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nutsinee.kijbunchoo@LIGO.ORG - posted 14:28, Wednesday 30 March 2016 - last comment - 15:04, Thursday 31 March 2016(26341)
HWS SLED power deterioration

(Tasked by Aidan)

We were curious of how the HWS sled power decrease over time so we know when to swap them out. Below I've attached plots of HWSX and HWSY sled power (corrected for gains) and input current. The start time is when we replaced the SLED (April 26, 2015 for YSLED and March 1, 2016 for XSLED). I only plotted the time when the SLEDs were turned on (displays in number of days). XSLED shows deteroration of ~2% per day and YSLED shows deterioration of ~1% per day (given 7mW to be 100%, I don't think we are shooting 7mW out though but the trend looks reasonable). YSLED power decreased slightly faster when the input current = 94 mA.

XSLED data can be found here and YSLED data can be found here. The column goes Time|Power (mW)|Current(mA). The script to fetch and plot data can be found in the same directory.

The fast decay in the beginning is a known problem.

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nutsinee.kijbunchoo@LIGO.ORG - 15:04, Thursday 31 March 2016 (26362)

Here are plots with correct Y-axes labels. Sorry about that.

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