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amagazzu - 23:54 Friday 03 January 2025 (65918) Print this report
Operator Report - Afternoon shift

ITF found during locking acquistion, at 14:41 UTC I manually unlock to allow Spinicelli to further improve the alignement on the Laser Bench. The activity was concluded at 17:35 UTC and it was possible to relock again. Unfortunately the ITF was unstable and unlocked at various steps of the locking acquistion, all of them above LOCKING_CARM_NULL_1F. Also at 19:06 UTC the valve of one of the MC Pump closed.
At 20:25 UTC I contacted the DET Oncall to investigate a possible issue with too much power on B1/B1p, in parallel at 20:59 UTC the ITF reached stably LOW_NOISE_3. The ITF was kept in troubleshooting mode to allow the Vacuum Expert (Macchia) to solve the issue with the pump inside the Mode Cleaner building.
ITF left locked in LOW_NOISE_3 and in Science Mode.

Oncall events

DET
(03-01-2025 20:25 - 03-01-2025 21:45) From remote
Status: Ended
Description: During the afternoon the ITF kept unlocking at various steps of the locking acquisition.
Actions undertaken: I've contacted the DET Oncall (Gouaty) hoping to investigate if the issues could be related to extra power in B1/B1p. Gouaty verified that the behavior of the subsystem was nominal, and that the unlocks were not caused by the Fast Shutter of the engagement of SDB1 Drift Control.

Vacuum
(03-01-2025 19:10 - 03-01-2025 22:00) On site
Status: Ended
Description: At 19:06 UTC one of the Valve of a pump inside the Mode cleaner building closed.
Actions undertaken: I've contacted the The VAC Oncall (Macchia), who came on site to investigate the issue. Unfortunately it was not possible to restart the pump.

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narnaud - 0:04 Saturday 04 January 2025 (65921) Print this report

Statistics is limited but it is clear that Piernicola's work has improved the situation a lot glitch-wise -- see Omicron plot in attachment.

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Vacuum - 9:53 Saturday 04 January 2025 (65923) Print this report

The MC turbomolecular pump went in failure (on 03/01 at 20h05 LT) and needs to be replaced. The replacement is planned for the next Tuesday break.

Vacuum - 16:20 Tuesday 07 January 2025 (65943) Print this report

Today morning we reactivated the MC pump after replacing its onboard electronics. We have added a fan (picture), temporarily, to control its thermal trend

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