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elenna.capote@LIGO.ORG - posted 10:00, Thursday 20 August 2026 - last comment - 15:07, Thursday 20 August 2026(91618)
Locking green arms

[Ryan C, Elenna, Matilda, Camilla, Louis]

We have locked each arm on green. Looks like the X arm build up on ALS TRX is about 0.6, and Y is about 1.2. The COMM beatnote is -3 dBm, and the DIFF beatnote is -20 dBm.

Going to LOCK SLOW GWFS ETM TMS on Y arm does not engage the WFS, but works, which means the slow controls do work on y arm. I guess the WFS are disengaged for now.

However, it appears the X arm slow controls are still not working. Going to no slow with green wfs on X arm requires going through a state that does engage the slow controls, so we're still sitting in "locking" on X arm.

Camilla and I are about to head to the table to touch up the DIFF beatnote.

We figured out how to engage the X arm WFS by hand and they are improving the buildup.

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We (Camilla, Louis, Elenna) have aligned the DIFF beatnote to -11 dBm. The biggest move was ensuring the beam made it to the DIFF PD- Camilla found both edges of the PD using the steering mirror and centered the beam on the PD.

Comments related to this report
ryan.crouch@LIGO.ORG - 15:07, Thursday 20 August 2026 (91622)

I compared some power sensors like what RyanS did in alog91528 from our PRMI lock yesterday (08/19/26, GPS 1471225645) to a good lock at the end of 04 where we offloaded PRMI, then locked to NLN (11/16/25 GPS 1447346796).

  POP_A_LF POPAIR_B_LF REFLAIR_A_LF POPAIR_B_RF18_I POP_X_DC_NSUM POP_A_NSUM POP_B_NSUM Refl_A_LF Refl_B_LF REFL_A_NSUM REFL_B_NSUM
PRMI Nov 16th 2025 87 17.5 2.53 90 0.087 seems low just like the lock on Nov26th that RyanS checked 83 76 2.53 5.60 3890 3365
PRMI 08/13/26 30 6 2.57 30 160 8 5 2.55 5.60 3880 3350
PRMI yesterday 08/19/26 30.5 5.5 3.70 30 105 8 6.5 2.58 5.50 3925 3350