morning without having to wait "hours" to get back to 10 torr.

PSL is shut off for the night to allow Robert S. to make accelerometer measurements on the periscope, without interference from the chilled water lines. PMC, ISS, FSS servos are off, everything will be started back up tomorrow morning.

HEPA units are off, make up air is set to 30%, creating a ~0.01" water pressure differential between laser and anteroom. AC units were shut off via touchpad interface, but they may still be on.

Today we installed the fall protection wire and temporary vertical protection bars for the TMS isc table, and removed the Genie, while the cube is still on EQ stops. It went fine.

Originally the temporary protection bars weren't required at this stage, however the new initial alignment procedure the TMS and the intial alignment people have been working on requires that a large target is mounted on the input aperture of the telescope plate. Since this totally changes the balance of the TMS/tele, we needed temporary EQ stops on the vertical protection bars.

Jim, Hugo

Issue: 
LLO have a BSC-ISI that is under-loaded by 400lbs. They noticed that its small blades where lifted from their clamp-plates. They measured this gap by inserting shims at the blade/clamp-plate junction. A 1.5 mils-thick shim could be inserted by approximately 18/64” in the whole length of that junction.

Test:
We did the same test here at LHO on BSC6, which is reasonably loaded, in order to help LLO diagnose. The access was limited. Only two blades were tested. They could only be tested along 2” of the junction’s length.

Result:
Observations are the same for both of the blades that were tested. A 1 mil-thick shim could be inserted by approximately 28/64”, and a 2 mils thick shim could be inserted by approximately 19/64”.

Conclusion: 
The gaps measured on LHO-BSC6 are similar to the ones measured on the unit studied at LLO. Hence, the space measured between the blades and their clamp-plates doesn’t seem to be a justification for a BSC-ISI to be under-loaded. 

Suggestion:
Further discussion revealed that our bolts were lubricated before torqueing. Lubrication allows reaching a higher level of compression before tripping the torque wrench. It also revealed that our bolts were torqued to a higher torque value.