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(At some point, we will want to start soil core sampling, but perhaps this can be considered an Ops task...)
S1 - Station 18
- Site photos
- Dsm port caps
- Verify ground braid from dsm to ground rod
- Plug boom holes with putty
- Recheck guy wire tension
- Add soils (two sets)
- TRH not reporting - replaced SHR
- Ott not reporting - replaced Ott, switched long cable to 5m so we have a spare long cable
- Check out sonic orientations - directions offset between 2d and 3d - both are mounted in same way as other towers
- Check for 3 TRH crossarm mounting bolts
- Install Y power cable
- Replace 1A fuse to serial board with 2A
- EC150 reporting nans for h2o/co2 - back on its own, must have been the fog
S2 - Frinj Coffee
- Site photos
- Dsm port caps
- Plug boom holes with putty
- Verify ground braid from dsm to ground rod
- Recheck guy wire tension
- Investigate solar assembly (see 3/19 blog post)
- Investigate cell antenna?
- Check for 3 TRH crossarm mounting bolts
- Install Y power cable
- Replace 1A fuse to serial board with 2A
- Gsoil upside down - fix in calfile
S3 - El Capitan
- Site photos
- Dsm port caps
- Plug boom holes with putty
- Verify ground braid from dsm to ground rod
- Recheck guy wire tension
- Add soils
- Check for 3 TRH crossarm mounting bolts
- Install Y power cable
- Replace 1A fuse to serial board with 2A
S4 - San Marcos
- Site photos
- Dsm port caps
- Add sign
- Verify ground braid from dsm to ground rod
- Plug boom holes with putty
- Recheck guy wire tension
- NR01 not reporting - plugged into .cr mote, switch it over
- Victron not reporting - needs USB cable?
- Very large timeoffset values - check on chrony?
- Check for 3 TRH crossarm mounting bolts
- Install Y power cable
- Replace 1A fuse to serial board with 2A
- Investigate GPS - bad time sync, reseat GPS antenna?
S5 - Exxon
- Site photos
- Dsm port caps
- Recheck guy wire tension
- Plug boom holes with putty
- Verify ground braid from dsm to ground rod
- Check for 3 TRH crossarm mounting bolts
- Install Y power cable
- Replace 1A fuse to serial board with 2A
S6 - Hazard
- Site photos
- Dsm port caps
- Recheck guy wire tension
- Plug boom holes with putty
- Verify ground braid from dsm to ground rod
- Off the net since 3/20
- NR01 not reporting
- Tsoil not reporting (from blog post)
- Investigate cell antenna? - added directional antenna
- Check for 3 TRH crossarm mounting bolts
- Install Y power cable
- Tsoil not reporting - replaced tsoil
- Number of satellites not reported - GPS problem? - GPS recording fine by the time I visited
S7 - Reagan Ranch
- Site photos - still need manfrotto photos when done
- Tape over light on dsm
- Install manfrotto, NR01 - still need nr01 mounts
- Dsm port caps
- Recheck guy wire tension
- Plug boom holes with putty
- Verify ground braid from dsm to ground rod
- Mote is responding but none of its sensors are - soils reporting after scanning i2c
- Check for 3 TRH crossarm mounting bolts - 3rd hole not threaded, found a nut that will work
- Install Y power cable
- Replace 1A fuse to serial board with 2A
S8 - Santa Ynez
- Site photos
- Tape over light on dsm
- Verify contact info is on dsm
- Dsm port caps
- Add sign - no
- Recheck guy wire tension
- Plug boom holes with putty
- Verify ground braid from dsm to ground rod
- Off the net since 3/16
- Check for 3 TRH crossarm mounting bolts
- Install Y power cable
- check if dsm watch network script installed - yes
- TRH not reporting - replaced both probe and housing
- PPS sync failed, getting large time sync offsets
S9 - E. Camino Cielo
- Site photos
- Contact info on DSM
- DSM port caps
- Tape over light on dsm
- Verify contact info is on dsm
- Dsm port caps
- Add sign
- Recheck guy wire tension
- Plug boom holes with putty
- Verify ground braid from dsm to ground rod
- USB cable for victron
- Sticker for camera
- Check for 3 TRH crossarm mounting bolts
- Install Y power cable
- Replace 1A fuse to serial board with 2A
- Lambda giving bad values - negative or highest of all stations
- Off the net for 7 hours, investigate
S10 - La Cumbre
- Site photos
- Tape over light on dsm
- Verify contact info is on dsm
- Dsm port caps
- Add sign
- Verify ground braid from dsm to ground rod
- Plug boom holes with putty
- Recheck guy wire tension
- Check out sonic orientation - wind direction offset between 2d and 3d - same setup as all other stations
- Install soils
- Victron not reporting - add USB cable? - Cable was already there, needed to ddn/dup to get it to show up as USB device
- Check for 3 TRH crossarm mounting bolts
- Install Y power cable
- Replace 1A fuse to serial board with 2A
- TRH not reporting - reporting again by itself, maybe investigate when there?
