Reports until 22:12, Saturday 13 August 2016
H1 AOS (ISC, PSL, SEI, SYS)
sheila.dwyer@LIGO.ORG - posted 22:12, Saturday 13 August 2016 - last comment - 09:54, Sunday 14 August 2016(29091)
More work on shutter testing, locking

There are a few things that still needed worktonight with the fast shutter, and will need more work:

A few other things:

The ISS diffracted power has been at around 4% since August 2nd (the first day of the vent). Before the vent it was around 16%, but DIAG_MAIN thinks the diffracted power should be between 1 and 6%.  I moved it up to about 14%, so DIAG main is complaining. 

There is a problem with switching DRMI to POP signals in full lock.  We can stay locked stably for ~10 minutes at ANALOG CARM, but lose it shortly after transitioning DRMI to POP signals each time. Before transitioning off the 3F signals, the MICH UGF is about 5 Hz.  I manually changed the digital gain from 1.4 to 3.6 to restore the loop to a 10 Hz ugf, although I don't know why the gain would be low.  The PRCL and SRCL UGFs were normal.  After adjusting the MICH UGF I was able to transition to POP, but did this in the middle of an earthquake.  I don't know if the lockloss about a minute latter was due to the DRMI problem or due to the earthquake. 

Comments related to this report
jason.oberling@LIGO.ORG - 07:19, Sunday 14 August 2016 (29092)

Regarding the ISS diffracted power, on August 2nd we re-calibrated the percentage diffracted power display; see the 4th paragraph of Peter's August 2nd alog here.  Previous to this the ISS diffracted power percentage was displayed incorrectly, so when the display said 16% in reality it was diffracting around 2-3%.  We want the ISS diffracted percentage to be around 3-4%, which results in ~6W diffracted by the AOM; at 14% the AOM is diffracting ~24W, which is much more than necessary.  This change was discussed in the 8:30am meeting on August 3rd and DIAG_MAIN must have been updated to reflect this new ISS diffracted % value (I'm assuming this is the case, as I can't find an alog detailing this change to DIAG_MAIN).  Please set it back to around 3-4% (I believe this is a reference signal value somewhere in the neighborhood of -1.70V).

sheila.dwyer@LIGO.ORG - 09:54, Sunday 14 August 2016 (29093)

Thanks Jason.  I've reset the Ref Signal to -1.7 which gives a diffracted power of 3.2%