Maintenance day recovery started around 1830UTC. Here's the main points:
- Initial alignment:
- MICH bright align would not lock, so I brought ALIGN_IFO to DOWN and then aligned the BS using the flashes. I then skipped this step in the INIT_ALIGN node and the rest was hands off.
- Attempt 1:
- No PRMI needed, went through to Maximum_Power before a mistake in a commissioning effort to help with the weekend lock losses.
- Attempt 2:
- Lost it at Increase_Power. Seemingly unrelated to the previous work.
- Attempt 3:
- Attempt 4:
- Lost at Engage_Soft_Loops
- Attempt 5:
- Made it!
- Sheila and Jeff K. engaged the soft loops by hand to move through the point absorber rather than walking around it as we normally do. This was in the hope to speed up this state in the future.