Since "lunch", I've done a few things (with help from Sheila via text/phone):
- RESTORED all SUS sliders to last night before-crash.
- Attempted to restore IMC PZT offsets, but this gave us an IMC which would not lock, so went back to the post-crash offset values. IMC locked and IMC WFS took over.
- Since the whole alignment changed, ran an Initial Alignment.
- Green Arms:
- These were way off!
- Didn't waste time waiting for INCREASE FLASHES, and intervened to tweak both arms by hand (X-arm was at 0.4 and Y-arm was at an ugly 0.0).
- SRC ALIGN
- Once again, we had the issues of ALIGN IFO aligning SR2, but then it would get stuck at ACQUIRE SRY.
- Sheila asked me to align by hand, which means to take ALIGN IFO to DOWN and then tweak SRM in a way which: (1) increases the AS_A_DC signal & (2) make AS AIR video spot "better" or "symmetric"
- This was hard for me to resolve, but slowly & surely, with 0.3-0.6 urad clicks for SRM I was able to increase the ASDC signal...and the video spot actually did get symmetric! (see AS_A_DC signal improvement).
- But tried ACQUIRE SRY, and still no locking (where "locked" is where the AS_A_DC signal doesn't flash up and down, but "locks" and stay at a flat value). Since I aligned it pretty well, felt something else was awry...and at this time Sheila checked back up with me (& was also watching remotely).
- She agreed SRM alignment was optimized, and something else was probably wrong. She mentioned it looked like a triggering issue. Sure enough, she was able to lock SRY!
- On LSC OVERview / TRIG MTRX: For SRCL_TRIG, the Upper Threshhold (ENABLE) was set at 0.5. She changed it to 0.3, and SRY immediately locked!
- I then continued/completed the alignment
Currently returned to locking.
Since the Alignment took me so long (almost 90min), the BS was pretty misaligned, so immediately went to CHECK MICH FRINGES. Now I have PRM locked and will continue and see how we look.