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Handbook Release 10.1 December 2007 WEST Carbon dioxide flux meter Continuous Monitoring ITA LY FOGO, FURNAS, TERCEIRA, MAMMOTH Horseshoe Lake, San MIGUEL, San VINCENTE, San SALVADOR, Santa ANA, MOUNUN , NYOS. Açores University, Université Libre de Bruxelles, University of Florida, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Colima University, University of Michigan, Santorini Volcano Observatory SERVING VOLCANIC COMMUNITY WORLDWIDE USU SAN, MASAYA, POAS, TEIDE, CUMBRE VEJA, ETNA, STROMBOLI, CAMPI FLEGREI, VESUVIUS, SANTORINI. Tokyo University, Kyoto University, PennState University, U.S.G.S., ITER, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Osservatorio Vesuviano Systems If your equipment requires maintenance in Italy: BEFORE YOU SHIP THE INSTRUMENT BACK TO ITALY REMEMBER: !When you ask your shipping agent to send the instrument to Italy check that on the Air Waybill the Airport of destination is PISA. Any other airport of destination creates a lot of problems in delivering the items (delay, costs, custom problems etc.) !Check that the Company your shipping agent chooses lands in Galileo Galilei Airport in Pisa. If not, ask your shipping agent to change the Company or send the items by DHL or UPS or FedEx. !Mark each item with a serial number, if not already present, and write this number on the document (proforma or original invoice or item list) where you list the parts you are sending back to Italy. !Specify a correct value of the parts you are sending back in the documents mentioned above. Pay attention to these rules because Custom law in Italy is very complicated and probably different from your Country. If you follow these suggestions everything will be easier for you and for us. West Systems Srl INDEX INDEX Page List of the components Safety Information Hints 4 WEST Systems 5 6 Site selection Shelter and piquets kit Power supply Solar cell charge regulator Connections Installation of the Acc. Chamber Connection resume A.Chamber tubes 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5-2.9 2.10 2.11 2.12 Pump Tubing / Fittings / Filters 3.1-3.2 3.3-3.4 Polytron IR CO2 Barometric pressure Pumping flow and filter status Soil Water content Soil temperature 4.1-4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 Pneumatic circuit Sensors Accumulation chamber A little theory The factor AcK Table for grams/sm/day Table for moles/sm/day Flux curves examples Drawings Cables / scheme Proximity switches Resume of AC connections 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7-5.8 5.9 5.10 Palmtop operations Connecting the PDA SetStation application FluxStation parameters Additional features Channels parameters CO2 full scale value 6.1 6.2-6.4 6.5-6.8 6.9 6.10-6.11 6.12-6.14 Portable flux meter handbook Release 7.00 -FluxManager- July 2007 3 On Field installation WEST Systems 2 1.1 1.2 1.3 www.westsystems.com Chapter Argument 1 INDEX INDEX 7 Running FluxStation General considerations SD memory card StandBy and Running www.westsystems.com 8 Portable flux meter handbook Release 7.00 -FluxManager- July 2007 Calibration General considerations 8.1 Polytron IR CO2 gas calibration 8.2-8.6 Polytron IR CO2 4-20mA calibration 8.7-8.8 Flux meter calibration 8.10-8.14 9 Databases structure General considerations scada_log.mdb scada_data.mdb stations phisicalchannels channels telemetry 10 WEST Systems 7.1-7,2 7.3-7.4 7.5-7.6 Scada suite Scada Scada color codes Scada alarms Scada communication log 11 9.1-9.2 9.2 9.3 9.4-9.5 9.6 9.7 9.8-9.9 10.1-10.4 10.5 10.7 10.8 Scada suite Flux revision Monitor Query A Air Box Meteorological sensors C Cables Cables schematics F SSR24 Telemetry S Soil Box Z Software installation 11.1-11.5 11.7 11.9-11.10 Soil sensors PDA Software installation PC Software installation Z.1-Z.2 Z.3-Z.4 The package contents Shelter Feet Piquets Telemetry Backfire antenna Coax 3 meter N-N Coax 10 meter N-N SSR24 Slave SSR24 Master Quantity Check 1 1 1 1 WIND00075 1 Pluvio116 1 1 CS6161_21 1 1 C714 1 1 1 4 12 2427581 2 1 1 1 1 AC Accumulation chamber AC.Box 1 1 P.Supply Solar cell regulator 12V 40A/h battery Solar cell 1 1 1 FluxStation FluxStation AC Board PowerBoard CPU Board PAGE Shelter S/n DRGEEX02 C1130006 www.westsystems.com Description Polytron IR CO2 Vaisala Pt100 AirBox SoilBox WindSonic RainGauge ThermoHygrometer TDR CS616 Pt100 Soil temperature AWM3300 dP gauge 1 1 1 1 Pump KNF/ST 1 Tools Piquet-prolongue Wrench kit : 13/17 Hexagonal wrench Tie kit 1 1 1 1 Spares Spare filters 1" Spare filters 2" Spare rilsan tube mt silicon tube 4 2 1 2 WEST Systems Goods Sensors 1.1 WEST Systems www.westsystems.com PAGE 1.2 Safety information ! ! Carbon dioxide is a TOXIC GAS, Carbon dioxide is colorless, odorless, tastless and is heavier than air. Air concentration higher than 5000 ppm can cause dizziness, shortness of breath, rapid pulse. Higher concentrations of carbon dioxide can be lethal. Diffuse carbon dioxide fluxes are normally related to anomalous carbon dioxide air concentration. The user must verify the safety conditions before entering dangerous areas using specific and approvated instrumentation. The Fluxmeter described in this manual is designed to measure diffuse emission of soil gases and CANNOT be used for different purposes expecially if related with safety. The instrument and the electronic accessories are NOT designed to work in explosion risk areas. About installation Before to start the installation of the FluxStation is better to install the Master center telemetry systems and to setup the Scada software suite on the computer. 1.1 PAGE Hints The onfield installation is described on chapter 2. The FluxStation clock can be not synchronized with the computer one; then, since the telemetry is normally off, to save the battery energy, except for a 5 minute period after the station analisys cicle, a synchronization is necessary, else when the computer will try to call the FluxStation, via telemetry, the remote telemetry system will be off. To perform the synchronization: 1) Set the PDA (PalmTop computer) clock with the time you’d like to use (Local / GMT , ect.); www.westsystems.com Fluxstation & computer clocks synchronization 2) After the FluxStation installation set the clock of the FluxStation using SetStation on the PDA; 3) Set the computer clock. About carbon dioxide flux WEST Systems The flux phenomena can be perturbated by the installation, because digging the soil, hammering , placing the collar ect.. The “normal” regime will be restored in few days. WEST Systems www.westsystems.com PAGE 1.2 On-Field Installation Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.1 November 2007 Select the installation site after a carbon dioxide flux survey. The best location is in the middle of an anomalous efflux area with an homogeneous flux distribution.The optimal flux value is in the range from 2 to250 moles per square meter per day. For the choice of the site it is necessary to take into account that the solar panel has to be oriented toward in the correct direction and that it must be exposed to sunbeams at least for 4-6 hours per day.It is necessary to take into account also the functioning of the telemetry system. In case you are using GSM telemetry please verify the coverage and the signal strenght using a mobile telephone with a SIM card of the provider you choose for data transmission. In case you use a SSR24 telemetry from the selected site you must have a very good direct visibility of the Master Center or of the site where you will install the radio repeater bridge if necessary. Moreover it is necessary to evaluate the soil stability and the possibility of flooding. If besides the carbon dioxide emission also strong water vapour emission are present it is necessary to evaluate the possibility of installation of a water condensing system along the gas sampling line. Install the box wit the solar panel orienteded by means of a compass. Fix the sensors and antenna poles , the different sensors, the accumulation chamber and then the station. Following the instructions described in the next pages connect the different devices. 1300 mm Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.1 November 2007 Installation PAGE 2.1 100 mm SOIL ! The base of the shelter must be 10 - 15 cm far from the soil, else the lenght of the accumulation chamber cables could be not enough. The 10 cm distance allows a good circulation of atmospheric air in the accumulation chamber area, else the entire shelter become a big accumulation chamber.... WEST Systems WEST Systems 800 mm On-Field Installation In the drawing the top view of the protection box (DHW), the sensor are not showed. To place the piquets: Unscrew the bolts and lift at the maximum elevation the shelter: After the installation of piquets down to the shelter at 10 cm distance from soil. lift Bolts Use the piquet-prolongue to hammer the piquets Soil Hit hardly here to block the 3 piquets WEST Systems WEST Systems Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.1 November 2007 900 mm Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.1 November 2007 PAGE 2.2 2.3 Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.1 November 2007 In the picture one of the four stand with the 3 piquets. The soil on the picture is not exactly a “soft” soil... In the picture the “chair” for the FluxStation case that must be mounted on the right part of the shelter to put the fluxstation in a accessible position. In the picture the accumulation chamber connection box, that must be mounted on the shelter close to the accumulation ch. WEST Systems WEST Systems Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.1 November 2007 PAGE On-Field Installation WEST Systems WEST Systems Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.1 November 2007 Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.1 November 2007 PAGE 2.4 On-Field Installation 2.5 PAGE Amp. 6+T Male Amp. 6+T Female from Solar Cell Amp. 6+T Female Battery - Battery + Aux.2 Aux.1 CE WEST Systems RS485/1 RS485/2 RS485/3 Battery Power supply cable Pin Function Color 1 +12V Red 2 Gnd Black 3 n.c. T n.c. Solar cell cable Pin Function Color 1 n.c. 2 Gnd Black 3 +12V Red T n.c. CH 4/5 CH 2/3 www.westsystems.com FL-I007 WEST Systems Acc.Ch. Antenna Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.1 November 2007 10 Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.1 November 2007 Power supply PAGE 2.6 On-Field Installation Solar cell charge regulator + - + - + The LED light is: Green when the battery is full Yellow normal charge Red when the battery is empty Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.1 November 2007 10 Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.1 November 2007 The LED light is ON when the solar cell is exposed to sunlight 10 Ampere fuse (car type) If the battery voltage fall down to 11.1 Volt the charge regulator turn off the load (the flux station) in order to save the battery against the overdischarge. WEST Systems WEST Systems If the battery voltage fall down to 11.1 Volt the charge regulator turn off the load (the flux station) in order to save the battery against the overdischarge. The load will be reconnected when the battery voltage grows up to 12.6 Volt. On-Field Installation 2.7 PAGE Connections A B Power A CH3 WEST RS232 CPU CPU RUN MMC-SD ASF THOMAS ASF THOMAS CH1 CH0 WEST Pump Brombach CH2 POWER POWER ON PULL AND SWITCH POWER OFF +12 +24 bp_fff007 ON All electrical and pneumatic connections to the flux station are on the left side panel. Acc.Ch. RS485/1 RS485/2 RS485/3 Battery Antenna Aux.2 Aux.1 CH 4/5 CH 2/3 www.westsystems.com FL-I007 Follow the instruction on the next pages for the connection of the detectors and devices to the flux station. WEST Systems PTB100A R47xxxxx 800-1060 hPa 0-5 VDC 10~30VDC P2 AWM3300V CE WEST Systems MODEL SERIAL NO RANGE OUTPUT SUPPLY PRESSURE TRANSMITTER Pump Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.1 November 2007 EXT.TRIG AGND GND SUPPLY VOUT Battery P1 Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.1 November 2007 pin-007 www.westsystems.com RS485 Connection panel On-Field Installation The external sensors connections: The FluxStation is supplied with several meterological and soil parameters sensors: The FluxStation is supplied with several meterological and soil parameters sensors: Some of them are managed by the AirBox: !Air temperature and relative humidity; !Wind speed and direction; !Rain fall gauge; and the others by the SoilBox: !Soil temperature; !Soil water content; SoilBox and AirBox , described in detail in the Appendix S and Appendix A, are connected with the FluxStation using a RS485 cable: RS485 cable Ja Amphenol 6 + T Pin Female Ja 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Female Jb Amphenol 6 + T Pin Female Gnd RS485 A RS485 B 12V Switched RS485 Cable Pin Function 1 Gnd 2 RS485 A 3 RS485 B 4 n.c. 5 n.c. 6 +12V T n.c. Jb 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Female Color Blue Yellow Green Red The FluxStation RS485 connectors The FluxStation is equipped with 3 RS485 connectors , marked as RS485/2, RS485/3; RS485/1, 2 and 3 have the same pin-out and the same function. RS485/1, WEST Systems WEST Systems Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.1 November 2007 !Air temperature and relative humidity; !Wind speed and direction; !Rain fall gauge; !Soil temperature; !Soil water content; Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.1 November 2007 PAGE 2.8 On-Field Installation 2.9 PAGE Meteorological detectors: AirBox To FluxStation RS485/1 connector, using a RS485 cable. To Rain Gauge See page A.2 Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.1 November 2007 Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.1 November 2007 The air box is a new interface described in detail in the appendix A that allows the use of the new sonic wind speed and direction gauge as well as the new air temperature and relative humidity digital probe. A rain gauge can be connected to the AirBox. WEST Systems Rain.G GILL To Gill Anemometer using the Gill cable (page A.3) WEST Systems RS485 PAGE 2.10 On-Field Installation Soil.box Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.1 November 2007 HUB-04 Soil temperature probe (Page 4.8) WEST Systems To FLuxStation RS485/2 connector, using a RS485 cable (see page 2.6) www.westsystems.com OUT IN-B IN-A Soil water content CS616 (Page 4.7) Pt100 TDR WEST Systems SoilBox (Appendix S) RS485 Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.1 November 2007 The Soil.Box, described in deep in the appendix S, is the new interface for the soil sensors.. A platinum 100 Ohm temperature probe and a Campbel Scientific CS616 Time Domain Reflectometer can be connected to the soil.box in order to measure the soil temperature and the soil water content. On-Field Installation 2.11 PAGE Accumulation chamber Acc.Ch. RS485/1 RS485/2 RS485/3 Battery Aux.2 CH 4/5 Aux.1 CE Cable AC2 CH 2/3 www.westsystems.com FL-I007 Cable AC1 To Aux 1 To Acc. Ch. CloseSw Fan Aux Linak OpenSw Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.1 November 2007 Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.1 November 2007 Antenna sot-07 Fan CloseSw WEST Systems Linak sop-05 WEST Systems OpenSw On-Field Installation 04 TEN VV Place the collar and fill again the hole , taking care off the sealing of the collar. VV NE -T 40 1_rf 2_rf br-05 1_rf 2_rf The accumulation chamber base must be at the same level of the soil surface. Fill the collar with soil leaving the minimum empty space to avoid carbon dioxide accumulation inside the collar. br-05 1_rf 2_rf WEST Systems br-05 Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.1 November 2007 04 TEN VV Collar VV NE -T 40 WEST Systems Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.1 November 2007 Connect the accumulation chamber to the fluxstation and open it using the PalmTop SetStation software. Dig an hole of 35 cm diameter and 10 cm depth. Place the chamber, taking care of its position inside the shelter, avoid the chamber touchs the shelter when it moves. VV NE -T 40 Accumulation chamber 04 TEN VV PAGE 2.12 On-Field Installation 2.13 PAGE Connections resume 10 from Solar Cell Amp. 6+T Female Battery - Battery + Acc.Ch. RS485/1 RS485/2 RS485/3 Battery Antenna Battery Aux.2 Aux.1 CE x1 Au To Acc. Ch. CloseSw Fan Aux Linak www.westsystems.com FL-I007 To RS485/2 To To Aux 1 CH 2/3 h. .C c Ac To RS485/1 To CH 4/5 OpenSw OpenSw Linak sop-05 Fan CloseSw Soil temperature probe (Page 4.8) Soil water content CS616 (Page 4.7) TDR Pt100 RS485 WEST Systems Soil.Box SoilBox (Appendix S) To Rain Gauge See page A.2 Air.Box RS485 Rain.G GILL To Gill Anemometer using the Gill cable (page A.3) WEST Systems sot-07 Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.1 November 2007 Amp. 6+T Female Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.1 November 2007 Amp. 6+T Male PAGE 2.14 On-Field Installation Accumulation chamber tubes Acc.Ch. RS485/1 RS485/2 RS485/3 Battery Aux.1 CH 4/5 CE CH 2/3 www.westsystems.com FL-I007 Red 6x4 Rilsan Tube Connect the accumulation chamber to the FluxStation respecting the InLet / OutLet. The InLet must be protected with the 2 inches filter mounted on the accumulation chambe base. Black 6x4 Rilsan Tube Filter Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.1 November 2007 Silicon Tube Linak sot-07 Fan CloseSw WEST Systems Aux.2 sop-05 WEST Systems Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.1 November 2007 Antenna 3.1 Pump Brombach Outlet ASF THOMAS ASF THOMAS > Pump > Brombach Inlet Pump connections Pin 1 2 3 4 Color Brown White Blue Black Function +12V n.c. n.c. Gnd Pump specifications Rated flow: 1000 SCCM (Standard cubic centimeter per minute) Power supply 150 mA @ 12 Volts Manufacturer KNF, WEST Germany NMP830KNDC Pneumatic fittings diameter : 4 mm DC/DC ASF THOMAS ASF THOMAS 9..12/12V + WEST Systems Pump Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 PAGE Pneumatic circuit PAGE 3.2 Pneumatic circuit Pump maintenance ! ! ! Disassemble the pumping head Clean the diaphragm, the washer, and the valves using a compressed air flow. Reassemble the head. ASF THOMAS ASF THOMAS V Unscrew the 4 screws Pump V Brombach Screws (4) Pump head cover Pump head gasket Pump head body, with valves Pump diaphragm ASF THOMAS ASF THOMAS Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 The pump efficiency can be affected by deposits of dust or water. When necessary it's possible to clean the pump: Pump Brombach Pump stabilizer scheme WEST Systems Gnd +VIN F1 Fusibile Rip. 500mA D1 18V 600W C1 -VIN +VIN_prot 1uF 2 3 9 11 -Vin -Vin Com -Vout-d TEN3-1212 +Vin +Vin Com / -Vout-s +Vout-s/d DC1 23 22 -Pump 16 14 C2 1uF +Pump 3.3 P1 P2 Pump Brombach > > AWM3300V A B Filter Inlet ASF THOMAS ASF THOMAS Outlet Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 PAGE Pneumatic circuit ! To avoid problems on the reading of P.Flow, that can be affected by the new KNF pump efficiency, please adopt this schema in the pneumatic connections. WEST Systems All the internal connections are made with silicon tube 8 mm external diameter 3.3 mm internal diameter; PAGE 3.4 Pneumatic circuit The fittings WEST Systems Tube fitting for RILSAN 6x4 and Silicon tubes M10 x 1mm WEST Systems Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 2.8 mm Diameter 25 mm Material : Chromed brass 44 mm The tubes 3 types of tube are used to realize the gas sampling line: !RILSAN tube 6 mm external diameter 4 mm internal diameter; ! SILICON tube 8 mm external diameter 3.3 mm internal diameter; ! SILICON 12.5 mm external diameter 4.3 mm internal diameter. The filters The PTFE membrane filters are permeable to gases and water vapour and are impermeable to liquid water and dust particles. The use of the filters protects the gas detectors and the other pneumatic parts. Please check the status of the filters every month. 