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H1 ISC (ISC)
stefan.ballmer@LIGO.ORG - posted 02:17, Thursday 08 May 2014 - last comment - 03:32, Thursday 08 May 2014(11759)
A slider, a switch, and a button: catch me if you can
Kiwamu, Stefan

The story of the evening is short:
 - H1:ALS-C_DIFF_PLL_GAIN was accidental increased to 26dB. Up there the PLL oscillates - the gain has to be 6dB.
 - The power on the ETMX UIM coil driver was off - it should be on.
 - The ESD was in a dead state - we had to recycle the power to get it back.
 - Fixing these things took a very short time - its finding them that took all evening...

 - Before starting to chase these 3 needles in the haystack we also updated the L3 inverse plant filters to match the 0.5Hz resonance of the upper stages exactly. This should guarantee a stable behaviour of the blend filters at 0.5ish Hz.

 - Finally we measured the gain ratio between the TOP/UIM combined actuator and the TST actuator at two frequencies:
           TST/(TOP&UIM) ratio
    2.5Hz      2.9
    4.0Hz      1.9 
i.e. the TST drive was  2 to 3 times stronger than the TOP/UIM actuator. We set the TST gain to 0.5.

 - When we finally tried this at the end of the evening, and got the UGF to 1.2Hz. This was done with two additional p5z50 roll-offs.
 - The resulting coil output spectra are attached.

 - Next Kiwamu put in a boost at low frequency to suppress some noise - we got an RMS of ~100Hz in infrared.
 - In this configuration we are limited by the ESD around 3Hz and the UIM drive around 10Hz in about equal amounts.
    Ideas:
      - Get a factor of two in ESD range by using additional drive offset and linearisation
      - Get a factor of two in total range by using ETMY too.
      - Fine-tune the the UIM/TST blend filters with the measured coil noise in mind.
      - Resurrect PUM drive around 10Hz?
      - What is the diff noise from 3hz to 10Hz?
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kiwamu.izumi@LIGO.ORG - 03:32, Thursday 08 May 2014 (11760)

Here are some screen shots and plots:

The blue trace is the open-loop error signal withou supression and all the rest is closed-loop spectrum with some different gain/cross-over settings.

The below is a screen shot of StripTool showing nobody is saturating.

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