Reports until 22:02, Monday 17 February 2025
H1 General (ISC, SQZ)
oli.patane@LIGO.ORG - posted 22:02, Monday 17 February 2025 (82870)
Ops Eve Shift End

TITLE: 02/18 Eve Shift: 0030-0600 UTC (1630-2200 PST), all times posted in UTC
STATE of H1: Observing at 149Mpc
INCOMING OPERATOR: Ryan C
SHIFT SUMMARY: Currently Observing and have been Locked for almost 1 hour.

Two locklosses during my shift, and they both had that weird oscillation in DARM right before the lockloss (see 82847). Relocking went okay as long as I ran an initial alignment.

First relocking:
At the start of the initial alignment during green arms, I did get the ALSX issue where it's locked but the WFS won't turn on. I Forced the auto-centering for the WFS and that was all it needed.
Once we got back up to NLN we were having issues with the filter cavity losing lock (similar to the issues from the rest of this weekend). It was losing lock at different places in the locking process (FIND_IR, GR_VCO_LOCKING, TRANSITION_IR_LOCKING, etc). I tried just running SQZ_MANAGER through DOWN and back up but that didn't work. I then tried moving FC1&2 a bit to get them back to where they were during our last lock but that also didn't work. I then just tried what Ryan S did yesterday (82840) - I paused SQZ_MANAGER in LOCK_CLF and adjusted the OPO temp. That worked well and we were then able to lock the filter cavity, start squeezing, and get back into Observing. Tagging sqz
Second relocking:
I just made sure to immediately run an initial alignment and there were no issues getting back to NLN and Observing.
LOG:

00:06 Lockloss
    - started an inital alignment
        - ALSX was locked (but oscillating weirdly) around 1 but the WFS wouldn't turn on - the auto-centering was off (we've been seeing this recently sometimes). I Forced the auto-centering and the WFS turned on and took ALSX up to 1.2 right away
    - Lockloss from TURN_ON_BS_STAGE2
    - Lockloss from PRMI_ASC

02:20 NOMINAL_LOW_NOISE
    - FC losing lock during different stages in the locking process (FIND_IR, GR_VCO_LOCKING, TRANSITION_IR_LOCKING, etc.)
    - Ran SQZ_MANAGER through DOWN and back up - didn't work
    - Adjusted FC1&2 a bit to get them back to where they were during our last lock - didn't work (did not revert these changes)
    - Did what Ryan S did yesterday (82840) - paused SQZ_MANAGER in LOCK_CLF and adjusted OPO temp. We were then able to lock the filter cavity, start squeezing, and get back into Observing
03:05 Observing
    03:36 Popped out of Observing to reset the sqz angle since we had a message about it and sqz was slowly getting worse
    03:36 Back into Observing

    03:47 Popped out of Observing to reset the sqz angle since we had a message about it and sqz was slowly getting worse
    03:48 Back into Observing

04:00 Lockloss
    - Ran initial alignment

05:16 NOMINAL_LOW_NOISE
05:19 Observing
                                                                                                            

Start Time System Name Location Lazer_Haz Task Time End
00:19 PEM Robert LVEA YES Putting viewport cover back on 00:29
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