Kyle, Gerardo Today, after John had notified Rai of our intent, we applied a few drops of Vacseal (SPI Supplies, Space Environment Laboratories, original formula 0502-AB) to the top of the previously identified leaking 1.33 CFF on GV6 (North gate annulus port). The leak seams to be fixed now.
I stopped h1fw0 to allow Dan to grow the SATABOY disk system controlled by h1ldasgw0. He merged the H1 and H2 SATABOYS into one disk system, doubling H1's capacity.
here are the times between which no frames were being writen by h1fw0
EX ----------------------- - ETMX alignment - Jason in AM - TMS - Keita - Betsy - at ETMX late AM and after lunch EY ----------------------- - electronics - Filiberto Corner ---------------------- - HEPI - Hugo and Hugh --- Hugo - any electronics work on HAM2/3? - unable to drive due to unknown issue with IOP watchdog - see alog from Dave/Rolf - H1SEIH23 IOP STATE WORD - actual real problem related to Hugo's --- Dave and Rolf looking into it - MEDM colors wrong (green when channel is really red) - see Dave's alog - Travis - at ITMX - DUST LAB1 and LVEA16 calibration failure MX ------------------- CP6 filled - alarmed, but is OK now
Travis, Jason, Betsy
Over the last 4 days, we have worked to tune all 12 DOFs (6 each lowest mass on 2 chains) to within the IAS tolerances. As usual, since all DOFs crosstalk, we took many roundabouts, but finally think we have acheived it. Jason will append final pointing/position numbers. TFs taken tonight will exhonorate this "final" pointing. After TMS joins us on the table (still a few days out) and finishes their IAS alignment, we will finish payloading the QUAD.
Note, the alignment process takes many days because after each adjustment, many mechanical brackets and structural items need to be realigned such that the BOSEMs are in range and we can turn the damping on in order to make another IAS measurement of pointing. As well, we have to maintain the floating OSEM/magnet pairing alignments on the lower stages which cause the chain to go out of alignment due to their own weight. Then, IAS makes a measurement, we make the pointing adjustment in the chain, readjust the floating OSEM/magnet pairs (often at the cost of some of the point adjustment we just made), readjust many mechanical brackets, reenable damping everywhere, repeat IAS alignment, cycle around again.
PS - Arnaud is launching TFs tonight,
(Alexa, Kiwamu, Stefan)
Attached is a graph of the noise budget we have been developing for the ALS HIFO-Y control model. A detailed documentation of the model and results will be avaliable shortly.
The following transfer functions are being measured overnight:
HAM2: Tilt decoupling frequency measurement
HAM3: Tilt decoupling frequency measurement
HAM6: Local to Local transfer functions for Initial In-Chamber testing
EY Oplev pier disassembled (Thomas)
HEPI fluid work at EX (Hugh)
Craning Clean Room "skeleton" in preparation for move to EY (Apollo)
As-Built drawing check of racks at EX & EY (Dave, Jim)
TMS Assy work at EX (Andres, Cheryl, Jeff, Keita)
A couple of big tours of kids (with Dale)
[Kiwamu with a help from Christina@AEI remotely]
Today I made some efforts to bring the ISS back on by following an instruction by Christina and made it sort of running --- the loop can be closed by the autolocker but the diffraction power seems bit too high and also the gain seems too low. Certainly the ISS needs further investigations.
Yesterday, after suffering severe brain damage via knocking the massive mechanical test stand numerous times with my head, I managed to connect the balance of the suspension wires between all stages of the ITMx QUAD while mounted to the ISI. The QUAD is ready for coarse alignment which will take many days before assembling the OSEM control brackets and lacing cables. Deepak has been helping us with this work, including getting the cable brackets mounted for upcoming testing.
The optical lever for ETMY that was used in the OAT and HIFO-Y has been de-installed and dis-assembled in preparation for the cartridge transfer from BSC6 to BSC10. The leaner pylon will be placed in storage and an opposite-handed leaner will be used for the H1 optical lever configuration, but the transmitter pylon is transferable so it will stay at the EY until we re-install the H1 optical lever.
Late entry for Tues 6th Maintenance.
The Vacuum Controls VME system in the corner station mechanical room (h0vemr) was booted against the new Linux based vxworks boot server as a first test. The plan is to migrate all Vacuum VME sysems from the legacy Sun Solaris boot servers to the new server, at which point the Sun servers can be decommissioned. This will reduce the power and heat loading of the MSR, and remove reliance on an old RAID unit which is showing errors.
