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1. anor ye 5 DIGITAL ANGEL SERVICES PTAGIS PIT Tag Information System Columbia Basin Ptagis org WiSWVisi le 18 IN THIS ISSUE May 2006 Volume 7 1 Development of a Issue 2 PIT TAG SYSTEM for the Corner Collector at Bonneville Dam 2 Modification to INTERROGATION DATA LOADER The PTAGIS Newsletter is published periodically by Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission We welcome input from the PTAGIS 3 RSS Feed for PTAGIS community so email or write us with INTERROGATION DATA LOADER your story ideas If you have questions regarding the contents of this publication or about the PTAGIS program please contact Carter Stein PIAGIS Program Manager 4 Wind MOBILE 5 0 d INQOWS 0 an Unless otherwise noted contributors include MOBILEMONITOR CARTER STEIN carters dpsmfc org DAVE MARVIN dave marvin apsmfc org JOHN TENNEY john tenneyfapsmfc org KRISTIANA KRONECK kristiana kronecklapsmfc org DID YOU KNOW PTAGIS 205 SE Spokane St Suite 100 Portland OR 97202 6413 503 593 3100 503 595 3232 fax gt A Fisheries Data Project of the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission to the Fisheries Community 6 Digital Angel Product Alert FS1001M MUX TRANSCEIVER 7 FS1001M MUX TRANSCEIVER Self Tests and Diagnostics 8 PTAGIS 10 YEARS AGO 9 REQUEST FOR PIT TAGS PIT Tag Evaluation CORRECTION Due to an editing error an article in the March 2006 PTAGIS News2. C By default show the article summary instead meea E N Set as Default VOLUME 7 ISSUE 2 3 Choose RSS News amp Blogs as the type of account to create please contact your System Administrator or Internet Se Select the type of account you would like to set up 4 Accept the default name for the account Account Name Enter the name by which you would like to refer to this account example Work Account Home Account or News Account Account Name News amp Blogs _ lt eck_ next gt 5 After clicking the Manage Subscriptions button you should click Add amp RSS Subscriptions Note Removing or changing the folder for a feed will not affect previou downloaded articles Title Location Remove E CONTINUED o gt PTAGIS NEWSLETTER MAY 2006 VOLUME 7 RSS FEED FOR PTAGIS INTERROGATION DATA LOADER IDL 6 Then enter the URL of the PIAGIS IDL RSS feed and click OK Feed Properties Feed URL C Show the article summary instead of loading the web page http www ptagis org ptagis idl rss C Co 7 Now you should have a folder with the latest IDL Summaries in It I hunderbird S PPAGIS IDL Summary File Edit View Go Message Tools Help 2 2 4X E i oe i w s amp s S GetMal Write Address Book Repy Repy Al Forward Delete Junk O Subject B2 18 17 apr 2006 13 1 PTAG GOJ 1
3. Internet Explorer The example below shows the BlogBot plugin 1 Go to www blogbot com and download the BlogBot Lite plugin for IE 2 After downloading and installing the plugin the BlogBot icon will be installed in the IE button bar Clicking the button toggles the display of the RSS feed menu In its own window on the left of the screen 3 Click on the Add button at the top of the BlogBot window to add a new feed CONTINUED o gt PTAGIS NEWSLETTER MAY 2006 RSS FEED FOR PTAGIS INTERROGATION DATA LOADER IDL 4 Enter http www ptagis org ptagis idl rss in the URL field and Interrogation Data Loader in the Title field A PTAGIS Information System Microsoft Internet Explorer File Edit View Favorites Tools Help Om O DAGA sermons O S D a Ggt s Address http www ptagis org x interpretive Center P ee bow PTT bho work om lt TT esan thee Ned Pug i Information System gt The AT tee dete ote THUNDERBIRD Following are instructions for establishing an RSS feed for Thunderbird 1 Pull down the Tools menu to Account Settings 2 If you have an RSS account already click on the Manage Subscriptions button If not create one by clicking Add Account ccount Settings News amp Blogs E Local Folders Disk Space Account Name News amp Blogs Check for new articles every 100 min is Z check for new artes at startup
4. can be viewed through web browsers or mail readers that are capable of viewing RSS FIREFOX Below is a procedure for configuring Firefox to display the PTAGIS IDL RSS feed 1 Select Manage Bookmarks from the Bookmarks menu ee a Ree ee eee Manage Bookmarks O Bookmarks Toolbar Folder Carters Financial Stuff 2 Then choose New Live Bookmark from the File menu Bookmarks Manager File Edit View New Bookmark New Live Bookmark w Folder New Separator 3 Provide a name and description for the New Live Bookmark Type the following in the Feed Location Field http www ptagis org ptagis idl rss Properties for New Live Bookmark Info Name Interrogation Data Loader Feed Location http www ptagis org ptagisjidl rss Description Number of fish detected during the last batch loaded by the Interrogation Data Loader IDL Cx cr 4 Your New Live Bookmark will show up in your list of bookmarks Bookmarks Search we ee eee ee ee I b gt INTERROGATION DATA LOADER kk _ CF 6 24 mar 2006 09 19 28 gt Pa T ee ee M gt INTERNET EXPLORER IE Following are instructions for establishing an RSS feed for IE A plugin is required to access RSS feeds in IE If you do not have an RSS reader plugin installed already you can choose one from the results returned by a Google search for RSS reader
