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hugh.radkins@LIGO.ORG - posted 14:36, Thursday 19 February 2015 (16816)
End Stations HEPI Pump Servos switched to 1 Second SCAN & new PID Parameters--EndY still noisier than EndX

This morning at ~0025utc 19 Feb, the End Station HEPI Pump Servos were restarted with the Scan Rate reduced from 0.1 second to 1 second.  Also, the database has JeffK's 10mHz PID parameters--see 16782.  Also, EndY had the SMOO parameter but that has never been in the database, so any restart requires those to be replaced manually.  The smoothing has NOT been reloaded.

See the attached as I going to say that while things are better at both stations, EndY remains noisier than EndX and this is evident in amplitude of the Pressure data and the control signal going to the VFD.  The 24 hour plot attached clearly shows the time things were switched 23 hours ago.  But whereas Ex Pressure got quieter, EndY's got noisier, likely from the Smoothing going away.  Because the pressure signal is noisier at EndY, the drive to the VFD is larger than it is at EndX.  I predict that if there is measurable coherence with platform sensors, it will be larger at EndY.

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