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yoichi.aso - 22:23 Monday 05 February 2024 (28509) Print this report
PR3 recovery work

Hirata, Dan, Ikeda, Komori, Takidera, Aso

We started the recovery work of the PR3 suspension.

The current state:

  • OpLev is centered
  • Horizontal OSEMs are around 6000 counts (middle of the linear range)
  • Vertical OSEMs are out of the linear range (need adjustment)
  • No OSEM flag seems to touch the coil

Fixing the suspended table

Before fixing the table, we measured the height of the table from the nominal height of the PR3 mirror marked on a pillar near the chamber.
The numbers should be reported separately.

OSEM flag rotation

We fixed the IM and IRM, then rotated the IM OSEM flags to the nominal orientation.

After releasing the IM and IRM, we confirmed that none of the flags are rubbing.

OpLev centering

The tilt OpLev beam was missing the QPD on the upper side.
We moved the IM moving mass in -pitch to move the center the OpLev beam on the QPD.
Along the way, we checked the IM OSEM flangs. None of them touched the coils.

OSEM adjustment

After the OpLev is centered, we fixed the IRM and adjusted the position of the OSEMs to be the center of the linear range.
The adjustment required several rounds of iteration.
While adjusting the vertical OSEMs, the IM suddenly moved in tilt changing the OSEM outputs by roughly 2000 counts.
We don't know exactly what happened but Hirata-san reported that he touched a cable during the adjustment.

After all the adjustments are done and released the IRM, we found that the OpLev is largely miscentered in pitch, this time in the downward direction.
We don't know if this is related to the sudden move of the IM during the OSEM adjustment.
The shift of the OpLev beam spot (>1cm) is too large compared with the 2000 count change (~0.1mm) of the OSEMs.

Re-centering of the OpLev

We moved the IM moving mass to center the OpLev again.
During this adjustment, the V3 OSEM showed a strange behavior.

When the IM is moved in pitch V2 and V3 OSEMs should move in the opposite direction as V1. Indeed, the V1 and V2 OSEMs showed opposite change. However, V3 OSEM did not move at all.
Initially, we suspected that V3 might be touching. However, it did not seem so from the visual inspection.
As a check, we moved the BF fishing rod to move the IM vertically. In this case, V3 OSEM responded exactly the same as the other vertical OSEMs. 
We also moved the roll moving mass of the IM. Again, the V3 OSEM responded in the expected way (opposite sign as the V2).

We decided to continue the pitch adjustment to center the OpLev. As we moved the IM pitch by a few tens of thousands of counts, V3 started to move in the expected direction.

When we completely centered the OpLev on the QPD, all the vertical OSEMs became out of linear range.
We will adjust the vertical OSEMs again tomorrow.

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yoichi.aso - 0:13 Wednesday 07 February 2024 (28523) Print this report

Hirata, Dan, Ikeda, Komori, Aso

We were able to bring the PR3 to the aligned state with the Guardian.

We did the followings:

  • Adjust the vertical OSEM positions to be in the linear range
  • OpLev remained in the QPD after this adjustment
  • At this stage, the Guardian worked up to the Damped state. However, the Aligned state induced an oscillation. This was probably caused by a large offset in the length OpLev, which was used to diagonalize the Yaw signal.
  • The LEN OpLev was ~208, almost out of the range.
  • We don't know if this was caused by the actual shift of the mirror position or the shift of the OpLev. There is no way to know this.
  • We moved the traverser to move the mirror in L to zero the LEN OpLev.
  • After this, we were able to engage the Aligned state.
  • Health check is the next step.
naoatsu.hirata - 8:30 Wednesday 07 February 2024 (28520) Print this report

(This is work on 2024/2/5)

[Hirata, Aso-san, Dan Chen-san, Ikeda-san]

I attached PR3 breadboard height which we measured before locking it.

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satoru.ikeda - 9:21 Wednesday 07 February 2024 (28534) Print this report

Work done on 2024.02.06.

> The LEN OpLev was ~208, almost out of the range.
> We moved the traverser to move the mirror in L to zero the LEN OpLev.

PR3 Traversers were moved.

X: +400 um
Y: +400 um

Traverser Direction

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naoatsu.hirata - 16:45 Thursday 29 February 2024 (28718) Print this report

[Hirata, Ikeda-san, Takahashi-san]

We measured PR3 Traverser position.

  • We opened PR3 chamber top part. Removed bolts are in the plastic box near the chamber.
  • We measured position of Traverser by caliper. The result is attached(Pic.1). 
  • Previous position was written on klog:21607(2022/7/26). Pic.2 shows the rough differece between today and 2022/7/26.
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naoatsu.hirata - 18:50 Friday 08 March 2024 (28800) Print this report

[Hirata, Takahashi-san, Ikeda-san]

We checked PR3 mirror height. It was higher than nominal height, so we lower the mirror.

  • The reference is on the pillar at +X,+Y side of the chamber.(pic.1)
  • We used 2 laser levelers and ruler.
  • We checked stands off and scratch lines which are on the HR side recoilmass frange.
  • -Y side and +Y side stands off are both higher than laser leveler.(pic.2:-Y, pic.3:+Y)
  • -Y and +Y side scratch lines are about 1.5mm higher than laser leveler.(pic.4:-Y, pic.5:+Y)
  • We lower the SF keystone 2100um by fishing rod.
  • -Y side is about 0.1mm lower than laser leveler. +Y side is 0.25mm higher than laser leveler.(pic.6:-Y, pic.7:+Y) It means mirror center is 0.125mm higher than nominal, but it's within measuring error.
  • Pic.7 and 8 show the stands off.(pic.8:-Y, pic.9:+Y)
  • We checked earthquake stops for recoilmass. They are not touching to the recoilmass.

Now PR3 mirror is at the nominal height. 

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ryutaro.takahashi - 18:57 Sunday 10 March 2024 (28805) Print this report

We changed the setpoint of the SF GAS from -800 to -2950.

naoatsu.hirata - 12:50 Friday 29 March 2024 (29012) Print this report

When we adjusted PR3 height(klog:28800), we used reference point which was copied from target seal at chamber +X+Y side. (pic.1)

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