We are daming them overnight, sitting at 5W. Also wrote the adjustDamperGain script below. It measures the peak count output of a fliter module, and scales the gain to set a target peak level. (Or the maximal allowable gain.)

We left the guardian script calling this function for the modes that were problematic toinight:

ISC_LOCK.py, line 2362

        # the following violins were saturating on March 11 2016 with above gains - turn them down
        time.sleep(10)
        adjustDamperGain('SUS-ETMY_L2_DAMP_MODE5',-100,1.5e5)
        adjustDamperGain('SUS-ETMX_L2_DAMP_MODE6',100,1.5e5)
        adjustDamperGain('SUS-ITMY_L2_DAMP_MODE3',100,1.5e5)
 

def adjustDamperGain(FM,maxgain,targetCounts):
    """read the FM output and scale the gain to match targetCOunts"""
    dmax=numpy.max(numpy.abs(cdsutils.getdata(FM+'_OUTPUT',1).data))
    oldgain=ezca[FM+'_GAIN']
    newgain=oldgain*targetCounts/dmax
    if (abs(newgain/maxgain)<1.0):
        ezca[FM+'_GAIN'] = newgain
    else:
        ezca[FM+'_GAIN'] = maxgain