Ty Cobb, Seth Frank, Margaret Hastedt, Nicolette Lawler, Beth Novak
Summary
Expedition 368X, was a low recovery cruise and allowed testing of the major changes made to the NGR software that occurred during the Subic Tie-Up. Though the NGR was the major project for this Expedition, we also had minor issues on some of the other systems in the lab, these were all corrected or work arounds were found to alleviate the issues. Once testing and debugging was completed all systems ran without any major problems for the extent of the Expedition. The forward MSL track was not used for measuring core during the Expedition and instead was prepped for the installation of the X-ray imager.
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- When the power is turned off to the AR700 it resets itself to default values (specifically the baud rate). We were able to set the correct baud rate and hard code it so the value is now default.
- During measurement if the user selects the piece caliper selection, the software does not allow an offset to be entered, instead a value of zero is set as the offset. The behavior should be selecting an offset instead of fixed zero position.
Software
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- NI Max reports for the IMS tracks were generated to document the settings of each instrument and what IMS expects to see when launching. The process of configuring the GRA and NGR detectors was also documented. These files have been placed on Confluence in the JR Laboratories CPP page under Hardware Communications Setup.
- On going bug list compiled and will be forwarded to Bill at the end of 368X.
- The whole round track software was tested extensively by Maggie and Beth, we have added all findings to the the bug list
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