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redundant (backup) gage issues requirements The National Ocean Service (NOS) uses a backup water level measuring system will all tide gages. However, there is NO standard configuration for the backup system. The backup system for the legacy Sutron Model 9000 based tide stations is a Sutron Model 8200 data recorder equipped with (typically) a pressure transducer. In some instances the pressure transducer is replaced with other sensors such as a quadrature shaft angle encoder. In any case, the typical legacy backup system is a data logger, no telemetry, and some type of water level sensor. At the time of this writing (March, 2005), NOS is moving toward a different concept to provide backup data at tide stations. NOS is now considering the concept of a redundant gage. The redundant gage would duplicate the instruments and functionality of the primary gage in every way except for telemetry. The primary gage would still have the responsibility for telemetry, although even that is under debate. Regardless of the concept – backup gage, redundant gage, there is a common set of principles regarding how the two gages are set up. The purpose of this chapter is to present these principles. Specifically, this chapter discusses: Communications between the primary tide station and the backup/redundant station Example of software setups to transfer data from the backup/redundant gage to the primary gage NOTE: At the time of this writing there is NO standard backup/redundant gage setup. This chapter discusses ONLY setup issues on the primary gage. The user is responsible for determining an appropriate backup/redundant gage setup and for making use of the examples here to create an appropriate backup/redundant setup on the primary gage. communications between the primary and backup/redundant gage The communications between the two gages is, in almost all cases, a hard-wired, RS-232 serial communications link. The user must provide a null modem-configured DB-9 ca