Reports until 12:18, Tuesday 30 April 2024
H1 SEI
jim.warner@LIGO.ORG - posted 12:18, Tuesday 30 April 2024 - last comment - 09:49, Friday 10 May 2024(77512)
HAM8 H1 GS13 troubleshooting today

I went to FCES this morning to try to troubleshoot the sort of busted H1 GS13 on HAM8. I suspect there is something going on with the cable or interface chassis, but it's not something I think I've seen before. I tried swapping cables at both the rack and the chamber, and whenever the corner 1 chassis was connected to the H1 sensor, the transfer function from the H1 CPS to the H1 sensor would be half the magnitude of the other two sensor pairs. ASDs also show the H1 GS13 has half gain when the corner 1 sensors are connected to the corner 1 chassis. However, when the H1 sensor was plugged into the corner 2 or 3 chassis, all three sensor pair tfs would have the same amplitude. I could repeat this consistently, didn't matter how I swapped the cables around, as long as the H1 sensor wasn't plugged into the correct chassis all the l2l sensor tfs would look normal.

Attached plot shows two sets of data I took during this period, red blue and light green are the normal config, dark green, pink and light blue are with the H1 sensor on the corner 3 chassis, H3 sensor on the corner 1 chassis.

I will talk to Fil, but maybe in a couple weeks we can try running a temp cable from the FC mezzanine to the chamber, and see if that changes anything.

Images attached to this report
Comments related to this report
brian.lantz@LIGO.ORG - 09:49, Friday 10 May 2024 (77758)

Issue is tracked in FRS 31005