Reports until 10:24, Wednesday 24 July 2019
H1 SUS
corey.gray@LIGO.ORG - posted 10:24, Wednesday 24 July 2019 - last comment - 12:06, Wednesday 24 July 2019(50775)
Recovery Notes: Dither Align Scripts

(Jenne D, Corey G, Jeff K)

From Niko's handoff, we knew there was (1) communication issues with EY (so this would prevent locking EY), and (2) Both green arms looked clipped from their video. 

So one of the first things we thought we'd try is running a baffle alignment script....I later found that this is more correctly called a Dither Align script.  Jeff called Jenne to get info on how we can do this.

[Side Note:  TJ has plans to get baffle alignment into guardian.]

Ran Dither Align (i.e. Baffle Scripts)

  1. Misalign ITMx & ETMx (make sure TMSx aligned)
  2. Run TMSx Dither Align script  which is on drop down for Xarm on INIT_ALIGN window (when script done, it doesn't say anything like "done" or "complete", and terminal stays open.  But you'll see terminal no longer doing anything as well as no action on ndscope).  When it looks complete, move to ITMx...
  3. Align ITMx & run ITMx script....when it looks complete, move to ETMx
  4. Run ETMx script

Unfortunately, after completing the ETMx script, we did not see any light in the ALSx camera!

At this point, Jeff took ETMx to its slider values (not oplev, osem values, etc!) to an earlier time, and finally we had light on the camera, and X-arm eventually locked after some quick alignment tweaks!

Comments related to this report
jeffrey.kissel@LIGO.ORG - 12:06, Wednesday 24 July 2019 (50783)OpsInfo
Importantly -- the time to which one should restore slider values is *just before* a lock acquisition sequence, NOT when we're locked in nominal low noise.
In this case, I chose 2019-07-24 03:30 UTC (1247974218, Jul 23 2019 20:30:00 PDT).