Reports until 18:45, Wednesday 07 January 2015
H1 AOS
alexan.staley@LIGO.ORG - posted 18:45, Wednesday 07 January 2015 (15931)
Some DRMI stuff

Evan, Alexa, Sheila

We went through the DRMI initial alignment today. We were able to run PRM_ALIGN fine. When we ran SRM_ALIGN we noticed that we were not feeding back to SR2 eventhough the asc wfs were designed to do so. This was something in guardian that was not properly updated. We fixed this problem, and also adjusted the guardian offloading script to clear history of the M1 locking filters since some of these now have integrators.

DRMI locked on 3f @ 12/06/2015 16:09:55 PST. We were able to engage all the ASC wfs loops except INP1, PRC1 which feedback to PRM. At this point we took transfer functions of each loop. We found that the PRCL UGF was low, and we had to increase the PRCL gain from 11 to 22. The MICH loop was comparable to previous measurement. Meanwhile the SRCL loop seemed to lose phase on the low frequency side of the phase bubble and be a bit flatter near the UGF. Comparing the times of the two SRCL transfer functions on conlog, it appears that the switch status for the SRCL filters has been changed. More invesitgation is required. We also noticed that the BS roll mode at 25 Hz had been rung up based on the DRMI spectrum, but not enough to disturb our lock.

After about 15 min we lost lock (most likely from an excitation). We could recover the lock; however, it only stayed locked when engaging the PR3 ASC wfs feedback this time; all other loops had to be turned off. DRMI was not staying locked for long periods of time, making it hard to take measurements. We took a BS oplev spectra and saw a peak at 19.6 Hz. The oplev damping has a large notch at 19.48 Hz. According to the SUS model awiki page it doesn't seem to correspond to a particular mode ... We are not totally sure if this is what is keeping us from locking.