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13 -= Power Considerations =
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15 -Both the LPR-200 (or "Low Power Recorder" 200) and TerraSAWR are designed to use as little power as possible, and more or less use the same amount of power.
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17 -At 100 Hz and with a GPS cable connected these loggers draw about 220 mW of power once the screen is off (higher sample rates draw more power but only marginally, < 5 mW). Adding a sensor (e.g. a Trillium Compact 120) increases this to approximately 400 mW, or 0.4 volt-amps. So, in theory 7 Ah battery should last about 10 days without a solar panel, but in practice it seems to be a bit closer to 8 which may be due to variability in power drain while in getting GPS locks.
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19 -For very sunny environments (latitudes < 30) a 20 Volt, 10 Watt solar panel should have no issue keeping these loggers alive over the summer months, and assuming unobstructed skies should also be fine over winter. **However** when possible a 20 Watt pane works best, especially as they usually cost only $10-20 more these days.
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21 -40 Watt panels can also be used, and may be needed for extreme climates, or areas without a full sky view. 60 Watt panels have also been known to work, but this is now reaching the the limit of what the loggers can reasonably handle for extended periods and are not recommended for long term deploys.
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23 -(% class="box infomessage" %)
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25 -Power issues are easy and cheap to solve relative to the cost of your experiment, don't skimp!
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29 -In the case of an LPR, there is a large compartment for housing an internal battery, able to accommodate anything from a 10-30Ah battery. To use a standard lead acid battery with a positive and negative terminal, a 6 pin adaptor must be used. This ensures the voltage from the external power port (pins A and C) connect to the battery and ensure the system actually recharges. (See [[Peripheral Equipment>>doc:Instrumentation.Peripheral Equipment.WebHome]] for a more comprehensive overview of this kind of setup)
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31 -= GPS Considerations =
32 -
33 -GPS is required for the data to have accurate timestamps. A standard 3-5V 1575.42 Mhz coaxial "dongle" antenna works fine and can be found for relatively cheap (e.g. [[https:~~/~~/www.elecbee.com/en-3555-gps-antenna-bnc-male-for-garmin-gps-120120xl125-sounder-with-cable-2m) >>https://www.elecbee.com/en-3555-gps-antenna-bnc-male-for-garmin-gps-120120xl125-sounder-with-cable-2m]]. Anything that locates satellites and gives you a GPS-synced time works!
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35 -The TerraSAWR has a built-in GPS but this doesn't work as well, especially if the logger is (wisely) buried. **The LPR does NOT have a built-in GPS antenna, so an external antenna is mandatory.**
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37 -In a pinch, a severed or broken antenna can be mended back together relatively easily by non-experts. Even stripping the wire and twisting it back together by hand on site is possible!
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39 39  = Data Card Formatting and Information =
40 40  
41 41  Both the TerraSAWR and LPR-200 require SD Cards to be formatted in FAT32 filesystem. For 64Gb cards it can be difficult to format in FAT32, but [[software >>http://auspass.edu.au/field/fat32cardformatter.exe]]is available. ANU recommend SanDisk Extreme 150 mb/s cards in either 32 or 64Gb size. We strongly discourage using cards larger than 64Gb, and in general smaller cards are less likely to fail. We have also found that "adapter" cards (e.g. SD to microSD) are prone to having write issues and **strongly** advise against them.
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43 43  The loggers can be "pre-programmed" with information (e.g. site name, sampling rate, etc) or they can be programmed in the field using the buttons on the logger. To pre-program the cards you simply edit a text file (named "[[ANUSRSetup.txt>>http://auspass.edu.au/field/ANUSRSetup.txt]]" for the LPRs, or "[[tSAWRSetup.txt>>http://auspass.edu.au/field/tSAWRSetup.txt]]" for the TerraSAWRs) and place it in the root directory on the SDCard. When the logger boots up, it will parse and load this information.
