Reports until 12:02, Tuesday 16 September 2025
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ryan.crouch@LIGO.ORG - posted 12:02, Tuesday 16 September 2025 (86958)
ETMX OPLEV charge measurement

I tried to get a better measurement of the ETMX charge per its OPLEVs this morning, I started with a higher gain on the ESD_OUTPUT filters than the last time (0.75 instead of 0.5, 1 worked until recently). This measurement had pretty low coherence like last week so I ctrl+c and increased the drive_amp by 20%. This measurement was a little better but still not as good as I would like it, and as we have had in the past, so I restarted it again with another 20% increase in drive_amp, I ran 3 measurements with this configuration. The prelimary processing looked decent but the full processing revealed pretty large error bars still.

This measurement is better than last weeks, but there is still room for improvement. I brought the drive_amp up from 11000 to 20600 with ESD_OUTPUT gains of 0.75 and I still wasn't saturating so I still have more room to push to improve the measurements and increase the coherence.

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