Reports until 14:26, Sunday 11 January 2015
H1 SEI (SEI)
sebastien.biscans@LIGO.ORG - posted 14:26, Sunday 11 January 2015 - last comment - 08:17, Monday 12 January 2015(16001)
HAM3-ISI: going into the right direction!

Following the work done last week (see this alog), I've done some more tests today.

First the unsuccessful results:

- I've switched from a lvl3 conroller configuration to a lvl2 with no success. The issue doesn't come from the control loops.

- I turned OFF all the damping loops of suspensions (MC2 and PR2). This didn't affect at all the amplitude of the peaks: the suspensions behavior seems unrelated with our issue.

 

Now the good part:

The problem seems directly correlated with the blends, and especially with the blends on RX and RY. I'm making this affirmation because of 2 things:

1. The peak disappears when I switch the blends on RX and RY. It stays up otherwise. In the plot atrached, I've switched from a 01_28 blend (solid lines) to a 100mHz blend (dash lines) on RX & RY and the peaks are totally gone. This is true if I switch tfrom 01_28 to another set of blends as well, I took 100mHz as an example.

2. I've installed a set of blend filters on RX and RY called 01_28t.  They are very similar to the 01_28 blends, I just moved poles and zeros around  to see if it makes any difference. It does: the frequency of the peaks shifted from 0.617Hz to 0.664Hz (see plots attached).

 

Conclusion: We are using this 01_28 set of blends on all the units without any problem: only HAM3 seems to present this bizarre behavior... But even if I still don't understand what's happening, we have a solution.  The 100mHz blends are not ideal for these DOFs, and I'll design a better set of blends ASAP.

 

Conclusion (bis): Current configuration on HAM3

X,Y,Z,RZ: 01_28 blend

RX,RY: 100mHz blend

Sensor correction ON on X,Y,Z.

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richard.mittleman@LIGO.ORG - 08:17, Monday 12 January 2015 (16015)

Very nice, can you take some closed loop TFs so we can understand what is going on?