OBS (General)takahiro.yamamoto - 15:46 Saturday 12 July 2025 (34539)
Print this reportLesson for future maintenance and commissioning worksBecause of multiple human errors, we couldn't back to OBSERVING for a while. To prevent repeated same mistakes, I summarized what was bad and what must be improved. Because partial commissioning will be resumed, it'll become a good lesson for many people who will commit commissioning activities.
points to be improved 1) SDF clearing work was done NOT in OBSERVATION on LSC_LOCK guardian. => We must ensure that all set point values in observation.snap are accepted as ones in OBSERVATION state.
2) A procedure of loading down.snap/observation.snap cycle was skipped in the clearing work. => A loading cycle is necessary to mitigate accidental SDF issues. Though a main purpose of this procedure is to avoid the SDF issues due to numerical rounding errors, it can also prevent a mistakes such as above.
3) A calibration measurement was started with insufficient checks. => Calibration measurement must be started after confirming that CALIB_NOT_READY or READY on IFO guardian is reachable. Though a problem this time didn't affect calibration measurement fortunately, there was some possibility to be required a re-measurement in the worst case. If sufficient checks were done, we was probably able to find a problem in ~2hrs. earlier.
4) Request state of IFO guardian was changed in mistake (though it's not directly related to the issue in this time). => A request to the interferometer must be done via LSC_LOCK guardian. There is no work to require the manual operation of IFO guardian except for a bug fix of IFO guardian itself.