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ryan.short@LIGO.ORG - posted 17:09, Tuesday 20 December 2022 (66502)
PSL Rotation Stage Calibration

After the various PSL maintenance activities today, I've recalibrated the PSL rotation stage.

While running the MoveRotationStage script, the PMC kept unlocking partway through, so I would have to relock it and start over. After a few times of this happening, Jason and I looked closer and we discovered that when the LASER_PWR guardian sees the IMC input power drop to 0W (as it does when iterating the rotation stage like this), it will unlock the PMC, FSS, and ISS. With this in mind, I paused the LASER_PWR guardian and was able to run through the script with no issue.

For future reference, the process I used for running the calibration is as follows:

  Power in (W) D B (Minimum power angle) C (Minimum power)
Old Values 98.163 1.990 -24.838 0.000
New Values 105.043 1.990 -24.853 0.000
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