4.1 PAGE Sensors Carbon dioxide detector DRAGER Polytron IR CO2 Specifications !Accuracy 3% of reading for > 350 ppm !Signal noise: 1% of reading pk-pk noise Out 4~20 mA linearized. !IP63 Case with anti spray protection IP65. !Operating temperature : between -20 and +65 °C. !Air relative humidity 0~95%. Release 10.0 November 2007 !Power supply 14-24 Volt DC Typical 300mA @ 24V DB 9 Male : Ch.0 Channel CO2 Ch. Name CO2 ppm Ch. number 0 WEST Systems !Full scale :Range 2000 ppm ~ 100% configurable by the operator. Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 Working principles: Double beam IR Detector with solid state sensor compensated in temperature, without moving parts. Sensors Carbon dioxide detector internal connections K1 K2 K3 K4 Drager Cable Pin Color K1 Red K2 Blue K3 Yellow K4 Green Function DB9 pin +24V 9 Gnd 5 S.Low 7 S.High 2 Carbon dioxide detector setup For the setup of the correct full scale please refer to pages 56-57 of Polytron transmitter IR CO2 handbook and to page 3.4 of this manual. Carbon dioxide detector calibration For the calibration of the detector please refer to pages 38-42 of Polytron transmitter IR CO2 handbook Carbon dioxide detector 4-20 mA calibration Carbon dioxide detector pneumatic connections 2 x M5 50.0 WESTSystems Systems WEST For the calibration of the 4-20mA interface please refer to pages 43-44 of Polytron transmitter IR CO2 handbook and to page 11.1 of this handbook. Drawing of the pipe - Drager interface. Release 10.0 November 2007 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Continuous monitoring device handbook Release 10.0 November 2007www.westsystems.com PAGE 4.2 4.3 PAGE Sensors Barometric pressure gauge PT100B Barometric pressure B.Pr. HPa 1 PRESSURE TRANSMITTER MODEL SERIAL NO RANGE OUTPUT SUPPLY PTB100A R47xxxxx 800-1060 hPa 0-5 VDC 10~30VDC EXT.TRIG AGND GND SUPPLY VOUT 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 DB 9 Male : Ch.1 Vaisala Cable Pin Color Supply Red Gnd Blue AGnd Yellow VOut Green Function DB9 pin +12V 4 Gnd 5 S.Low 7 S.High 2 WEST Systems Release 10.0 November 2007 Channel Ch. Name CH. # Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 Maximum working elevation 4000 meters Manufatcurer : VAISALA Ordering code :VAISALA-PT100B Range 600-1060 HPa (mBar) Accuracy 0.5 HPa Outpu 0-5 Volt Power supply 12 Volt Typical 4 mA @ 12 Volt PAGE 4.4 Sensors Gas line flow meter Flow direction (P1 to P2) P1 P2 A B AWM3300V dP Channel Manufatcurer : WEST Systems (Sensor made by Honeywell-SensorTechnics) Ordering code :AWM3300 Gas flow Range 0 to 1300 SCCM Accuracy 2% of F.S. Power supply 10 Volt Typical 30 mA @ 24 Volt WESTSystems Systems WEST P.flow and dP Channels The P.Flow channel measures the gas flow in the sampling line. The value must be in the range 700-1450 SCCM. The dP channel measures the depression of the pump. The value is affected by the filter status. Standard values are in the range 800-950 HPa. (When working at sea-level: Carometric pressure 1013 HPa). At these condition the P.Flow value has to be 800-1450 SCCM. The dP down to 600-650 HPa when the filters are dirty. The P.Flow also decreases in these conditions. The dP grows up to the barometric pressure is the pump efficiency decreases. The P.Flow also decreases in these conditions. Release 10.0 November 2007 Continuous monitoring device handbook Release 10.0 November 2007 www.westsystems.com Manufatcurer : WEST Systems (Sensor made by Honeywell-SensorTechnics) Ordering code :AWM3300 Gas flow Range 0 to 1300 SCCM Accuracy 2% of F.S. Power supply 10 Volt Typical 30 mA @ 24 Volt Manufatcurer : Campbell Scientific Ordering code : . . . CS616 / CS615 (Out of stock) Water content Range 5-50 % Accuracy 3% Release 10.0 November 2007 The CS616 (CS615) Water Content Reflectometer measures the volumetric water content of porous media using time-domain measurement methods. The Water Content Reflectometer consists of two stainless steel rods connected to a printed circuit board. A shielded four-conductor cable is connected to the circuit board to supply power, enable the probe, and monitor the pulse output. The circuit board is encapsulated in epoxy. The probe rods can be inserted from the surface or the probe can be buried at any orientation to the surface. The CS616 (CS615) response is dependent on the dielectric constant of the material surrounding the probe rods. Water is the principal contributor to the dielectric constant value, but the solid constituents such as quartz, clay and organic matter also affect the measurement. The same calibration of volumetric water content to probe output signal period may not apply to all soils. Accuracy can be optimized by using calibrations derived for a specific soil. Accuracy of ± 2.0% over the entire water content range and for a wide range of soil types is routinely obtained in our laboratory. Applying the general calibrations from the operating manual provides accuracy of ± 3.0%. 6+T Pin Pin Pin Pin Pin Pin Pin Male cable connector (To the SoilBox) 1 : Red +12 Volt 2 : Orange Ignition 3 : Green Frequency signal out 4 : Black+Sh. Ground 5 : n.c. 6 : n.c. T : n.c. WEST Systems Soil water content Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 Sensors PAGE 4.5 Sensors Soil temperature Manufatcurer : RS Ordering code :RS 321-6090 Type : Pt100 DIN IEC 751 Class B 4 wires Range 0 to 200 °C Max operating temperature 200°C Accuracy 0.3°C Probe length 300 mm Probe diameter 6 mm Cable length 3 Meter Cable PTFE and silicon insulated 3+T Pin Pin Pin Pin Male connector (to the SoilBox) 1 : RED 2 : RED 3 : White T : White WESTSystems Systems WEST 300 mm The meteorological sensors are described in the Appendix A. Release 10.0 November 2007 Continuous monitoring device handbook Release 10.0 November 2007www.westsystems.com PAGE 4.6 The flux is proportional to the concentration increase ratio ppm/sec. The proportionality factor depends on the chamber volume/surface ratio as well as the barometric pressure and the air temperature inside the accumulation chamber. 5.1 PAGE The accumulation chamber Time Concentration increase ppm/sec The station, in the default configuration record and store the barometric pressure, the air temperature and the soil temperature. The variation of few degrees of temperature do not affect the evaluation of flux very much, then it's possible to use the air temperature instead of the temperature of the gas mixture into the accumulation chamber. The instrument measures the barometric pressure, using the VAISALA barometric pressure gauge, with a good accuracy. A platinum Pt100 it's used to measure the soil temperature and a digital solid state based device measure the air temperature. Choosing the flux measurement unit The first measurements made, 10 years ago, with the accumulation chamber was expressed in cm/sec which is a speed, the speed of carbon dioxide flowing out from the soil. During the last ten years several units have been used by volcanologist and by geochemistry researchers. The most common unit is grams/squaremeter per day, but using the same instrument for two gas species to express the flux using this unit means to have two different conversion factors. Actually we use the unit moles/squaremeter per day that has two advantages: A single conversion factor for every gas specie and an easy conversion of the flux in grams/sm per day simply multiplying the result expressed in moles/sm per day for the molecular weight of the target gas. The Scada-suite the flux using the unit "moles/mq/day" Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 Gas concentration C Air WEST Systems WEST Systems Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 C Soil PAGE 5.2 The accumulation chamber The accumulation chamber factors 86400 P 10 6 R Tk V A Where ! ! ! ! ! P is the barometric pressure expressed in mBar (HPa) R is the gas constant 0.08314510 bar L K-1 mol-1 Tk is the air temperature expressed in Kelvin degree V is the chamber net volume in cubic meters A is the chamber inlet net area in square meters. The dimensions of the A.c.K. are In the table the conversion factors vs temperaure and barometric pressure Accumulation Chamber Type A and B are reported. for the An example: If the slope of the flux curve is 2.5 ppm/sec, the barometric pressure is 1011 mBar (HPa) and the air temperature is 23 °C. From the table (Page 5.7) get the value that correspond to the barometric pressure and temperature. In this case I get the value computed for 25°C and 1013 mBar : 0.440 Then the flux is: 2.5 x 0.440 = 1.10 moles per square meter per day. WEST Systems WEST Systems Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 K= Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 Here following the formula used to compute the A.c.K.: The accumulation chamber -10 0.499 0.484 0.470 0.456 0.443 0.430 0.417 0.405 0.393 0.382 0.371 0.360 0.349 0.339 0.329 0.320 0.310 -5 0.489 0.475 0.461 0.448 0.435 0.422 0.410 0.398 0.386 0.375 0.364 0.353 0.343 0.333 0.323 0.314 0.305 0 0.480 0.466 0.453 0.440 0.427 0.414 0.402 0.390 0.379 0.368 0.357 0.347 0.337 0.327 0.317 0.308 0.299 5 0.472 0.458 0.445 0.432 0.419 0.407 0.395 0.383 0.372 0.361 0.351 0.340 0.331 0.321 0.312 0.302 0.294 Air.T. °C 10 15 0.463 0.455 0.450 0.442 0.437 0.429 0.424 0.417 0.412 0.404 0.400 0.393 0.388 0.381 0.377 0.370 0.366 0.359 0.355 0.349 0.345 0.339 0.334 0.329 0.325 0.319 0.315 0.310 0.306 0.301 0.297 0.292 0.288 0.283 20 0.448 0.435 0.422 0.410 0.398 0.386 0.375 0.364 0.353 0.343 0.333 0.323 0.314 0.304 0.296 0.287 0.279 25 0.440 0.427 0.415 0.403 0.391 0.379 0.368 0.358 0.347 0.337 0.327 0.318 0.308 0.299 0.291 0.282 0.274 30 0.433 0.420 0.408 0.396 0.384 0.373 0.362 0.352 0.341 0.331 0.322 0.312 0.303 0.294 0.286 0.277 0.269 35 0.426 0.413 0.401 0.390 0.378 0.367 0.356 0.346 0.336 0.326 0.317 0.307 0.298 0.290 0.281 0.273 0.265 Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 Bar. Pressure Hpa (mbar) 1013 983 955 927 900 873 848 823 799 776 753 731 710 689 669 649 630 WEST Systems WEST Systems Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 In the following table the factors for the conversion from ppm/sec slope to moles m-2 day-1 are reported PAGE 5.3 -10 21.94 21.30 20.68 20.07 19.49 18.92 18.37 17.83 17.31 16.80 16.31 15.84 15.37 14.92 14.49 14.06 13.65 -5 21.53 20.90 20.29 19.70 19.12 18.57 18.02 17.50 16.99 16.49 16.01 15.54 15.09 14.65 14.22 13.80 13.40 WEST Systems Bar. Pressure Hpa (mbar) 1013 983 955 927 900 873 848 823 799 776 753 731 710 689 669 649 630 WEST Systems 0 21.14 20.52 19.92 19.34 18.77 18.23 17.69 17.18 16.67 16.19 15.71 15.26 14.81 14.38 13.96 13.55 13.15 15 20.04 19.45 18.88 18.33 17.80 17.28 16.77 16.28 15.81 15.34 14.90 14.46 14.04 13.63 13.23 12.84 12.47 20 19.70 19.12 18.56 18.02 17.49 16.98 16.49 16.00 15.54 15.08 14.64 14.21 13.80 13.40 13.01 12.63 12.26 25 19.37 18.80 18.25 17.72 17.20 16.70 16.21 15.74 15.28 14.83 14.40 13.98 13.57 13.17 12.79 12.41 12.05 Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 5 20.76 20.15 19.56 18.99 18.44 17.90 17.38 16.87 16.37 15.90 15.43 14.98 14.54 14.12 13.71 13.31 12.92 Air T. °C 10 20.39 19.80 19.22 18.66 18.11 17.58 17.07 16.57 16.09 15.62 15.16 14.72 14.29 13.87 13.46 13.07 12.69 Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 30 19.05 18.49 17.95 17.43 16.92 16.42 15.94 15.48 15.02 14.59 14.16 13.75 13.34 12.95 12.58 12.21 11.85 PAGE 5.4 The accumulation chamber In the following table the factors for the conversion from ppm/sec slope to grams m-2 day-1 are reported C02 4.8 ppm, 85 s 2500 ppm Flux:50.6 ppm/s , r 0.999 The "perfect" curve 5.5 PAGE The accumulation chamber For clearness only the CO2 flux curve is shown. The shape of the curve is quite perfect and the computation of the flux is done with a very good accuracy: r (regression quality factor) very close to 1. 200 ppm 100 In the following figures some examples of strange shape flux curves: C02 4.8 ppm, 85 s 2500 ppm Flux:32.6 ppm/s , r 0.815 Air contamination The flux curve is no longer "linear", the linear best fit curve do not fit exactly the flux curve as pointed out by the regression quality factor (0.815 in the example). This effect is probably due to atmospheric air contamination. If you obtain this kind of curve check the sealing of the accumulation chamber with the soil or check that tubes, filters and pump are intact. 200 ppm 100 C02 4.8 ppm, 85 s 2500 ppm Flux:32.6 ppm/s , r 0.815 Gas stratification This shape of curve indicates that the concentration of the target in air, close to the soil, is very high. This stratification is quite common in case of very high flux combined with a very stable atmosphere. In this case clean the gas line making a measure in air, one meter above the soil surface, and afterwards repeat the flux measurement. 200 ppm 100 C02 4.8 ppm, 85 s 2500 ppm Flux:0.6 ppm/s , r 0.925 You can use the measurement choosing the second part of the curve for regression computation. Low fluxes Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 In the figure on the left the display of palmtop during a flux mesurement is shown. 200 ppm 100 C02 4.8 ppm, 85 s 250000 ppm Flux:600.9 ppm/s , r 0.925 Very high flux The first part of the curve is not linear. The problem is due to the combined effect of the high flux and the sampling line cleaning. To avoid this increase the flux curve record time until the concentration of gas reachs the full scale value and select the last part of the curve for the flux computation. 200 ppm 100 This effect is due to the cleaning of the sampling line dead volumes WEST Systems WEST Systems This type of curve is normal when the flux is low and the "noise" of the detector is comparable with the increase of concentration. WEST Systems 04 T- Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 sot-07 br-05 1_rf 2_rf WEST Systems EN VV VV NE -T 40 Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 480 sop-05 PAGE 5.6 The accumulation chamber Foot print size 570 The accumulation chamber PAGE 5.7 Cable AC1 Color Black White Blue Yellow Red Brown Amph Pin 1 2 3 4 5 6 Cable AC2 Bulgin 9 pin male Cable AC2 Bulgin Pin 1 2 3 4 7 8 9 Amph 3+T pin female Color Red Blue n.c. n.c n.c Green Yellow Amph Pin 1 2 Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 Cable AC1 Bulgin Pin 1 2 3 4 5 6 Amph 6+T pin female T 3 WEST Systems WEST Systems Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 Bulgin 6 pin male SA1 M1 J9 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 F_LINAK J10 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 F_FAN J2 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 FAN FAN+ R3 1K D2 FAN BYT03 D1 R1 1K R2 1K EnB D3 D4 AC_Blue AC_Brown Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 EV6 FAN+ VDC EnBlue EnBrown FAN+ VDC EnBlue EnBrown EV6 EnBlue L2 10W 12V RS579219 Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 J3 7 FAN+ 6 VDC 5 EnBlue 4 EnBrown 3 EV6 2 1 OPZIONALE J1 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 LINAK WEST Systems FAN + LINAK A WEST Systems - EV6 FAN+ VDC EnB J11 1 2 3 4 5 6 PAGE 5.8 The accumulation chamber To Station Acc.Ch. (See chapter 2) Type: inductive proximity; Model: IM020BM60TB8 Range: 2mm- Shielded; Protection grade: IP67; Made by Wenglor Thread: M8 LED Light - On/Off IM020BM60TB8 real size Cables: Type: Nano change; Part #:403001I03M020 Brand: Brad Harrison PAGE WEST Systems WEST Systems Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 Two proximity switches control the full opening and full closing of the accumulation chamber. 