Subject: Administrative: N18 MHS Going to Standby: Issued: July 24, This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------080705080204010703020108 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit *Topic: *N18 MHS Going to Standby *Date/Time**Issued:*July 24, 2013 1325 UTC *Product(s) or Data Impacted:*TBD *Date/Time of Initial Impact:*July 24, 2013 17:04:30 UTC ***Date/Time of Expected End:*July 24, 2013 17:18:40 UTC ** *Length of Outage:*14 minutes 10 seconds *Details/Specifics of Change:* NOAA-18 MHS Flywheel motor is known to have an erratic current.In order to prevent the instrument from entering fault mode from this erratic current, the fault and warning limits need to be modified in the instrument's limit table.To load these values to the MHS memory, the instrument will be placed into Standby mode for a few minutes while the table is loaded and then a dump of the MHS memory will be performed.Following the dump the instrument will be commanded back to scan mode. *Contact Information for Further Information:* ESPC Operations atESPCOperations@noaa.gov and301-817-3880 . *Web Site(s) for applicable information:*N/A This message was sent by ESPC.Notification@noaa.gov . You have been sent this and other notifications because you have opted in to receive it. If for any reason, you wish to unsubscribe, please contact ESPC Help Desk at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov or (301) 817-3880 . Please note: it may take up to two business days to process your unsubscribe request. ** ** --------------080705080204010703020108 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topic: N18 MHS Going to Standby

Date/Time Issued: July 24, 2013 1325 UTC

Product(s) or Data Impacted: TBD

Date/Time of Initial Impact: July 24, 2013 17:04:30 UTC

Date/Time of Expected End: July 24, 2013 17:18:40 UTC

Length of Outage: 14 minutes 10 seconds

Details/Specifics of Change:
NOAA-18 MHS Flywheel motor is known to have an erratic current. In order to prevent the instrument from entering fault mode from this erratic current, the fault and warning limits need to be modified in the instrument’s limit table. To load these values to the MHS memory, the instrument will be placed into Standby mode for a few minutes while the table is loaded and then a dump of the MHS memory will be performed. Following the dump the instrument will be commanded back to scan mode.

Contact Information
	  for Further  Information: ESPC Operations at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov
      and 301-817-3880.

Web Site(s) for applicable information: N/A

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