This page provides instructions for downloading Balers using the EzBaler program and reviewing the State of Health (SOH) data using PQL. EzBaler is the best option for downloading data from multiple Balers at one time. Known problems are: it will sometimes fail to connect to a Baler (just try again) and it will hang up if it encounters corrupted data. These instructions are written specifically for use with a PASSCAL MacBook field computer, but in general apply to other platforms as well.
The data downloading is in two parts. The first part is downloading the SOH data which contains the low sample rate seismic data and systems data to be used for doing field Quality Assurance (QA) for the station. The second part is downloading all of the seismic data for archiving.
