Lock acquisition is proceeding smoothly for the most part, but there is a very consistent failure point near the end of the cm_step script.
Near the end of the procedure, while in RF common mode, the sensing for the MCL path of the common mode servo is transitioned from a REFL 166I signal which comes into the LSC whitening board from the demodulator, to another copy of the signal which has passed through the common mode board, and is coming out of the Length output of the common mode board. We do this because the signal which comes through the CM board sees the switchable low-frequency boost filter, and so both paths of the CM servo (AO and MCL) can get that filter switched on at the same time.
The problem is occurring after this transition, which works reliably. However, when the script tries to remove the final CARM offset, and bring the offset to zero, lock is abruptly lost. DARM, CM, and the crossover all look stable, and no excess noise appears while looking at the DARM, CARM, MCF spectra. But lock is always lost right about the same offset.
Saturation somewhere? |