5. is committed to the success of the fisheries community and will continue to provide products and support to meet your needs Communication to the fisheries community is essential and will be conveyed via the following services 1 Customer Service 2 Application Engineering 3 Digital Angels FTP Website 4 For more information Contact Customer Service for DA product inquiries product needs placing orders RMAs pricing and confirmations Technical issues and questions regarding products should be directed to Product information and updates concerning fisheries can be found at DA s FTP website To access this site use Internet Explorer Netscape may not allow access The FIP site contains folders for fisheries related products Each product has designated folders for manuals software documentation and newsletters and technical information Roger L Anderson Application Engineer Fisheries Digital Angel Corporation 490 Villaume Avenue South ot Paur MN S3075 randerson ddigitalangelcorp com Digital Angel Customer Service TEL 800 328 0118 or 651 455 1621 FAX 800 328 4565 or 691 455 0413 Roger Anderson Digital Angel Application Engineer Fisheries FTP ADDRESS ftp digitalangelcorp com USER NAME DA Fisheries PASSWORD Pit Tag NOTE The password Pit Tag is not a typo To gain access to DA s FIP website make certain to enter the password according to the capitalization and spaci
6. no valid application program the reader will automatically enter in the software update mode waiting for a download from VBFLASH 6 4 RAM MEMORY TEST When the Flash memory Is verified the reader proceeds with the RAM memory verification The Random Access Memory RAM test is a non destructive test that performs read write operations with known bit patterns in every memory location Before writing in a memory location its contents are saved In one of the processors internal registers A series of write check back read operations are then done in that memory location before the original content is re written If a memory failure is detected the beeper will be activated permanently Upon a RAM failure detection no clear message can be displayed since the MPU could loose control of the program and therefore the beeper is used to Indicate the problem If such failure occurs the MPU board must be replaced 6 5 POWER SUPPLY VERIFICATION The next step in the RESET or power up sequence is the power supplies verification This test is also done periodically during the normal operation of the reader unit If the exciter supply below 12V alarms will be generated 6 6 BACK UP LITHIUM BATTERY VERIFICATION Verifying the battery voltage and the Integrity of the configuration set up checks the back up lithium battery If the battery voltage is low under 3V an alarm will be generated If an error exists in the configuration set up at
7. 742 17 apr 2006 13 PTAG 2 GRA 3 17 apr 2006 13 21 PTAG GRJ 795 17 apr 2006 13 PTAG ICH 58 17 apr 2006 13 2 PTAG cr News amp Blogs B Trash Mua PTAGIS L_ry 13 E Local Folders ISSUE 2 8 After you add the RSS feed for the PTAGIS IDL the list will automatically be refreshed with those sites reporting new interrogations during the previous four hours Click on a site to see the most recent detection summary graph for that site The fields represent e The three letter site identifier e The number of fish detected in the last batch load e The date and time that these data were loaded Sites with no data reported during the last batch load do not appear in the list References to specific software tools or plugins do not represent an endorsement or recommendation of those products by PTAGIS Questions regarding the RSS feed for the PTAGIS IDL can be directed to ptagis support ptagis org PTAGIS NEWSLETTER MAY 2006 VOLUME 7 ISSUE 2 9 Windows MOBILE 5 0 and MOBILEMONITOR JOHN TENNEY Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission Microsoft has recently released Windows Mobile 5 0 WM5 as a replacement for all Pocket PC and Smartphone platforms including Windows Mobile 2003 and later versions Most new handheld devices such as the Dell Axim X5 already ship with WM6 to take advantage of the latest hardware Innovations such as high quality displays
