Background:
We need MC to be locked soon, so MC suspensions should be damped well(Q~5).
What I did:
1. Set the correct filters and turn all the damping servo on.
2. Kick the optics by adding some offset into the control loop.
3. Measure the Q-value of the ringdown with my eye.
4. If Q-value seems to be around 5, go to step #5. If not, change the filter gain and go to step #2.
5. Done! Do step #1-4 for all MCs.
All parameters I used for the servo are automatically saved here;
/cvs/cds/caltech/burt/autoburt/snapshots/2010/Oct/13/20:07/c1mcs.epics
Result:
Q-values of the damping servo for all MCs are set to around 5.
Attached is the ringdown of MC2 for example.
As you can see, my eye was very rough......
Next work:
- Make a script that does steps #2-5 automatically.
I need pyNDS module installed to get data using Python.
I already wrote the rest of the script.
We'll have Leo help us install pyNDS tomorrow. |