5.9 Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 The accumulation chamber The accumulation chamber PAGE 5.10 Acc.Ch. RS485/1 RS485/2 RS485/3 Battery Aux.2 CH 4/5 Aux.1 CE Cable AC2 CH 2/3 www.westsystems.com FL-I007 Cable AC1 To Aux 1 To Acc. Ch. CloseSw Fan Aux Linak OpenSw Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 Antenna sot-07 Fan CloseSw WEST Systems Linak sop-05 WEST Systems OpenSw Flux Station configuration/testing Palmtop (PDA) SetStation application Run SetStation on the PDA, and connect the PDA to the station following the instruction below. PAGE 6.1 Now turn on the FluxStation, pin-007 PTB100A R47xxxxx 800-1060 hPa 0-5 VDC 10~30VDC MODEL SERIAL NO RANGE OUTPUT SUPPLY PRESSURE TRANSMITTER EXT.TRIG AGND GND SUPPLY VOUT www.westsystems.com Battery Pump P1 P2 A B Power A AWM3300V CH3 WEST RS232 CPU CPU RUN MMC-SD CH2 CH0 WEST CH1 POWER POWER ON PULL AND SWITCH POWER OFF ON +12 +24 Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 Disconnect the RS232 cable from the SSR24 radio and connect it to the palmtop; RS485 Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 Verify that the station is in stand.by mode (+12V and +24V led light off) , else wait that the station finished the analisys cicle, then turn it off. Disconnect the RS232 cable from the SSR24 radio and connect it to the PDA RS232 cable. n300 WEST Systems WEST Systems acer Flux Station configuration/testing Palmtop (PDA) SetStation application SetStation 1.2 Select : COM1 Serial Cable on COM1 Communication port Connected Station IP Status Station Date Get All Set All File Parameters SetStation 1.2 If the communication is successful the information on the screen will be updated. Communication port > COM1 Serial Cable on COM1 Status: Idle when the station is in StandBy / running when the station is performing a mesurement clicle; 0.1 Connected Station IP Station IP is the address of the station Default 0.1; idle Status Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 Run SetStation on the PDA (Installation instruction on Appendix Z) > Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 PAGE 6.2 refresh Station Date 06/12/07 12:34:36 Station Date is the actual value of the Date/Time clock of station. By pressing Refresh button the clock and status information will be updated. Set All Parameters SetStation 1.2 Get All will download all setting parameters from the station to PDA. Checking and immediate actions Select the {Parameters}{Display readings} menu voice. Communication port COM1 Serial Cable on COM1 Connected Station IP Status idle > WEST Systems File 0.1 refresh Station Date 06/12/07 12:34:36 Flux Analisys Data Logger readings GetDisplay All Set All Program timings Channels parameters File Parameters WEST Systems Get All Flux Station configuration/testing Display readings form Now the infromation channels is displayed. SetStation 1.2 of the analogical PAGE 6.3 Digital CO2 ppm 350.45 1013.45 Ch.2 mA 0.00 Ch.3 mV 0.00 Ch.4 mV 0.00 Ch. 5 mV 0.00 dP. mBar 1013.45 P.Flow SCCM 4.05 Pump On RS485 scan AC Up Format SD Set Clock AC down SD Status Radio On Sample now SetStation 1.2 The readings are updated every second; Digital >> TDR % 50.45 TDR raw uSec 134.45 6B13 °C 32.00 0.00 6B13 RAW Ohm AirRH % 96.00 Air.T. °C 29.00 WindSpeed m/s 3.45 Wind.Dir °N 134.05 Pump On RS485 scan AC Up Format SD Set Clock AC down SD Status Radio On Sample now Immediate actions SetStation 1.2 WEST Systems Digital CO2 ppm Bar.P.mBar If the list of digital sensors can’t fit in a single page a cursor will appear to list the missing channels. 350.45 By pressing [Pump On] button the pump will be activated. It will be on up to [Pump Off] button is pressed. 1013.45 Ch.2 mA 0.00 Ch.3 mV 0.00 Ch.4 mV 0.00 Ch. 5 mV 0.00 dP. mBar 1013.45 P.Flow SCCM 4.05 Pump On RS485 scan AC Up Format SD Set Clock AC down SD Status Radio On Sample now Same considerations for the other commands , except the AC Up / AC Down , where a time out will stop the action after a while. (To protect the AC motor); By pressing [Set Clock] the FluxStation clock will be updated using the clock information of PDA. By pressing [RS485 Scan] the list of digital sensors connected to the station will be updated. Perform this action if you added a new digital sensor, as Soil.Box and Air.Box; WEST Systems Analog By pressing [Digital] button the information of digital channels is displayed.. Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 Bar.P.mBar The readings are updated every second; Flux Station configuration/testing Display readings form SD memory card commands. SetStation 1.2 Digital CO2 ppm 350.45 Bar.P.mBar Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 ! SD Ok 1013.45 Ch.2 mA 0.00 Ch.3 mV 0.00 Ch.4 mV 0.00 Ch. 5 mV 0.00 dP. mBar 1013.45 P.Flow SCCM By pressing [SD Status] an short report about the SD card appear; The “SD Card Ok” means that the station found the SD card and that’s working fine. 4.05 Pump On RS485 scan AC Up Format SD Set Clock AC down SD Status Radio On Sample now ok SetStation 1.2 Digital SD Ok CO2 ppm Bar.P.mBar By pressing [Format SD] button the SD card will be formatted, loosing all the data stored on the card. 350.45 1013.45 Ch.2 mA 0.00 Ch.3 mV 0.00 Ch.4 mV 0.00 Ch. 5 mV 0.00 dP. mBar 1013.45 P.Flow SCCM 4.05 Pump On RS485 scan AC Up Format SD Set Clock AC down SD Status Radio On Sample now Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 PAGE 6.4 WEST Systems WEST Systems Press OK to go back to main form . Flux Station configuration/testing 6.5 Flux analisys parameters SetStation 1.2 Select the {Parameters}{Flux menu voice. Communication port idle refresh Station Date 06/12/07 12:34:36 Flux Analisys Data Logger readings GetDisplay All Set All Program timings Channels parameters File Parameters ok SetStation 1.2 Analisys every (sec) 0 Warm up (sec) 0 Cleaning time (sec) 0 AC closing time (sec) 0 Num of samples # 0 Delta T (msec) 0 AC opening time (sec) 0 2nd cleaning time (sec) 0 Radio on (sec) 0 Radio off (sec) 0 Get Set Advanced Ok ok WEST Systems SetStation 1.2 Analisys every (sec) 3600 Warm up (sec) 120 Cleaning time (sec) 30 AC closing time (sec) 15 Num of samples # Delta T (msec) 120 1500 AC opening time (sec) 15 2nd cleaning time (sec) 30 Radio on (sec) 600 Radio off (sec) 900 Get Set When the form appear press [Get] to download the data for FluxStation. Modify, is necessary, the parameters and press [Set]. The [Advanced] menu is reserved for advanced programming of FluxStation when not standard actions are necessary. The advanced programming is quite complicate and not adviceable. Advanced Ok See next pages to parameters meaning. understand the WEST Systems 0.1 Connected Station IP Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 analisys} > COM1 Serial Cable on COM1 Status PAGE Palmtop (PDA) SetStation application Flux Station configuration/testing Analisys every time It's the interval between analisys. Normally the station makes an analisys every hour and then the default value of the parameter is 3600 sec; Valid range 300 .. 7200 seconds; If the time between analisys is 3600 secs (1 hour) the analisys will start exactly at the beginning of hour, for instance the sampling time will be 8 sharp, 9 sharp ect. Analisys 8:00 9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 time (hh:mm) Every measurement cicle (analisys) is composed by several actions that are scheduled by some parameters described below. 8:00 9:00 10:00 2nd Line Cleaning time Flux record See next pages Open acc.chamber time Pump OFF Radio ON Close acc.chamber time Line Cleaning time Warm UP time Pump ON 11:00 time (hh:mm) 12:00 Radio OFF Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 Palmtop (PDA) SetStation application WEST Systems WEST Systems Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 PAGE 6.6 Flux Station configuration/testing 6.7 PAGE Palmtop (PDA) SetStation application Set RADIO On/OFF: RADIO Off time (sec) The telemetry system will be turned OFF after every analisys starting from the time,expressed in minutes, you set. Green sector : the station is making the analisys Radio ON time: 600 sec 0 55 50 5 45 20 40 15 Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 RADIO On time (sec) The telemetry system will be turned ON after every analisys starting from the time,expressed in minutes, you set. 10 35 25 Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 In order to reduce the power consuption the telemetry system is managed as follow: 30 In the drawing a example of Radio On time = 600 (sec) Radio Off time = 900 (sec) Radio OFF time: 900 sec. WEST Systems WEST Systems Yellow sector : the telemetry system is ON Flux Station configuration/testing Palmtop (PDA) SetStation application Delta T.: Is the time , expressed in millisecond, between the points sampled in the flux record. Normally the value is between 500 (0.5 seconds) and 3000 ( 3 seconds) The global flux record time is : Delta T. x Num. Samples/ 1000 CO2 ppm In the following plot a sample of flux record with Num of Samples = 32 and DeltaT. = 1000 (1 second). The overal flux record lenght is 32 second. 900 800 700 600 500 400 300 200 100 0 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 Time seconds The normal record lenght must be in the interval 90 .. 240 seconds. If the flux is quite high the lenght can be 90 seconds, is the flux is quite low is better to increase the record lenght WEST Systems WEST Systems Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 Num. Samples: Is the number of points in the flux record. Normally the value is between 32 and 256 points. The increase of this parameter will increase the size of the record, reducing the capability of station data storage and increasing the data transmission time. Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 PAGE 6.8 Flux Station configuration/testing 6.9 Data Logger parameters Communication port idle 0.1 refresh Station Date 06/12/07 12:34:36 Flux Analisys Data Logger readings GetDisplay All Set All Program timings Channels parameters File Parameters The fluxstation can works as Data Logger, but in this modality it don’t measure the flux, then this modality is not described here. Program Timings SetStation 1.2 Select the {Parameters}{Program Timings} menu voice. Communication port COM1 Serial Cable on COM1 Connected Station IP Status idle 0.1 refresh Station Date 06/12/07 12:34:36 WEST Systems ! > Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 Status > COM1 Serial Cable on COM1 Logger} Flux Analisys Data Logger readings GetDisplay All Set All Program timings Channels parameters File Parameters ! The Program Timings menu allow the modification of critical parameters of the station. In the normal use there is not necessity to access this form. WEST Systems Select the {Parameters}{Data menu voice. Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 SetStation 1.2 Connected Station IP PAGE Palmtop (PDA) SetStation application PAGE 6.10 Flux Station configuration/testing Channels parameters Channels parameters Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 idle refresh Station Date 06/12/07 12:34:36 Flux Analisys Data Logger readings GetDisplay All Set All Program timings Channels parameters File Parameters You’ve to access this menu when you’ve to change: 1) the full scale value of the DRAGER CO2 detector; 2) the analog channels configuration; 3) the number of flux curves. ok SetStation 1.2 Channel #0 sec Get completed! Name CO2 ppm Get Set Conf (Hex) FF06 Get Set Gain 1 Get Set Offset 0 Get Set Full scale 20000 Get Set Low scale 0 Get Set Get Set Track WEST Systems 0.1 Connected Station IP Status > COM1 Serial Cable on COM1 On Off Get All << Previous Ok Set All Press [Get All] to read from station the parameters of the Channel 0 If you want to modify the configuration of channel 2 you’ve to press twice the [Next >>] button to access the page of Channel #2 then press [Get All] to get the configuration from fluxstation. Next >> On the next page the discussion about the parameters of the channels. WEST Systems Select the {Parameters}{Channels Parameters} menu voice. Communication port Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 SetStation 1.2 Channels parameters Name: is a description of the channel, to help the operator. 6.11 PAGE Flux Station configuration/testing FF06: the output of sensor connected to the channel is 4-20 mA and the fluxstation will consider 4mA equal to the “Low Scale” value and the 20 mA equal to the “Full Scale” value. FF05: the output of sensor connected to the channel is 0-5V and the fluxstation will consider 0 V equal to the “Low Scale” value and the 5 V equal to the “Full Scale” value. FF0F: special Conf. reserved to the P.Flow sensor (AWM3300). A special trasfer function is applied to this channel to linearize the answer. Since an hardware adjustement is necessary to change the input from current to voltage these field must considered read only. FullScale / LowScale : see the previous paragraph. Except for the Polytron IR CO2 the changement of these value is not allowed. Instructions to change the Polytron IR CO2 full scale are reported in the following pages . Gain / Offset : The reading of the channel can be scaled using these 2 values as result of the formula: Ro = Ri Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 Conf: Is the type of channel, and it change the behaviour of the FluxStation. Valid Conf. are OffSet + Gain Track On/Off : If you select Track=On a flux curve will be acquired for the selected channel. ! The Track must be set to ON for the Channel #0 CO2, in order to have a flux curve for the carbon dioxide. Normally the other channels are set with track off to save SD card memory space and to reduce the quantity of data to be trasmitted. WEST Systems WEST Systems Use the Gain/Offset to correct the answer of a detector. Default values are Gain=1 Offset = 0. Changing the Drager Polytron IR CO2 full scale value. Select the Channel #0 ok SetStation 1.2 Get completed! Name CO2 ppm Get Set Conf (Hex) FF06 Get Set Gain 1 Get Set Offset 0 Get Set Full scale 20000 Get Set Low scale 0 Get Set Get Set Track On Off Get All << Previous Ok Set All Next >> ok SetStation 1.2 Channel #0 sec CO2 ppm Get Set Conf (Hex) FF06 Get Set Gain 1 Get Set Offset 0 Get Set Full scale 20000 Get Set Low scale 0 Get Set Get Set On Off Get All << Previous Ok WEST Systems Channel #0 sec Next >> Get completed! CO2 ppm Get Set Conf (Hex) FF06 Get Set Gain 1 Get Set Offset 0 Get Set Get Set Get Set Get Set 40000 Track On 0 Off Get All << Previous Ok the “virtual” Write the new value, espressed in ppm, in the field: 40000 ok Name Low scale Then activate keyboard Set All SetStation 1.2 Full scale Select the FullScale value field. Get completed! Name Track In the example the Full Scale value of Drager is set to 20000ppm. If , for instance, you’d like to put the full scale value of 4% of carbon dioxide you’ve to set it on both FluxStation and Drager Polytron IR detector. Set All Next >> Press the button [Set] to write the value on the FluxStation. Now you’ve to set the same value on the Drager Polytron IR CO2 detector. WEST Systems Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 Channel #0 sec Press [Get All] to read from station the parameters of the Channel 0 Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 PAGE 6.12 To change the full scale value of the carbon dioxide detector turn on the detector by running SetStation from the PDA. PASSWORD? 2 Press the enter key, then the display will ask to enter the password Press the DN key twice to set the password = 2 then press enter to confirm MENU: CONFIGURATION: Now press the DN key twice the display will show MENU: CONFIGURATION: MENU: CONFIGURATION: Now press the enter key to enter in the configuration menu CONFIGURATION: GAS CONFIGURATION CONFIG.: 2.0 VOL% CO2 Now press the Enter key to enter in the gas configuration procedure The display shows the actual configuration : 2.0 VOL% CO2 WEST Systems Press Enter key to proceed MEASUREMENT UNIT ? VOL% If you plan to set a full scale value > than 9999 ppm select the unit VOL% else select ppm using the UP / DN arrows. Press Enter to proceed. MEASUREMENT RANGE? 4.0 VOL% Set the full scale value you want to use, taking account that 1%=10000 ppm, then press Enter to proceed MEASUREMENT RANGE 4.0 VOL% Y/N Now the DRAGER ask you to confirm by selecting Yes and pressing Enter WEST Systems Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 Also if it's possible to set the full scale value in a big range we advise you to use a full scale value between 10,000 (1%) and 300,000 (30%). ! When the full scale value is less than 10,000 ppm the linearity of Drager detector reduces and you'll obtain no very well shaped curves; ! When the full scale is more than 30% the accuracy of detector is reduced and you can have a big error evaluating the flux. PAGE You've to change the full scale value of the detector when: Low Fluxes: You can't appreciate the carbon dioxide concentration variations because masked by the "noise". In this case you've to decrease the full scale value; ! High fluxes : The concentration reach the full scale value in few seconds. In this case you've to increase the full scale value; ! 