betsy.weaver@LIGO.ORG - posted 15:25, Monday 13 August 2012 - last comment - 20:01, Monday 13 August 2012(3829)
PR2 Phase 2b testing commences
From LLO, I have enabled the damping and launched the first TF measurement on PR2 (chamberside, with glass).
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well, the effort was short lived as we found the IOP watchdog kept tripping. This is because the PR2 IOP watchdog is is tied to the MC2 watchdog. I have an email into Barker to see about how to bypass the IOP on the MC2 which is not hooked up, but the LLO crew tells me that it was tricky to test the HAM3 suspensions which were in different phases of testing...