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paul.fulda@LIGO.ORG - posted 12:00, Thursday 18 December 2014 - last comment - 14:41, Thursday 18 December 2014(15714)
IMC WFS switch channel disappeared?

[Alexa, Mackenzie, Paul]

This morning with some free time on the IMC, we were going to re-run the alignment offset calibration procedure in preparation for a beam jitter measurement (a la aLOG 9870 and aLOG 10016). However, I found that the script failed when looking for the channel H1:IMC-WFS_SWTCH. The IMC_WFS_MASTER medm screen still has a button that should be controlling this switch.

Alexa dug around in the IMC_WFS_MASTER.adl file to find out what that switch was linked to and found that it actually calls the scripts "/opt/rtcds/userapps/release/ioo/h1/scripts/imc/mcwfson" and "wfsoff". 

Looking into the mcwfson script, we saw that the script sets the WFS gain to 0.25 (writing to H1:IMC-WFS_GAIN), and attempts to switch the missing channel H1:IMC-WFS_SWTCH to 1. 

Running the script from the terminal gives the error: channel H1:IMC-WFS_SWTCH not accessible. A quick caget gives the same result. 

Does anyone know where this channel went? 

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suresh.doravari@LIGO.ORG - 14:41, Thursday 18 December 2014 (15718)

This switch was removed in favour of another trigger switch at LLO.    I believe the related alog to this change is this LLO alog 10933 by David F

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