[Manasa, Jenne, Annalisa]
I was going to find the beat note to start the cavity scan, but I couldn't.
These are the steps I followed:
- locked the arm with IR to reduce the arm swinging
- locked the green on the arm
- started changing the green temperature setting the offset from the slow servo2 in the ALS. The PSL slow actuator ADJ was always set approximately to zero, and the PSL temperature was checked in order to set the auxiliary laser temperature where the beat was expected (as in the plot)
After spanning the temperature by approximately 4degC, we started be suspicious that I couldn't find the beat in the range of temperature where it was supposed to be found, and we started making several trials:
- PD output disconnected from the beatbox and connected to the cable running to the Control Room
- Checked that the cable going to the Control Room was working by sending a signal with the Marconi (the cable was working)
- Put back the amplifier that had been previously removed
- PD DC output checked with the oscilloscope
- Spectrum analyzer connected to the PD output without passing trough the cable
The same trials were done also for the X arm, but we didn't succeed in finding the beat for the X neither.
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