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Date |
Author |
Type |
Category |
Subject |
Text |
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Sat Mar 4 00:34:46 2023 |
Julian | Update | General | Cleanroom Update | Today I was able to finish cleaning the frame
of the laser table, and for good measure
I wiped down the tabletop and exterior of |
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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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45
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Mon Mar 6 18:48:43 2023 |
Pamella | Update | General | Cleanroom update | Today Pamella and Julian finished cleaning
of the new lab cabinets. Also we wiped the
computer and put inside the cleanroom so |
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47
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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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49
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Thu Mar 9 13:51:42 2023 |
Shane | Update | General | Clean room counts 3/9/23 | Here's the clean room counts from this morning.
Also attached is rough diagram of where the
five zones are in the clean room. Counts |
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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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54
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Wed Mar 22 15:25:00 2023 |
Shane | Update | General | Clean room recertification particle counts | Attached are the five zone particle measurements
for the clean room now that the fan speeds
have been set to MEDIUM. 2 min sample time, |
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55
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Thu Mar 23 18:40:08 2023 |
Julian | Update | General | Cleanroom Update | Today Pamella and I came in to Hepa vacuum
and mop the floor of the cleanroom for general
maintenance. |
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57
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Fri Mar 24 13:36:17 2023 |
Pamella | Update | General | Clean and Bake batch 10 | Today I bagged and tagged batch 10.
I wiped
the RGA vacuum component for around 25 minutes
after that I bagged and tagged this part |
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59
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Fri Mar 31 14:23:13 2023 |
Pamella | Update | General | Clean and bake batch 11 | Today I bagged and tagged batch 11. I wiped
the some tools: Centering ring alum( 2 pieces),
reversible ratcheting, gasket removal (CF). |
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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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66
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Fri Apr 7 09:48:09 2023 |
Pamella | Update | General | Clean the system parts | Pamella and Julian wiped and tag system parts
for the vacuum machine. We used isopropyl
and vectra wipes in the most import pieces: |
7x |
68
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Tue Apr 11 17:56:15 2023 |
Pamella | Update | General | Lab cleaning | Today Pamella and Julian finished cleaning
of the cleanroom, starting with the HEPA
vacuuming, mopping and clearing all floor |
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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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71
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Wed Apr 12 16:17:50 2023 |
shane | Update | General | Particle Counter moved | With the added height of the new docking station,
the particle counter no longer fits under
the Windows monitor in the electronics rack |
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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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76
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Fri Apr 21 16:51:26 2023 |
Pamella | Update | General | Cleaning cables. | Cables for the vacuum system.
Today i wiped, bagged and tagged two cables
for the vacuum system. I used IPA wipes for |
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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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93
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Mon May 8 12:00:03 2023 |
Pamella, Shane, Julian | Update | General | Cleanroom particle counts and cleaning the cleanroom. | [Pamella,Julian, Shane]
Today we
cleaned the clean-room (floor, surfaces)
and particle count.
10:00 |
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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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100
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Wed May 17 12:18:08 2023 |
Pamella, Julian and Shane | Update | General | Cleaning room and particle count | [Pamella, Julian and Shane]
Particle
count:
10 am: Started particle count
Zone 3 :
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109
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Wed May 31 11:42:16 2023 |
Pamella, Julian and Shane | Update | General | Cleaning room and particle count | [Pamella, Shane and Julian]
Cleaning
room and particle count
09:58 am: Started the particle count |
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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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119
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Mon Jun 12 18:52:00 2023 |
Pamella | Update | General | Heater system parts - Wiped and bagged | [Pamella]
Cleaning the heater system
parts.
04:32 pm: Started wiping the
heater system parts.
06:38 pm: |
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120
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Tue Jun 13 10:28:50 2023 |
Pamella | Update | General | Wiped and bagged the heating and cords. | [Pamella]
Cleaning the heater
system parts.
09:13 am: Started
wiping the last parts for the heater system |
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123
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Tue Jun 13 21:33:46 2023 |
Pamella | Update | General | New cabinet for PPI | [Pamella and Dr.Richardson]
Dr. Richardson
installed the new cabinet outside the room
for the PPI equipments, and then I wiped |
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154
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Thu Jul 13 15:31:21 2023 |
Jon | Update | General | Ant traps placed around lab | In response to reports that ants have been
observed in the lab, I placed five ant bait
traps around the room today. Each is sitting |
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155
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Thu Jul 13 16:59:03 2023 |
Jon | Update | General | Ant traps placed around lab | Update: After seeing the
strong response to the first set, I redistributed
them to the hottest spots and added one more |
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158
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Sun Jul 16 15:21:56 2023 |
Pamella | Update | General | General update about some problems in the lab. | [Pamella]
General information about
the lab facility.
