Reports until 18:11, Saturday 22 April 2023
H1 SQZ
elenna.capote@LIGO.ORG - posted 18:11, Saturday 22 April 2023 - last comment - 00:20, Monday 24 April 2023(68924)
SQZ not injected- problem with find IR

Today squeezing did not inject at the "inject squeezing" ISC_LOCK guardian state. First, I saw that the sqz CLF guardian said the pump ISS was down due to multiple failed locking attempts. I noticed that the "SQZ-OPO_REFL_REJECTED" PD was in error, saying "voltage readback saturated". I reduced the gain settings to 20 (dB I assume), and the error message went away. Then, I took the CLF guardian to down and re-requested locked, which removed the guardian error message. That worked, but we still did not make it to "sqz ready ifo". The "SQZ-FC" guardian was failing to find IR over and over. I am not sure if that is because of the updates to the FC mirror offloading (alog 68914). I took the SQZ guardian to "no squeezing" for now.

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nutsinee.kijbunchoo@LIGO.ORG - 00:20, Monday 24 April 2023 (68938)

Most likely too much CLF power. There should be no more than 0.03 mW injected into CLF launch fiber. Turned it down. Worked fine before we left.