Error log?

[mpatterson]

Does an error log get stored anywhere? I have a reactor/pump set that has given us a hard time during more than one experiment. Yesterday evening, both the GUI and the PuTTY terminal were frozen mid-experiment with an error message relating to pump comms. I didn’t have the good sense to take a picture of the message before restarting the experiment. The experiment restarted without issues, but some time overnight the outlet pump of the problem-pump stopped moving, and its reactor overflowed. The error message I found this morning was from tripping the moisture sensor, and the PuTTY terminal was not frozen. I am not sure why the first error occurred, but I’d like to find an error log if possible so that I can try to troubleshoot whether there is a software and/or hardware error with this reactor and/or pump.

[harrison]

Hello,
We do not at present log these anywhere other than the PuTTy window. In principle you could get it to write to a file in the Python back end, but this had not been implemented.
Usually what I do is copy-paste or screenshot the putty window as needed.
It sounds based on your description that the output pump (the physical items) is not performing so well. If it is making a bad seal on the tube then indeed it could fail to remove liquid and it can overflow. It could be a manufacturing defect – in the first case I’d try swapping it out with pump 3 or 4 on the board and see if that fixes it.

[mpatterson]

Okay, is it possible to still regulate OD that way? If I’m remembering correctly, when you switch on OD regulation, the program automatically assigns P1 to inlet and P2 to outlet.

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