6.13 Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 Changing the Drager Polytron IR CO2 full scale value. Changing the Drager Polytron IR CO2 full scale value. PAGE 6.14 Press Enter key to proceed ! Press Esc twice and Enter to come back at the measurement. Remember now to set the same value on the flux station, if not already done Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 CONFIGURATION: GAS CONFIGURATION WEST Systems WEST Systems Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 NEW CONFIGURATION STORED! Running FluxStation 7.1 PAGE Quasi-continuous monitoring Pump A B Power A AWM3300V CH3 WEST RS232 CPU CPU RUN MMC-SD CH2 WEST CH0 POWER ON PULL AND SWITCH POWER OFF ON +12 +24 To turn on the FluxStation Pull up and switch on the power switch.. After a quick boot the FluxStation starts the quasi-continuous monitoring task. 8:00 9:00 10:00 nd Open acc.chamber time Flux record See next pages Radio OFF 2 Line Cleaning time Pump OFF Radio ON Close acc.chamber time Line Cleaning time Pump ON Warm UP time Release 10.0 November 2007 CH1 POWER 11:00 12:00 time (hh:mm) Following the configuration parameters the station performs one analisys cicle eevery hour (By default). See chapter 6. WEST Systems PTB100A R47xxxxx 800-1060 hPa 0-5 VDC 10~30VDC MODEL SERIAL NO RANGE OUTPUT SUPPLY PRESSURE TRANSMITTER EXT.TRIG AGND GND SUPPLY VOUT Battery P2 Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 pin-007 www.westsystems.com RS485 P1 PAGE 7.2 Running FluxStation Quasi-continuous monitoring pin-007 PTB100A R47xxxxx 800-1060 hPa 0-5 VDC 10~30VDC MODEL SERIAL NO RANGE OUTPUT SUPPLY PRESSURE TRANSMITTER Pump Power A P2 A CPU RUN Led light B AWM3300V CPU CH3 WEST RS232 CPU RUN MMC-SD CH0 WEST CH1 POWER POWER ON PULL AND SWITCH POWER OFF ON +12 +24 When the FluxStation runs the CPU RUN light flashes every second. . The FluxStation stores the result of analisys cicles on a SD memory card. By using SetStation PDA software you can initialize and check it (Page 6.4). The SD card is formatted using the FAT32 file system and can be read directly from Windows XP / Vista on a PC.. Each analisys cicle requires a couple of kilobytes on the SD card, but due to the file system the “disk dimension” of file is 16 KBytes. Then for the default sampling frequency are necessary 0.384 MBytes/day (140 M.Bytes /year). We advise to use 512 MByte SD memory card. Release 10.0 November 2007 CH2 Continuous monitoring device handbook Release 10.0 November 2007www.westsystems.com Battery WESTSystems Systems WEST EXT.TRIG AGND GND SUPPLY VOUT www.westsystems.com RS485 P1 Running FluxStation 7.3 PAGE Quasi-continuous monitoring CPU RUN MMC-SD Dn: Write disabled CPU WEST Release 10.0 November 2007 Up: Write enabled CPU RUN MMC-SD WEST Systems WEST CPU Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 Before to insert the SD memory card in the CPU slot verify that the Write On/Off swicth of the card is in the enabled position. PAGE 7.4 Running FluxStation Quasi-continuous monitoring After inserting the SD card check with SetStation (Page 6.4) that the FluxStation recognized the SD card. ! WESTSystems Systems WEST In order to inform the operator of the next writing operation, the CPU run led light will be solid ON for a 60 second period before start to write on the card. Then if you have to swap the card on the FluxStation you’ve to: !Prepare the empty SD card; !Check that the “CPU RUN” led light is flashing once per second; !Remove the card on the slot; !Place the empty card in the slot. Release 10.0 November 2007 Continuous monitoring device handbook Release 10.0 November 2007 www.westsystems.com FluxStation write on the card at the end of the measurement cicle. To remove the card in this period can cause the loss of data. Running FluxStation 7.5 PAGE Station status pin-007 Pump P2 A B Power A AWM3300V CH3 WEST RS232 CPU CPU RUN MMC-SD CH2 CPU RUN Led light CH1 CH0 WEST POWER POWER ON PULL AND SWITCH POWER OFF ON +12 +24 2 Line Cleaning time Radio OFF The station states: has two working 1) StandBy: the time between the analisys cicles; nd Flux record See next pages Open acc.chamber time Pump OFF Radio ON Close acc.chamber time Line Cleaning time Pump ON Warm UP time 2) Analisys cicle (Yellow boxes in the drawings). 8:00 9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 time (hh:mm) Stand-by state During the stand-by state the CPU RUN led light, on the CPU board, flashes once per second and the ON light on the Power board is solid ON. Analisys running state While the analisys cicle is running the CPU RUN led light, on the CPU board, flashes once per second and the ON light on the Power board is solid ON. The +12V and +24V led light are solid ON (or OFF) depending on the phase of the analisys. WEST Systems Release 10.0 November 2007 On light +12V Light +24V Light Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 PTB100A R47xxxxx 800-1060 hPa 0-5 VDC 10~30VDC MODEL SERIAL NO RANGE OUTPUT SUPPLY Battery PRESSURE TRANSMITTER EXT.TRIG AGND GND SUPPLY VOUT www.westsystems.com RS485 P1 WESTSystems Systems WEST Release 10.0 November 2007 Continuous monitoring device handbook Release 10.0 November 2007www.westsystems.com PAGE 7.6 General discussion The subjects regarding calibration of your instrument for the measurement of diffuse flux will be discussed in this chapter. 8.1 PAGE Calibrations As explained previously the flux measurement is proportional to the slope of the concentration curve versus time. The proportionality factor depends on the volume/surface ratio of the accumulation chamber used for the measurement, as well as, the barometric pressure and air temperature at the moment of making the measurement. This aspect allows us to simplify the control of the response of the gas sensors utilised. To simplify the explanation see the following example: Calibration control example: Before verifying the calibration turn on the detectors using the PDA and SetStation (Chepter 6) and leave it on for a minimum of 2 minutes to warm up. Step1: Verifying the zero: www.westsystems.com www.westsystems.com The most important aspect to understand is that the flux is proportional to the gradient of concentration over time: ppm/second. Fill the Tedlar gas bag with nitrogen, or synthetic air and connect it to the inlet port of the instrument, turn on the pump (using SetStation) and read the concentration of carbon dioxide on the Polytron Display. Obviously, it is important that the mixture not contain carbon dioxide. In the absence of a standard mixture with these caracteristics you can intake atmospheric air trapping the carbon dioxide with soda lime or a drager tube for carbon dioxide. Fill the tedlar gas bag with a standard mixture containing approximately a concentration of carbon dioxide equal to the 70% (between 50% up to 95%) of the full scale value of the Drager and check the response of the instrument. If the full scale value of Drager is set to 20000 ppm (1.5%) you can use a standard with a concentration of CO2 in the range 10000 .. 19000 ppm. If the concentration is less than the 50% of the full scale value you will increase the calibration error. Let's suppose that the check performed gave the following results: Injecting a mixture at zero concentration of carbon dioxide the CO2 detector returns a reading of 10 ppm. Injecting a mixture containing a 10,000 ppm concentration of carbon dioxide the CO2 detector returns a reading of 9940 ppm. At a variation of concentration set at 10,000 ppm the instrument has a slightly different response: 9930 ppm (=9940-10 ppm). The evaluation error is of about 70 ppm, which in percentage points over the span corresponds to 0.6% less The error in evaluating the increment in concentration manifests as a systematic error in the evaluation of flux and, therefore, must be corrected by calibrating the instruments when it is too high (> 5%). Full scale and calibration When you change the full scale of the detector, to reach the maximum of accuracy a recalibration could be necessary. ! In our experience, if the changement is not so drastic, the detector is still calibrated also after the changement of full scale. Drastic / not drastic.... If you change the FS from 2% to 4% you can consider the Drager still calibrated. If you change the full scale from 1% to 30% you have to recalibrate the detector. Portable flux meter handbook Release 10.0 December 2007 Step2: Verification of the span: WEST Systems WEST Systems Portable flux meter handbook Release 10.0 December 2007 The method for injecting standard gas mixtures is explained in detail in the following pages. PAGE 8.2 Calibration of Drager IR CO2 When you need to calibrate the Drager The Drager is a quite stable detector, the thermal stabilization features allows the instrument to maintain it calibration for long periods. The calibration is necessary only when there is a drastical change in the barometric pressure. What you need to calibrate the Drager ! ! A cylinder of nitrogen or synthetic UPP Air, or a SODA LIME trap or a DRAGER PIPE to trap the carbon dioxide. A cylinder of standard mixture of 1% of carbon dioxide in air (or nitrogen); A five liters TEDLAR gas bag. www.westsystems.com www.westsystems.com ! A B Filter Pump Brombach Inlet ASF THOMAS ASF THOMAS Outlet Note on the reading of Drager The reading of Drager is affected by a "noise" that normally do not exceed the 0.5% of the full scale value: if the full scale value is set to 20000 ppm the noise normally do not exceed 100 ppm peak to peak. This noise do not affect the evaluation of flux except when the increasing of the concentration due to the flux is less than noise... If you cannot appreciate the variation of concentration you've to reduce the full scale value of your Drager. Please have a look of the chapter 3. WEST Systems AWM3300V > www.westsystems.com Portable flux meter handbook Release 10.0 December 2007 P2 Portable flux meter handbook Release 5.39 December 2005 P1 > WEST Systems Portable flux meter handbook Release 10.0 December 2007 Five liter tedlar gas bag 8.3 PAGE Calibration of Drager IR CO2 PASSWORD? 2 Press the DN key twice to set the password = 2 then press enter to confirm www.westsystems.com www.westsystems.com Press the enter key, then the display will ask to enter the password MENU: MEASUREMENT: Now press the enter key to enter in the maintenace menu MAINTENANCE: CALIBR. ZERO Press the enter key to enter in the ZERO calibration procedure APPLY NITROGEN TO SENSOR! Be sure that the TEDLAR bag filled with CO2 free gas mixture is connected to the inlet port of instrument and Start the pump of instrument by pressing the START button on PalmFLUX. Then press the enter key to start the ZERO calibration procedure Portable flux meter handbook Release 10.0 December 2007 MENU: MAINTENANCE: WEST Systems WEST Systems Portable flux meter handbook Release 10.0 December 2007 Now press the DN key up to the display shows MENU: MAINTENANCE: PAGE 8.4 Calibration of Drager IR CO2 VALUE CONSTANT? 0.00 Y/N VALUE CONSTANT Step NEW CALIBRATION FACTOR STORED! Press the Enter key to proceed. VALUE OK? 0.00 www.westsystems.com www.westsystems.com Wait that the reading is stable then select Y by pressing the left arrow key then press the enter key. Y/N Y/N Select Yes to finish the ZERO calibration procedure MAINTENANCE: CALIBR. ZERO Press the DN key to select the calibration sensitivity menu voice MAINTENANCE: CALIBR. SENSITIVITY Press enter to access the SPAN calibration Portable flux meter handbook Release 10.0 December 2007 VALUE OK? 0.00 WEST Systems WEST Systems Portable flux meter handbook Release 10.0 5.39 December 2007 2005 If the reading is OK select Yes to proceed else select No to come back to the VALUE CONSTANT step. Be sure that the TEDLAR bag filled with the CO2 standard gas mixture (18100 ppm of CO2) is connected to the inlet port of instrument and Start the pump of instrument by pressing the START button on PalmFLUX. Then press the enter key to enter in the SPAN calibration procedure. Remember that using a 5 liter TEDLAR bag you have 4-5 minutes to complete the procedure. Portable flux meter handbook Release 10.0 5.39 December 2007 2005 VALUE CONSTANT? 1.67 VOL% Y/N VALUE CONSTANT Step When the value is constant select Yes, using the Left/Right keys , and then press Enter key to proceed. NEW CALIBRATION FACTOR STORED! Press the Enter key to proceed. VALUE OK? 1.80 Y/N If the reading is OK select Yes to proceed else select No to come back to the VALUE CONSTANT step. www.westsystems.com Press Enter key to accept the value you set and proceed Portable flux meter handbook Release 10.0 December 2007 CALIBR. GAS CONC.? 1.81 VOL%: APPLY TO SENSOR 1.81 VOL%: WEST Systems Now you have to set the value of the concentration of CO2 in the gas mixture you'll use for the calibration. Using the Left / Right keys you can select the digit and using Up/Dn keys you can change the value. If you're using a 18100 ppm CO2 concentration standard gas you've to set: 1.81 %Vol WEST Systems www.westsystems.com CALIBR. GAS CONC.? 0.00 VOL%: 8.5 PAGE Calibration of Drager IR CO2 Calibration of Drager IR CO2 PAGE 8.6 STOP GAS FLOW? Y/N VALUE < ALARMLIMIT? 1.80 Y/N Select Yes end press Enter to finish the span calibration procedure. www.westsystems.com www.westsystems.com Select Yes and press Enter to proceed. Portable flux meter handbook Release 10.0 5.39 December 2007 2005 Portable flux meter handbook Release 10.0 December 2007 WEST Systems WEST Systems Now the DRAGER detector is calibrated. This calibration procedure can be necessary if the reading odf CO2 concentration on the FluxStation and the reading of the Drager are different. Normally there is a small difference between the DRAGER and FluxStation; This is due : !to the resolution of the display of Drager: +/- 10 ppm and +/- 100 ppm if the full scale is more than 10000 ppm; ! to the analog to digital conversion; ! to the leak of linearity of DRAGER in some ranges. Press the enter key, then the display will ask to enter the password Press the DN key twice to set the password = 2 then press enter to confirm MENU: MEASUREMENT: Now press the DN key up to the display shows MENU: MAINTENANCE: MENU: MAINTENANCE: www.westsystems.com www.westsystems.com PASSWORD? 2 8.7 PAGE Calibration of the 4-20 mA interface of Drager Now press the enter key to enter in the maintenace menu MAINTENANCE: CALIBR. 4-20mA Now press the DN key up to the display shows MAINTENANCE: CALIBR. 4-20 mA Select Yes using the left arrow key and press Enter key MEASURE REAL VALUE AT X2 ! Press Enter key to proceed 40 mV REAL VALUE? 40.0 In this phase the reading of concentration in the SetStation application must be zero, more or less a tolerance value and a little noise. If the value you read is not correct you can adjust it. An example: The Drager (and the fluxStation) full scale value is set to 20000 ppm and the reading you're having is 150 ppm instead of 0.0 ppm. You've to compute the "real value" using the following formula: RealValue= OffSet + (FS/4) 160 FS Where : !FS is the full scale value (20000 ppm in the example); ! OffSet is the value expressed in ppm you're reading on the palmtop (150 ppm in the example) Then RealValue = (150+(20000/4)*160)/20000 = 41.2 Set 41.2 using the arrows and press enter to confirm Portable flux meter handbook Release 10.0 December 2007 ALARM DISABLED? Y/N WEST Systems WEST Systems Portable flux meter handbook Release 10.0 December 2007 then press Enter to access the 4-20 mA calibration procedure Calibration of the 4-20 mA interface of Drager PAGE 8.8 NEW CALIBRATION FACTOR STORED! Press Enter key to proceed Portable flux meter handbook Release 10.0 5.39 December 2007 2005 200 mV REAL VALUE? 200.0 Now the Drager shows: 200 mV REAL VALUE? In this phase the reading of concentration in the palmflux must equal to the full scale you set on the palmflux, more or less a tolerance value and a little noise. If the value you read is not correct you can adjust it. An example: The Drager (and the palmflux) full scale value is set to 20000 ppm and the reading you're having is 18900 ppm instead of 20000.0 ppm. You've to compute the "real value" using the following formula: RealValue= Reading + (FS/4) 160 FS Where : ! ! FS is the full scale value (20000 ppm in the example); Reading is the value expressed in ppm you're reading on the palmtop (18900 ppm in the example) Then RealValue = (18900+(20000/4)*160)/20000 = 191.2 Set 191.2 using the arrows and press enter to confirm WEST Systems NEW CALIBRATION FACTOR STORED! Press Enter key to proceed 200 mV Value OK? Y/N The drager ask 200 mV value OK? If the reading on Palmflux now is good select Yes and then press Enter key to proceed, else select N to repeat the calibration Alarm ENABLED Y/N Now the Drager shows: ALARM ENABLED? Select Yes and press Enter Key Now the 4-20 mA of drager is calibrated. Portable flux meter handbook Release 10.0 December 2007 200 mV REAL VALUE? 200.0 WEST Systems www.westsystems.com The drager ask 40 mV value OK? If the reading on Palmflux now is good select Yes and then press Enter key to proceed, else select N to repeat the calibration www.westsystems.com 40 mV Value OK? Y/N Portable flux meter handbook Release 10.0 December 2007 Portable flux meter handbook Release 10.0 December 2007 WEST Systems WEST Systems www.westsystems.com www.westsystems.com PAGE 8.9 Calibration of the flux meter Fluxmeter calibration As the computation of flux is a function of the gradient of concentration vs. time, barometric pressure, air temperature and the the accumulation chamber volume / surface ratio, calibration of the instrument depends only on the detector calibration. The accuracy of the barometric pressure and air temperature measurement affect the evaluation of flux: 3 degrees Celsius of error while evaluating the temperature will cause a 1 % of error when computing the flux. A 10 HPa (mBar) error measuring the barometric pressure will cause a 1% error in the flux evaluation. How to verify the fluxmeter calibration The calibration described refers to carbon dioxide calibration, for other gases, like methane or hydrogen sulphide, the same procedure has been followed. www.westsystems.com www.westsystems.com PAGE 8.10 Sketch of calibration device RS 245-6089 3 5 9.0 1 Portable flux meter handbook Release 10.0 December 2007 WEST Systems 7 3 1 Sta nd ard ta om s. 9.0 Mass flow controller 100% carbon dioxide (or target gas) cylinder and pressure reducing valve CO2 fluxes from soil are simulated by injecting a known flow of gas into the accumulation chamber. The interface between the accumulation chamber and the calibration table is built to minimize the gas leakage. The apparatus is schematized in figure 1. For flux between 0.5 and 300 moles/(m2day) the injected flux is controlled and measured with a precision mass flow controller. This MFC, calibrated for CO2, is electronically stabilized (Accuracy 1%). Portable flux meter handbook Release 10.0 December 2007 7 WEST Systems 5 Standard taoms. 