[Stefan, Jamie, Kiwamu]
After a couple of small tweaks, the IMC came back to the point where it routinely locks.
Since there will be a couple of scheduled measurements tonight for HAM2/HAM3 HEPIs/ISIs/SUSs, we disabled the autolocker so as not to disturb the measurements and also not to drive the FSS crazily.
TMS tele/table was released from the support bridge, stabilizer bars were detached, all on-table cables were installed, and then the entire structure was put on a scale using Genie lift with a TMS lift tooling.
It was measured 79.5kg. Nominally it should be 82 so we'll have to add some masses.
Then we wanted to balance the entire structure on a balance bridge tooling, we had the bridge itself but it turns out that we don't have a special bolt and a pin that provide pivot point for balancing, it seems like all units are still at LLO. We're stuck, so no mating to the SUS today.
Wrote an email to Matt Heinze, if he finds them we'll be back to business.
As always, all EX TMS photographic progress is documented in Resource Space here:
Attached are plots of dust counts requested from 4 PM August 5 to 4 PM August 6.
CP5 filled Constantly high dust counts in all three OSB optics labs Jim B. updated the control room CDS workstation GDS tools 09:06 Ace Portable Toilets on site 10:16 spike in dust counts at end Y, possibly coincident with Hugh R. flushing HEPI air lines Hugh R. reported he could not control medm screens from end Y, had me update HEPI pump control settings from control room 10:21 - 10:30 Cyrus R. reconfiguring and rebooting the mechanical room vacuum VME crate, MR INST AIR went invalid for a short period 10:34 Paradise water delivery 11:13 Hugo P. updating HAM ISI master model 11:49 Hugo P. restarting HAM ISI models, DAQ restarted
J. Kissel, H. Paris, A. Pele, B. Shapiro After spending all afternoon getting all the chambers up into their best (local) performance, I've used Stefan's instructions to lock the Y ARM on Red. So easy -- even I could do it! Thanks to all of those who've written scripts to automate the ALS and IMC :-). Interestingly, and I forgot to ask about it, but there's no need to run any down script when the lock is lost. One just runs the two scripts again (assuming your Beam Splitter alignment remains good). OK, I wrote the aLOG too soon. There have been several lock stretches, and the ISI-BS has tripped. I detailed time line is written below, for as long as I stayed here. Here's the configuration of the SEI/SUS during these stretched: Cavity Lock: Chamber HEPI ISI SUS HAM1 Locked n/a n/a HAM2 Floating, Alignment Offsets Only Level 2 Isolated MC1, MC3, PRM damped Level 1.5; PR3 damped Level 1.0 HAM3 Floating, Alignment Offsets Only Level 2 Isolated (eLIGO Blends) MC2, PR2 damped Level 1.5 BS Level 2 Isolated (Position Locked) Level 3 Isolated* BS damped Level 2.0 ITMY Locked Level 3 Isolated ITMY damped Level 2.1 ETMY Level 2 Isolated (Position Locked) Level 3 Isolated ETMY damped Level 2.1, TMSY damped Level 2.0 * I noticed ISI-BS had tripped around 2:53 UTC, but it may have been down for some time. I didn't bother bringing it back up, 'cause I didn't want to blow the cavity lock. Or another three hours. All Optical Levers are well centered. All BSC-ISIs have been brought up to the configuration outlined in LHO aLOG 7226, but just for posterity, this means: Level 3 Isolation Filters Blends at ST1 "T250mHz" and ST2 "250mHz" GND to ST1 STS2 Sensor Correction is ON (The corner station ISIs are both using the beer-garden STS2) ST1 to ST2 T240 Sensor Correction is ON ST0 to ST1 HEPI L4C Feed-Forward is ON (with "FF01_2" filters) The Input Gains for the L4Cs and GS13s are OFF (I *think* this means they're in low -gain mode). They're ON for the T240s. ---------- Time Line (all times UTC, Jul 25 2013) 2:27 Locked on Red 2:46 Lost Red Lock 2:47 Regained Red Lock 2:50 Glitch in CARM_IN1! 2:53 Noticed ISI-BS had tripped. All other ISIs are still fully operational 2:57 Glitch in CARM_IN1! 3:00 Lost Red Lock 3:06 Regained Red Lock 3:11:23 Glitch in CARM_IN1! 3:24:47 Glitch in CARM_IN1! 3:27 We begin to ignore the IFO and go home, be cause there's enough data in the can to get a 0.01 [Hz] measurement in the past (assuming those glitches don't spoil the spectra)... but may the lock last through the night!
