Last night, as well as tonight, the ALS seems not quite as robust as it was earlier in the week.
I have just taken noise spectra, and ALS is definitely more noisy than usual.
These plots are with the arms held in CARM and DARM mode, with servo gains of 8. I was seeing the beginnings of gain peaking at a gain of 10, so I turned it back to 8. Our ALS in-loop RMS is usually something like a few hundred Hz, but I'm seeing over 1kHz, so I have a factor of 4 or 5 too much noise. Why?!?!?


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