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- Best case. Plug the USB to RS485 (or other serial device) back in and it picks right up again.
- Middle of the road.
- SLB2RW program must be shutdown and restarted to resynchronize with the WPS feed.
- Possibly the instance of RigWatch at Remote 6 would need to be restarted.
- Worse case. The whole winch telemetry host must be shutdown and restarted.
- Worst case. Even if the winch telemtry telemetry host is working as expected after restart, it is possible that a "hang-up" and "re-connect" at the RigWatch Master may not work (seen once).
That "seen once" was corrected by a restart of RigWatch. Not
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a desirable activity during rig-floor operations and continuous data collection.