I made the signal box as described in eLog 7210. It adds the geophone signal and an external signal.

It has six switches, for x, y, and z signals from both an external and local (geophone) source. The x signals add if both x switches are flipped down (and the same for the other directions). For example, if you want to feed in only an external signal in the x direction, flip down the external x direction switch (it's labeled on the box), leaving all others flipped up.

The x, y, and z outputs are wired to the pins from the preamplifier that go to the high voltage board. These I disconnected from the preamplifier by cutting at their base (there are spare connectors if this wants to be undone, or, a wire can just be soldered from the pin to its old spot on the board). The power (plus/minus) and ground are wired to the respective pins from the geophone preamplifier (naturally, the STACIS must be turned on for the box to work since the box shares its power source). Below, the front (switches and geophone/external inputs) and back (power, ground, outputs) of the box are shown:

The preamplifier can plug into its regular connectors- the x,y,and z signals will all be redirected to the signal box with these modifications. The box sits outside the STACIS, there is room to feed the wires out from underneath the STACIS platform.

NOTE: The geophone z switch is a little different than the others, just make sure it's flipped all the way down if you want that signal to be seen in the z output.

 I found this entry in the old 40m ilog which describes the STACIS performance. It shows that even though the STACIS is bad for the differential arm motion below 3 Hz. It has quite a big and positive effect at 10-30 Hz. The OSEMs show a bigger effect than what the single arm does. I think this is because the single arm is limited by the MC frequency noise above 10 Hz.

We should figure out how to turn on the STACIS but set the lower UGF to be ~5 Hz.

#!/bin/csh

set ifo = C1
set sus = ${ifo}:SUS-

foreach opt (MC1 MC2 MC3)

  set c = `ezcaread -n ${sus}${opt}_PD_MAX_VAR`
  ezcastep ${sus}${opt}_PD_MAX_VAR +300

  ezcaswitch ${sus}${opt}_ULCOIL OFFSET ON
  ezcawrite ${sus}${opt}_ULCOIL_OFFSET 30000
  sleep 1
  ezcawrite ${sus}${opt}_ULCOIL_OFFSET 0
  sleep 1
  ezcawrite ${sus}${opt}_ULCOIL_OFFSET 30000
  sleep 1
  ezcawrite ${sus}${opt}_LATCH_OFF 0

  ezcawrite ${sus}${opt}_ULCOIL_OFFSET 0
  ezcaswitch ${sus}${opt}_ULCOIL OFFSET OFF

  ezcawrite ${sus}${opt}_PD_MAX_VAR $c

end

echo
date
echo

foreach opt (ETMX ETMY ITMX ITMY MC1 MC2 MC3 BS PRM SRM)
  foreach dof (POS PIT YAW)
     ezcawrite C1:SUS-${opt}_SUS${dof}_INMON.PREC 0
  end
end

BLUE:   Output of filter bank during an FM9 turn off. This is the transient which goes to the DAC.
        The transients are mostly of the same magnitude as this.
RED:    This is the input of the filter module during another such transient.
GREEN:  Tried another switch; this time I filtered the time series in DTT by typing the SimDW into
        the Triggered Time Series filter field. This should be simulating what comes out of the
        output of the DW board - to convert to volts multiply by 15/32768.
PURPLE: Same kind of filtering as the GREEN, but with also a double 30 Hz highpass to remove the low
        frequency damping control signals. You can see that the total transient is only ~5 counts
        or ~1 mV at the coil driver output. This is comparable to the relative offset in the bypass
        and filter paths.