Josh Smith, Chris Pankow Hi HIFO-Y folks, Stefan asked us to look into coherence around the time of the HIFO-Y tests of the past two days. Here we're comparing the data from the 25th in alog 7220 with the one from the 26th in this alog. The most noticeable difference between the two times is that the CARM noise is significantly lower, and nearly the whole effect comes from engaging the PSL ISS. Attached plots are: 1) CARM noise from 25th compared to CARM noise from 26th. 2) PSL ISS PDA and PDB for 25th - ISS OFF (sorry for not having this in RIN, will try to update with that info.) 3) PSL ISS PDA and PDB for the 26th - ISS ON 4) Coherence between ISS and CARM for 25th (very high) 5) Coherence between ISS and CARM for 26th (almost none) Note: o find the clean times we looked at ALS-Y_REFL_B_LF_OUT_DQ and LSC-CARM_IN1_DQ to make sure it was locked and had not glitches. Stefan mentioned that this could be from Intensity noise coupling to length/frequency noise in the IMC via radiation pressure. This should not be hard to calculate with the RIN of the PSL, the length and geometry of the MC, and the mirror masses. Is it already in the noise budget? We will continue for looking for other systems that have coherence during the quieter time on the 26th.
For the lower-noise HIFO-Y time from the 26th in the comment above, the PSL table/periscope accelerometer channels are somewhat coherent with the ratty noise from 100-400Hz (see attached PDF). This is not quite a strong as the coherence with the green laser HIFO-Y signal reported by Robert and co on 7150. In addition to that, the HAM3 GS13s show coherence at 0.4, 1, 3, and 4.2Hz (see second attachment). I also checked MICs, MAGs, TILTs, and L4Cs and didn't find anything to write home about.
Lock happens on Jul 26 2013 (UTC) 2:27 Locked on Red 2:46 Lost Red Lock
(Jeff, Kiwamu, Stefan) With the H1:LSC-REFLAIR_A_RF9_I calibrated in Hz, and the open loop transfer function measured, here is the noise it sees: Input Mode Cleaner transmitted frequency noise. Also plotted is dark noise (shutter closed). We do not know yet what the ugly noise ~1/f^3 noise is.
The loop transfer functions are attached: Open loop gains: CARM_OLG_RED.txt CARM_OLG_GREEN.txt Closed loop gains: CARM_CLG_RED.txt CARM_CLG_GREEN.txt Inverse closed loop gains CARM_iCLG_RED.txt CARM_iCLG_GREEN.txt Inverse closed loop gain with a factor of 1/2 gor Green Hz to Red Hz conversion: CARM_iCLG_RED_g2r_special.txt
S. Ballmer, J. Kissel We had made an estimate for the coil driver noise in low-noise mode (State 3, ACQ off, LP ON), and ruled it out. However, I've checked the state of the Binary IO switches, and MC2 is running in State 2, ACQ ON, LP OFF, and and MC1 and MC3 are running in State 1, ACQ OFF, LP OFF. We'll try for this measurement again, with the coil drivers in their lowest-noise mode.
I've plotted the above-attached, red and green, open loop gain transfer functions (see *_full.pdf attachment). Through trial and error, I figured out that the text file columns are (freq [Hz], magnitude [dB], phase [deg]). And remember these are IN1/IN2 measurements, so it's a measurement of - G, not G (which is why the phase margin is between the data and 0 [deg], not -180 [deg]). Also, because the data points around the UGF were so sparse, I interpolated a 50 point fit around the UGF to get a more precise estimate of the unity crossing and phase margin. See _zoom.pdf for a comparison of the two estimates. I get the following numbers (rounded to the nearest integer) for the raw estimate and the fit estimate: The raw CARM UGF is: 136 [Hz], with a phase margin of: 33 [deg] The Fit CARM UGF is: 146 [Hz], with a phase margin of: 30 [deg] The raw CARM UGF is: 169 [Hz], with a phase margin of: 35 [deg] The Fit CARM UGF is: 170 [Hz], with a phase margin of: 34 [deg]
Pressure of Y1 module at the LVEA and at the Mid station after the fix.
The leak appears to be stable at a much reduced rate. Perhaps fixed. At an opportune time we will spray helium again.