Reports until 22:39, Wednesday 18 July 2018
H1 AOS
craig.cahillane@LIGO.ORG - posted 22:39, Wednesday 18 July 2018 - last comment - 09:24, Thursday 19 July 2018(42967)
ALS DIFF ~1 Hz loop glitches preventing red arms lock
After reaching LOCKING_ALS, Sheila and I tried to lock both arms to red in the CHECK_IR state.  We lost lock every time we tried to reach CHECK_IR, and were unable to achieve ALS_DIFF locking robustly.

We tracked our issues down to a regular ~1 Hz in-loop glitch in ALS_DIFF, which with higher gain settings caused saturations in our L1 and L3 ETMY stages.

Sheila turned off the length control to ETMY and high passed the DIFF PLL control signal.  The glitches were still there. 

We also noticed that the glitches were appearing in COMM as well.

This indicates something is probably an issue with the sensing path, could be the amplifier removal that was done today to remove RF saturation on the ALS DIFF PD.  We may need to handle COMM RF saturations by removing its amplifier as well.
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jeffrey.kissel@LIGO.ORG - 09:24, Thursday 19 July 2018 (42970)CDS, ISC, Lockloss, SYS
Now associated with FRS Ticket 11113.

Tagging CDS, ISC, SYS, and Lockloss.