Neels will make a turn on site everyday, except public holiday/weekends.

The easiest will be to email him in event of failure of cooling unit. 

I confirmed with him that he will turn off power to this container if you 
request him to.

 

Hope you find this in order.

 

 

Groete

 

Matthys Maree

SKA South Africa – Carnarvon

 

Tel:       021 506 7300 ext.#1035 (Carnarvon, Klerefontein)

Web :  www.ska.ac.za

 

From: DAVID DEBOER [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: 19 December 2014 03:47 PM
To: Matthys Maree
Cc: PAPER List; Neels Hoek
Subject: Re: Cooling

 

Thanks Matthys.  We certainly should get the Frigotech out there as soon as we 
can in Jan.  It does sound like a leak somewhere in the system is the problem 
though, so we “just” need to find it.  We’ll monitor as best we can and hope 
that it manages to keep charged through the holidays.  What is Neels’ schedule? 
 Is he on-call at home in Carnarvon?  Coming in regularly to Klerefontein?  
Staying/going regularly up to site?

 

Thanks again!

Dave 

 

 

On Dec 19, 2014, at 4:19 AM, Matthys Maree <[email protected]> wrote:

 

No leaks found.

Fans do go on.

 


After I added gas, I witnessed a lot of cycles of the cooling unit, and it was 
working fine the whole time I was there.

I last checked again around 13:00SA time, and it was still working fine.

 

William, I think we should get that Frigotech guy who was working on the system 
recently, back here to see what is going on.  (early January 2015)

 


Please note that this cooling unit is still at risk, because I did not fix a 
problem, I think I just postponed a problem.

I will suggest you try and keep the heat load as low as possible inside 
Container, and as soon as you see temp rising, to turn off as much as you can 
remotely.

It is very hot outside(40degC), and temperatures inside container really get 
very high if things go wrong.

 

I will still be around beginning next week, but if there are similar issues 
after this, please email the standby infrastructure technician, Neels Hoek( 
<mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]), and ask him to turn off power to 
PAPER Container, and then we will only be able to look further into this in the 
new year.  

 

 

 

Groete

 

Matthys Maree

SKA South Africa – Carnarvon

 

Tel:       021 506 7300 ext.#1035 (Carnarvon, Klerefontein)

Web :   <http://www.ska.ac.za/> www.ska.ac.za

 

From: William Walbrugh [ <mailto:[email protected]> mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: 19 December 2014 09:46 AM
To: Matthys Maree
Cc: PAPER List
Subject: RE: Cooling

 

Hi Matthys,

That's good.

Could you detect any leaks (should leave an oily residue)?

Also, did you witness the condenser fans outside going on?

Best regards,
William

On 19 Dec 2014 9:40 AM, "Matthys Maree" < <mailto:[email protected]> 
[email protected]> wrote:

OK, I try to push in some gas into system.

Seems to be cooling now.

 

I did turn on all that I could manually from inside the Paper Container.

I will monitor for a while today to see if it manage to keep things cool inside.

 

Groete

 

Matthys Maree

SKA South Africa – Carnarvon

 

Tel:        <tel:021%C2%A0506%207300> 021 506 7300 ext.#1035 (Carnarvon, 
Klerefontein)

Web :   <http://www.ska.ac.za/> www.ska.ac.za

 

From:  <mailto:[email protected]> 
[email protected] [mailto: 
<mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]] On 
Behalf Of danny jacobs
Sent: 18 December 2014 05:53 PM
To: PAPER List
Subject: Fwd: Cooling

 

 

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Matthys Maree < <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]>
Date: Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 8:12 AM
Subject: RE: Cooling
To: danny jacobs < <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]>

OK Danny

 

I will only be on site tomorrow again, and try to see if I can get it cool 
again.

Lets hope it is something easy.

 

 

Groete

 

Matthys Maree

SKA South Africa – Carnarvon

 

Tel:        <tel:021%C2%A0506%207300> 021 506 7300 ext.#1035 (Carnarvon, 
Klerefontein)

Web :   <http://www.ska.ac.za/> www.ska.ac.za

 

From: danny jacobs [mailto: <mailto:[email protected]> 
[email protected]] 
Sent: 18 December 2014 04:11 PM
To: Matthys Maree
Cc: PAPER List
Subject: Re: Cooling

 

Danke Matthys!

 

We don't have auto-shutdown on all racks partly because we can't bring it back 
remotely and partly because the temperature box is not in the power control 
loop. The ideal situation would turn off everything but a core of absolute 
necessities (paper1, the switch, and the nti box are my first choices).  We'll 
look at our heat budget and try to come up with a 90% shutdown solution.

 

If you can turn on the three things I mentioned, we'll be able to monitor the 
temperatures remotely. 

 

Thanks,

~Danny

 

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 4:34 AM, Matthys Maree < <mailto:[email protected]> 
[email protected]> wrote:

Hi

 

I still struggled to get the PAPER container temperature below 40degC, and had 
to turn off all racks.  We still did not find the problem on the cooling units.

I will attempt to re-gas this unit tomorrow when I have the required gauges and 
stuff, and hopefully it will run for a while.

 

This might be risky, because our staff will be away for most of the time 
between 24th Des and 5th Jan, and now that we know this unit is not 100%.

 

Is it possible to implement an auto shutdown of all rack when air temp reach a 
certain value?

This work pretty well on one of our other containers.

 

Let’s see how things go tomorrow, and I will keep you up to date on my progress 
and findings.

 

 

Groete

 

Matthys Maree

SKA South Africa – Carnarvon

 

Tel:        <tel:021%C2%A0506%207300> 021 506 7300 ext.#1035 (Carnarvon, 
Klerefontein)

Web :   <http://www.ska.ac.za/> www.ska.ac.za

 




 

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Arizona State University
School of Earth and Space Exploration
Low Frequency Cosmology
Phone:           (505) 500 4521
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