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Eastern Caldera

Reference Designator
RS03ECAL
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
45.94
Longitude
-129.974
Min Depth
1,519
Max Depth
1,519

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Metadata Start Date End Date Comment
RS03ECAL
 		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: 1069 By: knuth

RS03ECAL
 		1/7/15, 2:32 AM 1/7/15, 3:06 AM

Note: PNWGP Portland <-> Seattle outage

Id: 1076 By: knuth

RS03ECAL
 		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: 1083 By: knuth

RS03ECAL
 		3/21/15, 10:10 AM 3/22/15, 12:20 AM

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

Id: 1090 By: knuth

RS03ECAL
 		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: 1097 By: knuth

RS03ECAL
 		8/28/15, 8:00 PM 8/28/15, 8:30 PM

Note: Outage during major utility power failure in Seattle

Id: 1104 By: knuth

RS03ECAL
 		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: 1111 By: knuth

RS03ECAL
 		3/10/16, 6:06 PM 3/11/16, 4:30 AM

Note: Fiber break between Portland and Seattle

Id: 1118 By: knuth

RS03ECAL
 		5/20/16, 12:33 PM 5/20/16, 2:04 PM

Note: Fiber break between Portland and Pacific City

Id: 1125 By: knuth

RS03ECAL
 		7/11/16, 10:53 PM 7/11/16, 11:51 PM

Note: Unexplained loss of power at Pittock Building in Portland

Id: 1132 By: knuth

RS03ECAL
 		12/17/16, 1:00 PM 12/17/16, 2:00 PM

Note: Corvalis data center lost power

Id: 1139 By: knuth

RS03ECAL
 		12/21/16, 8:50 PM 12/23/16, 7:44 AM

Note: Fiber break in Portland due to train crash

Id: 1146 By: knuth

RS03ECAL
 		1/8/17, 2:58 PM 1/8/17, 4:41 PM

Note: Network outage during major Seattle utility power failure

Id: 1153 By: knuth

RS03ECAL
 		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: 1160 By: knuth

RS03ECAL
 		2/7/17, 8:00 AM 2/7/17, 10:00 AM

Note: Outage during PNWGP 1-hour router-maintenance

Id: 1167 By: knuth

RS03ECAL
 		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: 1174 By: knuth

RS03ECAL
 		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: 323 By: friedrich.knuth
Flag: not_operational Exclude: No

RS03ECAL
 		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: 1494 By: lgarzio
Flag: not_operational Exclude: No