The MBB-2 is a compact, triaxial broadband seismometer engineered for high-performance seismic monitoring in a wide range of environments. Built into a durable, passivated stainless steel housing, the MBB-2 provides a velocity-sensitive output across a broad frequency passband from 120 seconds to 150 Hz. With a nominal sensitivity of 750 V·s/m and low self-noise, it is capable of capturing both small ground motions and large seismic events with precision.

The Q8 is a 6 channel high resolution datalogger. It is low power and configurable for a wide range of applications and sensors. It is housed in a machined aluminum enclosure and is nearly waterproof.  It has an external accessible data store of 32GB.  It has built-in sensor controls, scheduled mass recentering, and calibration functions. The Q8 is programmed with a via a webpage interface through either ethernet or wifi.

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.