Last week, I asked operators to begin using a new online survey to record lock acquisition attempts, rather than type out their attempts and manual interventions in the alog.  We've now had 4 locklosses / reacquisitions since then, so we're starting to get some data (thank you Operators!).  The point of this survey is to get information regarding manual interventions required, to help us identify where we need to work on the interferometer's relocking automation.  Operators have been giving us this information in their alogs (again, thank you!), but this online form should streamline responses and hopefully save everyone time. 

The online google form outputs to a google sheets spreadsheet that everyone (who has ligo.org credentials) can look at.  I'm starting to put some digestion of the data on other tabs in that sheets document; I'm hopeful that we'll be able to get some useful information out of the digested data, rather than every person having to individually read through the entirety of the spreadsheet, but that component is still a work in progress.

Everyone is welcome to click through the survey.  However, if you are not actively filling it out for a lockloss, please choose the name "Test / DeleteMe" so that if the response gets submitted, we can excise that row.  Also, please feel free to look at the results spreadsheet.  However, note that the spreadsheet is not archived, so please do not edit the responses (so that we don't lose any).

The form and spreadsheet should be accessible to everyone with ligo.org credentials.

Form: https://tinyurl.com/LHO-Lock-Acq-Questionnaire (hover for the actual link; I made a tinyurl that is easier to type)

Results: https://tinyurl.com/LHO-Lock-Acq-Responses (again, hover for the actual link)

Attached is a flow chart (also laminated at the operator station) describing the flow of the survey, as well as screenshots of some of the questions.  Note that there have been some updates to the questions and text since I made this pdf, as a result of excellent feedback from operators, but the gist of them should be similar.