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?
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.