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Date |
Author |
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Category |
Subject |
Text |
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Wed Mar 8 19:29:00 2023 |
Aiden | Summary | General | Clean and Bake batch 7 | Today gave another cleaning to the MDC gate
valve. It is still very dirty an will need
more cleaning. I also cleaned the other 3 |
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51
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Tue Mar 14 18:21:41 2023 |
Aiden | Summary | General | Clean and Bake batch 8 | Starting off Peter and I refilled the deionized
water barrel.
Then Aiden Cleaned and Bake
the FROSTI arms and bases in liquinox for |
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52
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Fri Mar 17 19:46:39 2023 |
Aiden | Summary | General | Clean and Bake batch 9 | Bagged and Tagged the reflector arms and bases
and placed them inside the clean room. Total
of 2 bags used. Cleaned and Baked parts in |
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60
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Mon Apr 3 17:04:05 2023 |
Aiden | Summary | General | IDP Scroll Pump Assembly | Aiden installed the isolation valve and the
exhaust silencer kits on the IDP-3 Scroll
pump. The entire assembly still needs to |
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69
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Wed Apr 12 10:53:02 2023 |
Aiden | Summary | General | Valve Cleaning | Bagged and Tagged the parts from batch 10
and placed them inside the clean room.
Then
cleaned the last gate valve in liquinox for |
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72
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Mon Apr 17 17:06:49 2023 |
Aiden | Summary | General | Clean and Bake batch 11 | Cleaned the Viton O-Ring for the main chamber
in Liquinox for 10 minutes. Then put it in
the oven to back for;
1. Ramp to 100 degC |
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77
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Mon Apr 24 17:38:45 2023 |
Aiden | Summary | General | Clean and Bake Batch 12 | Today I Bagged and tagged the o-rings from
batch 11 and placed them inside the clean
room. I also cleaned batch 12 parts in liquinox |
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80
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Thu Apr 27 09:48:34 2023 |
Aiden | Summary | General | Batch 12 Bagging | I took batch 12 out of the oven and put them
in a bag and placed the bag inside the clean
room in the first large stainless steel container.
I |
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86
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Fri Apr 28 19:39:19 2023 |
Cao | Summary | General | Clean and Bake Leybold TTR 91 Pirani Gauge |
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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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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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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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291
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Mon Dec 11 16:20:17 2023 |
Jon | Summary | TCS | FROSTI Assembly Procedure | Below is the procedure we will follow to
assemble the FROSTI prototype.
Install SS guide rods and |
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312
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Wed Jan 31 14:37:26 2024 |
Shane | Summary | CDS | path directions for CyMAC model and parts library | Path to cds parts library in Matlab simulink:
/usr/share/advligorts/src/src/epics/simLink.
File name CDS_PARTS.mdl
Path to user models: |
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472
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Thu Nov 14 10:46:20 2024 |
Luke | Summary | Cleanroom | Cleanroom cleaning |
[Luke, Luis, Michael]
cleaning cleanroom and particle count |
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478
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Wed Nov 27 12:27:45 2024 |
Luke | Summary | VAC | Summary of vacuum work | [Luke, Luis]
Update of current state of vacuum
chamber |
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497
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Wed Jan 8 17:35:57 2025 |
Luke | Summary | Cleanroom | Cleanroom cleaning | [Luke, Tyler, Cynthia, Shane, Michael]
Summary of Cleaning Activities:
We began cleaning Room 1119 at 2:00 |
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500
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Tue Jan 21 10:12:02 2025 |
Luke | Summary | General | Frosti toy model | [Luke, Liu]
Over the winter break I have been
working on this |
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507
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Sat Feb 1 17:25:52 2025 |
Luke | Summary | General | Cleanroom cleaning | [Luke, Cece, Luis]
Particle Count Measurements:
Pre-cleaning (12:15 |
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509
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Fri Feb 7 12:25:56 2025 |
Luke | Summary | VAC | Started bake | [Luke, Luis]
The
vacuum chamber is currently baking. |
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520
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Sun Feb 23 12:11:43 2025 |
Luke | Summary | Cleanroom | Cleanroom cleaning | [Luke, Mary, Luis]
Particle Count Measurements:
Pre-cleaning (8:40 |
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574
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Fri May 9 20:06:27 2025 |
Luke | Summary | Cleanroom | Cleanroom cleaning | [Luke, Mohak, Luis]
We were also able to remove the residue
that has built up on the soft walls by donning |
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609
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Mon Jul 14 20:45:20 2025 |
Luke | Summary | Cleanroom | HEPA filter performance metrics | [Luke, Luis]
We’ve been looking into methods
for evaluating the performance of the HEPA |
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23
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Tue Feb 7 17:27:30 2023 |
Aiden | Physics | ELOG | Clean and Bake Batch #1 | Cleaned SS parts with liquinox for 20 min.