8.11 PAGE Calibration of the flux meter Fluxmeter calibration For fluxes between 300 moles/(m2day) and 700 moles/ (m2day) the injected flux is controlled by means of a mechanical flow reducer and measured using a bubble flowmeter (Accuracy 3%) before and after the flux measurement with Two series of measure were performed for flux of 300 moles/(m2day) to evaluate the coherence between the two different methods of flow measurement. A thermometer and barometer were utilized to measure the barometric pressure and the air temperature during the experiment in order to select the www.westsystems.com www.westsystems.com the accumulation chamber. correct accumulation chamber conversion factor. A flow meter is utilized to measure the pumping flow during the experiment. During all the measures a 100% CO2 flow was utilized. The same procudure was utilized to check the instrumental response to Portable flux meter handbook Release 10.0 December 2007 Portable flux meter handbook Release 10.0 December 2007 WEST Systems WEST Systems methane / Hydrogen Sulfide. PAGE 8.12 Calibration of the flux meter The influence of pumping flow Influence of pumping efficiency on the flux measurement results: We have carried out some sets of measures utilizing the same injected flux but with different pumping flow from the accumulation chamber to the detector. measured with a Microbridge Mass Airflow sensor (Accuracy 2%). We have not noted a significant variation of the measures except when the pumping flow is less than 200 SCCM. www.westsystems.com www.westsystems.com The pumping flow was changed by means of a mechanical flow reducer and 1000 10000 100000 2 0 -2 1200 SCCM -4 -6 -8 1000 SCCM 800 SCCM 500 SCCM 300 SCCM 100 SCCM -10 -12 -14 -16 In the diagram the plot of the measurement error versus the imposed flux of carbon dioxide (expressed in grams per square meter per day) at different pumping flow rates is shown. In order to avoid unwanted variation of pumping flow due to power supply the pump is supplied at 12 V DC with a stabilized voltage regulator. The pumping flow , after the power supply stabilization, is 1000 SCCM 20%. The efficiency of pump can vary due to dust or moisture in the pump body. Periodic maintenance is necessary. WEST Systems 100 4 Error % Portable flux meter handbook Release 10.0 December 2007 WEST Systems 10 Portable flux meter handbook Release 10.0 December 2007 Imposed flux 1 Calibration of the flux meter The influence of mixing device PAGE 8.13 In the plot the measured flux vs the mixing device rotation speed. Influence of the mixing device rotation speed on flux reading 0.5 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1 0 -0.1 -0.2 -0.3 -0.4 -0.5 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 www.westsystems.com Influence of the mixing device rotation speed Error % www.westsystems.com The mixing device was suspected, by some researcher, to affect the accuracy of the flux measurement. In our experience the precision of the measurements was noteably reduced without a mixing device present. In the two plots below the measurements at various regimes of mixing device rotation are reported. 140 In the plot the mixing device RPM (Rotation per minute) vs power supply voltage. The normal range for the battery voltage is between 9.6 V (new battery) and 6 Volt (discharged battery) RPM vs battery voltage 140 120 RPM 100 80 60 40 20 0 0 2 4 6 Volt 8 10 12 Portable flux meter handbook Release 10.0 December 2007 Battery status vs RPM. WEST Systems WEST Systems Portable flux meter handbook Release 10.0 December 2007 RPM Portable flux meter handbook Release 10.0 December 2007 Portable flux meter handbook Release 10.0 December 2007 WEST Systems WEST Systems www.westsystems.com www.westsystems.com PAGE 8.14 Databases structure The databases All the information necessary to run scada, as well as the data acquired by the fluxstation, are stored in a single file : scada_data.mdb PAGE 9.1 These two file are located in the C:\WEST\SCADA\ folder The two databases are accessed by our software via ODBC, then two System DSN (Data source name) definitions are added by the Scada setup. The first system DSN is scada_data , it has a MS Access (.mdb) driver and it point to the file C:\WEST\Scada\scada_data.mdb. The second system DSN is scada_log , it has a MS Access (.mdb) driver and it point to the file C:\WEST\Scada\scada_log.mdb. ! Both DSN are created automatically by the Scada suite setup. Normally it’s not necessary to modify it manually. Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 Both are file based databases in the MS Access format. WEST Systems WEST Systems Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 A second database : scada_log.mdb is used by Scada to log messages, error reports and other information that are generated by scada and that can be helpful to diagnose some malfunctions of the system. Databases structure PAGE 9.2 ! Both DSN are created automatically by the Scada suite setup. Normally it’s not necessary to modify it manually. Database scada_log.mdb The database scada_log.mdb is composed by several tables: AccessesLog: ConversationLog: Information about the “conversation between Scada and the FluxStation(s); EmergencyRawData: Raw data coming from the fluxstations: usefull for malfunction diagnostic; StationStatusLog: Informations about the status of the fluxstations; Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 The first line sets the DSN that point to scada_data.mdb and the second line sets the DSN that point to the log database. TelemetryUseLog: information about the use of the telemetry system. Designed to check the bill, in case of GSM based telemetries. The information in scada_log.mdb is not useful during the “normal” operation of the system. Some of troubleshooting can be understood using its information. WEST Systems WEST Systems Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 The four applications of Scada suite read the system DSN from the ODBCName.txt file, located in the C:\WEST\scada\source\ folder Databases structure Scada_data.mdb is composed by several tables, some of them are to define the fluxstations and their configuration. Some of them contain the results acquired by the fluxstations. The tables: HEADERS RESULTS PLOTS PLOTTV contain the data generated by the fluxstations The tables: ChannelScopes Commands Parameters DataFormatType RS485Types SupportedStations contain the auxiliary data necessary for the correct working of the Scada The tables: Networks Stations Channels PlotDescription PhisicalChannels Telemetry HWRT_Parameters contain the description of the monitoring network: Scada, up to now, support only a single network (NetworkID: WS), each network can be composed by several Fluxstations. WEST Systems WEST Systems Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 To understand the structure of the database is not important for the standard use of the system.This information is reported for documentation purpouse. Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 Database scada_data.mdb PAGE 9.3 Databases structure Database scada_data.mdb Each FluxStation must be defined in the Stations table. Field ID Active NetworkID StationID StationIP Description TelemetryID TelemetryName TelemetryPath Site Latitude Longitude Elevation Responsible Type Model PollingFrequency PollingTimeShift PollingRetryDelay Value Description 13 Record ID (Counter) -1 -1 = Active // 0 Not active Has to be WS WS OVK01 Identifier of station 0001 Address of station Flux Station 2007 SSR24 Type of telemetry 2427581 * Address of remote telemetry system * Optional repeater address Name of the site Localization of site Localization of site Localization of site Name of responsible HWR7 Station type 1 Station subtype 24 ** See note 00.15.00 ** See note 5 ** See note note * The telemetryname and telemetrypath formats and values are depending on the telemetry type (TelemetryID). If the station is connected with a serial cable (TelemetryID = “COM_1”), or with a point to point radio connection these to fields are not considered, simply because there is not necessity to address the communication. If your system has a SSR24 (SpreadSpectrum radio system) based telemetry you’ll find more information about this argument on the Appendix.F Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 PAGE 9.4 note ** PollingTimeShift is a delay, expressed in hh:mm:ss, that will be added to the time of telemetry call: If pollingfrequency is 24 Scada will execute a call every hour plus the PollingTimeShift time. Then Scada will call the station at 1:15, 2:15 , 3:15 and so on. The PollingShiftTime must be synchronized with the radio ON and radio OFF parameters of the FluxStation in order to call the station when the telemetry is ON. PollingRetryDelay, expressed in minutes, is used in case of fail if the communication. If Scada is not able to call the remote station it retry to call after PollingRetryDelay minutes. If PollingRetryDelay is set to zero Scada will retry to call the station only at the next scheduled time. WEST Systems WEST Systems PollingFrequency is the number of telemetry calls that Scada will perform during a day to download the FluxStation data. WEST Systems Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 ! Type and Model are critical parameters that indicate to Scada how to manage the station and must be not modified. StationID is the station identifier and cannot to be miodified. The StationIP is the logical address of the station and cannot to be modified. PAGE The Site, Latitude, Longitude, Elevation and Responsible fields contain only descriptive data. WEST Systems Database scada_data.mdb 9.5 Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 Databases structure Databases structure Database scada_data.mdb The PhisicalChannels table contain information about the “phisical” configuration of the station channels. ID 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 StationID OVK01 OVK01 OVK01 OVK01 OVK01 OVK01 OVK01 OVK01 OVK01 OVK01 OVK01 OVK01 OVK01 OVK01 OVK01 OVK01 OVK01 Number 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 169 170 171 172 173 Name FullScale LowScale Gain Offset Statistics PlotCurve Conf Type CO2 20000 0 1 0 1 -1 FF06 ANALOG Bar.P 1060 600 1 0 1 0 FF05 ANALOG Ch.2 5000 0 1 0 1 0 FF06 ANALOG Ch.3 5000 0 1 0 1 0 FF05 ANALOG Ch.4 5000 0 1 0 1 0 FF05 ANALOG Ch.5 5000 0 1 0 1 0 FF05 ANALOG dP 1100 600 1 0 1 0 FF05 ANALOG P.Flow 1000 0 1 0 1 0 FF0F ANALOG SOILBOX Soil W. 100 0 1 0 1 0 A0 DIGITAL SOILBOX Soil W. Raw 35 15 1 0 1 0 A1 DIGITAL SOILBOX Soil T. 200 0 1 0 1 0 22 DIGITAL SOILBOX Soil T. Raw 200 0 1 0 1 0 A2 DIGITAL AIRBOX Air RH 0 0 1 0 1 0 DA DIGITAL AIRBOX Air T 0 0 1 0 1 0 D9 DIGITAL AIRBOX Wind Speed 0 0 1 0 1 0 D7 DIGITAL AIRBOX Wind Dir 0 0 1 0 1 0 D8 DIGITAL AIRBOX Rain Gauge 0 0 1 0 1 0 DF DIGITAL There are two basic type of “channel”: ANALOG or DIGITAL; The heigth analog channels are managed by the AC board of the flux station. The Digital channels are devices (AirBox and SoilBox in the base configuration) that are connected to the station with a serial connection (RS485). ANALOG Number is the phisical ADC ID;. Name is a short mnemonic description; FullScale and LowScale and Conf are used to set the type of signal to be read (Voltage or Current) and the range of the detector connected to the channel; Gain and OffSet can be used to scale the result of the measurement; Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 PAGE 9.6 Statistics change the statistic treatment reserved to the channel; WEST Systems DIGITAL Number is the logical RS485 ID of the device;. Name is a short mnemonic description; Conf is the type device connected; FullScale and LowScale depends on Conf and must not modified. Gain and OffSet must not modified. Statistics change the statistic treatment reserved to the channel; PlotCurve: Setting to -1 this value force the flux station to acquire a Flux Curve of the signal coming from this detector. Information about how to change the configuration and to sent it to the FluxStation are reported on Chapter 10 WEST Systems PlotCurve: Setting to -1 this value force the flux station to acquire a Flux Curve of the signal coming from this detector. Database scada_data.mdb Channels table 9.7 PAGE Databases structure Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 Each record define a channel , for instance Air temperature or CO2 Flux. Most of the field of the table must not modified by the user and are not documented here. PanelPage: set the Scada panel where the channel information are displayed; RowOnPanel: set the row on the Scada panel where the information are displayed; RevisionPriority: When using Query.exe the list of channels will be in descending order and only the channels with RevisionPriority > 0 will be visible; Monitored: Monitor.exe will show the channels with monitored <> 0, see chapter 11; MonitoringGroup: see chapter 11; AlarmType, ActiveThresholds, UPAlarm,UPPrealarm, DnPrealarm, DnAlarm: these fields are related with an “alarm” signal managed by Scada.exe: see chapter 10; Gain, OffSet: by varing these fields it’s possible to scale the result values of the channel, ask to West Systems; Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 The Channels table is derived from the PhisicalChannels one, integrated with additional records and contain all the “definition” necessary to manage the several signals managed by the station. Name, Description: The name and the description of the channels; ! The direct (manual) modification of the Channels table can be very critical. Ask support to West Systems before to make any modification. WEST Systems WEST Systems Active: If active = -1 the channel will be managed by Scada.exe. To exclude a channel set active=0; PAGE 9.8 Databases structure Database scada_data.mdb Telemetry table DISK The station has not a telemetry system and the data is trasferred via SDmemory card. In the telemetry table we defined a telemetry of this base type: TelemetryID = SD WindowStart=00:00:00 WindowStop=23:59:59 CommPort= 0 HostID= <blank> Settings=<blank> TelemetryType=DISK BaseType=DISK CommTimeOut=<blank> If you want to set this telemetry for your station you’ve to put the Stations.TelemetryID = SD in the record of the Stations table that define your station. ETH The station telemetry system is based on a ethernet to serial converter (as the Moxa DE211).. TelemetryID = Moxa_1 WindowStart=00:00:00 WindowStop=23:59:59 CommPort= Socket port of the IP. HostID= IP address of the Moxa Settings= RS232 parameters of the RS232 port of the moxa; TelemetryType=MOXA BaseType=ETH CommTimeOut=2000 If you want to set this telemetry for your station you’ve to put the Stations.TelemetryID = Moxa_1 in the record of the Stations table that define your station. WEST Systems WEST Systems Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 There are 3 possible base types of telemetry (Field BaseType: Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 The Channels table is derived from the PhisicalChannels one, integrated with additional records and contain all the “definition” necessary to manage the several signals managed by the station. Database scada_data.mdb 9.9 PAGE Databases structure RS232 The base type RS232 supports several TelemetryTypes: Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 SSR24: Spread spectrum 2.4 or 0.9 GHz in switched mode; RS232: Direct cable connection. The base type RS232 supports several TelemetryTypes: The configuration of each type is described in the telemetry handbook. SSR24 : Appendix F; GSM : Appendix G; (not included) RS232 : Appendix M; General settings: WindowStart, WindowStop: are used to define an activity time window for the telemetry: If Scada.exe has to share the telemetry with another application is possible to define a time window, for instance between 11:00:00 and 16:00:00. Scada.exe will use the telemetry system only during this interval. Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 GSM: Gsm based data modems; WEST Systems WEST Systems CommTimeOut: Is a TimeOut interval, expressed in milliSeconds. The communications can suffer of latency times (as for example a Moxa device connected via a IEEE802.xx network, or via an ADSL connection). By setting a proper value to CommTimeOut can solve the problems due to long latency times. WEST Systems WEST Systems Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 PAGE 9.10 Scada software suite General description The software suite of Scada is composed by 4 applications: PAGE 10.1 Monitoring: This application allows you to have a “quick view” of the data acquired by the FluxStations. Query: This application allows you to query the database and obtain a table in the .xls format of the data stored in the database. Scada Scada reads the network configuration from the scada_data ODBC data souce name (Chapter 9). Once reads the configuration it runs continuosly to manage the information of all the stations that compose your network. The application shows several information. Scada Panel The Panel form resume all the information of the station and its channels; In the first column is reported the name of the station (Stations.StationID). In the second column the name of each channel (Channels.Name) and in the third column the result (empty in the example) of the last downloaded measurment and the unit. Station Log dialog box The dialog “Station log” reports all the events related with the management of station and telemetries. These information are saved in the Conversation table of the scada_log database. Normal events are reported in green, Warnings are reported in yellow and Alarms and Errors are reported in red. In the drawing, after the CopyRight message, a Normal event is reported: The next interrogation of the OVK01 station is scheduled at 13:11:00 of 12/12/2007. The log can be saved as text file by right clicking the text box and selecting {Save as}. WEST Systems FluxDataRevision: This application allows you to review the flux curves acquired by the FluxStations. Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 Scada: This application , designed to run continuosly, performs the polling of the stations in your network, downloads and stores the data in a database and allow you to configure and manage the remote statios using a telemetry system. PAGE 10.2 Scada software suite Scada application Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 PC Clock ! On the left-top corner of Scada the pc clock is shown: Scada will use this date/time information to set the clock of each station managed every time it will be able to talk with the station. Then to avoid confusion in the data you get you must check that the PC clock is correctly set. Right click By right clicking on the StationID field of a station a menu appears. {Station Info} By selecting {StationInfo} you can get a report where all the information about the station, the telemetry , the configuration parameters, the status and about all the channels that belong to the station are present. The StationInfo report will be automatically closed after 30 seconds. WEST Systems {Exclude} By selecting {Exclude} you can temporary exclude the station. While excluded a station is not managed by the application. This feature is normally used when a station is under maintenance to avoid useless telemetry calls. While excluded the background color of the station will be red. To reactivate the station select {Include} from the same menu. {Call Now} By selecting {Call Now} the application re-schedule the next call to now. Of course you’ve to consider that the remote telemetry system can be off and then the call will be not successful. Scada software suite 10.3 PAGE Scada application By selecting {Options}{Show advanced menu} an advanced station menu will be enabled, then now right clicking the StationID field a more complete menu is shown. {Sample Now} By selecting {Sample Now} you force the immediate execution of an analisys cicle. The command will be sent to the station during the next call, then to have an immediate effect {Sample Now} must be followed by {Call Now}. {Get channels configuration} By selecting {Get channels configuration} the application will download the configuration of the channels from the station and will store this configuration in the database. The action will be performed during the next scheduled call. {Set channels configuration} By selecting {Set channels configuration} the application will upload the configuration of the channels from the database to the station, reconfiguring the station with the database settings. The action will be performed during the next scheduled call. {Get station parameters} Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 {Options} menu By selecting {Get station parameters} the application will download the timing parameters of from the station and will store it in the database. The action will be performed during the next scheduled call. {Set station parameters} {Edit station parameters} By selecting {Edit station parameters} the application allows you to modify the timings of the analisys cicle (parameters) and to save it in the database.. ! Since all the actions described in this page, except {Sample Now}, are quite critical we advise you to follow this procedure: a) Do NOT get or set the channels configuration unless big malfunction of the system. Anyway before to do that call us. b) To change the parameters: 1) select {Get Station Parameters}; wait the next successful call; 2) Edit the parameters {Edit station parameters} and save into the database; 3) select {Set Station Parameters}; wait the next successful call; Now the station is set with new parameters WEST Systems By selecting {Set station parameters} the application will upload the timing parameters from the database to the station and will re-configure the timings of the analisys cicle. The action will be performed during the next scheduled call. PAGE 10.4 Scada software suite Scada application Right click Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 By right clicking on the Channel.Name field of a station a menu appears. Channel Info Configure Alarms Show graph {Channel Info} By selecting {Channel Info} a report of the channel configuration and status will be shown. WEST Systems {Configure Alarms} By selecting {Configure Alarms} will be possible to set alarm level and modalities for the channel. All thresholds / only upper thresholds / only lower thresholds / Alarm not active; {Show graph} By selecting {Show Graph}, active only for the channels that are configured to be acquired as flux curve, the last downloaded curve will be displayed. Scada software suite Scada application The StationID field backcolor and forecolor change in function of the status of the call. PAGE 10.5 OKV01 OKV01 OKV01 OKV01 Black, Yellow: Scada was able to reach the station, but the station is not answering correctly; OKV01 OKV01 OKV01 OKV01 OKV01 OKV01 Blue, White: Scada was able to reach the station and get the data; This mus be the “normal” situation when Scada is waiting the next call. WEST Systems Black, Red: Scada was not able to reach the station: The remote telemetry is off / the telemetry is not working ; Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 Green, Black: Scada is calling the station; WEST Systems Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 PAGE 10.6 Scada software suite Scada application Scada software suite 10.7 PAGE Scada application The alarms For each channel is possible to set an alarm: DN thresholds All thresholds UP Alarm UP PreAlarm DN PreAlarm DN Alarm The alarm management will modify the backcolor of the result field of the channel in order to highlight when a value is not “correct” OKV01 350.0 ppm OKV01 350 ppm OKV01 850 ppm OKV01 OKV01 0.23 moles/sm/day 0.234 The channel result field backcolor can be: WHITE : if the channel has not alarms configurated. All the values are considered OK; GREEN : The channel has alarms configurated and the value is in the normal range; YELLOW: The channel value is between the prealarm and alarm thresholds; RED: The channel DNAlarm one); value higher than the UPalarm threshold (Or is less than the WEST Systems UP thresholds Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 No Alarm WEST Systems Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 PAGE 10.8 Scada software suite Scada application In the lower right corner a dialog shows the “binary” communication that flows on the coomunication stream between computer and telemetry device: Some of the byte are “translated” in a visible format: for example the byte &0D (That correspond to the Enter key ) is diplayed as <CR>. The format is: dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm:ss : 12/12/2007 16.28.40 stationID : OVK01 TelemetryType : RS232 Communication port: 1 Direction of communication: TX (or RX) Trasmitted data: AT<CR> The communication log can be saved on a text file by right clicking on the text box and selecting {Save as}. Scada software suite Flux revision Fluxrevision allows the checking of flux curves acquired by the station. PAGE 11.1 Select your station. By selecting “Never revised” you can select the curves you never checked Select the gas specie (If the station has additional gas detectors) Number of selected curves / Total number of curves in the query period. The list of flux curves that correspond to your selection WEST Systems By selecting [Filter] you can apply a more restrictive filter to your query. ErrQ <= 0.9 will select the curves where ErrQ is less than 0.9 (That means not very well shaped curves). Flux >= 1500 Moles/sm/day will select the curves where the flux is more than 1500 moles/sm/day (That means exceptionally high flux). WEST Systems Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 Select the end date of the period. Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 Select the initial date of the period. Scada software suite To see the flux curve click on the list. The flux curve On the right part of the form is reported the information related with the flux curve. The interval used to compute the regression is highlighted in red. The regression computed is drawn in yellow. The limit of the interval are the two red vertical lines. Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 Flux revision WEST Systems WEST Systems Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 PAGE 11.2 Manual revision Modify the limits by dragging the vertical lines in the desired position. The flux, the slope and the ErrQ will be automatically updated. To save the new result right clik and select {Save Flux} Using the manual revision the computation of flux is completely under your responsability. You can select wrong interval and get wrong results, as in the drawing. The slope of the curve is positive, but the seleted interval, too short, gives a negative result. PAGE WEST Systems WEST Systems Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 Flux revision 11.3 Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 Scada software suite Scada software suite Flux revision Automatic computation of flux. FluxRevision can compute the flux following 3 different algorithms: By selecting {Auto Best slope}: the flux will be computed searching for the higher flux; By selecting {Auto Best ErrQ}: the flux will be computed searching for the better regression quality; By selecting {Auto Best Product}: the flux will be computed searching for a compromise between higher flux and best regression quality. After the automatic computation you have to select {Save Flux} to save the results. The automatic computation uses, as minimum interval to be used, the interval selected by left and right limits (The two red vertical linees), then if you want to compute the flux using at least 50% of the points in the curve you’ve to select approximately the 50% of the curve and after select one of the 3 methode for the auto computation. After that you’ve to select {Save regression mode} to save this settings. Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 PAGE 11.4 The saved settings will be used by the batch processing of FluxRevision and by Scada, when it process the curves while downloading for the station. By pressing the [Auto Calculate] button fluxrevision will process all the fluxcurves in the list. The methode and the minimum interval will be the one selected with the procedure described before. More restrictive settings to the automatic processing can be set by opening the {File}{Settings} menu. For each gas specie you can set the minimum interval, the minimum left limit and the maximum righ limit, as well as the processing algorithm. If you need a rigid processing you can set rigid parameters as: Interval : 80% Minimum left: 10% Maximum right:10% With these settings Scada and Flux revision are obliged to compute the flux in the range from 10% to 90% of the curve. WEST Systems WEST Systems Batch processing Scada software suite 11.5 PAGE Flux revision Batch processing Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 same consideration for the Revision date, the ErrQ and the Flux. WEST Systems WEST Systems Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 By clicking on [Sampling Date] you can order the list by date in ascending or descending mode . WEST Systems WEST Systems Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 PAGE 11.6 Scada software suite Monitor Monitor is a simple application designed to have a quick view of the last days of data. Monitor display the data of the channels that are active and Channels.Monitored > 0 and the Channels.MonitoringGroup = 1; PAGE 11.7 have the field To have two Monitor, one showing a group of channels and the second showing a second group of channels you’ve to: 1) Open the Channels table of scada_data.mdb , put the value 2 on the Channels.MonitoringGroup of the channels you want to assign to the second group. 2) Create a new ShortCut of Monitoring and modify the properties of the shortcut as following: add a “2” after Monitor.exe. Monitor apparence Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 The field Channels.MonitoringGroup can be used to assign a group of channels to a specific instance Monitor WEST Systems WEST Systems By right clicking on the screen you can modify the apparence properties of each plot, as the color of the grid, the background.... WEST Systems WEST Systems Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 PAGE 11.8 Query The Query application allows you to exctract the data from the database and to put it an a table in the MS Excel format 11.9 PAGE Scada software suite Set the date interval you want to query and Select the Channels then press [Next >>]; The buttons [Last month], [Last week] [Last 24 hours] will help you by setting a “standard” time interval. Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 Press the [Next >>] button. WEST Systems WEST Systems Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 Run Query and selct the station(s) you want to query. Scada software suite A resume of the query is reported: The column “Records” shows how many record are present in the time interval you selected for each channel; By pressing [Export All] you’ll get a table with a row for each record (and a column for each channel, plus one for the date/time); By setting the “Number of points per day” field, for instance putting 4, and pressing [Export] you’ll get a table with the 4 row for each day. This feature is useful when you need a simplified table that reports, for example, only the daily average of each chanell. After pressing the button you’ve to choose a name and a folder for the excel file . Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 Query WEST Systems WEST Systems Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 PAGE 11.10 A.1 PAGE AirBox Release II , General description The air box is an hardware/software interface that convert the signal of Air Temperature/ Relative Humidity gauge and Sonic wind speed / direction gauge to a digital format compatible with the DF1A soilflux station. www.westsystems.com www.westsystems.com The output of the air box is a RS485 with the standard WESTS Systems pin out. Since the AirBox is designed to be the last device in the bus the RS485 line is terminated with a 120 Ohm embedded resistor. North Marker 1 2 3 6 7 Gill +V12 S_Gnd TD Gnd RD Description Rain Gauge Wind direction Wind Speed Air Temperature Air rel.humidity Conf Unit DF mm D8 °N D7 m/s D9 °C DA % Sw6 Off A8 A7 A6 A5 A4 Sw6 On AD AC AB AA A9 The air box is designed to be mounted on a 50 mm diameter pole. Avoid obstacles that can affect the wind speed and direction measurement accuracy. The blue marker must be pointed in NORTH direction, using a compass, to get the correct reading of wind direction. The rain-gauge must be levelled using the bubble gage AirBox Two handbook Release 10.0 November 2007 Rain WEST Systems November 2007 2 T Sw.B Release 10.0 WEST Systems AirBox Two handbook RS485 A.2 PAGE AirBox Connectors pinout GILL Connections PCB Pin 5) 8) 7) 8) 6) +12V Gnd RD Gnd TD www.westsystems.com Air RH & T Connections Panel 6+T Pin 2: Pin 3: Pin 5: Pin 6: female +5V Data Sck Gnd connector Red Yellow Blue Black PCB Pin 9) +5V 11) Data 10) Sck 12) Gnd Rain Gauge Connections Panel 3+T male connector PCB Pin Pin 2: SW_A 13) Pin T: SW_B 14) www.westsystems.com Panel 6+T female connector Pin 1: +V12 RED Pin 3: SGND Green Pin 5: TD Yellow Pin 6: Gnd Black Pin 7 (T): RD Blue DIP switch settings SW1 SW2 SW3 SW4 SW5 SW6 SW7 SW8 Air RH% Air T.°C W.Speed m/s W.Dir °N Rain G. ID Base/Extended Set Conf=05 Calibration enabled On On On On On On Off Off SW7 : If your station firmaware is older than release 9.14 please set SW7 to ON in order to allow the correct configuration of the RS485 chain. You can read the firmware release of the station resetting it. (Power off, wait at least 10 seconds and power on the station). SW6: If two airbox are installed on the same RS485 chain the SW6 switch of one of them must be set to On in order to avoid addresses interference. SW8: No actual user enabled function AirBox Two handbook Release 10.0 November 2007 Panel 6+T male connector PCB Pin Pin 1: Gnd Black 4) Gnd Pin 2: A Yellow 1) A Pin 3: B Green 2) B Pin 6: +V12 Red 3) +Vin WEST Systems November 2007 Release 10.0 WEST Systems AirBox Two handbook RS485 Connections A.3 PAGE AirBox Gill sonic wind speed and direction gauge Speed !Range 0..60 m/sec !Accuracy : 4% !Resolution : 0.01 m/sec D17 R4 TZB12V 10R TMBAT46 R24 3.6V NiCd TZB5V 100n 100n U1 1K R6 R7 74AC14M Y1 C32 C33 L1 L2 L3 L4 WEST 1K D4 1M 100n R21 100n CRYSTAL J10 1K R9 R26 CRES2 D14 Rg C8 100n U4 C3 Systems 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Airbox_II.ddb Amphenol Male Digital only cable +12 GND GILL female J2 Gill configuration M2 Gill Polar Continuous data format mode U1 WInd Speed Unit meter/second O1 Comma Separated Format CSV L1 CR/LF Message terminator P1 Out rate 1 sample / second B3 Baud rate 9600 F1 No parity 8 bit H1 Power-up message on NQ Node address not defined E3 communication protocol E3 = RS232 J1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 TD RD Amph 6+T Female DB9 FEMALE Test/Setup cable If analogue output is present: S6 = 0-60 m/sec Wind Speed analogue range output C2 = Wrap around 0-359° T1 = 0..5 Volts analoge voltage output (T2=4-20mA) To configure the GILL connect it via RS232 using a 9600-n-8-1 configured terminal. Send a "*" to enter in the set mode and D3 to list the actual settings. Send a E3<Enter> and check it sending an E<Enter> Turn off the GILL, wait 5 second and turn on it. Enter * and D3 to check that the configuration changed. The GILL save the modifications automatically 1 6 2 7 3 8 4 9 5 AirBox Two handbook Release 10.0 November 2007 TD 1K 8 D1 U2 22p RD GND TXD 1 R29 22p SGND SW DIP-8 JTAG D2 100n S2 R27 ATMEGA128/64 ST232CD C24 100 C30 J1 100n J3 C6 GILL Data Gnd C25 SCK 100n +5V SHT1X 7) +V Gill 8) TD Gill 9) RD Gill 10) Gnd AirBox II 100K 10uF C22 C23 Gnd 100n 7805 C31 + R28 L4 L3 L2 L1 1K 100n C9 VR1 C5 R2 May 2004 D20 100n D16 0.1uF L1 Vin TD RD 507-762 RS BOX D3 TZB12V D15 Gnd TMBAT46 RS485 TMMBAT46 C4 D18 10K TZB12V 1M November 2007 100k R8 C2 Release 10.0 100k R10 R25 WEST Systems 10k R3 Pluvio +12V RXD BT2 R23 R5 +V +V 120 Rg J1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 D5 B RD GND TD 10R ST485AD R22 A J2 Signal Ground +V Gnd 10K U3 SGND SEN2 AirBox TD +12V + 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 100n RXD Analog WS Analog WD J3 - TXD 