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ASHES Vent Field

Reference Designator
RS03ASHS
Array Name
Cabled Axial Seamount
Description
A Junction Box (JBox) rests on the seafloor and is connected to shore via a series of fiber optic cables. Several instruments can be attached to a single Jbox and Jboxes can be connected to each other. Jboxes draw energy from the cables to power instruments and to transmit data from the instruments back to shore. In this way, Jboxes act like both a power strip and a converter. The OOI employs three kinds of Jboxes: Low Voltage (LV) Node, Low-Power (LP) Jbox, and Medium Power (MP) JBox. LV Nodes convert high power from the primary node to a lower power that can then be distributed LP or MP Jboxes and cabled moorings. LV Nodes cannot directly connect to instruments. LP Jboxes directly connect to instruments and receive power from LV Nodes. LP Jboxes convert power from LV Nodes into the appropriate power for their associated instruments. The MP Jbox can draw power from either a primary node or a LV Node as well as connect directly to instruments and other Jboxes. The MP Jbox converts high power from the primary node to a lower, medium-level power that that can then be distributed to other nodes.
Latitude
45.934
Longitude
-130.014
Min Depth
1,552
Max Depth
1,552

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RS03ASHS
 		12/7/14, 2:45 PM 12/15/14, 7:00 PM

Note: PFE down. HVPS1 MOV explosion, 800A breaker tripped, investigation and restoration

Id: 1067 By: knuth

RS03ASHS
 		1/7/15, 2:32 AM 1/7/15, 3:06 AM

Note: PNWGP Portland <-> Seattle outage

Id: 1074 By: knuth

RS03ASHS
 		1/30/15, 7:00 PM 2/3/15, 7:00 PM

Note: Intermittent partial data loss due to storage drive problems at OTB

Id: 1081 By: knuth

RS03ASHS
 		3/21/15, 10:10 AM 3/22/15, 12:20 AM

Note: PNWGP outage due to City of Seattle fiber cable work

Id: 1088 By: knuth

RS03ASHS
 		6/12/15, 8:00 PM 6/15/15, 12:30 PM

Note: Network issues due to fire that damaged fibers between Portland and Seattle

Id: 1095 By: knuth

RS03ASHS
 		8/28/15, 8:00 PM 8/28/15, 8:30 PM

Note: Outage during major utility power failure in Seattle

Id: 1102 By: knuth

RS03ASHS
 		1/7/16, 1:10 AM 1/7/16, 1:52 AM

Note: Four 1-minute outages between Portland and Seattle due to maintenance

Id: 1109 By: knuth

RS03ASHS
 		3/10/16, 6:06 PM 3/11/16, 4:30 AM

Note: Fiber break between Portland and Seattle

Id: 1116 By: knuth

RS03ASHS
 		5/20/16, 12:33 PM 5/20/16, 2:04 PM

Note: Fiber break between Portland and Pacific City

Id: 1123 By: knuth

RS03ASHS
 		7/11/16, 10:53 PM 7/11/16, 11:51 PM

Note: Unexplained loss of power at Pittock Building in Portland

Id: 1130 By: knuth

RS03ASHS
 		12/17/16, 1:00 PM 12/17/16, 2:00 PM

Note: Corvalis data center lost power

Id: 1137 By: knuth

RS03ASHS
 		12/21/16, 8:50 PM 12/23/16, 7:44 AM

Note: Fiber break in Portland due to train crash

Id: 1144 By: knuth

RS03ASHS
 		1/8/17, 2:58 PM 1/8/17, 4:41 PM

Note: Network outage during major Seattle utility power failure

Id: 1151 By: knuth

RS03ASHS
 		1/9/17, 1:32 PM 1/9/17, 4:30 PM

Note: Lightning strike in Pacific City led to data interruption through isolation of both cable lines from shore station equipment.

Id: 1158 By: knuth

RS03ASHS
 		2/7/17, 8:00 AM 2/7/17, 10:00 AM

Note: Outage during PNWGP 1-hour router-maintenance

Id: 1165 By: knuth

RS03ASHS
 		2/15/17, 9:43 AM 2/15/17, 12:16 PM

Note: On Wednesday, February 15, power to the North and South cable lines of the Cabled Array was interrupted and all deployed infrastructure went offline. Power was restored on February 16. No hardware issue subsea was identified.

Id: 1172 By: knuth

RS03ASHS
 		1/18/18, 10:00 PM 1/19/18, 2:00 PM

A brief violent storm caused loss of power to both the North and South cable lines and the deployed infrastructure during this time. For more information please contact help@oceanobservatories.org. (Redmine # 13109)

Id: 325 By: friedrich.knuth
Flag: not_operational Exclude: No

RS03ASHS
 		8/22/18, 1:00 PM 8/24/18, 4:00 PM

On Wednesday Aug 22 2018, an automatic protective shutdown of primary power to the OOI Cabled Array occurred during installation of a new chiller system. Power was restored on Aug 24. Due to loss of power to the Cabled Array marine infrastructure, data were not collected by the instruments.

Id: 1490 By: lgarzio
Flag: not_operational Exclude: No