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System maintenance

It is advisable to clean from time to time (say three time a year), the top of the SUN sensor, to avoid
accumulation of unwanted dusts or atmospheric contaminants that will dim the signal. Use alcohol, and
clean and soft tissue. The input window is quite resilient to scratches (hard coating).

Fig. 25

SUN sensor

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Summary of Contents for CSSMS

Page 1: ... ALCOR SYSTEM 1 Continuous Solar Seeing Measurement System CSSMS Installation and user manual April 12th 2021 ...

Page 2: ...1 2 Sensor installation 8 2 Software 10 2 1 System requirement and operating system 10 2 2 installation software 11 2 3 Software User Interface 15 2 3 1 Recorded data 19 3 System maintenance 20 4 Trouble shooting 21 4 1 System does not deliver any measurements 21 5 Product terms of use 21 ...

Page 3: ...tight and can withstand wind rain and snow it will prevent all intrusion of insects even the smallest one Nevertheless the system is not submersible into water The base plate to attach the box and the sensor is not provided 1 1 Control Box installation The box has two fixing brackets on the side which allows to fix the system on a wall or other robust surface It is also possible to fix it on a ver...

Page 4: ...fragile Do not stretch it to the maximum length or and avoid to twist it Connector keying and different number of pins are preventing connection errors However user must look at the number of connector pins at the end of the cord before connecting the camera in order to avoid forcing the pins and damage the camera connector 6 mm ...

Page 5: ...ctors USB connector and Power connector connect as follows Identify the number of connector pins of the system its type male female Identify the number of pins of the connector cord and match Identify the key pin inside the camera connector and the key at the connector cord side Apply a rectilinear motion If insertion force strength persists please repeat steps for locating the pin number and key ...

Page 6: ...parts of the connector are facing then the connector can be pushed into its counterpart You should never force it it should be gentle Fig 6 Connector attachment step 1 go straight with proper key orientation When the connector is correctly pushed you can turn the locking ring clockwise to attach it ...

Page 7: ... ALCOR SYSTEM 7 Fig 7 Connector attachment step 2 rotate clockwise to have to lock the ring to prevent the cable from detaching Fig 8 Connectors opposite side from box 1 2 ...

Page 8: ... on the latitude of the place and north south directions Fig 9 Green filter transmission plot It should face the SUN more particularly the South for northern hemisphere operation or the North for southern hemisphere operation direction The angle of the sensor with respect to horizontal plane is equal to 90 minus Latitude place angle For instance if latitude is 30 North it should be put aiming Sout...

Page 9: ... position nearby the control box Please be sure both axis azimuth and elevation are tightened very firmly so that it does not move over the course of the time because of the wind or the effect of the rain Fig 10 Photodiode sensor angle azimuth is set to north or south axis and elevation to 90 latitude of the observing place ...

Page 10: ...ystem com common CSSMS software CSSMS_Installer exe 2 1 System requirement and operating system Hardware requirement Minimum for CSSMS V1 PC with AMD or Intel CPU with passmark index above 2000 o Intel Core i3 4012Y 1 50GHz passmark index 2000 2 GB Memory 50 GB hard disk Software requires 20 MB for installation but storage must be granted for images Operating system requirement Windows 10 8 and 7 ...

Page 11: ...to change device s name to see if it s correctly connected If you miss this step to check whether your device is connected or not could be more difficult The system is powered and connected run CSSMS_Installer exe it will install all the software required for this device The next screen copy shows you how installation runs Fig 12 Setup software Fig 13 Software folder definition ...

Page 12: ... the CSSMS system The second application icon is a java application which allows to carry out hardware update if needed Fig 15 Icons Application files can be found at C Program Files x86 Alcor System CSSMS_Solar_seeing This folder is meant to allow firmware updates C Program Files x86 Alcor System CSSMS_Solar_seeing Bootloader_App Fig 16 Files needed for upgrading system firmware ...

Page 13: ...D figures can be retrieved and checked PID Product ID must be 003F VID Vendor ID must be 04D8 There is a quite useful software that can help to check whether the CSSMS device has connected properly https www nirsoft net utils usb_log_view html It can be installed and will help out to be sure the device is properly recognized On USB connect this line should be added Vendor ID and Product ID are equ...

Page 14: ...ce can be found and check whether it matches or not Browse all HID devices that are listed in the device manager until the good one is found Under Windows 10 after 30 to 60 seconds if your device is correctly connected this message should appear at the bottom right of the screen ...

Page 15: ...ication on startup seeks for the CSSMS and if not detected will display an error message and close himself Control box USB cable must be connected both side and powered properly prior starting the software that performs measurements 2 3 Software User Interface This software has 5 panels Fig 19 Main program panel 2 4 3 5 1 ...

Page 16: ... SUN mean signal chart Part 4 Seeing figure and other information Part 5 Log output Part 1 Setup Menu Fig 20 Setup menu 1 Time span which can be plotted before graphics will scroll horizontally 2 Minimum of Sun signal to allow seeing data to be computed Part 2 Seeing plot versus time ...

Page 17: ...UN and the photodiode this is not zenithal equivalent seeing Part 3 Photodiode signal This part shows the signal received by the photodiode versus time Y axis shows the voltage of the photodiode in mV This mean SUN signal can change with atmosphere transparence and especially with clouds presence Also with SUN position because the sensor does not track the SUN Photodiode and SUN angle is changing ...

Page 18: ...on about the system Fig 23 system Information Last Seeing figure measured last minute mean and last 5 min mean 1 Information about photodiode reflecting mean SUN signal 2 Advanced information with noise levels mostly used for debugging purposes 3 Last measured temperature inside the box 4 Part 5 Log panel ...

Page 19: ...e Documents Solar_seeing This is a simple ASCII text file and can be opened with any software such as notepad excel or other software called YYYY_MM_DD_result txt The filename is set so that one file is produced per day Where YYYY is the current year i e 2021 MM is the month of the year from 01 to 12 and DD is from 01 to 31 depending on the month Here is the ascii data edited with notepad each lin...

Page 20: ...ime to time say three time a year the top of the SUN sensor to avoid accumulation of unwanted dusts or atmospheric contaminants that will dim the signal Use alcohol and clean and soft tissue The input window is quite resilient to scratches hard coating Fig 25 SUN sensor ...

Page 21: ...act us the long 20 m USB extender cable might be also damaged check that no damage has occurred on this cable no small animal has started to eat the USB cable for instance 5 Product terms of use The use of this product is solely for getting seeing figure in the line of sight of the SUN entertaining educational or scientific purposes Use of this product involving people s lives is the responsibilit...

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