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45 -(% class="wikigeneratedid" id="HTheformatforANUSRSetup.txt2FLPR200swillbeasinglelineoftextthatlookslikethis:" %)
46 -The format for ANUSRSetup.txt / LPR200s will be a single line of text that looks like this:
19 +=== The format for ANUSRSetup.txt / LPR200s will be a single line of text that looks like this: ===
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48 48  {{{XXX195G0100010034864 2 }}}
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50 -//corresponding to//
23 +corresponding to site XXX19,
24 + network 5G,
25 + sample rate 0100, (i.e. 100 Hz)
26 + "gps interval" 01 (once per hour~-~- don't change),
27 + start mode (always 0),
28 + stop mode (always 0),
29 + seismometer type (3 = broadband (+/- 20V), 2 = Guralp (+/- 10V), 1 = shortperiod (+/- 5V),
30 + and seismometer serial number (4864).
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52 - site **XXX19**,
53 - network **5G**,
54 - sample rate **0100**, (i.e. 100 Hz)
55 - "gps interval" **01** (once per hour~-~- don't change),
56 - start mode (always **0**),
57 - stop mode (always **0**),
58 - seismometer type (**3** = broadband (+/- 20V), 2 = Guralp (+/- 10V), 1 = shortperiod (+/- 5V),
59 - and seismometer serial number (**4864**).
60 -
61 61  (% class="box warningmessage" %)
62 62  (((
63 63  NOTE: the 2 at the very end is for "RECORD ON RESTART". The record on restart option ensures that if the logger dies and is powered back up whilst in the field (due to battery charging cycles or other causes) that the recording will resume. (# of blank spaces before this doesn't matter)
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65 65  
66 -(% class="wikigeneratedid" id="HTheformatforTSAWRloggersisshorter:" %)
67 -The format for TSAWR loggers is shorter:
37 +=== The format for TSAWR loggers is shorter: ===
68 68  
69 69  (% class="box errormessage" %)
70 70  (((
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83 83   and seismometer serial number (9999).
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86 -(% class="wikigeneratedid" id="HTheformattingprocessusingthelogger:" %)
87 -The formatting process using the logger:
56 +=== The formatting process using the logger: ===
88 88  
89 89  The process for formatting an SD card within the logger is straightforward. Navigate to the "SD INFORMATION" screen and press ERASE SD CARD. This process may take up to a minute. This will result in erasing all files from the card. Upon starting recording, a new 'seed' will be written containing all the information that the logger has been set with FINISH THIS SECTION
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96 96   32Gb card: 122 days @ 250hz or 305 days @ 100hz
97 97  }}}
98 98  
99 -== Default Settings ==
100 100  
101 -As of 2025, the default settings for both LPR (v. 2.7) and TSWAR (v 3.6a) loggers are below. If you're using a broadband instrument, you are essentially good to go without having to program the cards.
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103 -* XX.ANUSR network and station name
104 -* 100 Hz Sample Rate
105 -* 40 Vpp (or +/- 20 V) gain / Trillium Compact seismometer version
106 -* Record on Restart enabled
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108 -Note that if a user sets the gain incorrectly, this can be fixed later (assuming nothing clipped) by multiplying or dividing by factors of 2. The gain setting can be looked up from the logfile, else you may have to guess from a PSD or other method.
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110 110  = Logger Menus Overview (and setup) =
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112 112  The same menus are used in both the TSAWR and LPR-200 loggers.
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118 118  This menu also displays the firmware version, battery, external, and solar voltages, and the temperature of the system.
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120 -* Check that all //Initialisation Parameters// are marked as successful.
121 -* Check that solar voltage is above 10 V in the software, or preferrably physically check that the battery's voltage is increasing via a DMM.
79 +==== Upon setup ====
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81 +- Check all Initialisation Parameters are marked as successful.
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83 +- Check that solar voltage is above 10 V, otherwise the station will not last long.