Changed sticky floor mats, because close |
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198
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Wed Aug 9 11:32:56 2023 |
Jon | Infrastructure | General | New power cables | I delivered new NEMA 5-15 (120V / 15 A)
power cables to the lab for the following
items: |
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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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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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257
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Wed Nov 8 17:55:49 2023 |
Jon | Update | General | Lab Clean-Up Day 1 | [Jon, Tyler, Shane, Peter, Luis]
Today we completed the first phase
of lab clean-up. Activities included: |
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275
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Tue Nov 21 22:09:44 2023 |
Aiden | Update | General | Testing Parts | [Aiden, Luis]
Luis and Aiden vented
the chamber today. We closed off the RGA
section and then proceeded to open the the |
8x |
289
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Sat Dec 9 12:34:12 2023 |
Jon | Update | General | Electronics workshop migrated to 1129 | [Jon, Tyler, Shane, Luis]
On Wednesday we completed the migration
of the electronics workshop from 1119 to |
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299
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Mon Jan 8 20:24:53 2024 |
Aiden | Update | General | | [Jon, Aiden]
Installed the heater elements
into their fixture and prepped the cables
by twisting the wires into pairs. We also |
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303
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Mon Jan 15 22:29:34 2024 |
Jon | Infrastructure | General | Cabinet installation & lab clean-up completed | [Jon, Tyler, Aiden, Shane, Pooyan, Michael,
Cynthia, Luke]
On Wednesday, we completed long list |
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307
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Wed Jan 17 15:47:49 2024 |
Aiden | Update | General | Resistors for Heater Elements | Power Res (Ohm) RTD Res (Ohm)
Heater
1= 73.6; 81.8
Heater 2= 70.4; 82.1
Heater
3= 71; 84.5
Heater 4= 71.5; 80
Heater |
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330
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Tue Feb 20 08:01:30 2024 |
Jon | Infrastructure | General | Power and network equipment installed in 1129 rack | [Jon, Tyler, Pooyan, Luis, Luke, Peter]
On
Thursday we installed the power conditioning/distribution
equipment and networking equipment in the |
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332
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Tue Feb 20 18:08:24 2024 |
Aiden | Update | General | Degassing the RGA | I took an RGA measurement before and after
degassing the RGA. Both data was taken with
the Argon open. The pressure before taking |
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340
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Mon Feb 26 15:15:39 2024 |
Aiden | Update | General | Vacuum Chamber Baking Update | Started Bake 12 on Wednesday Feb. 21 and turned
the bake off on Saturday Feb. 24. This was
a normal low temp bake with the PID controllers |
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344
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Wed Feb 28 12:02:08 2024 |
Tyler | Update | General | Resistors for Heater Elements Update | Power Res (Ohm) RTD Res (Ohm)
Heater
1= 72.8; 80.6
Heater 2= 69.5; 80.8
Heater
3= 70; 83.2
Heater 4= 70.6; 78.7
Heater |
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352
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Sun Mar 24 11:49:27 2024 |
Aiden | Update | General | FROSTI RGA Scan | Took RGA data 1 day after the conclusion of
Bake 13. Bake 13 ended on Saturday March
23, the RGA data shown was taken on Sunday |
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377
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Mon Jun 17 11:47:46 2024 |
Liu | Infrastructure | General | Temporary cooling units for the labs | Below are the temporary cooling units installed
last week in labs 1119 and 1129. They are
the temp. replacement for the building AC |
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402
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Thu Jul 11 21:01:37 2024 |
Jon | Infrastructure | General | Cable tray installed in 1129 | Today I installed a 10' cable tray in 1129,
for permanently routing Ethernet lines to
the workstations. It is securely bolted to |
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403
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Sat Jul 13 15:09:04 2024 |
Luke | Update | General | Ring heater COMSL model update | After the feedback from last meeting and
Liu's help narrowing down what I should do
to improve the model. I made some changes: |
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