Reports until 13:52, Saturday 25 August 2018
H1 ISC
stefan.ballmer@LIGO.ORG - posted 13:52, Saturday 25 August 2018 (43656)
SRC initial alignment fixed
TVo, Danny, Stefan

The SRC initial alignment never worked for us, so we made the following changes:
- SRC gain up to 10000 again,
- Also engage AS_WFS centering (since we now use the AS_A WFS sensor for length locking).
- Engage both SRC1 and SRC2 at low gain, then boost the SRC1 gain by x10, so we can handle large slews across ASC-AS_C.
- Finally use convergence checkers alog the way and at the end to make sure everything worked.

We ran it three times in a row with a relatively large AS_C offset and it worked every time. Of course, the SRC still has to lock in the first place.