Reports until 22:46, Monday 27 August 2018
H1 AOS
sheila.dwyer@LIGO.ORG - posted 22:46, Monday 27 August 2018 (43686)
A short ASC update

The main task that we need to do before we can power up is get some of our ASC loops running with higher bandwidths.  

Jenne and Patrick spent some time today measuring CHARD.  

It looks like both pitch and yaw need to have large gain increases, which we would expect because we have about 47dB less gain now than we used during O2.  For yaw I was able to increase the gain from 0.3 to 60, but increasing it to 100 unlocked the interferometer.  For pitch increasing it from 0.3 to 6 was enough of a gain increase to cause instability.  

I noticed that the ITMs were still not used for DHARD, so Craig and I manually turned them on and added them back in the guardian.  We have only locked once since adding them at it was a little bit rough when DHARD came on, so we might want to increase the bandwidth of MICH.