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Message ID: 662
Entry time: Sat Jul 12 23:28:31 2008
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| Author: |
rana |
| Type: |
Update |
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PSL |
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PMC needs help |
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As everyone has noticed recently, the PMC seems to have a PZT problem. It often zooms
of to one of its rails after locking as if the PZT range has decreased dramatically.
WE should check this on Monday by disabling the FSS and applying a slow triangle wave to
the NPRO frequency. The PMC will track this frequency change and this will allow us to
diagnose its problems.
If it has real problems, I have a spare in W. Bridge which we can swap in temporarily.
The attached plot shows 3 years of trend; looks like it went bad in summer of last year.
This also seems to be the cause of our ISS saturation problems: lowering the gain of the PMC
even slightly increased the intensity noise enough to cause saturation. Increasing the gain
even slightly increased the intensity noise enough to cause saturation due to PMC servo oscillation. |
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