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Date |
Author |
Type |
Category |
Subject |
Text |
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96
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Wed May 10 10:49:34 2023 |
Aiden | Update | General | RGA Software | [Aiden, Cao]
Went over how to use the RGA
software, how to change the graph units,
scaling and mass detection. Also went over |
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111
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Wed May 31 16:18:41 2023 |
Aiden | Summary | General | Mock FROSTI | Finished assembly on the Mock FROSTI so it
is ready for the fit test at LIGO lab. |
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115
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Tue Jun 6 16:04:46 2023 |
Aiden | Update | General | Water | Aiden went and refilled the de-ionized water
to continue clean and bake batches. |
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121
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Tue Jun 13 13:25:05 2023 |
Aiden | Summary | Clean & Bake | Clean and Bake Batch 13 | Cleaned and Baked the new 1.33" and 2.75"
blanks for the vacuum system. Cleaned them
with liquinox in the ultra sonic washer for |
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126
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Fri Jun 16 17:40:28 2023 |
Aiden | Update | Clean & Bake | Clean and Bake Batch 14 | Cleaned and Baked the new and 2.75" copper
gaskets for the vacuum system. Cleaned them
with liquinox in the ultra sonic washer for |
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146
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Wed Jul 5 16:02:12 2023 |
Aiden | Update | Clean & Bake | Clean and Bake batch 14 Bagging | Bagged and Tagged the 2.75" copper gaskets
from Batch 14 and placed them into the clean
room on the work bench. |
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148
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Thu Jul 6 16:16:03 2023 |
Aiden | Summary | VAC | Vacuum Chamber Baking Update |
Pressure Measured Before Removing Gauge
2.31 E-7 Torr.
Went in and turned
on the heating tape in increments of 30 degC |
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150
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Fri Jul 7 15:11:39 2023 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | VAC System Heating Update |
The temperature of the flange connecting
to the turbo pump after reaching equilibrium
is 74 degC. This means that it is safe to |
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152
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Mon Jul 10 13:23:23 2023 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | VAC System Heating Update |
Checked on the system today.
The
flange on the turbo pump has reached an equilibrium
temperature of 87 degC when set at 150 degC. |
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153
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Thu Jul 13 14:56:43 2023 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | VAC System Heating Update |
Checked on the vacuum system today to
change the PID controls back to their default
values in order to try and get the temperature |
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156
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Fri Jul 14 14:37:25 2023 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | VAC System Heating Update |
Checked on the vacuum system and it looks
like it will either need to be increased
in temperature or baked for a longer time. |
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160
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Mon Jul 17 13:50:41 2023 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | VAC System Heating Update |
Started to cool down the chamber today.
Final temperature readings of the chamber
were 146C and 91C for the body and cross |
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161
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Mon Jul 17 14:01:41 2023 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | VAC System Heating Update |
The insulation on the lid of the vacuum
chamber has some discoloration and it may
be wise to place a sensor closer to this |
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168
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Thu Jul 20 18:03:19 2023 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | Vacuum Chamber Baking Update |
Took another set of RGA data after the
second bake has cooled down to 27 degC.
Just
by visual comparison to the other graphs, |
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179
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Fri Jul 28 13:46:17 2023 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | Vacuum Chamber Baking Update |
Took some more data to look at the HC
count. Initial data was from leaving the
Argon leak closed and then left it open for |
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184
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Tue Aug 1 12:10:03 2023 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | Vacuum Chamber Baking Update |
Dr. Richardson and I took off the insulation
on the lid again to add more insulation in-between
the heater tape folds in addition to what |
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185
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Tue Aug 1 12:48:41 2023 |
Aiden | Update | Cleanroom | Pre Filter Change |
Changed the pre filter inside of the
3 stage HEPA system next to the soldering
station. It was rather dirty and I have attached |
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188
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Wed Aug 2 17:02:38 2023 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | VAC System Heating Update |
Moved the temperature sensor on the PID
controller to one of the switch backs on
the lid.
Also started the next |
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189
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Thu Aug 3 16:00:25 2023 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | VAC System Heating Update | Check on the temperature of the bake today
to see the equilibrium temperatures. With
both of the PID controllers set to 150 C, |
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190
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Thu Aug 3 17:47:51 2023 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | VAC Heating System Update |
Did some further testing to determine
if it was within reason to increase the temperature
of the chamber. I used a thermometer and |
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192
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Fri Aug 4 15:21:33 2023 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | VAC System Heating Update | Checked on Bake 3 today and the temperature
sensors read 126 C and 91 C for the chamber
barrel and turbo pump flange respectively. |
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195
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Tue Aug 8 15:31:26 2023 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | VAC Heating System Update |
Vacuum Chamber equilibrium temperature
for bake 3 are 126 C and 88 C for the chamber
wall and turbo pump flange respectively. |
10x |
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201
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Thu Aug 10 14:36:00 2023 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | VAC System Heating Update | Came in to install one of the Full range gauges.
Checked the temperature first of the cross
and it was reading 30 C. After installing |
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203
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Thu Aug 10 18:32:39 2023 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | VAC System Heating Update |
[Dr. Richardson, Aiden]
DO NOT TOUCH ANY VALVES ON THE
CHAMBER. THERE IS A PRESSURE DIFFERENTIAL |
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205
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Fri Aug 11 18:32:00 2023 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | VAC System Heating Update |
[Dr. Richardson, Aiden] Large Update
Removed
most of the insulation on the chamber in
order to pull back some of the heater tape |
11x |
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208
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Tue Aug 15 16:04:23 2023 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | VAC Heating System Update |
Pulled off the rest of the heater tape
along with the aluminum tape left behind.