8. FS to assist with the project Below are brief status reports and photos for the main components of the corner collector PIT ag system TRANSCEIVER Digital Angel DA has produced four transceivers for the corner collector system Figure 1 DA installed one of the transceivers into the new electronics building on 23 March 2006 FIGURE 1 Digital Angel produced four transceivers for the corner collector at Bonneville Dam FIGURE 2 e Median Read Ranges in 4 ft by ft Antena 25 Read range in ST tag SGL tag SST tag Initial testing showed that the SST tag model performed better in a 4 ft by 4 ft test antenna than the SGL tag model TAGS In December 2005 PSMFC and NMFS evaluated samples from DA s next production tag model TX1400SST which they developed for the corner collector application DA took the feedback from the fisheries community and improved the first tag model SGL they had designed for the corner collector application to produce a tag model SST that has the same physical parameters i e weight length width as the current ST tag model Initial testing showed that the SST tag model performed better in a 4 ft by 4 ft test antenna than the SGL tag model Figure 2 In addition performance results were consistent among the tags which was not true for the SGL tags BPA and DA have agreed on a contract for producing the SST tags and so they will be replacing the SGL and ST tags as the new standa
9. ation was captured by a non multiplexing transceiver such as a Digital Angel FS1001A store the coil identifier redundantly in the cksm column Figure 2 2 STORE IDENTICAL RECORD COUNTS ALTERS THE PROCESSING OF ALL INTERROGATION FILES As a file Is pre processed In preparation for loading to the database count the number of identical copies of each record For every set of duplicates found In the file load a single interrogation record into the database Storing the identical record count in the nreads column of the obs data table Figure 3 Note that in this context identical interrogation records may actually differ slightly a millisecond component of the interrogation timestamp present at the end of some records will differ record to record within a set of duplicates However the millisecond values are not stored in the database and are ignored for purposes of counting identical records PTAGIS is always open to correspondence If you have any comments questions or suggestions please contact ptagis supportldptagis org FIGURE 1 Storing Tranceiver ID in cksm column Multiplexed Transceiver f i obs date One Interrogation Record In File SSSYYDDD PN FIGURE 2 e Storing Coil ID redundantly in cksm column Non Multiplexed Transceiver l Ob 3D 9 1BFOE8FBE3 One Interrogation Record In File SSSYYDDD PN 06 24 06 12 00 04 FIGURE 3 Storing Identica
10. be loaded in the PIAGIS data set The changes to the data format were listed in the 1996 Changes section of the 1996 PIT Tag Specification Document In order to make the transition to the new data format less painful modifications were made to PITVAL EXE software The modifications to PITVAL EXE allowed for conversion and validation of old versions of Tagging Release Information and Mortality Files to prepare them for uploading to PTAGIS Changes were also made to the tagging software PITTAG EXE in order to support the change to the new data format The new version of PITTAG EXE was also intended to improve the tagging program user interface The current specification document 2004 PIT Tag Specification Document can be located in the Library at www ptagis org ptagis The April 1996 issue of the PTAGIS Newsletter can be accessed via the link April 1996 Issue 2 or by visitng www ptagis org ptagis and selecting Library from the navigation bar then choosing Newsletters ATTENTION PIT TAG MANUFACTURERS REQUEST FOR PIT TAGS PIT Tag Evaluation The Bonneville Power Administration BPA has requested that National Marine Fisheries Service NMFS and Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission PSMFC conduct a tag evaluation to determine the quality of different manufacturer s ISO FDX B 12 mm tags This is an informational evaluation it would only be one factor in determining what tags are purchas
