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Message ID: 1364
Entry time: Fri Mar 6 05:44:14 2009
Reply to this: 1365
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Author: |
Yoichi |
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Update |
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Locking |
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Locking distracted by the QPD whitenning problem again |
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Tonight, I was able to ramp up the arm power to around 20. Then the DARM loop started to oscillate and the IFO lost lock in a few seconds.
I repeated this several times, then realized that the transmission QPDs were not working properly again due to the well known sticky slider problem.
I should have run slider_twiddle script. Since the DARM RF signal is normalized by the sqrt(TRX+TRY), it is reasonable that the DARM loop got unstable.
The fact that I was able to go up to arm power = 20 means there is nothing saturating below this power level.
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