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stefan.ballmer@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:46, Monday 08 August 2016 - last comment - 19:40, Tuesday 09 August 2016(28938)
Setting top-mass offloading gains

SInce the ETMs were available, I carefully tuned the PUM to TOP mas offloading gain for PIT and YAW. To do this, I drove the PUM at 0.1Hz with 20000cts on the L2_LOCK_[P/Y]_EXC, and set the gain on the TOP mass to exactly cancel the signal in the optical lever.

For YAW this can easily be done with sub-percent precision. The PIT TOP/PUM ratio features a lag filter with a complex pole zero douple-pair at 0.52Hz and 0.56Hz, which can be seen in the QUAD model. I designed a lead filter with those frequencies, but Qs low enough to match the phase at 0.1Hz exactly. The corresponding lead filter is in the M0_LOCK_P FM7 module:
   zpk([0.325+i*0.405925;0.325-i*0.405925],[0.349999+i*0.437149;0.349999-i*0.437149],0.999999,"n")

The regquired gains in the M0_LOCK filter modules were:

ETMX PIT    898      *1e-6
ETMX YAW 1428.7  *1e-6
ETMY PIT    1294    *1e-6
ETMY YAW 1650    *1e-6

I put gain of 898, 1428.7, 1294 and 1650 into the M0_LOCK FM6 modules. By selecting FM4, FM5, FM6 (and FM7 for PIT) this implements a xross-over at exactly 0.1Hz. (pictues).

 

The same has to be done for the ITMs, and the guardian has to be updated to use those filters.

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stefan.ballmer@LIGO.ORG - 19:40, Tuesday 09 August 2016 (28973)

Also set the PUM to TOP cross-over to 0.1Hz for the ITMs, following the same procedure as for the ETMs. The gains were tweaked in the OFFLOADED configuration. The required gains were:

ITMX PIT    1147    *1e-6
ITMX YAW 1547    *1e-6
ITMY PIT    1155    *1e-6
ITMY YAW 1573    *1e-6

I also moved the gain filters to FM3 (removing the old +10dB filter), so it can be switched before the integrator. This was done for all 4 test masses, pit and yaw. With these filters, the settings shown in the attached screen shot result in a 0.1Hz x-over.

 

The guardian was updated to set this x-over just before engaging the soft loops. I havent switched the guardian to use the offloaded design for the ITMs though.

 

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