11. ed by BPA Now that the PIT Tag detection system has been installed into the corner collector flume we want to learn what tags are available that would be detected well minimally gt 50 in PIT Tagged fish or drones passing through its 17 ft by 17 ft antenna Other tests would be conducted in a laboratory Before a full evaluation is conducted there would be some preliminary tests to confirm that the tag reading performance minimally meets the performance level of the 12 mm tag that is currently being used by the fisheries community within the Columbia River Basin model TX1400ST by Digital Angel Corporation All tests will utilize Digital Angel transceivers with the antenna size determining the model We plan to conduct these tests in June 2006 If you are interested in participating please contact Dr Sandra Downing from NMFS 206 860 5604 or sandy downing dnoaa gov
12. embedded cameras increased memory capacity and new communication features It appears from a technical support call from a PTAGIS user that an open source software component used by MobileMonitor will not install properly on the WMb5 platform The component s vendor OpenNET CF has yet to verify If this is an isolated issue or a larger compatibility issue with all WM5 devices Also PTAGIS does not yet have access to a WMpb device to verify if the latest release of MobileMonitor will run on this new platform If a WM5 compatible replacement component is available by May we will incorporate it into the next release of MobileMonitor scheduled for late May PTAGIS plans for the Fall 2006 release to replace all open source components used by MobileMonitor with native technology now available in the latest release of our development tools NET 2 0 this will ensure smoother scalability of this application for future platforms Unfortunately it may be Fall of 2006 before MobileMonitor will run on the WM5 platform If you plan to purchase a new handheld device running WM5 in the near future please contact john_tenneyfdpsmfc org so the upcoming releases of the MobileMonitor application can be prioritized CONTINUED o gt PTAGIS NEWSLETTER VOLUME 7 ISSUE 2 MAY 2006 Update DIGITAL ANGEL SERVICES to the Fisheries Community ROGER ANDERSON Digital Angel Corporation Digital Angel DA
13. gital Angel Corporation PTAGIS NEWSLETTER VOLUME 7 MAY 2006 ISSUE 2 14 PTAGIS 10 Years Ago Highlights from the April 1996 PTAGIS Newsletter BPA ANNOUNCED PLANS FOR NEW TAG FREQUENCY The Bonneville Power Administration BPA initiated the process for the procurement of prototype stationary transceivers the type intended for use within the Juvenile Fish Passage Systems from various manufacturers These prototypes were evaluated by a team consisting of electronics experts from National Marine Fisheries Services The U S Army Corps of Engineers BPA and Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission The evaluations were expected to lead to the selection of a manufacturer for equipment in September 1996 The PIT Tag Steering Committee PTSC gathered research requirements related to this change over A survey was distributed to Tag Coordinators In an effort to determine whether or not to operate a 400 kHz interrogation system in tandem with the new ISO 134 2 kHz system at the Juvenile Bypass Facilities The nature of the dual system was anticipated to be very complex and expensive to operate so the PTSC asked for information from the research community Both frequencies were planned to be used at the Lower Granite Adult Ladder NEW DATA COLLECTION STANDARDS IN PLACE The new data format change took place despite a postponement PTAGIS files were expected to conform to the new data format in order to
14. gon for the construction phase of the project Slayden first dismantled the flume section Figure 4 and then built the concrete support structure for the antenna housing using non metallic materials that will not interfere with the PIT Tag interrogation system Figures 5 The support structure includes a huge grounding grid and the aluminum shield that must surround the antenna for it to work properly Figure 6 FIGURE 3 PolyCycle Industrial Products assembled the antenna housing onsite at the Bonneville Dam in the second powerhouse in February 2006 FIGURE 4 Slayden Construction Group Inc dismantled the flume section FIGURE 5 Slayden Construction Group Inc built the concrete support structure for the antenna housing using non metallic materials that will not interfere with the PIT Tag interrogation system On 23 March 2006 Slayden moved the antenna structure from the powerhouse to the flume Figures 7 a b amp c The Corps held a final walk through for the construction phase on 7 April The complete PIT Tag detection system was Installed on 23 March into its final site but it then needed to be tested In order to learn how it needed to be adjusted to work at this location As indicated In the last update the antenna housing would first be tested under dry flume conditions with test equipment and the transceiver After being satisfied with the performance under dry conditions DA plan to then test the sy
