paranoid shut down sequence
- reduce current to 16A
ADD leave lamp at 16A for a few minutes.
On the lab laser I used to take care of, the lamp often did not want to start at less current then we had last ran it at. So better to season the lamp at low current.
We had 3 years of lamp I-V plots and daily logs to back this up.
We could see the rod age in the plots, and see the lamp trends.
Nd:YLF rods slowly dissolve in the coolant over time, hence the aging.
Steve
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