📝 Event: 2026-03-28_firmware_and_control_software_update

📊 Report Overview

Event Metadata

Record Type
Maintenance Event

Reason / Suite
Upgrade

Service Provider
vendor

Instrument
scope-testx1

Maintenance Action

Reason Details:
Planned firmware and control software upgrade to address autofocus lockups and improve hardware trigger synchronization.

Action Details:
Updated controller firmware from 3.8.4 to 3.9.1 and acquisition software patch level, migrated user macros, and validated trigger timing with a pulse generator.

Status After Fix:
LIMITED

Additional Notes

Two legacy macros required manual edits due to deprecated command names.

📄 Raw YAML Ledger

View 2026-03-28_firmware_and_control_software_update.yaml

schema_version: 1
record_type: maintenance_event

maintenance_id: "maint_scope-testx1_20260328_firmware_and_control_software_update"
microscope: "scope-testx1"

service_provider: "vendor"
company: "Nordic Imaging Service Oy"
contact: "Remote engineer: J. Lehtinen"
reference: "NIS-RMT-2026-218"

started_utc: "2026-03-28T09:00:00Z"
ended_utc: "2026-03-28T11:35:00Z"

reason: "upgrade"
reason_details: >
  Planned firmware and control software upgrade to address autofocus lockups
  and improve hardware trigger synchronization.

action: "update"
action_details: >
  Updated controller firmware from 3.8.4 to 3.9.1 and acquisition software patch level,
  migrated user macros, and validated trigger timing with a pulse generator.

microscope_status_after: "limited"
downtime_hours: 2.6

related_qc:
  - "qc_scope-testx1_20260327T1505Z_trigger_v1"
  - "qc_scope-testx1_20260329T0815Z_trigger_v1"

attachments:
  - "maintenance/events/scope-testx1/2026/attachments/2026-03-28_upgrade_log.txt"

tags: ["firmware", "software", "trigger", "autofocus"]

followup: >
  Keep high-speed acquisition workflows supervised until first week of April.
next_due_date: "2026-04-07"

notes: >
  Two legacy macros required manual edits due to deprecated command names.