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jenne.driggers@LIGO.ORG - posted 11:00, Wednesday 10 October 2018 - last comment - 17:44, Thursday 11 October 2018(44465)
DTT not ramping excitations down when using noise injection

DaveB is looking into it, but DTT isn't ramping down excitations using noise injection.  This is something we've been seeing, but usually it just causes saturations.  I think it *may* have caused a lockloss a week or so ago, but it definitely killed a lock today.

I attach an ndscope showing that the excitation just suddenly stops, as well as 2 screenshots showing my excitation and measurement settings.   You can see in the Measurements tab that I've got a rampdown time set for the excitation.

For now, since these are noise injections, I can use awggui for the injection, which doesn't seem to have these same ramp down problems.

I append these screenshots to FRS ticket 11367.

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david.barker@LIGO.ORG - 15:32, Thursday 11 October 2018 (44499)

This could be a repetition of a problem two years ago where the output filter rings for a long time such that at the time the excitation is turned off the output amplitude is still non-zero.

We could only come up with a work-around, using diag to manually control the output gain stage of the awgtpman excitation channel to ramp the output down to zero over a ramp time.

Here is the wiki page describing the work around:

wikipage

Here are the original alogs from 2016:

alog-30258

alog-30315

I was able to reproduce the problem on a PEM-MY test channel (attached plot)

This current problem is covered by FRS FRS-11367

 

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jameson.rollins@LIGO.ORG - 17:44, Thursday 11 October 2018 (44504)

I think awggui does ramp down correctly (or at least someone should check) so a good option is for people to just use that for their excitations until dtt can be really properly fixed.