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 D19 TMMBAT46 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Signal Ground +V Gnd +12V WS SGND WD RD GND 1K J1 J2 Amphenol Male J4 Analog / Digital cable GILL female AirBox Two handbook www.westsystems.com Power supply !9..30 VDC 40 mA typical @ 12VDC WEST Systems www.westsystems.com Direction !Range 0..360 degree North without dead zone. !Accuracy : 3% !Resolution : 1 degree A.4 PAGE AirBox Silicon Air Temperature and relative humidity gauge SEN1 VDD SCK DATA GND SHT1X 4 3 2 1 VDD SCK DATA GND TMMBAT46 D1 R1 1K +5V SCKD DATAD 1K R2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 D2 TZB 5V Probe Layout (actual size) 5 Sck 6 GND TZB 5VR1 1K 1 Sck Vdd Gnd Data AirT&RH SHT75 1K D2 R2 WEST 3 Data 2 +5V D1 Amphenol 6T male AirBox Two handbook Release 10.0 November 2007 J1 AMP 6+T MALE WEST Systems Probe schematics 4 November 2007 Release 10.0 WEST Systems AirBox Two handbook www.westsystems.com 2 sensors for relative humidity & temperature - Measurement range: 0-100% RH - Absol. RH accuracy: +/- 2% RH (10...90% RH) - Repeatability RH: +/- 0.1% RH - Temp. accuracy: +/- 0.4°C (5...40 °C) - Calibrated & digital output - Fast response time < 3 sec. www.westsystems.com Sensor specifications AirBox Silicon Air Temperature and relative humidity gauge PAGE A.5 Air Temperature accuracy Vs. temperature 1.6 1.4 1.2 1 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2 0 -40 -20 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 Measured temperature °C www.westsystems.com Error °C www.westsystems.com Temperature accuracy 4 3 2 1 0 0 20 40 60 %RH 80 100 120 AirBox Two handbook Release 10.0 November 2007 5 WEST Systems Relative Humidity Accuracy Error % November 2007 Release 10.0 WEST Systems AirBox Two handbook Relative Humidity accuracy Vs. RH% A.6 TZB5V 100n 7805 VR1 TH 510 www.westsystems.com www.westsystems.com D1 Multimeter probes 100n 100n ST232CD 2 +5V WEST R2 5 Sck 6 GND R24 D20 C4 100n C6 100n 100n C23 GILL C24 C25 SHT1X U1 8 R6 SEN2 Gnd 1 U2 1M 12) Ss Gnd JTAG C22 R25 Data S2 SW DIP-8 R27 J1 ATMEGA128/64 C2 11) Ss Data 100 C30 R7 J10 Y1 C33 L1 L2 L3 L4 C32 22p 22p WEST D4 D14 R21 100n CRYSTAL Pluvio 1K Rg CRES2 74AC14M 14) Rg Sw.B R9 R26 1M Rg 100n 13) Rg Sw.A 1K R29 C8 100n U4 C3 Systems Airbox_II.ddb ! The correct working of RAIN gauge, when the station is in stand-by, is substained by the internal NiCd battery. To allow the proper operation of the system the battery voltage must be more than 4.6 Volt. To test it: 1) power off the station; 2) measure the NiCd battery voltage; 3) drop 100 cc of water inside the RainGauge: the 4 LED lights must Flash for a 1/5 second period per each raing gauge balance "click". AirBox Two handbook Release 10.0 November 2007 10R TMBAT46 D18 J3 100K 10uF WEST Systems SCK R28 May 2004 10) Ss SCK C31 + D1 +5V C9 AirBox II 9) Ss +5V C5 R2 1K Gnd 100n D16 1K 8) Gill Gnd TZB12V L1 Vin 100n 7) Gill RD RD + NiCd Air TH RS & BOX T. Probe 507-762 battery 1K Release 10.0 6) Gill TD TD 10K TZB12V 0.1uF +V 100k R8 D3 5) Gill +12V 1K Gnd 100k R10 BT2 3.6V NiCd + 4) Ground R5 10k R3 D15 3) +V in 120 R23 TMMBAT46 B +V RS485 2) RS485_B D5 TMBAT46 A J4 1) RS485_A 10R U3 ST485AD R22 100n WEST Systems 10K - November 2007 R4 TZB12V D19 TMMBAT46 AirBox Two handbook D17 D2 1 PCB Layout Battery Voltage Testing, see note below L4 L3 L2 L1 4 Air TH & T. Probe ! 3 Data TZB 5VR1 D2 1K 1K AirT&RH Sck Vdd Gnd Data 1K 1K SHT75 Sck Vdd Gnd Data AirT&RH IN-B D1 2 +5V WEST R2 5 Sck 6 GND 3 Data Connections: !RS485 --> OUT !Rain Gauge --> IN-B !Gill --> IN-A D2 TZB 5VR1 Gill 1 www.westsystems.com +V12 S_Gnd TD Gnd RD SHT75 1 2 3 6 7 IN-A Rain Gauge T Sw.B 2 OUT RS485 4 PAGE AirBox Rain gauge PAGE A.7 Manufatcurer : LASTEM Ordering code :DQA030 Rain gauge Range: illimited . . . . Accuracy 1% Resolution 0.2 mm Collector surface area: 324 square centimeter Collector area diameter : 203 mm Temperature range 0..+50°C AirBox While the FluxStation is in stand-by state the airbox reads and store the reading of the raingauge. The airbox is power supplied with a 3.6V rechargeable battery that’s charged by the FluxStation every analisys cicle. Check www.westsystems.com www.westsystems.com Rain gauge support for 50 mm diameter mast mounting Water filter Reed ampolla switch balance / magnet AirBox Two handbook Release 10.0 November 2007 Water collection funnel WEST Systems November 2007 Release 10.0 WEST Systems AirBox Two handbook To check the calibration of the raingauge: Enter, slowly, 1.0 liter of water in the funnel. The reading must be increased of 30.8 mm. Since the rain gauge channel reading is cumulative, you’ve to note any test you made, in order to do not confuse tests with real rain. Rain gauge PAGE A.8 levelling bolts In order to have a correct working the raing-gauge must be levelled by trimming the 3 levelling bolts. A spirit-level will help in the levelling. www.westsystems.com AirBox Two handbook Release 10.0 November 2007 spirit level WEST Systems Release 10.0 November 2007 Unscrew the 3 bolts WEST Systems AirBox Two handbook www.westsystems.com Remove the cover Cables PAGE C.1 Power supply cable J1 Amphenol 3 + T Pin Male Ground J2 1 2 3 4 Female SC Ground Solar cell cable SC +12V J3 Amphenol 3 + T Pin Female J3 1 2 3 4 Female SC Ground SC +12V RS485 cable Ja Amphenol 6 + T Pin Female Ja 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Female Jb Amphenol 6 + T Pin Female Gnd RS485 A RS485 B 12V Switched Jb 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Female RS485N cable Ja Amphenol 6 + T Pin Female Ja Gnd 1 RS485 A 2 RS485 B 3 Gnd 4 12V NOT switched 5 12V switched 6 7 Female Jb Amphenol 6 + T Pin Female Jb 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Female Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 +12 Volts WEST Systems J1 1 2 3 4 Male J2 Amphenol 3 + T Pin Female PAGE C.2 Cables Standard analog sensor cable WEST Systems Continuous monitoring device handbook www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 3 meter Amphenol 6+T Female (sensor side) Pin 1 Pin 2 Pin 3 Pin 4 Pin 5 Pin 6 Pin 7 Amphenol 6+T Male (station side) 12 Volts Channel A signal Signal GND common Channel B signal n.c. Gnd (power ground) n.c. Connectors Amphenol Part Numbers Amphenol Amphenol Amphenol Amphenol 6+PE 6+PE 3+PE 3+PE female male female male cable cable cable cable Amphenol Amphenol Amphenol Amphenol T3105-001 T3104-001 T3109-001 T3108-001 Amphenol Amphenol Amphenol Amphenol 6+PE 6+PE 3+PE 3+PE female male female male panel panel panel panel Amphenol Amphenol Amphenol Amphenol T3107-000 T3106-000 T3111-000 T3110-000 Amphenol PLUG for female Amphenol PLUG for male Amphenol T6482-000 Amphenol T6483-000 Global system block scheme. The system described in this handbook is a data trasmission system able to transfer bidirectional data between two RS232 based equipments. F.1 PAGE SpreadSpectrum 2.4 GHz radio telemetry The system is composed by 2 radio-modems, 2 antennas, and several accessories. RS232C Master radio-modem 2.4 GHz SS Radio links RS232C FluxStation Slave radio-modem The maximum range of "radio link" is approximately 35 Km (20 miles) in optimal conditions. The two antennas of each radio link must be optically visible in a licteral mode. Rain, storms, high air humidity as well as snow and tree leaves can reduce drastically the range. The antennas must be installed in the most elevated position in order to improve the radio signal quality. The system can works as Point to Point Master mode 0 or Point to Point switched Master mode 6 The factory setting is MODE 0 : point to point To change from mode 0 to mode 6 some modification in the setup of Master radio is necessary, as well as modification in the scada_data.mdb file. SSR24 based point to point telemetry Release 10.0 November 2007 Master Center Computer WEST Systems WEST Systems Freewave based point to point telemetry www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 In the following drawing a sketch of the system is shown. PAGE F.2 SpreadSpectrum 2.4 GHz radio telemetry Point to point telemetry system The system is set to trasmit data bidirectionally from the master center up to the remote equipment: Due to the specification of the FluxStation the maximum effective connection rate is limited to 38400bit/sec. PC -- Master SSR24 radio: 38400 bit/sec; 8 data bit; 1 stop bit; None parity; None handshake. RS232C Slave radio-modem WEST Systems FluxStation -- SSR24 radio: 38400 bit/sec; 8 data bit; 1 stop bit; None parity; None handshake. FluxStation WEST Systems Master radio-modem SSR24 based point to point telemetry Release 10.0 November 2007 Master Center Computer Radio link Freewave based point to point telemetry www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 RS232C SpreadSpectrum 2.4 GHz radio telemetry PAGE Point to point telemetry system RS232 cabling specifications Female 9 pin DB9 connector Male 9 pin DB9 connector WEST Systems Slave radio-modem WEST Systems Male 9 pin DB9 connector Radio link Freewave based point to point telemetry www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 Female 9 pin DB9 connector SSR24 based point to point telemetry Release 10.0 November 2007 Master radio-modem Master Center Computer FluxStation F.3 PAGE F.4 SpreadSpectrum 2.4 GHz radio telemetry Connecting telemetry to the station P1 P2 A B CPU RUN MMC-SD POWER POWER ON PULL AND SWITCH POWER OFF ON +12 +24 SSR24 based point to point telemetry Release 10.0 November 2007 WEST CPU WEST Freewave based point to point telemetry www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 AWM3300V Connect the power supply cord of radio to “Power A” RS232 cable 9 Pin Female to 9 pin male Pin To Pin RS232 cable: P1 P2 A B AWM3300V CPU RUN MMC-SD WEST WEST Systems POWER POWER ON PULL AND SWITCH POWER OFF ON DB9 Female Connect the radio RS232 to the fluxstation RS232 +12 +24 DB9 Male WEST Systems WEST CPU 0.5 m P1 P2 A F.5 PAGE Connecting telemetry to the station Fogo Station SpreadSpectrum 2.4 GHz radio telemetry B AWM3300V POWER ON PULL AND SWITCH POWER OFF +12 +24 Connect the antenna out of radio to the pass-trough connector RF Radio pig-tail 0.25 meter station-side antenna cable SMA Male We supplied two ruggedized BackFire 18 db antennas. The antenna can be polarized in both , vertical or horizontal polarization. By default the antennas are set to the vertical polarization. For the master center we supplied a 10 meter lenght coaxial cable. WEST Systems RG316 cable RCA female to N-Type Male adapter SSR24 based point to point telemetry Release 10.0 November 2007 ON SMA Male WEST Systems CPU RUN MMC-SD POWER WEST Freewave based point to point telemetry www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 WEST CPU PAGE F.6 SpreadSpectrum 2.4 GHz radio telemetry Connecting the antenna to the station Connect the coaxial cable to the passtrought connection on the right panel of FluxStation. The antenna is furnished with a tilt adapter to point the antenna in the vertical plane. Due to space problems the tilt adapter must be assembled by you. SSR24 based point to point telemetry Release 10.1 November 2007 Pay attention to antenna polarization (Vertical in the picture). WEST Systems WEST Systems Freewave based point to point telemetry www.westsystems.com Release 10.1 November 2007 Protect the connector with self-bolding tape. Setting the radio-modem Change the setting of the radio-modem only when strictly necessary. F.7 PAGE SpreadSpectrum 2.4 GHz radio telemetry !Connect the radio-modem to a computer using a standard serial cable; ! Open a RS232 terminal , hyperterminal for example; ! Set the software to 19200 , 8 data bit, 1 stop bit , none parity , none (or ! hardware ) handshake; Press the SET red button on the front panel of radio modem: All the LED light (CTS,TX,RD) on the radiomodem panel will become solid GREEN; Follow the instruction reported on the handbook to change the setting; Here following the default (WEST Systems) factory settings for each radiomodem. Master radio-modem Modem Serial Number 242-6476 Point to Point Slave/Master Switchable SET MODEM MODE Modem Mode is 0 (0) Point to Point Master (1) Point to Point Slave (2) Point to MultiPoint Master (3) Point to MultiPoint Slave (4) Point to Point Slave/Repeater (5) Point to Point Repeater (6) Point to Point Slave/Master Switchable (7) Point to MultiPoint Repeater (F) Ethernet Options (Esc) Exit to Main Menu SET BAUD RATE Modem Baud is 38400 MODEM CALL BOOK Entry to Call is 00 Entry Number Repeater1 (0) 242-7581 (1) 000-0000 Repeater2 RADIO PARAMETERS (0) FreqKey 5 (1) Max Packet Size 8 (2) Min Packet Size 9 (3) Xmit Rate 1 (4) RF Data Rate 3 (5) RF Xmit Power 10 (6) Slave Security 1 (7) RTS to CTS 0 (8) Retry Time Out 255 (9) Lowpower Mode 0 (A) High Noise 0 (B) MCU Speed 0 (C) RemoteLED 0 SET BAUD RATE Modem Baud is 038400 (A) Data, Parity 0 (B) MODBus RTU 0 (C) RS232/485 0 (D) Setup Port 3 (E) TurnOffDelay 0 TurnOnDelay 0 (F) FlowControl 0 SSR24 based point to point telemetry Release 10.0 November 2007 Freewave based point to point telemetry www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 ! Modem Serial Number 242-7581 SLAVE RADIO PARAMETERS SET MODEM MODE Modem Mode is 4 WARNING: Do not change parameters without reading manual (0) Point to Point Master (1) Point to Point Slave (2) Point to MultiPoint Master (3) Point to MultiPoint Slave (4) Point to Point Slave/Repeater (5) Point to Point Repeater (6) Point to Point Slave/Master Switchable (7) Point to MultiPoint Repeater (F) Ethernet Options (Esc) Exit to Main Menu (0) FreqKey 5 (1) Max Packet Size 8 (2) Min Packet Size 9 (3) Xmit Rate 1 (4) RF Data Rate 3 (5) RF Xmit Power 10 (6) Slave Security 1 (7) RTS to CTS 0 (8) Retry Time Out 255 (9) Lowpower Mode 0 (A) High Noise 0 (B) MCU Speed 0 (C) RemoteLED 0 (Esc) Exit to Main Menu SET BAUD RATE Modem Baud is 38400 The most important settings are displayed. The Slave security of the slave radio must be disabled: SlaveSecurity=1; The modem baud rate has to be 38400. The slave radio has to be in Mode 1 or Mode 4. WEST Systems WEST Systems Slave radio-modem SpreadSpectrum 2.4 GHz radio telemetry Setting the telemetry. First communication and fluxstation-computer synchronization; The FluxStation clock can be not synchronized with the computer one; then, since the radio on/off is managed by the station a synchronization is necessary. That can be done using the PDA and the SetStation application or via computer. The modem can work in point-to-point or in point-to-point switched mode: Point to point Set the master radio mode to 0: master; Restart the radio modem and check that it is able to connect the slave radio: the CD light must become solid green. Open the stations table on scada_data.mdb. Change the TelemetryID field to COM_1 Check that on the telemetry table the record COM_1 has the fields CommPort=1 and settings = “38400,n,8,1”; Be sure that the radio is connected with the COM1: port of the computer and restart scada.exe. Wait that the CD light of radio is ON, then select {Call Now}. If the communications will be successful the FluxStation clock is synchronized with the PC one and you’re ready. SSR24 based point to point telemetry Release 10.0 November 2007 Freewave based point to point telemetry www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 PAGE F.8 Point to point switched Set the master radio mode to 6: master switched; Change the TelemetryID field to SSR24 Check that on the telemetry table the record SSR24 has the fields CommPort=1 and settings = “38400,n,8,1”; Be sure that the stations.TelemetryName is set to “2427581”; Be sure that the radio is connected with the COM1: port of the computer and restart scada.exe. Wait that the CD light of radio is ON, then select {Call Now}. If the communications will be successful the FluxStation clock is synchronized with the PC one and you’re ready. WEST Systems WEST Systems Open the stations table on scada_data.mdb. Setting the telemetry. Point to point switched with repeater F.9 PAGE SpreadSpectrum 2.4 GHz radio telemetry Enter in the setup of master radio and : Set the master radio mode to 6: master switched; Open the call book entry of the radio; Set the call book entry 0 by setting the 2427581 radio as slave to be connected, setting the correct sequence of repeater that must be used. Open the stations table on scada_data.mdb. Change the TelemetryID field to SSR24 Check that on the telemetry table the record SSR24 has the fields CommPort=1 and settings = “38400,n,8,1”; On the stations table search the record that define the station and set Stations.TelemetryName is set to “0”; The Scada application, if the telemetryID is set to SSR24, when find a lenght one TelemetryName will use the command ATDT instead of ATD to call the TelemetryName, then it will use the CallBook data entry 0 instead of to call directly the slave radio. SSR24 based point to point telemetry Release 10.0 November 2007 Freewave based point to point telemetry www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 To understand the following information a base knowlege of the freewave operating mode is necessary. Be sure that the radio is connected with the COM1: port of the computer and restart scada.exe. Wait that the CD light of radio is ON, then select {Call Now}. If the communications will be successful the FluxStation clock is synchronized with the PC one and you’re ready. WEST Systems WEST Systems I supposed to use the callbook entry 0 but it’s possible to use another callbook in the range 0 to 9. PAGE F.10 SpreadSpectrum 2.4 GHz radio telemetry The radio-modem LED Lights You can check the status of the link watching the LED lights on the radio-modem front panel. The meaning of the LED light depends on the function assigned to the radio-modem. The LED light status for the Master center radio is reported on the drawing below. CD TX When you turn on the master radio-modem the 3 lights are solid red until the radio-modem connect to the repeater and the slave radiomodem. If the connection to the slave radio will be successfull the LED lights will be: CD Not Connected TX CTS CD Connected TX CTS After the connection while trasmitting the data the LED lights become: CD Trasmitting data TX SSR24 based point to point telemetry Release 10.0 November 2007 Sla co ve N nn ec OT ted Re p e NO at T c er on ne cte d Se tu pM od e Co nn ec ted No t Da ta tti ng Tra sm i nn ec ted CTS Co Freewave based point to point telemetry www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 Master LED Status CTS CD Repeater Not Connected WEST Systems TX CTS If the master radio-modem is able to reach the repeater but NOT able to connect to the SLAVE the LED become: CD Slave Not Connected TX CTS If you push the SET button to enter in the Setup Utility of the radio modem the LED light become: CD Setup Mode TX CTS LED Status legenda LED is OFF Solid RED Flashing Orange Solid GREEN Intermittent Flash RED Solid RED dim WEST Systems If the master radio-modem is NOT able to connect to the REPEATER the LED become: SpreadSpectrum 2.4 GHz radio telemetry PAGE The radio-modem LED Lights F.11 Slave LED Status CD When you turn on the Slave radio-modem the 3 lights are as shown on the right until it will be connected to the master radio-modem via repeater. CD TX Not Connected CTS If the connection of the slave radio will be successfull the LED lights will be: CD TX Connected CTS After the connection while trasmitting the data the LED lights become: CD TX Trasmitting data SSR24 based point to point telemetry Release 10.0 November 2007 Se tu pM od e tC on ne cte d No ng Da ta tti Tra sm i ted CTS Co nn ec Freewave based point to point telemetry www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 TX CTS CD TX Setup Mode CTS CTS LED Status legenda LED is OFF Solid RED Flashing Orange Solid GREEN Intermittent Flash RED Solid RED dim WEST Systems WEST Systems If you push the SET button to enter in the Setup Utility of the radio modem the LED light become: SMA Antenna connector 50 Ohm Power Supply inlet 10 .. 