Here is a table of the most recent 30W (or similar) locklosses, and what we could find so far:
1228172266 25W
This was a radiation pressure compensation instability that hit us even after going back down to 25W from 30W. We believe Hang's new gain table (alog 45750) should prevent that now.
1228198761 30W
POP_LF starts dropping away 2 seconds before lock-loss (and REFL_LF starts rising)
OMC length locking loop shows an oscillation for the last 15 seconds
REFL_RIN sees a burst every ~8sec (microseism). All LSC signals also show significant microseism motion.
This lock has the boost10W filters in the ASC HARD loops off.
1228201480 30W
PRC2Y has a large excursion. Not clear whether it is a runaway.
13Hz oscillation visible in SCRL/MICH/PRCL/REFL RIN in REFL_RIN it looks like a sawtooth
1228203545 30W
ASC looks perfectly fine.
POP90 increases 2 seconds before lockloss. POP18 start dropping at the same time.
1228205888 28W
ASC looks perfectly fine.
1228247359 30W
0.5-ish Hz ring-up in ASC: CHARD_Y, CSOFT_P/Y
Given that a number of them seem to suggest a fast CARM loop problem, we also looked at the CM and IMC boards. Note that during POWER-UP we lower the gain at the IMC board output (MCL gain and FAST gain), so the signals through the board increase. However, we looked at the read-backs - all signals are less than 1V. But we should still check for high-frequency saturations.