Reports until 22:01, Thursday 18 December 2014
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paul.fulda@LIGO.ORG - posted 22:01, Thursday 18 December 2014 - last comment - 01:53, Friday 19 December 2014(15732)
IMC alignment in a strange drifting state

I was trying to figure out how to run the MC alignment offset calibration this afternoon, but ran into some difficulties with new features of the guardian / IMC ASC system. I wasn't able to turn off the ASC loops without the IMC alignment drifting. This wasn't an issue previously, though that was back in February.

Unfortunately, after tinkering with some of the ASC switches etc., the IMC alignment seems to have got into a bad state where it locks, and then drifts in alignment, and then unlocks after about a minute. I put the guardian mode back to exec, and requested locked, but each time the IMC locked the alignment drifted until lock was lost.

To avoid a possible runaway drift overnight, I've put the guardian requesting down. 

Comments related to this report
daniel.hoak@LIGO.ORG - 01:53, Friday 19 December 2014 (15733)

I came back late to the lab and found the same problem.  In order to take some measurements I set the IMC WFS gain to zero.  The IMC was stable after that.