This morning we carried on with the recovery of LN3.
We observed another example of the complex interaction between MICH offset and SR alignment. This morning we could not recover neither the fringe nor the sidebands balance introducing a MICH_SET, but when we removed it both of these improved considerably (Fig.1). Overall, the configuration in which we attempted the OMC lock was MICH_SET=0 and +2 urad on SR_TX.
During the OMC lock, we had to keep fighting against the SR alignment loop, which produced the sawtooth shape visible in the figure.
While the ITF did reach LN3, the recovery is still not complete since we still did not restore an automated procedure to arrive in this state reliably.