Sheila let me know that they had some trouble last night with reducing the RF45 modulation depth at 2W. Things like PR gain became noisy, and POP90 increases, but things got better as they powered up.
The reason, back in fall 2016, that we had been doing RF45 before increasing power is that we had (at that time) been going straight to 50W in the IncreasePower state, and we saturated the AS WFS (alog 29750, bullet point 3) once at 50W. Also, the AS port trigger PD that is used for the fast shutter was close to saturation (alog 28909).
So, now that we have split out going to 20W versus going to higher powers (right now 30W), we can move the 45MHz modulation depth reduction in between.
I have done this, but since the state numbers were only 1 apart, to make the order correct on the states "ladder" screen, I have swapped numbers 504 and 505. State number 504 was the RF45 reduction, and state 505 was IncreasePower. Now, 504 is IncreasePower and 505 is reduce_rf45_modulation_depth.