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greg.grabeel@LIGO.ORG - posted 17:38, Thursday 18 January 2018 - last comment - 15:49, Thursday 25 January 2018(40185)
TCS CO2Y laser tested

Turned the RF driver and the power supply on for the CO2Y laser, also connected the IR sensor, and was getting green lights for the control board. Using the PWM controller I tried to turn the laser on but wasn't getting any results on the power monitor. After double checking the power supply was set to 28V and 28A limit, and the RF driver was set to 40.68MHz, Fil and I found that the wrong RF cable was plugged in. After plugging the right one in the laser powered up in PWM mode and I was able to verify the rotation stage is working as well. Tomorrow I will check that the alignment hasn't changed significantly and that the periscope picomotors are operating correctly.

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greg.grabeel@LIGO.ORG - 13:37, Friday 19 January 2018 (40200)TCS

CO2Y is now running in remote operation mode. The beam is dumped before the periscope though. I quickly checked the beam path and everything looks clear, although I did remove the alignment laser as it could possibly be clipping the IR camera path. When the laser proves to be running stably with the new chiller the beam dump will be removed.

greg.grabeel@LIGO.ORG - 15:49, Thursday 25 January 2018 (40276)TCS

CO2Y ran for just under 3 days before faulting out to a flow rate trip. A quick inspection of the chiller shows nominal water level and no faults indicated, so flow rate sensor is the main suspect. Also note the odd drop in the power supply and power output. Not sure why that happened.

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