Today I woke up happily, checked the instrument using cell phone and everything looks perfect and healthy, eat my breakfast and headed to the site to finish up the leftover minor tasks. On our way to the site, we stopped at the shop and bought some accessories that helps us to secure all our cables and electronics. One of the professors brought us mini rack to store our electronics. So far so good. Then, when I get connect, I checked the data flow again and couldn’t update. It just stalled at 8:32AM, which was 20 min before we arrived at the site. I tried different options. Then I disconnect the beagleboard UPS cable and connected to my laptop, the entire system is not responding. Now! Shaking, what went wrong to the system that was perfectly working, confirmed the data flows by BC and UCLA folks. We safely tuned of the power and disconnect all the connection, and we smell something inside. We opened the box and learnt a shocking and devastating situation, i.e., the electronics was burnt through the GPS cable. The question still mysterious to me is why? There was no lightening it was a burning 30+ degree cc temperature weather when it happens. The question “why” still stands, and looking forward to get explanation.
Burned electronics
Solution? Well! only one and one solution we have to use to
get it fixed, i.e., get another electronics from the instrument provider, which
is responsible for such extremely short lived failure. I communicated with them
and at the time of writing the replacement is already shipped to Brazil. Let’s
cross our fingers to a long lasting electronics this time.
Finally, we packed up, stored other electronics
and left the site for the day. In general, today was not a productive day.
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