15. ion and repair have been replaced by a new and different lot DA has only five spare CPU boards for emergency replacement at this time Customers should call to receive RMA and UPS account numbers from Customer Service to send CPU Boards to DA for SRAM replacement expect a turnaround of two days The repaired CPU Boards will have a yellow dot on the SRAM U4 Figure 1 Ship defective CPU Boards to the following address Digital Angel Corporation 490 Villaume Avenue South St Paul MN 55075 601 400 1621 CUSTOMER SERVICE 1 800 328 0118 FAX 800 328 4545 Please include Multiplexer serial number of the CPU Board DA is tracking all replaced boards by serial number PTAGIS NEWSLETTER MAY 2006 VOLUME 7 ISSUE 2 12 FS1001M MUX TRANSCEIVER Self Tests and Diagnostics ROGER ANDERSON Digital Angel Corporation This article provides a thorough explanation aay of why beeping sounds occur during the FS1001M transceiver power up reset process The following excerpt from the POWER Multiplexing Transceiver System User Manual Draft provides a thorough explanation of the Power up and Reset procedures for this unit This manual can be found in its entirety at Digital Angels FIP website ftp digitalangelcorp com 6 SELF TESTS AND DIAGNOSTICS The FS1001M MUX unit has integrated self tests that are used to verify the integrity of the hardware and to perform antenna tuning and adjustments Two types of tes
16. ipating that they will be making adjustments to its equipment It may be necessary to return to dry conditions occasionally to make these On 23 March 2006 Slayden Construction Group Inc moved adjustments Therefore a full biological research evaluation the antenna structure from the powerhouse to the flume will be funded by BPA in 2007 to determine the tag reading efficiencies for different salmonid populations traversing the flume environment To help design this evaluation NMFS will be releasing tagged fish from multiple locations in front of the entrance to the corner collector to determine if this variable affects tag detection by the PIT Tag system PTAGIS NEWSLETTER MAY 2006 VOLUME 7 ISSUE 2 5 Modification to INTERROGATION DATA LOADER IDL DOUG CLOUGH Synergetics Engineered Systems Two modifications have been made in the pre processing of interrogation records by the Interrogation Data Loader IDL These changes are not retroactive and therefore only apply to data received on or after 27 February 2006 1 STORE TRANSCEIVER IDENTIFIERS DOES NOT ALTER THE PROCESSING OF MULTIMON FILES For data arriving in Minimon MobileMon or M4 files store the transceiver identifier in the cksm column of the obs data database table Figure 1 Note that this value is available only if the interrogation was captured by a multiplexing transceiver for example a Digital Angel FS1001M If the Interrog
17. l Record Count in nreads column Transceiver Set to Unique Off 1 Ob Ob 24 0b 12 00 04 3D9 LBFOESFBES 1 Ob 0b724 0b 12 00 04 3D4 LBFOESFBE3 3 Identical Interrogation Records PTAGIS NEWSLETTER MAY 2006 VOLUME 7 ISSUE 2 6 RSS Feed for PTAGIS INTERROGATION DATA LOADER RYAN DAY Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission DAVE MARVIN Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission Live Bookmarks are a facility in the Firefox web browser that enables users to read RSS feeds while RSS plugin readers allow the same access to RSS feeds for Internet Explorer IE RSS is an index of a set of web pages where each page has a link and a summary An RSS feed is often used by a website to provide a single document that has summaries and links to the new articles on that site like this one for Oregon Public Broadcasting http www opb org newsroom opbnews rss The PTAGIS Web Portal includes an RSS feed of the data collected by our Interrogation Data Loader IDL process The IDL RSS feed provides an overview of the most up to the minute data PTAGIS collects Generated every 4 hours the IDL RSS feed consists of a list of sites for which we have processed Interrogation data during that period For each interrogation site we show the total interrogations not unique interrogations and a link to a summary chart that displays the recent unique interrogations at that site The IDL RSS feed
