Reports until 17:12, Wednesday 09 July 2025
H1 General
oli.patane@LIGO.ORG - posted 17:12, Wednesday 09 July 2025 (85660)
Ops Day Shift End

TITLE: 07/10 Day Shift: 1430-2330 UTC (0730-1630 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Lock Acquisition
INCOMING OPERATOR: Ibrahim
SHIFT SUMMARY: Currently relocking and in ACQUIRE_DRMI_1F. We've been struggling the last hour+ due to the wind picking up. Earlier in relocking, we were seeing some ALSX crystal frequency issues, but they thankfully went away pretty fast.

THE LVEA IS LASER HAZARD

Three lock acquisitions during my shift today:

1st) went well after running an initial alignment, but we did have a couple issues at higher level states:
- In INJECT_SQUEEZING, we noticed the 1 Hz ringup happening again. We did what Elenna mentioned in 85643 and upped the CSOFT P gain from 20 to 25. This worked to slowly fix the ringup (85649)
- The filter cavity wouldn't lock. It was unlocking when it got to TRANSITION_IR or FC_ASC_ON. I checked H1:SQZ-FC_TRANS_C_LF_OUTPUT, and it was already pretty good at around 116, but I was able to adjust FC2 to get it up to over 125. We were still losing the filter cavity after this, so I checked what was done when we had this issue a couple weeks ago (85390). I was able to confirm from checking those same channels that we were in a good spot for all of them. Sheila mentioned adjusting the OPO temp, and that worked
2nd) went quickly and I just needed to help ALSY
3rd) current relocking, struggling with DRMI/PRMI, ALSX crystal frequency, and the wind


LOG:

14:30UTC Relocking and in ACQUIRE_PRMI
    - In INJECT_SQUEEZING, we noticed the 1 Hz ringup happening again. We did what Elenna mentioned in 85643
16:11 NOMINAL_LOW_NOISE
    - FC wouldn't lock. I ended up adjusting the OPO temperature to fix this
16:56 Observing
17:39 Lockloss
19:04 NOMINAL_LOW_NOISE
19:07 Observing
21:55 Lockloss
    - Check crystal frequency issues, but not for very long
    - Couldn't lock DRMI, cycled through PRMI, MICH, etc, so decided to run initial alignment
    - Wind started going up, making it hard to keep ALS locked                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

Start Time System Name Location Lazer_Haz Task Time End
14:53 FAC Randy EY n Pump alignment (in at 14:30) 15:40
15:40 FAC Randy MX n Inventory 17:09
15:51   Jason OpticsLab n Scoping out PMC locations for JAC 15:56
16:05 EPO Robert, Matt + parents Roof n Looking out over the desert 16:37
17:09 FAC Randy MY n Inventory, craning 18:09
17:13   Jason, Betsy VacPrep n Moving JAC PMC for inspection (Betsy out at some point in time) 20:02
18:30 ISC Keita VacPrep Lab n Inventory 19:44
19:04 ISC Jennie VacPrep Lab n Joining Keita 19:44
20:55 VAC Gerardo FCES n Taking photo of gauge 21:13
22:02 PEM Robert LVEA n Getting stuff ready for commissioning tomorrow 22:46
22:13 EE Betsy, Fil CER n Checking something 22:26
22:37   Ibrahim LVEA YES Transitioning us to laser hazard 22:46
23:06 PEM Robert LVEA YES Taking viewport off 23:14