The MC had been unlocked for the last 4 hours and was crying out to me so I gave it some attention. Its happier now.
From the trend (AtM #1), I saw that the MC2 suspension has moved by ~10 microradians. Since the MC cavity divergence angle is lambda/(pi*w0) ~ 200 microradians, this isn't so much, but enough to cause it to lock on bad modes sometimes. Attackmint too shows that there's not much in monotonic drift over the last 40 nights.
I moved back MC2 to its old alignment with these commands:
ezcaservo -r C1:SUS-MC2_SUSPIT_INMON -s -1017 -g 0.0009 C1:SUS-MC2_PIT_COMM -t 300
ezcaservo -r C1:SUS-MC2_SUSYAW_INMON -s 490 -g 0.0009 C1:SUS-MC2_YAW_COMM -t 332
Then I went out to the table and aligned the beam into MC using the last two steering mirrors good enough so that the WFS coming on doesn't make the visibility any better. In this nominal state, I unlocked the MC and then aligned the reflected beam onto the center of the LSC PD as well as the WFS. The beam on the first WFS is a little small - next time someone wants to improve our Gouy phase telescope, we might try to make it bigger there. On the LSC PD, the beam was off-center by a few hundred microns. |