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AdV-DET (Photodiodes air boxes and supports)
mwas - 19:18 Monday 06 May 2024 (64183) Print this report
B1 PD1 shutter remained open

Today during the lock acquisition I have noticed that there was power on B1 PD1 while trying to lock the OMC.

Figure 1 shows fluctuation on B1 PD1 even though the voltage bias is off.

Pressing the close button of the shutter in vpm worked to close it, but before that I panicked and closed B1 PD3  and turned off its voltage bias instead. Which caused an unlock first as DET_MAIN has seen the B1 PD3 being turned off and put the interferometer in DOWN.

Maybe the B1 PD shutters are starting to be stuck again because the interferometer locks are becoming too long, and they are not open/closed often enough. We may need to add checks in the automation to check they are indeed closed.

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gouaty, mwas - 17:00 Tuesday 07 May 2024 (64203) Print this report

In order to try to mitigate this problem, we have increased the shutter pulse duration from 20 ms to 40 ms for both B1_PD1 and B1_PD2. The SDB2_dbox_bench process has been reloaded at 14h52m27-UTC.

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