I wanted to check that the calibration of the MC ASS lockins was sensible, before trusting them forevermore.
To measure the calibration, I took a 30sec average of C1:IOO-MC_ASS_LOCKIN(1-6)_I_OUT with no misalignment.
Then step MC1 pitch by 10% (add 0.1 to the coil output gains). Remeasure the lockin outputs.
2.63 / (Lockin1noStep - Lockin1withStep) = calibration.
Repeat, with Lockin2 = MC2 pit, lockin3 = MC3 pit, and lockins 4-6 are MC1-3 yaw.
The number 2.63 comes from: half the side of the square between all 4 magnets. Since our offsets are in pitch and yaw, we want the distance between the line connecting the lower magnets and the center line of the optic, and similar for yaw. Presumably if all of the magnets are in the correct place, this number is the same for all magnets. The optics are 3 inches in diameter. I assume that the center of each magnet is 0.9mm from the edge of the optic, since the magnets and dumbbells are 1.9mm in diameter. Actually, I should probably assume that they're farther than that from the edge of the optic, since the edge of the dumbbell ~touches the edge of the flat surface, but there's the bevel which is ~1mm wide, looking normal to the surface of the optic. Anyhow, what I haven't done yet (planned for tomorrow...) is to figure out how well we need to know all of these numbers.
We shouldn't care more than ~100um, since the spots on the optics move by about that much anyway.
For now, I get the following #'s for the calibration:
Lockin1 = 7.83
Lockin2 = 9.29
Lockin3 = 8.06
Lockin4 = 8.21
Lockin5 = 10.15
Lockin6 = 6.39
The old values were:
C1:IOO-MC_ASS_LOCKIN1_SIG_GAIN = 7
C1:IOO-MC_ASS_LOCKIN2_SIG_GAIN = 9.6
C1:IOO-MC_ASS_LOCKIN3_SIG_GAIN = 8.3
C1:IOO-MC_ASS_LOCKIN4_SIG_GAIN = 7.8
C1:IOO-MC_ASS_LOCKIN5_SIG_GAIN = 9.5
C1:IOO-MC_ASS_LOCKIN6_SIG_GAIN = 8.5
The new values measured tonight are pretty far from the old values, so perhaps it is in fact useful to re-calibrate the lockins every time we try to measure the spot positions? |