Reports until 16:37, Wednesday 30 April 2014
H1 SEI
sebastien.biscans@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:37, Wednesday 30 April 2014 (11657)
Z-RZ test on ITMY

I've done some tests on ITMY, trying to reduce the excessive YAW motion seen by the OPLEV. Our guess is that there is some magnetic coupling/interaction between the actuators and the T240s: we can observe some pickup in RZ when the Z controller is ON.

I've tried 3 different configurations:

1) ISI controlled with Tbetter blends everywhere

ref config

2) ISI controlled with T750mHz on Z (stage 1 & stage 2)

By putting a higher blend, we relax the force induces by the actuators and therefore the pickup in RZ

3) ISI controlled with T750mHz on Z, HEPI Senscor Z turned ON

By turning on the sensor correction on HEPI we improve our performance in Z at the microseism.

 

See plot attached

 

In the third configuration, we obviously degraded PITCH, but improved a little YAW. More tuning might lead to a better trade off.

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