The aluminum tape adhesive left behind a |
6x |
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212
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Thu Aug 17 15:02:44 2023 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | VAC Heating System Update |
Put the heating tape back on and made
sure to have 4 coils around the barrel of
the chamber. To make this happen I did not |
11x |
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213
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Thu Aug 17 15:18:48 2023 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | VAC Heating System Update | Relocated the PID controllers so that the
heating tape could be plugged in. In the
picture the left one controls the top half |
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214
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Mon Aug 21 17:13:25 2023 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | Vacuum Chamber Baking Update |
Came in to take RGA data and found the
turbo pump drawing .38 Amps. This was much
higher than what it was on Friday. I investigated |
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215
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Mon Aug 28 14:43:50 2023 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | Vacuum Chamber Baking Update | The PID controllers were turned off on Friday
and the chamber was left to cool over the
weekend. Just took data and it looks like |
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216
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Tue Aug 29 19:09:21 2023 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | Vacuum Chamber Baking Update | Here are some more plots with the RGA data
take August 29. It seems that more pumping
time has led to the HC levels being dramatically |
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217
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Tue Aug 29 22:07:38 2023 |
Aiden | Update | General | Electronic Bench | Dr Richardson is working on mounting more
power supplies in the server rack and is
using the electronics bench. Be aware to |
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218
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Thu Aug 31 12:56:29 2023 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | Vacuum Chamber Baking Update | Took some more RGA data to see if the HC levels
have further declined since bake 4 and it
seems that it has started to plateau with |
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219
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Fri Sep 1 19:21:19 2023 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | VAC System Heating Update | Started bake 5 today. This will hopefully
be a longer and hotter bake with it lasting
6-7 days at around 150 C. The pressure in |
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220
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Tue Sep 5 16:43:19 2023 |
Aiden | Update | General | VAC System Heating Update | Checked on bake 5 today after 3 days of equilibrium.
The RGA cross is at 106 C and the turbo pump
cross is at 74 C. This was reached while |
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222
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Fri Sep 8 16:10:43 2023 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | VAC System Heating Update | Turned off the PID controllers to let the
chamber cool down. Final temperatures for
the RGA cross and Turbo pump cross were 113 |
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223
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Mon Sep 11 16:02:42 2023 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | VAC System Heating Update | The chamber has cooled down from bake 5 and
I took the first set of data. The pressure
measured during the RGA measurements reached |
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224
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Tue Sep 12 15:31:31 2023 |
Aiden | Update | Clean & Bake | Clean and Bake Batch 15 | Cleaned and Baked the SS screws for the heater
mount. Check the Clean and Bake data base
on the website to get a precise list of the |
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226
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Fri Sep 15 17:33:35 2023 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | Vacuum Chamber Baking Update | Took some more RGA data and see that the chamber
has gotten much cleaner since monday. Next
step would be another bake with some focus |
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227
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Thu Sep 28 15:17:13 2023 |
Aiden | Update | Clean & Bake | Clean and Bake Batch 16 | Bagged and Tagged the parts from batch 15
and started baking batch 16 which includes
the 6" to 8" reducer. |
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232
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Tue Oct 3 15:07:48 2023 |
Aiden | Update | Clean & Bake | Clean and Bake Batch 17 | Cleaned and baked all the stainless steel
parts in Batch 17. Check data base for more
details on this. |
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233
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Sat Oct 7 17:10:27 2023 |
Aiden | Update | Clean & Bake | Clean and Bake Batch 18 | Bagged and tagged the parts from Batch 17
and placed them in the clean room on the
optic table. Also started an aluminum batch |
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237
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Mon Oct 9 21:41:24 2023 |
Aiden | Update | Clean & Bake | Clean and Bake Batch 19 | Bagged and tagged the parts from batch 18.
Started the Copper batch that includes all
the gaskets needed to start the vacuum chamber |
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239
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Thu Oct 12 12:11:10 2023 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | Vacuum chamber Helium leak test | [Aiden, Tyler, Peter, Jon]
Continued
tightening bolts on the turbo pump and 6"-8"
reducer to reduce the leak. The final leak |
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240
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Thu Oct 19 11:41:04 2023 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | Vacuum Chamber Baking Update | [Aiden, Tyler, Mohak]
Took some RGA
data when we came into the room. The pressure
of the chamber was 8.63e-8 Torr before turning |
6x |
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245
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Thu Oct 26 13:00:45 2023 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | Vacuum Chamber Baking Update | Bake 6 was turned off on Monday. Tooke RGA
data today and have posted the data below.
The pressure of the chamber after taking |
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246
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Fri Oct 27 15:16:31 2023 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | Vacuum Leak Test | Leak tested the worst flanges on the chamber
after moving it and after bake 6. The 6 inch
flange connected to the 8 inch reducing nipple |
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251
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Tue Oct 31 19:46:35 2023 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | VAC System Heating Update | Started bake 7 on Monday but found issues
with the heating as the cross in front of
the RGA got way too hot too quickly. This |
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253
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Wed Nov 1 20:22:07 2023 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | VAC System Heating Update | Raised the PID controller temperature to 105C
today as at that temperature the lid and
the barrel temperature sensors were reading |
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258
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Thu Nov 9 13:48:47 2023 |
Aiden | Update | VAC | Vacuum Chamber Baking Update | After bake 7 was stopped on Wednesday morning
(11,8,2023), I took RGA data of the chamber
to compare to a later scan that will be done |
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