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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
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