[evlatests] Fwd: Fwd: Re: Generator test Antenna communication outages

Dave Parker dparker at nrao.edu
Thu Mar 7 08:31:21 EST 2019


Yes but that was just on the 27th of Feb not the 13th so we are just 
watching that one for now.

Dave


On 3/6/2019 12:50 PM, Bryan Butler wrote:
> 
> Ken's email also noted antenna 27 lost communication.  Perhaps Jeff's 
> list isn't entirely inclusive?
> 
>      -Bryan
> 
> 
> Dave Parker wrote on 3/6/19 12:34:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Antennas dropping coms is not as bad as first suspected. The monitor 
>> points that were used for coms, by me were not good choices.  It 
>> appears there are six constantly problem antennas them being 6, 8, 10, 
>> 14, 15 and 17 according to Jeff Long's email. Jerry Langevin and 
>> myself did some work on Antenna 15 on 27 Feb, and Antenna 10 on 4 
>> March, we plan on doing checks on Antennas 14 and 17 Monday 11 March 
>> and not touching Antennas 6 and 8 to give us an indication if what we 
>> are doing is making a major radiance.
>>
>> Jerry and myself removed a test power strip from Antennas 22 and 25 
>> that was installed on 4 March sense these antennas have not been 
>> having problems.
>>
>> Dave Parker
>>
>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>> Subject:     Fwd: Re: Generator test Antenna communication outages
>> Date:     Wed, 6 Mar 2019 07:23:18 -0700
>> From:     Dave Parker <dparker at nrao.edu>
>> Organization:     NRAO
>> To:     Jerry Langevin <jlangevi at nrao.edu>, Jim Jackson 
>> <jjackson at aoc.nrao.edu>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>> Subject:     Re: Generator test Antenna communication outages
>> Date:     Tue, 5 Mar 2019 16:55:10 -0700
>> From:     Jeff Long <jlong at nrao.edu>
>> To:     Dave Parker (dparker at aoc.nrao.edu) <dparker at aoc.nrao.edu>
>> CC:     Ken Sowinski <ksowinsk at aoc.nrao.edu>
>>
>>
>>
>> Interesting, the pdu did not lose power during both generator tests 
>> you can see a coldstart on the 4th when it was power cycled.
>>
>> --Jeff L.
>>
>> ea10-pdu logs
>> 03/04/2019     09:37:20     System: Coldstart.
>> 02/25/2019     11:49:20     System: Set Date or Time.
>> 02/11/2019     11:49:19     System: Set Date or Time
>>
>> Date     Time     I     IMax     IMin
>> 02/27/2019       09:26:49       1.5       1.5       1.5
>> 02/27/2019       09:16:49       1.5       1.6       1.3
>> 02/27/2019       09:06:49       1.5       1.5       1.5
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 03/05/2019 03:23 PM, Jeff Long wrote:
>>> *_Both Generator test days these Antennas were affected 6, 8, 10, 14, 
>>> 15, 17._*
>>>
>>> All switches below indicate from up time, that they power cycled 
>>> during loss of communication.
>>>
>>> Wed 13th Feb statseeker ping outage to these antennas started at 
>>> 9:42am back up at times below and how long ping was down
>>> Note     Wed 13th Feb 2019 09:44     EVLA-ant-sw-7     up 0 days 00 
>>> hrs 01 min
>>> Note     Wed 13th Feb 2019 09:44     EVLA-ant-sw-11     up 0 days 00 
>>> hrs 01 min
>>> Note     Wed 13th Feb 2019 09:44     EVLA-ant-sw-11b up     0 days 00 
>>> hrs 01 min
>>> Note     Wed 13th Feb 2019 09:44     EVLA-ant-sw-15b up     0 days 00 
>>> hrs 01 min
>>> Note     Wed 13th Feb 2019 09:44     EVLA-ant-sw-8b     up 0 days 00 
>>> hrs 01 min
>>> Note     Wed 13th Feb 2019 09:44     EVLA-ant-sw-15     up 0 days 00 
>>> hrs 01 min
>>> Note     Wed 13th Feb 2019 09:44     EVLA-ant-sw-8     up 0 days 00 
>>> hrs 01 min
>>> Note     Wed 13th Feb 2019 09:44     EVLA-ant-sw-7b     up 0 days 00 
>>> hrs 01 min
>>> Note     Wed 13th Feb 2019 09:45     EVLA-ant-sw-28     up 0 days 00 
>>> hrs 02 mins
>>> Note     Wed 13th Feb 2019 09:45     EVLA-ant-sw-28b up     0 days 00 
>>> hrs 02 mins
>>> Note     Wed 13th Feb 2019 09:45     EVLA-ant-sw-10b up     0 days 00 
>>> hrs 02 mins
>>> Note     Wed 13th Feb 2019 09:45     EVLA-ant-sw-10     up 0 days 00 
>>> hrs 02 mins
>>> Note     Wed 13th Feb 2019 09:45     EVLA-ant-sw-17b up     0 days 00 
>>> hrs 03 mins
>>> Note     Wed 13th Feb 2019 09:45     EVLA-ant-sw-17     up 0 days 00 
>>> hrs 03 mins
>>> Note     Wed 13th Feb 2019 09:46     EVLA-ant-sw-6     up 0 days 00 
>>> hrs 03 mins
>>> Note     Wed 13th Feb 2019 09:46     EVLA-ant-sw-6b     up 0 days 00 
>>> hrs 03 mins
