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The 2009 Deployment Tour Matthew Newcomb. The hole shrinks by 15 cm on the diameter every 24 hours A DOM requires at least 45 cm on the diameter or it will get stuck One string costs ~ 1 million dollars You guessed it! Getting a string stuck is BAD!. Before You Start:
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The 2009 Deployment Tour Matthew Newcomb
The hole shrinks by 15 cm on the diameter every 24 hours A DOM requires at least 45 cm on the diameter or it will get stuck One string costs ~ 1 million dollars You guessed it! Getting a string stuck is BAD!
Before You Start: How much time do you have to deploy a string? Introducing lifetime: lifetime is the number of hours from the time the drill leaves the hole to the time that the any point on the hole reaches the minimum 45 cm. Okay, so how do I know the lifetime of a hole? Introducing hole lifetime modeling: See http://driller.icecube.wisc.edu/
Is this enough? It's a start, you should look at all of the drill data. What is available? Drill Calipers Flow Rates Water Temperature
What Tools Do We Have To Measure The Hole? Drill Head Calipers
How Do You Know When The Drill Is Out Of The Hole? Quasi-Real Time Data Available On The Web
Setting Up: The user interfaces and controller software must be started in deployment mode. If unsure, and drilling is finished, close both user interfaces and the drill control software. Then start the deployment version of both. Cabling: Connect DDB cable to the deployment reel and to the DDB. Unico drives must be in deployment mode. They will automatically go into this mode when the deployment reel is connected
What Does A String Look Like? Load Cell Payout Sensor Keller Paro 500 lbs Note: Drawing Not To Scale
Paro? Keller? What's That? Keller Paro Two Different Pressure Sensors? Why? $$$ Paro $7K, Keller $700
Keller: It's a 4-20mA current source that is proportional to the pressure applied to it. That proportion changes depending on the keller. You MUST tell the computer the keller's serial number.
Pressure Equals Depth If you have the pressure at some point in the hole you can get the depth. A rough value: depth in inches = (pressure sensor value in PSI * 27.68) - (ambient pressure in mBar * 0.535 * 27.68 ) Note the ambient pressure! Double check the ambient air pressure!
Discussion • What do you do if one sensor reads an unexpected value? • What do you do if more than one sensor reads an unexpected value?
Closing: All of the data from last year is available on the web: http://driller.icecube.wisc.edu/media/history/2008-2009/index.html Look at them. If you have questions, or what to know something not covered here. Email me: mnewcomb@wisc.edu