The FSS SLOW actuator often runs off away from zero and into a region where the mode hopping is bad and makes a lot of frequency noise (e.g. that 8 hour period a few weeks ago when Jamie couldn't lock the MC).

It should not have this behavior. The SLOW loop should only be running when the MC is locked.

Today I found that the threshold was set back to 0.2 V (which is approximately the correct value for the RefCav locking). Its being compared to the MC TRANS, so the correct value should be ~1/2 of the maximum MC TRANS.

To find this out, I read this piece of text:

    # Make sure the loop is supposed to be active
    if (get_value("C1:IOO-MC_TRANS_SUM") < get_value("C1:PSL-FSS_LOCKEDLEVEL")) {
    print("Reference Cavity not locked -- control loop disabled.\n");
    next;
    }

from scripts/PSL/FSS/FSSSlowServo. I set the threshold using the commmand:

caput -c -t C1:PSL-FSS_LOCKEDLEVEL 12000

Then I restarted the code on op340m, by typing:

> nohup FSSSlowServo

and then closing the terminal. Seems to be behaving correctly now. Previously, the value was so low that the SLOW loop was never turning itself off.