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nutsinee.kijbunchoo@LIGO.ORG - posted 03:30, Wednesday 02 November 2016 - last comment - 06:40, Wednesday 02 November 2016(31111)
Three locklosses now due to PI 18043Hz

I checked to make sure the line and the BP matches. Changing the phase both on the main PI medm screen and on the damping filter doesn't make a different. The PLL green light is on but Shelia mentioned that PLL is not actually locked and I don't know how to make it locked (some other modes with PLL green light indicator also have red PLL lock status). I also tried to zero the gain as Sheila suggested.

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nutsinee.kijbunchoo@LIGO.ORG - 03:56, Wednesday 02 November 2016 (31112)

Then I found that until Maintenance morning (1 Nov 18:26 UTC to be precise) this mode has been using OMC DCPD as its input signal. It was magically switched to be using TRY QPD. I put the gain back to where it was in the matrices. We'll see how it goes.

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nutsinee.kijbunchoo@LIGO.ORG - 04:30, Wednesday 02 November 2016 (31113)

Okay doing that somehow kill the input signal alltogether. I let through the signal from TRY QPD again but zero the damping gain.

nutsinee.kijbunchoo@LIGO.ORG - 04:32, Wednesday 02 November 2016 (31114)

Nevermind. Reverted it. Things became bad real fast as soon as I let through signal from TRY QPD for Mode27.

nutsinee.kijbunchoo@LIGO.ORG - 04:35, Wednesday 02 November 2016 (31115)

And PI broke the lock. This is the 4th lockloss caused by PI tonight.

nutsinee.kijbunchoo@LIGO.ORG - 05:46, Wednesday 02 November 2016 (31117)

And 5th time. The time constant is about the same as previous locklosses so I guess switching input from TRY QPD to OMC DCPD doesn't matter. In fact I couldn't get any signal from OMC DCPD so that's even worse since I have zero chance of damping it. I'm going to try the original setting again but this time alter the gain (which I have also tried).

nutsinee.kijbunchoo@LIGO.ORG - 06:40, Wednesday 02 November 2016 (31118)

And 6th time.