24 VDC, max 1 Ampere @12 VDC 1 2 4 3 WEST Systems SSR24 based point to point telemetry Release 10.0 November 2007 RS232 port DTE female www.westsystems.com RS232 459 PAGE SET CD TX CTS www.westsystems.com Freewave based point to point telemetry www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 Status LED Lights ANTENNA 459 WEST Systems F.12 SpreadSpectrum 2.4 GHz radio telemetry The radio modem Set button (Press to enter in setup mode) SpreadSpectrum 2.4 GHz radio telemetry 1 2 3 4 PAGE The radio modem interface schematic F.13 Power IN 1N4007 J11 D9 1A +12V C16 100n D10 24V600W J7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 R15 +VFW SET DTR_FW GND TDFW GND RDFW CD RTS CTS J10 RS232 FEMALE 1K 1 DSR 6 2 7 3 8 4 9 GND 5 S2 Set Btn SSR24 based point to point telemetry Release 10.0 November 2007 Radio JP2 1 2 D T R _F W DTR da PC The radio modem PCB layout J2 PS In +VDC GND Freewave based point to point telemetry www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 F2 C1 100n D2 F1 1A 1N4007 24V600W D1 R1 RS232 DSR TD RTS RD CTS DTR GND VDC DTR GND TD GND RD CD SET DB9 - FEMALE J1 RTS GND CD J3 CTS 1K S1 Set Btn Other side WEST Systems WEST Systems Freewave WEST Systems Rel 1.1/ March 2004 F.12 SpreadSpectrum 2.4 GHz radio telemetry PAGE Pointing antennas It's possible to use the CTS as raw signal strenght indicator; Enter in the setup of the Master radio and change the RF data rate parameter to 1, and the Operation mode to 0 (master) then exit from the (0) FreqKey 5 (1) Max Packet Size 8 (2) Min Packet Size 9 (3) Xmit Rate 1 (set it to 0 to point the antenna) (4) RF Data Rate 3 (5) RF Xmit Power 10 (6) Slave Security 1 (7) RTS to CTS 0 (8) Retry Time Out 255 (9) Lowpower Mode 0 (A) High Noise 0 (B) MCU Speed 0 (C) RemoteLED 0 (Esc) Exit to Main Menu TX No signal CTS Then you can start searching the maximum signal rotating the antenna and searching the strongest signal. Remember that if the CD LED become RED you lost the link connection (No signal). CD TX Very low signal CTS CD TX Medium signal CTS WEST Systems When set to Xmit rate 0 the radio-modem will trasmit data back and forth continuously, and the strength of the signal may be gauged by the CTS LED light. A solid red CTS light indicate a strong signal, the less the KED is on the weaker the signal. Because the radio-modems transmit countinuously when Xmit rate is set to 0 (wheter or not they have data to send) they use radio spectrum unnecessarily.. Therefore, xmit rate = 0 should be used only as a diagnostic tool and not for normal operation. CD TX Strong signal CTS Remember to reset the "xmit rate" parameter to 1 and the operation mode to the original value WEST Systems CD SSR24 based point to point telemetry Release 10.0 November 2007 Freewave based point to point telemetry www.westsystems.com Release 10.0 November 2007 RADIO PARAMETERS SoilBox General description The Soil.box is an hardware/software interface that convert the signal of Soil Temperature and of the Soil Water Content TDR CS616 sensor to a digital format compatible with the DF1A soilflux station. PAGE S.1 TDR 1 2 3 6 IN-A T Gnd-Black Gnd RS485A RS485B +12 V RS485 www.westsystems.com 1 Ign-Orange HUB-04 IN-B OUT Pt100 www.westsystems.com Pt100 TDR Ohm TDR P uSec s/n CE Soil WC % T. °C The output of the Soil.box is a RS485 with the standard WEST Systems pin out. Since the SoilBox is designed to be the last device in the bus the RS485 line is terminated with a 120 Ohm embedded resistor. Description Water Content % Water C. Pulse Soil temperature PT100 Resistance LCD TDR TDR RAW 6B13 6B13 R. Conf A0 A1 22 A2 Unit LS FS ID0 ID1 ID2 ID3 % 0 100 1 5 9 0D uSec 15 35 2 6 0A 0E °C 0 200 3 7 0B 0F Ohm 4 8 0C 10 Where: LCD is the caption that the station display when the channel is selected. Conf. Is the channel type Unit is the measure unit. LS is the minimum reading FS is the maximum reading The RED highlighted is the default set. ID0 .. ID3 are the base RS485 address of the device that you can set following the next table: SW5 SW6 SW7 Addr 0 ID0 DIP SW 0 0 0 01 ID1 0 0 1 05 ID2 0 1 0 09 ID3 0 1 1 13 Dip SW 8 :Reserved for calibration / no actual function. Please note that the soilbox is designed to works only with the CS616 CS water content TDR probe. The obsolete CS615 can not be used. Please follow the instructions on the RS485 Expansion chapter of the station Handbook to configure the station. WEST Systems Addresses SoilBox handbook Release 10.0 November 2007 Connections: ! RS485 --> IN A ! CS616 --> IN-B ! Pt100 --> OUT PAGE S.2 SoilBox Connectors pinout Soil Temperature Pt100 Connections www.westsystems.com Panel 3+T Pin 1: Pin 2: Pin 3: Pin T: ! female connector Red 1 Red 2 White 1 White 2 If you’re using a old Pt100 probe , supplied with the Rs485 HUB check that the pin T is connected to the White 2 wire of the Pt100 probe. If NOT please modify the Pt100 connection. A simple bridge between pin 3 and pin T can be enough , also if this simple solution can reduce the temperature measurement accuracy. CS616 Connections WEST Systems SoilBox handbook Release 10.0 November 2007 Panel 6+T female connector Pin 1: Orange (Ignition) Pin 2: Red (Power supply) Pin 3: Green (Signal) Pin 4: Black + Screen (Ground) RS485 Connections Panel 6+T male connector Pin 1: Gnd Black Pin 2: A Yellow Pin 3: B Green Pin 6: +V12 Red DIP switch settings DIP SW SW1 SW2 SW3 SW4 DIP SW Enable/Disable TDR TDR RAW 6B13 6B13 R. Enable/Disable Factory Default 1 1 1 1 Factory Default SW5 ID Set 0 0 SW6 ID Set 1 0 SW7 ID Set 2 0 SW8 Calibration 0 See page S.1 1A F1 1K R18 B A Vp 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 CS61x J10 V12 U7 VN820 1N4007 D14 10R R33 10R R32 Vp C10 D15 100n TZB12V D17 D16 VCC T1OUT T1IN T2OUT T2IN R1IN R1OUT R2IN R2OUT ST232CD 6 7 7805 VIN D R DE RE 100n C31 VR2 OUT 12 9 11 10 1 3 4 5 VCC C11 100n VCC 8 4 1 3 2 D1 C22 100n R29 1M SCK MOSI MISO CS616EN VCC14 1 19 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 1 PE0 RXD0/(PDI) PE1 TXD0/(PDO) PE2 (XCK0/AIN0) PE3 (OC3A/AIN1) PE4 (OC3B/INT4) PE5 (OC3C/INT5) PE6 (T3/INT6) PE7 (IC3/INT7) PB0 (SS) PB1 (SCK) PB2 (MOSI) PB3 (MISO) PB4 (OC0) PB5 (OC1A) PB6 (OC1B) PB7 (OC2/OC1C) TOSC2/PG3 PEN GND VCC C43 100n A Y U10A 7 2 3 C23 100n VCC CRES2 100n R30 1M RST TOSC1/PG4 74AC14M RST (AD0) PA0 (AD1) PA1 (AD2) PA2 (AD3) PA3 (AD4) PA4 (AD5) PA5 (AD6) PA6 (AD7) PA7 (ALE) PG2 (A15) PC7 (A14) PC6 (A13) PC5 (A12) PC4 (A11) PC3 (A10) PC2 (A9) PC1 (A8) PC0 74AC14M U10B 4 5 C39 22p C40 22p Y2 74AC14M U10C CRYSTAL 6 T1 SoilBox handbook Release 6.9 October 2004 R36 10K D18 TZB5V VCC Q2 BC817 100n C37 C36 100n TMMBAT46 1K R26 ST485AD GND VCC A B U9 PS_CHK R35 10K 5 R34 10K EN C1+ C1C2+ C2- VCC PG1 (RD) PG0 (WR) 34 33 51 1 50 2 49 3 48 4 47 5 46 6 45 7 44 8 43 42 41 40 39 38 37 36 35 VCC L6 100uH 100uH + C44 5VR C38 100n AVCC C32 100n 10uF AD7714_RST VCC 6 VCC C33 100n AVCC 5VR AD7714 DGND RESET SYNC DOUT POL CS DRDY DIN SCK DVDD U11 AVCC AGND STBY BUFF VREF+ VREFAIN5 AIN6 AIN3 AIN4 AIN1 AIN2 MCKIN MCKOUT D13 D12 D11 D10 VCC GND 12 AVCC 18 11 VCC 13 15 14 16 17 9 10 7 8 2 3 9 22p 74AC14M 1013 74AC14M U10F C30 100n 5VR 6K19 0.1% R40 C26 100n 6K19 0.1% 22p U10D 74AC14M U10E 8 11 400uA REF R39 C41 XT2 C42 R31 1M XTAL 12 RED1 RED2 WHITE1 WHITE2 C25 100nRED2 400uA REF J9 4 3 2 1 Pt100 Input PAGE Schematic www.westsystems.com 24 5 MISO 0R 21 AD7714_CS 23 L1 L2 L3 L4 4 19 20 R38 R20 1K R21 1K R25 1K R19 1K 22 1 L5 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 MOSI SCK VCC R37 10K AD7714_CS AD7714_RST SW DIP-8 S2 ATMEGA128/64 U6 SoilBox WEST Systems RS485 6 5 4 3 2 1 J8 V12 Switched L4 DB9 Female RD 13 8 14 7 GND TD 100n C35 U5 2 V+ 6 V- VCC VCC 16 VCC GND 15 C34 VCC 1 6 2 7 3 8 4 9 5 C9 TZB12V TZB12V RESET VCC GND 20 21 22 100n 23 J1 Output Status Vcc Input GND 1 24 100n CS616EN XTAL2 64 63 62 61 60 59 58 57 56 55 54 AVCC GND AREF PF0 (ADC0) PF1 (ADC1) PF2 (ADC2) PF3 (ADC3) PF4 (ADC4/TCK) PF5 (ADC5/TMS) PF6 (ADC6/TDO) PF7 (ADC7/TDI) PD0 (SCL/INT0) (SDA/INT1) PD1 (RXD1/INT2) PD2 (TXD1/INT2) PD3 (IC1) PD4 (XCK1) PD5 (T1) PD6 (T2) PD7 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 T1 XTAL1 53 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 52 VCC GND RST VCC AVCC J5 JTAG S.3 SoilBox PCB Layout 100n C33 C32 L6 C30 C25 6K19 0.1% 100n R39 C26 HUB2004.DDB + p 100n Red2 Red1 J9 Pt100 Input +12VS C43 CS61x 1K R21 C31 U10 BC817 White 2 Pin T White 1 Pin 3 Red 2 Pin 2 Red 1 Pin 1 Ignition Pin 1(Yellow) P.Supply Pin 2(Red) Signal Pin 3(Green) Gnd Pin 4(Blue) 1K 10K D1 5 Gnd J 74AC14M 4 G 6 A / Q2 8 J T A 12 CRES2 TMMBAT46 A 2 A B 3 B C23 R34 D11 C36 ST232CD R29 100n ST485AD C35 C34 100n C22 100n 1A TZB12V 7805 U5 R35 VR2 Pin 1 Pin 2 Pin 3 (Blue) (Green) (Yellow) +12Volts Pin 6 (Red) C37 100n C9 F1 100n J8 L4 V12 Switched C11 RS485 100n 100n R32 10K +12V 1N4007 6 +12V D10 1M 10R Gnd RS485-A RS485-B D17 D12 S2 R30 10K R33 D13 1M SW DIP-8 D16 10R RS485 Gnd TZB12V U9 WEST Systems 1 Gnd 8 1 100n R36 100n R26 1K Gnd G 1K L4 R20 R19 L3 100n U7 Green E Green A1 T M VN820 3 R 1K L2 R25 7 Red U 6 10 K L1 CS616 J10 Orange XTAL A XT2 T R1 S L R2 Y 0 2 R 4 Y C C C38 100n TZB12V DB9 Female J1 1K 100n D18 R18 D15 C10 TZB5V WEST Systems 5 U11 2 100n D14 SoilBox handbook Release 6.9 October 2004 W1 1 White1 L5 2 100uH 10uF PT100 W2 R40 C44 9 3 C 2 2 p SoliBox Rel 2.00 www.westsystems.com 100uH AD7714 100n 0 R R38 6K19 0.1% White2 PAGE S.4 Testing temperature channel Connect the dummy Pt100 probe , you can ask with no charge to WEST Systems, to the soil box and check that the 6B13 channel reading is equal to the reading reported on the label attached to the dummy probe. The Dummy probe resistance has a tolerance of 1/1000 of the value reported on the label. The temperature reading error must be less than 0.5°C WEST Systems provide a 100 Ohm (Zero degree Celsius) and a 154 Ohm (141.1°C ) dummy probes. Dummy Pt100 154 Ohm 141.1 °C To check the soil pt100 probe use a calibrated termocouple or pt100 (better) portable gauge and compare the reading with the station one. A 1.6°C tollerance must be acceptedt if you use a K termocouple, a 0.5°C tollerance is normal if you use a Pt100 probe. Testing TDR channel The field test of the TDR is not possible. In order to have a valid data set avoid to extract the TDR probe from soil to do not perturbate the reading. SoilBox Soil water content PAGE S.5 6+T Pin Pin Pin Pin Pin Pin Pin Male cable connector (To the SoilBox) 1 : Red +12 Volt 2 : Orange Ignition 3 : Green Frequency signal out 4 : Black+Sh. Ground 5 : n.c. 6 : n.c. T : n.c. WEST Systems SoilBox handbook Release 6.9 October 2004 The CS616 (CS615) Water Content Reflectometer measures the volumetric water content of porous media using time-domain measurement methods. The Water Content Reflectometer consists of two stainless steel rods connected to a printed circuit board. A shielded four-conductor cable is connected to the circuit board to supply power, enable the probe, and monitor the pulse output. The circuit board is encapsulated in epoxy. The probe rods can be inserted from the surface or the probe can be buried at any orientation to the surface. The CS616 (CS615) response is dependent on the dielectric constant of the material surrounding the probe rods. Water is the principal contributor to the dielectric constant value, but the solid constituents such as quartz, clay and organic matter also affect the measurement. The same calibration of volumetric water content to probe output signal period may not apply to all soils. Accuracy can be optimized by using calibrations derived for a specific soil. Accuracy of ± 2.0% over the entire water content range and for a wide range of soil types is routinely obtained in our laboratory. Applying the general calibrations from the operating manual provides accuracy of ± 3.0%. www.westsystems.com Manufatcurer : Campbell Scientific Ordering code : . . . CS616 / CS615 (Out of stock) Water content Range 5-50 % Accuracy 3% www.westsystems.com PAGE S.6 SoilBox Soil temperature Manufatcurer : RS Ordering code :RS 321-6090 Type : Pt100 DIN IEC 751 Class B 4 wires Range 0 to 200 °C Max operating temperature 200°C Accuracy 0.3°C Probe length 300 mm Probe diameter 6 mm Cable length 3 Meter Cable PTFE and silicon insulated WEST Systems SoilBox handbook Release 6.9 October 2004 3+T Pin Pin Pin Pin 300 mm Male connector (to the SoilBox) 1 : RED 2 : RED 3 : White T : White PDA software installation The SetStation software is furnished by WEST Systems on two different support format: !On the WEST Systems software CD ! On the Compact Flash data card. PAGE Z.1 4) Copy the file SetStation.exe file in the folder \\Mobile device\PocketPC\Windows\Start Menu "storage card" based installation ACER n300 WEST Systems acer n300 All Palmtops: !Insert the Compact Flash / Secure Digital Card in the palmtop; !Run "File Explorer" on your palmtop; !Select the file "SetStation.exe" from the "Storage card"; !Copy the file SetStation.exe file in the folder "\Windows\Start Menu"; In the next page the CF / SD /MMC based installation is described in detail. www.westsystems.com 1) Connect the palmtop to your computer using the USB or Serial craddle; 2) Start the communications with the palmtop using MS ActiveSynch; 3) Open "Windows Explorer" of your PC FluxStation handbook Release 10.0 December 2007 PC based installation WEST Systems www.westsystems.com Since the use of Microsoft ActiveSynch is not always so easy we advise you to setup SetStstion using the furnished CF compact flash (or SD secure digital) memory card. Software installation File explorer My device www.westsystems.com iPAQ File store My Documents Program Files Storage card Temp Windows File explorer Storage card SetStation Cut Copy Rename Delete To select and copy the file in the "storage card": Tap "Start" , "Programs" then tap "File Explorer". From the "File explorer" menu tap "My Device" and then tap "Storage card" Now tap and hold SetStation until a flying menu appear. Tap "Copy" www.westsystems.com PAGE Z.2 Then tap "Storage card" and select "My Device", then "Windows" and now "Start menu" Now tap and hold in the white area of "Start menu" folder until a flying menu will appear. Programs Settings Active synch Bluetooth manag... Calendar Windows media Refresh View all files Tap "Paste" Paste Paste shorcut New Folder Start Today Active synch Bluetooth Manager SetStation Tasks Windows media Now close all the applications and then tap "Start": the SetStation.exe will be one of the "Start" menu items. FluxStation handbook Release 10.0 December 2007 File explorer Start menu WEST Systems WEST Systems FluxStation handbook Release 10.0 December 2007 Send via e-mail Beam file.... Scada software installation The Scada software is furnished by WEST Systems on software CD. the WEST Systems PAGE Z.3 Requirements OS Requirements The Scada software suite can run on MS Windows XP professional, MS Vista pro / business. We don’t advise other OS such as XP Home or Vista Home. First installation Run ScadaSetup.msi www.westsystems.com www.westsystems.com The Scada software suite requires the installation of the MS .NET Framework 2.0. To simplify the installation the computer must have an internet connection. Make a backup copy of scada_data.mdb and scada_log.mdb; Using Control Panel disinstall the old Scada; Run ScadaSetup.msi , preserving the old databases. WEST Systems The new Scada suite is ready to run. WEST Systems Upgrades FluxStation handbook Release 10.0 December 2007 once finished the scada suite is ready to run. WEST Systems WEST Systems FluxStation handbook Release 10.0 December 2007 FluxStation handbook Release 10.0 December 2007 www.westsystems.com www.westsystems.com PAGE Z.4 HandBook 10.0 released on November 2007 FluxStation HWR8 and Scada software suite HandBook 10.1 released on December 2007 Some minor revision were introduced: Chapter 2 : Assembly instruction Appendix F: Page F.6 antenna assembly instruction © www.westsystems.com Continuous monitoring Release 10.1 December 2007 W Sys ES tem T s © www.westsystems.com Continuous monitoring Release 10.1 December 2007