S11 - Montecito
- Site photos
- Tape over light on dsm
- Verify contact info on dsm
- Dsm port caps
- Add sign
- Recheck guy wire tension
- Plug boom holes with putty
- Verify ground braid from dsm to ground rod
- Install soils
- Investigate cell antenna? - tried but didn't find a good solution
- Check for 3 TRH crossarm mounting bolts
- Install Y power cable
- Replace 1A fuse to serial board with 2A
- NR01 needs fan cable
- Remove omni antenna? Was on the net more often without it
- GPS number of satellites low (don't know what to do about this)
S12 - Gaviota
- Site photos
- Tape over light on dsm
- Verify contact info on dsm
- Dsm port caps
- Add sign
- Victron not reporting - add USB cable? Yes, missing cable
- Verify ground braid from dsm to ground rod
- Plug boom holes with putty
- Recheck guy wire tension
- Add tripod? Mote/NR01/soils not reporting, don't know if they're there. - added tripod, nr01, bender to bulgin cable
- Check for 3 TRH crossarm mounting bolts
- Install Y power cable
- Replace 1A fuse to serial board with 2A
- Off the net almost 24h, presumably not modem problem
S13 - Boy Scout Camp
- Site photos
- Dsm port caps
- Add sign
- Verify ground braid from dsm to ground rod
- Plug boom holes with putty
- Recheck guy wire tension
- Rfan reading very different than other sites, replace TRH housing?
- No lightning rod - do we need to add one?
- Second set of mote/NR01/soils not responding, is it installed? - not installed
- Investigate cell antenna?
- Check for 3 TRH crossarm mounting bolts
- Install Y power cable
- Replace 1A fuse to serial board with 2A
- dsm giving under voltage errors. Replace pi power cable or dsm?
S14 - Sedgwick
- Dsm port caps
- Add sign
- Verify ground braid from dsm to ground rod
- Recheck guy wire tension
- Plug boom holes with putty
- Check for 3 TRH crossarm mounting bolts
- Install Y power cable
- Replace 1A fuse to serial board with 2A
S15 - Figueroa
- Site photos
- Dsm port caps (Steve installed)
- Contact info on dsm
- Verify ground braid from dsm to ground rod (Steve installed)
- Plug boom holes with putty
- Recheck guy wire tension
- Add manfrotto tripod: need to bring tripod, NR01 + wetness sensor + fan cable + boom + tripod plate
- Add bulgin cable (15m+) to mote, cable sheathing too
- Needs a TRH crossarm mounting bolt
- Replace 1A fuse to serial board with 2A
- Gsoil not reporting - now whole mote not reporting? - brought back mote by reseating bulgin connection to dsm, brought back gsoil with scan i2c
S16 - Little Pine
- Tape over light on dsm
- Verify contact info on dsm
- Site photos
- Dsm port caps
- Add sign
- Verify ground braid from dsm to ground rod
- Plug boom holes with putty
- Recheck guy wire tension
- No co2/h20 reported, bad EC150? (just large offsets. cleaned, but didn't change offsets)
- Add knuckle to ground rod (?, blog didn't mention adding it but it may have been done at second visit)
- Check for 3 TRH crossarm mounting bolts
- Install Y power cable (forgot to bring)
- Replace 1A fuse to serial board with 2A (already had 2A)
- TRH not reporting (was okay at the time)
S17 - Cuyama Peak
- Investigate -273s from tsoil (presumably cable unplugged) (was loose connector)
- TRH intermittently goes out. So far pio brings it back up, but consider replacing if there. (Totally dead when there and needed to be totally replaced.)
- Recheck guy wire tension (one inner guy somewhat loose)
- DSM port caps (needed one)
- Check for 3 TRH crossarm mounting bolts
- Install Y power cable (Yes, still need to do)
- Replace 1A fuse to serial board with 2A
- Clean EC150 lenses
S18 - Windermere
- Dsm port caps (needed)
- Verify ground braid from dsm to ground rod (okay)
- Plug boom holes with putty (was done)
- Recheck guy wire tension (were good)
- Check for 3 TRH crossarm mounting bolts (1 missing, but mast hole plugged)
- Install Y power cable
- Replace 1A fuse to serial board with 2A (only had a 3A, so used it)
- Site pics