>>> Note     Wed 13th Feb 2019 09:49     EVLA-ant-sw-14     up 0 days 00 
>>> hrs 06 mins
>>> Note     Wed 13th Feb 2019 09:49     EVLA-ant-sw-14b up     0 days 00 
>>> hrs 06 mins
>>>
>>> Wed 27th Feb statseeker ping outage to these antennas started at 
>>> 9:13am back up at times below and how long ping was down
>>> Note     Wed 27th Feb 2019 09:16     EVLA-ant-sw-10b up     0 days 00 
>>> hrs 01 min
>>> Note     Wed 27th Feb 2019 09:16     EVLA-ant-sw-10     up 0 days 00 
>>> hrs 01 min
>>> Note     Wed 27th Feb 2019 09:16     EVLA-ant-sw-8b     up 0 days 00 
>>> hrs 02 mins
>>> Note     Wed 27th Feb 2019 09:16     EVLA-ant-sw-8     up 0 days 00 
>>> hrs 02 mins
>>> Note     Wed 27th Feb 2019 09:16     EVLA-ant-sw-15b up     0 days 00 
>>> hrs 02 mins
>>> Note     Wed 27th Feb 2019 09:16     EVLA-ant-sw-15     up 0 days 00 
>>> hrs 02 mins
>>> Note     Wed 27th Feb 2019 09:17     EVLA-ant-sw-27b up     0 days 00 
>>> hrs 03 mins
>>> Note     Wed 27th Feb 2019 09:17     EVLA-ant-sw-27     up 0 days 00 
>>> hrs 03 mins
>>> Note     Wed 27th Feb 2019 09:17     EVLA-ant-sw-6b     up 0 days 00 
>>> hrs 03 mins
>>> Note     Wed 27th Feb 2019 09:17     EVLA-ant-sw-17b up     0 days 00 
>>> hrs 03 mins
>>> Note     Wed 27th Feb 2019 09:17     EVLA-ant-sw-17     up 0 days 00 
>>> hrs 03 mins
>>> Note     Wed 27th Feb 2019 09:17     EVLA-ant-sw-6     up 0 days 00 
>>> hrs 04 mins
>>> Note     Wed 27th Feb 2019 09:20     EVLA-ant-sw-14     up 0 days 00 
>>> hrs 07 mins
>>> Note     Wed 27th Feb 2019 09:20     EVLA-ant-sw-14b up     0 days 00 
>>> hrs 07 mins
>>>
>>> --Jeff L.
>>>
>>> On 03/05/2019 12:47 PM, Dave Parker wrote:
>>>> Jeff,
>>>>
>>>> The antennas you noted losing coms this morning (with location) were 
>>>> 14 at BE7, 17 at BN9, 6 at BN7, 8 at BN5, 26 at BW9, 27 at BE8, 10 
>>>> at BE2, and 15 at BN3. I do not think antenna 28, now BW2, was 
>>>> affected this outage but was the week before when on the master pad. 
>>>> You might recheck antennas 11 BN8, 9 BN4, 18 BW8, and 12 BE4.
>>>>
>>>> Work was done on antenna 15 on the 27th of FEB. Antennas 10, 22, and 
>>>> 25 had the network switches bypassed from the PDU's on 4 March so 
>>>> they may want to be rechecked also.
>>>>
>>>> Below are comments from Ken Sowinski regarding coms failures on the 
>>>> last 2 generator test. On, I believe the 13 and 27th of Feb.
>>>>
>>>> Dave
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>>>> Subject: Re: [evlatests] generator testing side-effects
>>>> Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2019 13:54:19 -0700 (MST)
>>>> From: Ken Sowinski <ksowinsk at nrao.edu>
>>>> To: Ken Sowinski <ksowinsk at nrao.edu>
>>>> CC: evlatests at nrao.edu
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 19 Feb 2019, Ken Sowinski wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> During the generator testing last Wednesday I recorded 48V powerplant
>>>>> voltage and current from the M302, and sampler temperatures for all
>>>>> four modules at the antennas chosed to be distributed over all three
>>>>> arms and the master pad.  The antennas used were:
>>>>> West arm:  ea01, ea02, ea28 (master pad)
>>>>> North arm: ea04, ea06, ea11, ea15
>>>>> East arm:  ea10, ea16, ea23
>>>>>
>>>>> This is the first of two notes and describes the overall antenna and
>>>>> power plant response.  The second will describe the sampler behavior.
>>>>>
>>>>> An unexpected result is that about half the antennas suffered a
>>>>> communication outage when AC power was removed from the antenna.
>>>>> At least one antenna on the East arm had communications restored
>>>>> before AC power was restored.  The antennas which experienced
>>>>> a communication outage are:
>>>>>
>>>>>   ea28, ea06, ea11, ea15, ea10,
>>>>
>>>> During the generator tests of last Wednesday, Feb 27, I monitored
>>>> the east arm antennas with the following results.
>>>>
>>>> Network unaffected:  ea05, ea06, ea16, ea21, ea23
>>>> Network lost:        ea10, ea14, ea27
>>>>
>>>> The three antennas that were monitored both a week ago and this
>>>> time behaved the same way on both days.
>>>>
>>>> ea06 returned power plant voltage as exepcted, but always zero for
>>>> current.
>>>>
>>>> ea12 is on the east arm but I neglected to notice that.
>>>>
>>>>
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