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- can we improve procedures for plumbing tower, guy wire building and tensioning? Use come-alongs?
- shorter studs on CSAT electronics boxes; suggest using lock nuts (like TRAM) instead of nylocks. Dedicate some mounting plates for sonics that are small enough to ship in the box. Could one plate work for Rohn and pump-up towers?
Sensors:
- need to check/replace radiometer desiccant prior to project
- downlooking PYG at far had short in wire from thermopile
- Schwartzeneggers need refurbishingsonics were flawless. Will do post-field zero cal in lab
- two serializers became noisy. Need to replace or get rid of.
- Rsw.in.flr died for a while?
Will not filter data for PI (Tom)
- kryptons: generally OK
- barometers: problems were all power related? Was NNE on Oct 9 07:00 MST real?- Vpile.off apparently has -1 LSB = -31uV. .xml limits should allow this.
- One TRH fan wired backwards. Need to check past data from this sensor and double-check all fans. Chris to do bubble tests.
- One TRH had 0.1C bias. Pretty good for all this stuff.
- Bad TRH data can be fixed by bit shifting (applies to SCP, SOAS, PCAPS?)
- downlooking PYG at far had short in wire from thermopile
- Schwartzeneggers need refurbishing
- need to check/replace radiometer desiccant prior to project
- Rsw.in.flr died for a while? Needs confirmation
- Vpile.off apparently has -1 LSB = -31uV. .xml limits should allow this.
- SPN1 isn't perfect. Sent . Floor diffuse was sometimes zero for a short period at sunrise. Sent note to manufacturer. They think it would be useful to run as a serial sensor and have the option for "TEST" mode. Needs leveling system.
- Individual levels of Tsoil at near would fail, but would return by a power cycle.
- Power to all sensors on a mote can be remotely controlled.
- Still need to take soil cores: bring oven/scales/soil install kit (buy a second oven and scales for trailer?)
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- You can see core sampling in the Qsoil data! The data jump a bit due to nearby vibration while pounding in the core.
- Forgot to use Trime, need to track down its pieces
- Soil installations: need more consistency. Update guide for single temperature probe installation. shorter studs on CSAT electronics boxes; suggest using lock nuts (like TRAM) instead of nylocks. Dedicate some mounting plates for sonics that are small enough to ship in the box. Could one plate work for Rohn and pump-up towers?
Power:
- new power monitor motes are great
- ISS was happy with the solar trailer
- Still don't understand mote diodes. Having a diode between charger board and battery caused failures. Had no failures with diode removed. Considering charge controller redesign
- redesign small charging systems: lithium-ion?, separate charging module?
- Some small charging systems were flooded during setup.
Mote:
- Disabling radio reset was necessary. Xbees had new firmware since PCAPS.
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- One unexplained failure at flr. Seems to be related to 75mph gust at rim (though etherant later connected).
ComputerNetwork:
- need to test bulgin/rj45 cables that are used with AP24s.
- Verizon modems worked well, new box is good.
- Netgear WiFi needed to be reset many times. Changing channel and orientation helped, but still needed at least daily resets. Toss?
- WIFI worked great! Etherants are old and slow however. Need U-bolts that work for various diameters.
Computer:
- APS UPS battery batteries dead. Buy bigger UPS for base?
- Trailer AC (and even using vacuum cleaner) caused computer issues -- everyone complained that it was warm during the late afternoon. Check trailer power.
- would have been nice to have check_usb.sh/check_ap24.sh feed a Nagios display.
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- Can we force a browser to auto-reload plots? (found cache killer, but doesn't seem to work). Need html wrappers around plot images.
- xchat was good to have, though died when 4G went out (can/should we configure a local host as the chat server?)
- Could/should we have set up 4G failure to fall-back to HughesNet? Requires a better router box.
- R is great! Needs more work (derived; stns=0) All known bugs are now fixed.
Infrastructure:
- Bird diverters fell off
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