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123 123  == Live Seismometer Data ==
124 124  
125 125  This screen displays real time seismometer data for all 3 axes of the seismometer. Initially, a plot of raw data from all 3 channels is shown. By pressing enter, a high pass filter can be applied showing a more useful plot of all channels. The up and down arrows can be used to change between a view of all channels, individual channels, and all channels on different X axes.
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127 -* Check that all 3 channels are present and are producing a signal.
128 -* Stomp on the ground near where the sensor is installed to check that a signal is being picked up by all 3 channels.
129 -* Common representations of poor signals include channels sloping smoothly from high values to zero, or sharp corners in the plots.
90 +==== Upon setup ====
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92 +- Check that all 3 channels are present and are producing a signal.
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94 +- Stomp on the ground near where the sensor is installed to check that a signal is being picked up by all 3 channels.
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96 +- Common representations of poor signals include channels sloping smoothly from high values to zero, or sharp corners in the plots.
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98 +
131 131  == GPS Data ==
132 132  
133 133  This menu displays the status of the stations' GPS connection. The screen lists; UTC time, UTC date, latitude, longitude, altitude, number of satellite connections, and SNR.
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135 -* Check that the station is connected to satellites. 3 or more should be perfectly adequate to keep time.
103 +* Check that the station is connected to satellites
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137 137  == SD Information ==
138 138  
139 139  The menu lists if the SD card has been initialised, as well as the capacity and space free on the memory card. See "Data card formatting" (above) to see how to format and initialise the inserted SD card.
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141 141  == System Configuration ==
142 142  
143 143  This menu is used to set the stations identifiers and parameters.
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151 151  The seismometer model and serial number (up to 10 characters) can be set. Seismometer model options include:
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153 -* Trillium Compact (same for 20s and 120s models)
123 +* Trillium Compact (same for 20 and 120)
154 154  * CMG - 3ESP
155 155  * Guralp 40T
156 156  * LE-3D Lite
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166 166  (% class="box errormessage" %)
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168 -Again, ensure the 'RECORD ON RESTART' option is marked with a cross (the default setting). This ensures that the logger will record any time it receives enough power!
138 +NOTE: Ensure the 'RECORD ON RESTART' option is marked with a cross.
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181 181  
182 182  = Instrument Response =
183 183  
184 -Both the TerraSAWR and LPR-200 use the same ADS1281 analog-to-digital converter chip and are designed to have identical instrument response. The ADC (analog to digital) chip in both loggers originally samples at 1024000 Hz and downsamples towards the output data rate via a 5th order SINC filter, then another four FIR filters. If the output is below 250 Hz, a final "pure" /5 decimation is done without any sort of FIR filter (for better or worse!).
154 +Both the TerraSAWR and LPR-200 use the same ADS1281 analog-to-digital converter chip and are designed to have identical instrument response. Depending on the output sample rate (e.g. 100 Hz, 250 Hz, 500 Hz, 1000 Hz) amplitude response is consistently flat up to ~~100 Hz but phase response can vary above 1 Hz at 100 Hz (or 10 Hz at 250 Hz).
185 185  
186 -In the logger's menu, the user can choose to apply a 2nd stage "sensor gain" by selecting an instrument type in the setup menu. This effectively selects a 10 Vpp (e.g. short period sensors), 20 Vpp, 40 Vpp (most broadband sensors) regime to match the sensor's sensitivity. This has the effect of doubling amplitude from 10v to 20v, or quadrupling from 10v to 40v. If you have set your sensor correctly (and the signal isn't clipped!) you can "correct" this by simply multiplying your data by 0.5 etc. This gain manifests itself in stage 2 in the response information.
156 +The user can choose to apply a 2nd stage "sensor gain" by selecting an instrument type in the setup menu. This effectively selects a 10 Vpp (e.g. short period sensors), 20 Vpp, 40 Vpp (most broadband sensors) regime to match the sensor's sensitivity. This has the effect of doubling amplitude from 10v to 20v, or quadrupling from 10v to 40v. If you have set your sensor correctly (and the signal isn't clipped!) you can "correct" this by simply multiplying your data by 0.5 etc.
