Reports until 13:30, Monday 06 April 2015
H1 SEI
jim.warner@LIGO.ORG - posted 13:30, Monday 06 April 2015 - last comment - 06:49, Tuesday 07 April 2015(17699)
ETMX ISI switched to windy configuration

Per JeffK's request, I have switched ETMX to the "windy" configuration. The ISI was already running the 90mhz blend since sometime this weekend. I've now also engaged the low frequency sensor correction on the X direction with the BRS turned on. I've been fiddling a little with the Z blend filters on St1, adding low pass filters to the 90mhz Z blend, but it doesn't seem to affect the St2 performance much. I'll post more on that in a bit.

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jeffrey.kissel@LIGO.ORG - 14:39, Monday 06 April 2015 (17701)
Our goal is to prove that not only can this X DOF "windy" configuration (90 mHz blend, broadband, low-frequency sensor correction, with the BRS) replicate the performance of ISI in its "nominal" X DOF configuration (45 mHz blend, narrow-band 0.43 [Hz] sensor correction, no BRS), but it can do *better* than the nominal configuration during high winds.

As such, we want to compare three different configurations:
(1) Nominal ("45 mHz blend, derosa 0.43 Hz only sensor correction, no BRS") [we should already have plenty of this data]
(2) Windy when BRS doesn't work ("90 mHz blend, derosa 0.43 Hz only sensor correction, no BRS") [we may already have plenty of this data]
(3) Windy with a functional BRS ("90 mHz blend, mittleman broadband low-frequency sensor correction, BRS on") [what we'll get now, hopefully if the winds pick back up]

We've got some more of configuration (2) this morning, 
2015-04-06 16:00 UTC to 17:00 UTC -- winds were max ~25 [mph]
so that will be great fodder to compare what Jim's put the ETM ISI into now ( configuration (3) ).

And for the record, it was switched into this configuration (3) at 2015-04-06 21:10 UTC. Now we just need the winds to pick up again...
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jeffrey.kissel@LIGO.ORG - 06:49, Tuesday 07 April 2015 (17717)
Ask and ye shall receive!

Just after Jim switched to configuration (3) described above, the winds picked back up to > 20 [mph] for an hour or so -- see attached screenshot (note that I've plotted the mean minute trend over 24 hours; I would plot the max as well, but my remote trending abilities are limited). Thus, a good time to use in the above described comparison for config (3) is from 2015-04-06 21:30 UTC to about 23:30 UTC, plenty of time for several averages of a low frequency ASD.
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