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Section 9. Maintenance
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9.1 Moisture Protection
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9.2 Replacing the Internal Battery
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9.3 Repair
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Section 10. Troubleshooting
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10.1 Status Table
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10.2 Operating Systems
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10.3 Programming
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10.3.1 Status Table as Debug Resource
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10.3.1.1 CompileResults
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10.3.1.2 SkippedScan
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10.3.1.3 SkippedSlowScan
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10.3.1.4 SkippedRecord
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10.3.1.5 ProgErrors
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10.3.1.6 MemoryFree
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10.3.1.7 VarOutOfBounds
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10.3.1.8 WatchdogErrors
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10.3.1.8.1 Status Table WatchdogErrors
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10.3.1.8.2 Watchdoginfo.txt File
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10.3.2 Program Does Not Compile
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10.3.3 Program Compiles / Does Not Run Correctly
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10.3.4 NAN and ±INF
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10.3.4.1 Measurements and NAN
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10.3.4.1.1 Voltage Measurements
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10.3.4.1.2 SDI-12 Measurements
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10.3.4.2 Floating-Point Math, NAN, and ±INF
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10.3.4.3 Data Types, NAN, and ±INF
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10.3.4.4 Output Processing and NAN
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10.4 Communications
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10.4.1 RS-232
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10.4.2 Communicating with Multiple PCs
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10.4.3 Comms Memory Errors
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10.4.3.1 CommsMemFree(1)
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10.4.3.2 CommsMemFree(2)
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10.4.3.3 CommsMemFree(3)
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10.5 Power Supplies
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10.5.1 Overview
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10.5.2 Troubleshooting Power at a Glance
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10.5.3 Diagnosis and Fix Procedures
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10.5.3.1 Battery Test
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10.5.3.2 Charging Regulator with Solar-Panel Test
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10.5.3.3 Charging Regulator with Transformer Test
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10.5.3.4 Adjusting Charging Voltage
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10.6 Terminal Emulator
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10.6.1 Serial Talk Through and Sniffer
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Section 11. Glossary
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11.1 Terms
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11.2 Concepts
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11.2.1 Accuracy, Precision, and Resolution
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