Scraps of text for incorporation in the VIS Meeting Minutes
KAGRA/Subgroups/VIS/MeetingNAOJ
- Mark, Fabian and Enzo continued BS Test Hang work:
- We installed the BF fishing rod stepper motor adaptor cable.
- We tried to install the BF LVDT cable but first we encountered trouble routing it, and then several wires broke at the D-Sub end.
- We laid 6 in-air cables from the tank to the PR2 rank for BF and SF picos, steppers and LVDTs.
- We lifted the BF/IRM/IM/RM/BS section to weigh it and check its balance.
- It was 195.6 kg, which is 18 kg(!) less than the capacity of the SF.
- There was a major imbalance in roll: with all four built-in trim masses moved up the +Y end, it still needed 270 g of extra trim mass to be level.
- Unfortunately when we put the payload, the IM was slightly yawed and ended up on the horizontal EQ stop screws. This let the IM-BF maraging rod go slack, which disturbed the leveling of the IM (because every time it is picked up the maraging rod settles in a different place, giving a different suspension point). We may have to partly disassemble the IRM and rearrange the time mass on the the IM.
- We shipped BS mirror box parts to Shoda-san and components for a new LVDT cable to Hirata-san.
- We posed for pictures of the BS by a team from National Geographic.
- Hirata-san
- Did parts and fastener lists for the SR payload.
- Did a 3D model with the SR suspension on the BS assembly frame (to help Mark make adjustments to the frame design).
- Did 2D drawings of Fabian's concept for BS EQ stop parts.
- Did a 3D model of a wire clamp with replaceable jaw parts (to avoid having to reuse parts with scars from pressure).
- Did 2D drawings of a new wire clamps for on top of the BS and SR RMs.