18. letter Biomark Instream Installation of PIT Tag Detector Systems appeared without a byline PTAGIS would like to extend an apology and due credit to the author Steve Anglea of Biomark Inc PTAGIS NEWSLETTER MAY 2006 VOLUME 7 ISSUE 2 2 Development of a PIT TAG DETECTION SYSTEM for the Corner Collector at Bonneville Dam January April 2006 Update SANDRA L DOWNING NOAA s National Marine Fisheries Service DENNIS SCHWARTZ and HEIDI HELWIG The Us Army Corps of Engineers GREAT NEWS all pieces of the project for developing a PIT Tag detection system for the corner collector at Bonneville Dam are coming together We are on track for having a system in place for the 2006 outmigration with high hopes that it will be able to meet the 60 percent detection goal Everyone involved needs to be congratulated for all of the hard work that has gone into getting us to this point To mention some of the key players and their roles The U S Army Corps of Engineers Corps was responsible for designing and constructing the concrete flume structure that holds the slot antenna Bonneville Power Administration BPA was responsible for developing the electronics for the project They contracted Digital Angel to design and fabricate all phases of the PIT Tag system transceiver antenna and tags BPA also contracted Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission PSMFC and National Marine Fisheries Service NM
19. ng represented in this article www digitalangelcorp com DIRECT 651 552 6580 MoBike ol Ma7 T2 Se ET EAT PTAGIS NEWSLETTER MAY 2006 VOLUME 7 ISSUE 2 11 Digital Angel PRODUCT ALERT FS1001M MUX Transceiver ROGER ANDERSON Digital Angel Corporation Digital Angel DA recently discovered an issue regarding FS1001M MUX Transceivers It has been determined that the cause for the defective FS1001M MUX Transceivers was the SRAM chip U4 degradation due to possible electrostatic discharge ESD damage Faulty RAM chips also may have been a contributing factor All FS1001M Multiplexers with CPU serial numbers containing C05xx 14xx manufactured in Spring 2005 are determined to be defective and have been recalled Defective FS1001M MUX Transceiver CPU Boards need to be returned to for SRAM replacements DA has recalled the defective FS1001M MUX Transceivers and requests that all of the members of the fisheries community check their FS1001M MUX Transceivers for the problems described in this article The following symptoms FIGURE 1 Digital Angel will place a yellow dot on the SRAM U4 to indicate that a CPU Board has been repaired are indicators of a faulty FS1001M MUX Transceiver e MUX will not boot up after a reset or power up condition e A continuous beeping sound is made by the transceiver e The first line of the FS1001M MUX Transceiver display is black All SRAM chips in product
20. rd tag The tags should be available through PSMEFC by this summer In April we will determine how well the ST and SST tag models read in the 17 ft by 17 ft antenna when we can test the corner collector system after the Corps contractors are done ANTENNA DA contracted with PolyCycle Industrial Products out of Pittsburgh PA a world leader in large polypropylene tank and enclosure fabrication to build the antenna housing This new antenna design was completely different from the first antenna design it is hollow in the middle which allows us to keep moisture away from the antenna wires by controlling the environment using a HVAC system CONTINUED o gt PTAGIS NEWSLETTER VOLUME 7 ISSUE 2 MAY 2006 DEVELOPMENT OF A PIT TAG DETECTION SYSTEM FOR THE CORNER COLLECTOR AT BONNEVILLE DAM PolyCycle fabricated the two halves of the antenna housing made from a copolymer polypropylene thermoplastic material at its plant and then assembled the antenna housing onsite at Bonneville Dam in the second powerhouse in February Figures 3 a amp b Hats off to the Corps for its invaluable assistance DA and PSMFC wrapped the antenna and then DA did the tests they could do in a powerhouse environment Based on the test results the antenna performed similarly to the prototype antenna in Minnesota that was used by DA to develop the antenna INSTALLATION The Corps issued a contract to Slayden Construction Group Inc from Ore
21. reset or power up defaults parameters will be reloaded and the following message will be sent on both serial ports MESSAGE Parameters reloaded The lithium battery should then be checked connections or replaced if necessary The back up lithium battery has an expected shelf life of 5 years which is reduced when the unit is powered off for a long period of time since current Is drawn from it in order to preserve the RAM memory content The back up battery compartment is located on the MPU board It should be replaced with a CR2032 type lithium battery Panasonic or any other battery manufacturer with UL approval A new battery is usually 3 25V and is weak when its voltage Is under 3V The user s configuration should be re entered after battery replacement using the keyboard display or the serial link All correspondence should be directed to Roger L Anderson Application Engineer Fisheries Digital Angel Corporation 490 Villaume Avenue South St Paul MN 55075 randerson ddigitalangelcorp com www digitalangelcorp com DIRECT 651 552 6580 MOBILE 612 747 1732 FAX 651 455 0413 PTAGIS was granted permission by Digital Angel to reproduce an excerpt of the Multiplexing Transceiver System User Manual Draft p 61 63 The Multiplexing Transceiver System User Manual Draft contains valuable proprietary information The manual should not be published copied or communicated to any person without the authorization of Di