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188 -//(The 600+ Stage 3 SINC coefficients during the initial 1024k > 16k decimation were left off as they slowed down the process x10 and contribute at most 0.3 db amplitude and 0.31 ms phase delay discrepancies, and primarily only to frequencies near the nyquist. If for some reason you want to add this phase manually we can share the parameters with you.)//
158 +Another important thing to note is that the group delay associated with late stage FIR filters is **automatically applied in the logger**, hence there is no need to apply this in the response. These tend to max out at 0.124 seconds for most output sampling rates (0.062 s for 100 Hz).
189 189  
190 -You might notice that the response information may come in two versions. The response from our website (see link below) includes the 2nd "sensor gain" stage for clarity. e.g. here is a Trillium Compact 120 & ANU Logger response
160 +Instrument response can be downloaded from IRIS-NRL (v2) if need be, or by downloading the response of an equivalent sensor at AusPass (e.g. get_stations(level='response') )
191 191  
192 -##Channel Response
193 - From M/S (Velocity) to COUNTS ()
194 - Overall Sensitivity: 3.95452e+08 defined at 1.000 Hz
195 - 8 stages:
196 - Stage 1: PolesZerosResponseStage from M/S to V, gain: 754.3
197 - Stage 2: ResponseStage from V to V, gain: 0.25
198 - Stage 3: CoefficientsTypeResponseStage from V to COUNTS, gain: 2.09715e+06
199 - Stage 4: FIRResponseStage from COUNTS to COUNTS, gain: 1
200 - Stage 5: FIRResponseStage from COUNTS to COUNTS, gain: 1
201 - Stage 6: FIRResponseStage from COUNTS to COUNTS, gain: 0.99998
202 - Stage 7: FIRResponseStage from COUNTS to COUNTS, gain: 1##
203 203  
163 += ANU TerraSAWR (Gen 3, FW 3.5a, 2017?- current) =
204 204  
205 -However, if retrieving from AusPass or IRIS, the 2nd "sensor gain" stage is combined with the logger gain. This has no affect, but you may detect that the former Stage 2 V->V ResponseStage has been merged into the Stage 3 gain.
165 +Words to describe the TSAWR would go here, if needed
206 206  
207 -##Channel Response
208 - From M/S (Velocity) to COUNTS ()
209 - Overall Sensitivity: 3.9546e+08 defined at 1.000 Hz
210 - 6 stages:
211 - Stage 1: PolesZerosResponseStage from M/S to V, gain: 754.3
212 - Stage 2: CoefficientsTypeResponseStage from V to COUNTS, gain: 524288
213 - Stage 3: FIRResponseStage from COUNTS to COUNTS, gain: 1
214 - Stage 4: FIRResponseStage from COUNTS to COUNTS, gain: 1
215 - Stage 5: FIRResponseStage from COUNTS to COUNTS, gain: 0.99998
216 - Stage 6: FIRResponseStage from COUNTS to COUNTS, gain: 1##
167 + 
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218 218  
219 -For the most part, the data logger response essentially flat when the samplerate output is set to 100 Hz or less and for seismological purposes is likely to be impossible to detect below 20 Hz regardless.
170 += ANU LPR-200 (Gen 2, FW 2.6a/2.7a, 2013 - current) =
220 220  
221 -Instrument response can be downloaded from IRIS [[Nominal Response Library>>https://ds.iris.edu/ds/nrl/datalogger/anurses]] if need be, or [[directly from us>>http://auspass.edu.au/data/logger_response]] , or by downloading the response of an equivalent sensor at AusPass (e.g. get_stations(level='response') ).
172 +Ditto the mighty LPR!
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223 223  
224 -[[Amplitude and phase response for ANU logger at 50 Hz>>image:ANU_50hz_response.png||data-xwiki-image-style-alignment="center" height="356" width="475"]]
175 += ANU "ANUSR" (Gen 1, 2003? - 2013?) =
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226 -[[Amplitude and phase response for ANU logger at 100 Hz>>image:ANU_100hz_response.png||data-xwiki-image-style-alignment="center" height="355" width="473"]]
177 +This logger has been retired for a long time and has a different instrument response.
