jenne.driggers@LIGO.ORG - posted 15:38, Thursday 26 July 2018 - last comment - 18:40, Thursday 26 July 2018(43093)
DRMI locked with arms off resonance
[Commissioners]
Work still in progress, but we just locked ALS COMM and DIFF, moved them off resonance, and were able to acquire DRMI lock. This is the first time for us since late 2017, so we're pretty happy!
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gabriele.vajente@LIGO.ORG - 15:39, Thursday 26 July 2018 (43094)
We altered the COMM and DIFF PLL offsets in guardian so now ISC_LOCK can get through CHECK_IR by itself. Diff offsets are not very robust.
We were able to close MICH and INP1, but not PRC2. Fixed some ENGAGE_DRMI_ASC guardian code to engage both pitch and yaw LOCK filter modules for PR2 and SR2 (was only engaging pitch FMs, which was causing our instant locklosses when engaging PRC2). Now PRC2 is just regular-old unstable.
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