Evan, Sheila
This morning we had truoble with DRMI ASC. THere are a few things that seem to have helped (in addition to intal alingment and some by hand alignment), and how the guardain is reliably getting to analog CARM.
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The lock point of the SR3 cage servo was changed friday, changing it back to 931 (M3_WIT_P) and redoing SRC alignment seemed to help the SRC and MICH loops.
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Since the optimal yaw alingment of PRM seems to have changed quite a bit, I added an offset of 0.24 to POPA Yaw. I also took out the lines in DOWN that were resetting this to 0 for each lock.
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Adjusting the current to the BS oplev laser reduced the glitching.
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The MICH ASC loops are now ramped on more slowly
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Evan increased the matrix element for REFL 135 Q to MICH by a factor of 2 (to 2.5) so that the MICH length ugf is around 10 Hz even when we are locked on 3F.
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This morning the mode cleaner was not relocking, and I was clearing the WFS history almost every lockloss. This problem seems to have gone away for now.
Currently we are in a similiar situation as the last two nights, we can lock the interferometer but loose lock within a few minutes. We have lost lock even while sitting on analog carm, we have been able to switch PRCL and MICH to POP sensors but suddenly lost lock about a minute latter.
The sudden locklosses seem to happen only after switching the CARM sensor to REFL9 (the digital or analog version). We can set at 5 pm CARM offset seemingly indefinitely, but any full-resonance lock (after the sensor is switched to REFL9) is a few minutes or less.
The LSC OLTFs (including the digital CARM) all look fine on resonance --- no evidence of loop instability. Debugging REFL9 seems like the next logical step.