227 227  
228 -[[Amplitude and phase response for ANU logger at 250 Hz>>image:ANU_250hz_response.png||data-xwiki-image-style-alignment="center" height="359" width="479"]]
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230 -[[Amplitude and phase response for ANU logger at 1000 Hz>>image:ANU_1000hz_response.png||data-xwiki-image-style-alignment="center" height="367" width="489"]]
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233 -[[Huddle test comparing a Trillium Compact 120 + TerraSAWR vs a Trillium Compact 120 + Nanometrics Centaur (M8.AUANU) at 100 Hz>>image:TC120_ANU_vs_CENTAUR.png||data-xwiki-image-style-alignment="center"]]
234 -
235 -= ANU TerraSAWR (Gen 3, FW 3.5a, 2014- current) =
236 -
237 -Earliest known model is dated July 2014 (though first deployed in 2019) and our current flagship model. Lightweight and small.
238 -
239 -= ANU LPR-200 (Gen 2, FW 2.6a/2.7a, 2011 - current) =
240 -
241 -Earliest known model is dated May 2011 (but first deployed November 2012) and still in use today. Potentially capable of housing much larger batteries than the TSAWR due to the larger cavity space.
242 -
243 -We have found that the older LPR SD card slots can sometimes fail such that the data cards prematurely "pop out" during recording, which can be catastrophic. This seems to mostly occur in periods of hot weather, but not always. We have developed a small add-on that screws into the nearby serial port that effectively holds the cards in place and will ship included with these loggers. Screw the device in firmly, then **gently** slide over a pre-inserted card until it is flush with the top of the card. It probably won't slide over all the way and that's by design. Take care not to force the depress the card inadvertently (although testing has shown it will still record).
244 -
245 - [[image:LPR_card_adaptors.jpg||alt="image of the LPR SD-card adapter"]]
246 -
247 -= ANU "ANUSR" (Gen 1, 2003? - 2012) =
248 -
249 -This logger has been retired for a long time and has a different instrument response. It used modular component boards and was powered via an acrylic case of 6 x 6V lantern batteries. There is a somewhat complete one above the CAT lab door if anyone is so inclined to have a look.
250 -
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252 252  = References =
253 253  
254 254  * [[PDF Manual>>http://auspass.edu.au/field/LPR-200_Instruction_Manual.pdf]]
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297 297  = TerraSAWR Specs =
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304 304  [[image:1704864886951-793.jpg]]
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306 306  |=Size (L x W x H)|30 x 25 x12cm
307 -|=Weight (with battery)| 1.9kg (2.5kg)
207 +|=Weight (with battery)| ~*~*1.9kg (2.5kg)
308 308  |=Battery|(((
309 -Lead-acid 12v, ~~7-9Ah
209 +Lead-acid 12v, ~~7Ah
310 310  
311 311  Rechargeable
312 312  )))
313 -|=Current Firmware|3.5a (Jan 2025)
314 314  
315 315  [[image:terrasawr battery.jpg]]
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327 327  [[image:LPR 3.jpg]]
328 328  
329 329  |=Size (L x W x H)|42 x 34 x17 cm
330 -|=Weight (no battery)|5.5 kg
229 +|=Weight (with battery)|4.9 kg (7.3 kg)
331 331  |=Battery|(((
332 -NOW: Any 12v battery with tab connections that will fit (ex. the same TSAWR battery)
231 +LiFePo4 140Ah
333 333  
334 -DISCONTINUED: LiFePo4 140Ah Rechargeable (shown below).
233 +Rechargeable
335 335  )))
336 -|=Current Firmware|(((
337 -2.6a (old GPS modules) / 2.7a
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339 -Jan 2025
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342 342  [[image:LPR battery.jpg]]
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