Following the observation that the response in the LL shadow sensor was lower than that of the others, I decided to pull it out a little to move the signal level with nominal DC bias voltage applied was closer to half the open-voltage. I also chose to rotate the SIDE OSEM by ~20 degrees CCW in its holder (viewed from the south side of the EY chamber), to match more closely its position from a photo prior to the haphazhard vent of the summer of 2018. For the SIDE OSEM, the theoretical "best" alignment in order to be insensitive to POS motion is the shadow sensor beam being horizontal - but without some shimming of the OSEM in the holder, I can't get the magnet clear of the teflon inside the OSEM.
While I was inside the chamber, I attempted to minimize the Bounce/Roll mode coupling to the LL and SIDE OSEM channels, by rotating the Coil inside the holder while keeping the shadow sensor voltage at half-light. To monitor the coupling "live", I set up DTT with 0.3 Hz bandwidth and 3 exponentially weighted averages. For the LL coil, I went through pi radians of rotation either side of the equilibrium, but saw no significant change in the coupling - I don't understand why.
In any case, this wasn't the most important objective so I pushed ahead with recovering half-light levels for all the shadow sensors and closed up with the light doors. I kicked the optic again at 1712:14 PDT, let's see what the matrix looks like now.
before starting this work, i had to key the unresponsive c1auxey VME crate. |