22. stem under operational conditions to determine how the PIT Tag system changed when the flume was watered up The Corps watered up the flume on 8 April for 4 hours and then DA made some adjustments before a 24 hour test was run on 11 April DA then conducted the tests with the ST and CONTINUED o gt PTAGIS NEWSLETTER MAY 2006 VOLUME 7 ISSUE 2 DEVELOPMENT OF A PIT TAG DETECTION SYSTEM FOR THE CORNER COLLECTOR AT BONNEVILLE DAM FIGURE 6 FIGURE 7 re SEN pe i alia GE aay PolyCycle Industrial Products assembled the support structure which includes a huge grounding grid and the aluminum shield that must surround the antenna for it to work properly SST tags on 12 April and the corner collector was back open for fish passage on 13 April PSMFC is In the final stages of setting up the site to upload the detection data to the PIAGIS database They should be finished by 21 April NEXT STEPS One of the unknowns is what the electromagnetic noise levels will be at this site and how they will affect the PIT Tag equipment Since these noises are rarely constant monitoring will need to be done over time for DA to determine how best to adjust its equipment Starting on 24 April NMFS will be assisting DA by releasing floating drones that will hold tags at different water depths In addition NMFS will also be releasing tagged fish to assist DA In setting up its equipment As we learn more during the 2006 season DA is antic
23. ts are Boot Manager 1 0 Self tests MENU amp ESCAPE _ Update Request p gt Ta Waiting Download omme Bootstrap CHKSM System Halted Bad Appl CHKSM Waiting Download ke n INVALID APPLOCATION i BADRAMMEMORY _ Bad Ram memory System Halted performed on the unit e Power up reset diagnostics that are performed each time the unit is reset e Periodic self tests that are performed while the unit is scanning for tags These tests are performed automatically by the unit and can also be activated on demand by a user request 6 1 POWER UP RESET DIAGNOSTICS When the power is applied to the FS1001M MUX unit by the main ON OFF switch or when the RESET button is activated there is an automatic start up of the unit in the last configured mode Ihe automatic start up procedure Includes the following self tests e Flash EPROM memory e RAM memory e Back up lithium battery e Power supply The detailed power up sequence is illustrated in Figure 1 FS1001 2 14 gt Scan BU POWER Shutdown ue 6 2 STARTUP SEQUENCE The FS1001M MUX microprocessor will start as soon as the power Is applied to the unit If the input power is not at a sufficient level to start the microprocessor 11Vdc or less the LCD backlight will not turn on LT and usually a series of black squares will be displa
24. yed on the first LCD line as following If this problem is encountered check the system power supply 12VA 0VA test points on the motherboard If the voltage level is 11 Vdc or higher this problem may indicate that the Flash EPROM is bad or that there is a severe MPU board problem You should then replace the MPU board CONTINUED o gt PTAGIS NEWSLETTER MAY 2006 VOLUME 7 ISSUE 2 13 FS1001M MUX TRANSCEIVER SELF TESTS AND DIAGNOSTICS 6 3 FLASH EPROM MEMORY TEST Once the CPU is started the processor performs a Boot Manager memory verification The Boot Manager is a section of program included in the Flash memory electrically erasable reprogrammable memory that can never be erased and which initializes the reader hardware If the Boot Manager program is invalid the system is halted and needs to be returned to the supplier Once this verification is completed the unit checks if there is a valid application program The application program governs the operation of the reader and can be updated in the field using the VBFLASH program running on any PC compatible computer with Microsoft Windows In order to start the software update process the user must press both MENU and ESCAPE keys simultaneously immediately after pressing the RESET key It should be noted that the Boot Manager and the application program version revision numbers are displayed during the power up sequence If there is
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