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H1 IOO (IOO, PSL)
cheryl.vorvick@LIGO.ORG - posted 12:59, Monday 12 February 2018 (40501)
PSL ISS Second Loop (in HAM2) QPD segment offsets set

Given that we have no laser light, confirmed by images of the PSL and cameras looking into HAM2, I set the PSL ISS Second Loop Array QPD dark offsets.  I accepted the values into SDF, and also had to accept the offset switch being on for all 4 segments, and I've confirmed that these offsets were zero in Feb 2017, during O2.

OFFSETS: Seg1 = 0.180, Seg2 = 0.180, Seg3 = 1.540, Seg4 = 2.370, and the SUM, which had been at +4.2, is now oscillating around zero.

I put an offset of -2.0 on the SUM to prevent it from going negative.  I tried using -1.0, but the pitch and yaw signals were still occasionally railing +/-32K.  The SUM during Feb 2017 reached 60K counts, so an offset of -2.0 is small.

Changes are recorded in the attached screenshot:  Left side shows current settings, rich side shows a snapshot of the QPD segment settings as found (zeros).

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