Yesterday the SOS team went out to dig a snow pit up valley of Gothic near the Avery picnic ASFS deployment for SPLASH. The snow conditions were quite different from our pits down at Kettle Ponds. The snow layers were more gradual with less wind slab. Antonio and I also helped Danny troubleshoot his linear actuator thermistor. We checked for continuity across his wire connections and for any broken grounds. We found that the driver output voltage was less than the required 12V at about 9.38V. After looking at the driver and actuator diagrams, we suggested replacing the driver board ($15) to see if the output voltage increases to its required 12V.
Part of the SOS team (Ethan, Jessica, Julie, and Elise) went out to Kettle Ponds yesterday to switch out the SD cards for Ethan's LIDARs at D and UW. I proposed to Ethan that if we wanted to keep the LIDAR collection rate high, that the EOL team switches out the SD cards as apart of their ops duties.
