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H1 ISC (ISC)
georgia.mansell@LIGO.ORG - posted 19:02, Monday 29 April 2019 - last comment - 14:42, Tuesday 30 April 2019(48857)
ASC-AS_A_RF36 re-phased, ASC oscillation gone

All day today the 2-minute-period oscillation in the yaw ASC loops persisted. We tried turning off the ADS loops, this had no effect. We tried lowering the gain of the SRC1 loop, this did nothing.

We decided to re-phase sensor for the beamsplitter ASC (AS_A_RF36_Q), since:

I added ~25 degrees to each quadrant, (now all around 225 degrees). This stopped our ASC oscillation, and increased our 9MHz build up (POPAIR_B_RF18) freom ~42 to ~45. There might be more improvements to be had by turning up the phase further, I just stopped here since the rest of the ASC was taking a while to catch up.

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jenne.driggers@LIGO.ORG - 14:42, Tuesday 30 April 2019 (48878)

We're struggling to lock, and seeing some ASC oscillations, so I've reverted this change for now.

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