Reports until 14:34, Monday 06 October 2014
H1 AOS
alexan.staley@LIGO.ORG - posted 14:34, Monday 06 October 2014 (14316)
ALS COMM Alignment and VCO

Sheila, Alexa

We aligned TMSX again using the baffle PDs. We noticed this gave a slightly different alighment than the 'TMSX Align' script.

  Old Script PD1 PD4 Average
 TMS (P,Y) (19.9,-324.8) (-58.2, -295.9) (9.8,-358.9) (-24.2,-327.4)

The TMSX guardian now has a 'PD1 Aligned' and 'PD4 Aligned' states that are currently saved to the value listed above. We have also updated the centering on the GigE camera so that the script is consistent with above centering and no longer has such a discrepancy.

  Old Center New Center
GigE (X,Y) (383.4, 261.6)) (391, 267)

We have proceeded to lock IR to the x-arm using the ALS COMM handoff. Last week, we had noticed that the COMM VCO would rail if we enabled the servo, and would manually set the frequency by adjusting the tune offset. Today we noticed that the frequency monitor was sometimes giving bogus values. We checked that this was not coming from the timing comparator. Reconnecting the output of the COMM FDD seemed to have fixed the problem. Now we can enable the COMM VCO servo to search for the IR. The IR frequency offset had to be adjusted to 21620Hz (or  -15930 Hz). Now, the guardian script 'IR_FOUND" successfully finds the IR resonance in the x-arm.