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H1 ISC
sheila.dwyer@LIGO.ORG - posted 12:12, Friday 31 May 2019 - last comment - 18:24, Tuesday 04 June 2019(49581)
offloading green WFS in each lock

Yesterday Jenne changed the normal path we take for the ALS ARM guardians so that green WFS are run to both TMS and the ETM in the normal locking sequence.  

Today while Jenne and Georgia are working on the ISS 2nd loop AC coupling, I made some states that can offload the alinment from the WFS to the sliders after the green WFS run.  I've tested it a few times for both arms, and it seems to work well, so I've changed the request in LOCKING_ARMS_GREEN to offload this alignment.  This will make LOCKING_ARM_GREEN take a bit longer, but it should help us to be better able to relock the arms after a lockloss, since we will keep the green alignment that worked in the previous acquisition sequence.  

This can be reverted by changing lines 628 and 629 in ISC_LOCK to:

        nodes['ALS_XARM']  = 'LOCKED_SLOW_WFS_ETM_TMS' 
        nodes['ALS_YARM']  = 'LOCKED_SLOW_WFS_ETM_TMS'

Note:  I've reverted this, because the guardian was moving on too quickly and trying to offload before the WFS had really run.  We added a convergence check, but haven't put the offloading back in the normal path yet.

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sheila.dwyer@LIGO.ORG - 18:24, Tuesday 04 June 2019 (49663)

This is now working.