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sheila.dwyer@LIGO.ORG - posted 11:43, Wednesday 03 June 2026 - last comment - 14:43, Wednesday 03 June 2026(90462)
FC1 alignment

Last Friday, HAM7 was vented and the mega cleanroom was on, but chamber doors were on, FC1 sliders were at 100 urad P, -162 urad Yaw, and the M3 witness sensors were -90 urad pitch, -15 urad.  Since then, there was a power outage, the chamber doors are off and the purge air is on, and tha DAC has been changed as it was not working 90454.  Now, with the same slider settings (100 urad P, -162 yaw), M3 withness sensors are at 24 urad pitch, -204 urad yaw.  

In 89751, Oli noted that turning on the purge air caused a shift of -29urad in the bottom mass osems.  If purge air were the only difference between now and Friday, we would expect M3 witness osems to say -120 urad, if the purge air is similar to what it was in December.  So, it seems like the electronics change has changed the realtionship between the slider value and the witness sensor.  

On May 7th, we moved the pitch alignment slider by 140 urad, and the M3 witness only saw a move of 10 urad.  Today, when we move the slider by 262 urad, the M3 witness osems see a shift of 317urad, so the suspension is actuating now, but seems not to have been in May.  

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camilla.compton@LIGO.ORG - 14:43, Wednesday 03 June 2026 (90466)CDS
2nd April, FC1 was working.  We moved FC1 sliders and FC1 moved the expected amount: in PIT: 217urad sliders, 235urad M3 WIT.; in YAW: 18urad sliders, 21urad M3 WIT.
 
On May 7th, FC1 did not move when the alignment sliders were changed, shown by bottom mass WIT channels not changing. DAC outputs did change. Plot attached. It was broken at this point. 
30 minutes before this at 17:51UTC, the FC1 M3 witness channels show a change of ~7urad each, but the DAC outputs did not change. This may be the time the FC1 electronics broke. Plot attached.

Between 7th April and 7th May, and a period around the end of February, the DAC outputs were noisy, before and after this, they are not. I'm not sure what this is, plot attached.

 

Below is comparing today with Dec 9th 08:30 UTC (when CR was on temp ~71degF, HAM7 vented and doors removed). This shows the sliders are agreeing with what we have seen in the past.

  Temp Pitch Yaw
Slider M3 WIT Slider M3 WIT
Dec 9th 08:30 UTC 71degF 231 181* -153 -201
Now, June 3rd 21:45 UTC 71.3degF 231 176 -153 -202

* drifted down to 162 over next week

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