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thomas.shaffer@LIGO.ORG - posted 15:24, Thursday 15 August 2024 - last comment - 12:24, Wednesday 21 August 2024(79560)
CO2Y only outputting 24W after vent return

I turned the CO2s back on today and CO2X came back to its usual 53W, but CO2Y came back at 24W. We've seen in the past that it will jump up a handful of watts overnight after a break, so maybe we will see something similar here. If not, we will have to investigate this loss. Trending the output of this laser, it has definitely been dropping in the last year, but we should be higher than 24W.

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thomas.shaffer@LIGO.ORG - 08:56, Friday 16 August 2024 (79570)

Sure enough, the power increased overnight and we are back to 34W. This is still low, but in line with the power loss that we've been seeing. Camilla is looking into the spare situation and we might swap it in the future.

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camilla.compton@LIGO.ORG - 12:24, Wednesday 21 August 2024 (79622)

We searched for home on both CO2 lasers, took them back to minium power and then asked  CO2_PWR guardian to NOM_ANNULAR_POWER. This gave 1.73W on CO2X and  CO2Y to 1.71W (1.4W before bootstrapping).

We re calibrated following /opt/rtcds/userapps/release/tcs/h1/scripts/RS_calibration/README.txt (last done in February 76008), both were 1.7W after bootstrapping.
Ryan S has updated the PSL calibration to just use python (/psl/h1/scripts/RotationStage/CalibRotStage.py), so we should change to this method next time.
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