Then put in oven for 5 steps;
1. Ramp, 100
degC, 15 min
2. Const, 100 degC, 30 min
3. |
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70
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Wed Apr 12 16:13:19 2023 |
Cao | Physics | VAC | Vacuum prep and installation | Aiden, Pamella, Peter, Shane, Cao
Today
we started vacuum chamber assembly work
10:16 am: Particle count measurement of clean |
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81
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Thu Apr 27 16:23:44 2023 |
Cao, Pamella and Julian | Physics | VAC | Installing vacuum system (cont.) |
[Pamella, Cao and Julian, Shane]
Particles account
10:37 am: Starting the particles account |
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82
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Thu Apr 27 21:43:07 2023 |
Jon | Physics | VAC | Grounding vacuum system | This afternoon I made up a green 10 AWG
grounding cable and connected it to the vacuum
system. |
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84
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Fri Apr 28 18:16:57 2023 |
Cao | Physics | VAC | Grounding vacuum system |
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85
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Fri Apr 28 19:00:13 2023 |
Cao | Physics | VAC | Tighten CF ports on vacuum chamber | [Cao]
After Jon's comment yesterday
that some of the connection did not seem
to have good metal-metal contact, in particular |
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87
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Mon May 1 17:10:25 2023 |
Julian, Cao | Physics | VAC | Installing Pirani gauge and RGA probe onto to vacuum chamber | [Julian, Cao]
03:00 pm: Particle
count
: Zone 3
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90
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Tue May 2 17:03:14 2023 |
Jon, Cao | Physics | VAC | First pump-down test of vacuum chamber | [Jon, Cao]
1. Re-routing of cables
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91
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Wed May 3 19:03:47 2023 |
Julian,Pamella and Cao | Physics | VAC | Modify vacuum asssembly and install RGA | [Pamella, Julian, Cao]
Today we
started re-configuring the vacuum chamber
components.
Particle count |
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97
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Fri May 12 20:28:34 2023 |
Aiden, Cao | Physics | VAC | Vacuum chamber Helium leak test | [Aiden, Cao]
1. Helium leak test
2:00 pm: Uninstall regulator from nitrogen |
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537
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Mon Mar 10 21:32:29 2025 |
Nathan | Physics | Electronics | Beam Profiling and PBS Measurements | Beam wasn't diverging, however maybe was about
to diverge when measurements stopped? Will
discuss the PBS measurements and how the |
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7
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Mon Jul 11 14:29:45 2022 |
Jon | Omnistructure | General | HEPA filter installed | Today I unpacked and installed the new HEPA
filter for the lab. It is an Omni CleanAir
OCA1210 capable of 1200 CFM. This flow rate |
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13
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Wed Dec 14 17:35:41 2022 |
Jon | Infrastructure | Computers | Windows Laptop | I set up the new Windows 10 laptop (pictured
below), which arrived yesterday. This laptop
is intended to be used for running lightweight |
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24
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Tue Feb 7 17:44:17 2023 |
Jon | Infrastructure | Computers | Workstation 1 (ws1) set up | The Linux workstation (ws1) that used to sit
on the old workbench has been mounted on
the new electronics bench and is now ready |
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26
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Fri Feb 10 16:34:45 2023 |
Huy Tuong Cao | Infrastructure | Clean & Bake | Nitrogen gas tank ready to use | Cao,
Today I fixed the final bit related
to the nitrogen gas tank, which is to apply
sealing tape to M-NPT connector of the hose |
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39
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Wed Mar 1 21:27:20 2023 |
Jon | Infrastructure | Cleanroom | Over-table shelf height raised | Jon, Cao
Today we raised the height of the
shelf overhanging the cleanroom laser table |
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40
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Wed Mar 1 21:50:46 2023 |
Jon | Infrastructure | Computers | Workstation 2 (ws2) mounted on cleanroom cart | The Linux workstation (ws2) that used to
sit on the blue workbench (now inside the
cleanroom) has been mounted on a mobile cart, |
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44
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Mon Mar 6 15:32:58 2023 |
Jon | Infrastructure | General | Cabinet installation completed | Jon, Cao, Peter
This morning Facilities delivered
and installed two new cabinets with sliding |
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53
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Wed Mar 22 12:16:20 2023 |
Jon | Infrastructure | Cleanroom | Experimenting with HEPA fan speeds | Jon, Cao
In effort to try to reduce the noise
level inside the cleanroom, we have dialed |
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56
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Fri Mar 24 07:14:38 2023 |
Jon | Infrastructure | Computers | Workstation 2 (ws2) mounted on cleanroom cart | The ws2 cart has been thoroughly wiped down
with IPA wipes and moved inside the cleanroom.
I have reconnected it to power and Ethernet |
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67
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Tue Apr 11 13:15:40 2023 |
Cao | Infrastructure | Clean & Bake | Nitrogen gas tank replaced | The nitrogen gas tank has been replaced with
a new unit. The new tank is ultra pure nitrogen
(>99.9% nitrogen).
The new tank has been |
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94
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Tue May 9 15:49:20 2023 |
Jon | Infrastructure | VAC | Permanent cable routing | Today I brought in a fresh supply of zip
ties (we now have 1500 in the tool chest)
and used them to permanentize the cable routing |
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95
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Tue May 9 20:55:12 2023 |
Jon | Infrastructure | VAC | Calibrated Ar leak rate | For future reference, the calibrated Argon
source has a leak rate of 7.55E-8
atm cc/s, or equivalently |
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98
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Sun May 14 15:50:48 2023 |
Cao | Infrastructure | Computers | High resolution display of logrus machine | [Cao]
The display resolution of the
logrus has been 1064x768 and has been the
only option, which is not great. While remote |
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122
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Tue Jun 13 21:08:46 2023 |
Pamella | Infrastructure | VAC | Heater system - Installation | [Pamella, Cao and Jon]
Heating system
installation
Today we
started installing the equipments for the |
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129
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Tue Jun 20 22:14:24 2023 |
Pamella, Cao | Infrastructure | VAC | Short term testing of vacuum heater controller units | [Pamella, Cao]
Fuse replacement
Replace blown 10A fuse
in ucontroller outside cleanroom
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130
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Wed Jun 21 20:25:05 2023 |
Cao | Infrastructure | VAC | Vacuum chamber bake attempt 1 | TL;DR:
We are not yet able to
bake the chamber at 150 deg C due to some
current limit, most likely caused power supply |
6x |