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H1 ISC
corey.gray@LIGO.ORG - posted 23:33, Wednesday 14 October 2015 - last comment - 00:17, Thursday 15 October 2015(22534)
Problem Locking ALS

H1 dropped out of lock for no obvious reason, although when it came back, the Yarm looked fairly misaligned.  (so assuming the temperature excursion at EY was an issue).

Adjusted ETMy alignment for Locking Arms Green.  I was only able to get up to about 0.83.  And then at this point, I was stuck.  ISC LOCK had the user message:  "Waiting for arms to settle".  I would also get a flash of a message for ALS COMM of:  "COMM PLL or IMC not ready for handoff".  Haven't found anything in our Troubleshooting wiki or in Sheila's Operator training document.  ALOG searches are a pain and don't yield anything useful.  

Have left a voicemail with Kiwamu (On Call).  

I don't want to do an Initial Alignment because I don't know whether it's needed and would like to address this ALS issue first.

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corey.gray@LIGO.ORG - 23:56, Wednesday 14 October 2015 (22535)

OK, since I wasn't able to find anything (and I didn't want to randomly start touching anything I waited until hearing back from someone).  Sheila called up and said that it would be worth it to try and aligning TMSy (I did not even think of touching it!  Mainly because we rarely touch the TMS' during alignments.).  I was able to finally get past the Locking ALS step by adjusting the TMSy in Pitch, but now I'm stuck waiting for the Yarm in the CHECK IR step.  Frustrating & sad that I have to hand off an unlocked H1 to Cheryl.

kiwamu.izumi@LIGO.ORG - 00:17, Thursday 15 October 2015 (22536)

Corey, sorry for the delay in my response. I just called the control room. Cheryl responded and she is in the middle of trying to get back to full lock with the newly aligned TMSY. Hopefully we will get back to full lock soon.

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