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elenna.capote@LIGO.ORG - posted 16:18, Thursday 07 March 2024 (76190)
Green offsets saved, POP A offsets saved

[Jenne, Elenna]

We have saved many different versions of the green offsets during the process, to hold on to our progress as we improved the alignment. For simplicity, I will only attach the final final v2 version of these offsets. These offsets were set after we converged the alignment in "engage_asc_for_full_ifo" and "engage_soft_loops", while DARM is on RF.

We had some funny guardian issue that caused the top mass integrators to not be on for ITMX and ITMY. We engaged those integrators and let the alignment converge before setting these offsets. Once we lose lock, an initial alignment should be run on these new offsets.

The offsets for the QPDs and cameras are set according to the directions in this alog post: 50968.

I also set the POP A offsets based on our new alignment. This loop is not engaged in full lock, but PRC1 is usually engaged in DRMI ASC and will set the PRM alignment. Once we add PRC1 back to the guardian for DRMI, that will properly offload the PRM in the correct place.

All SDFs are saved, and the five attached screenshots show the ALS Y QPD offsets, ALS Y cam offsets, ALS X QPD offsets, ALS X cam offsets, and POP A offsets.

For our future knowledge, we also took green camera references after every big alignment improvement, such as DHARD WFS engagement, walking alignment error signals to zero, etc. This gives you the ability to reset to your "save point" and not have to start all over with the process at every lockloss.

Another helpful idea is to run the code to set the green offsets while alignment changes are made, so that the green arms stay aligned with the IFO alignment changes.

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