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ryan.crouch@LIGO.ORG - posted 12:53, Tuesday 15 July 2025 (85761)
ALS arm CHECK_CRYSTAL_FREQUENCY fault state

I wrote this state at the end of 2023, to automate the relocking of the PLL through turning on the Beckoff autolocker and inputting crystal frequency values to search around. These frequencies it uses to search are assuming the values will be close to zero, so it assumes there isn't an offset alog81425.

We've been going into this fault state more often recently. This state is more of a band-aid for this issue than an actual fix to whatever's happening with the PLLs. ALS-Y sees this issue more frequently than ALS-X, each arm is locking at a different frequency these days, around 0 Hz for Xarm and around 100 for Yarm. Yarm seems more dynamic than Xarm for its' frequency, it has been changing more than Xarm over the past year.

I've updated the code today to use a dictionary with a list for each arm from the single list it was using so hopefully it will make it a little faster.

I'm writing some code with Tonys' statecounter to see exactly how many times we are going into this state for each arm over the past months, and years.

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