Reports until 04:52, Wednesday 30 December 2015
H1 General
edmond.merilh@LIGO.ORG - posted 04:52, Wednesday 30 December 2015 (24558)
Mid-Shift Summary - OWL

Mid-SHIFT SUMMARY: No locking since the beginning of my shift. For having nothing  tripped after the Victoria quake which barely showed us anything on the eq bands, I had a heck of a time with optics that needed to be trended and re-aligned. Y-Arm gave me a ton of grief and then I re-visited PRM. SRC was a mess but I moved on to locking PRMI so that I could get the alignment there maximized. I then had to revisit IA to re-align  SRM and SR2 by hand so that I could move on to DRMI. IFO was locked at DC_READOUT_TRANSITION for over an hour and OMC wouldn’t engage and lock so I spent ≈ 1 hr on the phone with Kiwamu until the lock was lost. Since then locking has been less than successful despite good alignment (in my opinion). There was a small earthquake that gave me a little grief. The struggle continues. If I achieve the level of lock that I had before, I only hope that the OMC behaves as it should at that point. Fingers crossed.