The medm screen for the 1st laser is completed, the servo is on an stable. Refcav has been locked for a few hours as of now.
- The output for slow feedback is on J9, slot 9/10 (VMIVME 4116 C2 S3). This is an unused channel previously assigned to PSL-ISS_ISET, I checked ISS.db file to look for the VMIVME address. For the slot number, I look up the channel name in D980535-C-C document.
- I added low pass filters (~100mHz) to both input and outputs of EPICS.
- All EPICS channels for slow feedback and perl scripts are in SLOW_LASER.db file.
- The startup.cmd file is updated accordingly.
- servo gain is optimized. ??? What does that mean??? How about some performance plots? (About the bode plot, I'm trying to get a transfer function of the NPRO slow input, with that I can estimate the bode plot of the loop. As of now I just adjust the PID gain so that the loop is stable)

fig1: FAST feedback to the laser is shown in blue plot, vertical axis:1V/div, horizontal axis: 4 sec/ div. I adjusted proportional gain first, to get only a few overshoots with acceptable rise time.

fig2: Then I adjusted integral gain to eliminate the offset, and Derivative gain to reduce overshoot. More about PID gain can be found here. Current Value KP = -0.0002, KI =-0.00015, KD = 0.
I set the output to be between -2 V to 9 V. Since we need to lock it to GYRO later, it has to be able to be tuned to match the gyro laser. Currently, Gyro laser is operated around 35 Deg C which is similar to 8V input to slow feedback.
I'm trying to draw a cartoon for DAQ wiring in CTN lab for future reference. This is what I have so far. I'll add it in WIKI page.

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