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takafumi.ushiba - 15:35 Wednesday 24 December 2025 (35943) Print this report
Strange behaviour of TMSX IR and GR PDs

At around 15:07:47 JST, I realized strange transient behaviour of GRX and IRX PDs at TMSX.
After that, the offset value was changed and the signals became noisy for IRX PD.
For GRX PD, the offset value was also changed and there seems no flash signals of GR thaugh I can see flashes on GR camera.

Soon after I found this behaviour, I called Kimura-san and asked what he was doing.
He just finished the work of installation of interlock and star operation of TMP and dry pump.
He also turned off the ceiling light.

Aso-san and Yamamoto-kun will enter the mine for the investigation.

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yoichi.aso - 19:06 Wednesday 24 December 2025 (35944) Print this report

Yamamoto, Ushiba, Aso

We went to the X-end to check what happened.

It turned out that the breaker to provide the AC power to the PDs was off.

The diagram below shows how the various components are connected to the power line.

FFU: Filter Fan Unit for the TMS area
SX-5: Wall power outlet, to which the transmission PDs are connected.
LED: The LED lighting for the TMS area

When we arrived at the X-end, B1 was off and S1 was on.
Therefore, nothing was powered.

We then turned on B1. Then all the components were powered.
However, the PD signals were still strange.
We power cycled the PDs using the switches on the PD bodies.
Then the oscillations went away and the green flashes were visible.

We disengaged S1 to turn off the LEDs. However, we cannot turn off the FFUs without shutting down the PDs. So we left the FFUs running. Probably, the FFUs were on during the O4 observation.

After this work, Ushiba-kun confirmed that the X-arm can be aligned well with the ADS.

 

I think this incident was caused by a very confusing connection. As shown in the photo of B1, it seems Akutsu-san was also annoyed by this problem in the past. We put an additional notice that turning off this breaker results in the shutdown of the PDs.
However, a better solution is to connect the PDs to, not SX-5, but to a DGS power outlet. We have one near S1.

B1

S1

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