Blog from October, 2016

Clear morning with strong NE wind. Afternoon partly cloudy with North wind 

Turbine was shut down 14:06 - 15:07, however winds had shifted by this time to due North.

Finishing prep for teardown 

T/RH: 42m  TRH reporting warmer and drier than at other levels. 
P: ok
2D Gill: ok

csat u,v:  ok
csat ldiag: ok
csat w, tc: ok
3D RMY: ok
EC150: ok
motes: ok
Wetness: ok
radiation: ok
Tsoil: ok
Gsoil: ok
Qsoil: Qsoil.5cm.s9 reporting intermittently
Cvsoil: ok
Rainr: ok.
Vbatt: ok

Sunny morning, followed by an overcast afternoon. Steady west wind all day.

Introduced Clayton to the Marsh and visited a couple of sites.

Found S1 barometer tube had fallen of the sensor nipple, sometime between the last site visit and 12:15 today.

Bird managed to outsmart the mitigation at site 1:

 

T/RH: 42m  TRH reporting warmer and drier than at other levels. 
P: ok
2D Gill: ok

csat u,v:  ok
csat ldiag: ok
csat w, tc: ok
3D RMY: ok
EC150: ok
motes: ok
Wetness: ok
radiation: ok
Tsoil: ok
Gsoil: ok
Qsoil: Qsoil.5cm.s9 reporting intermittently
Cvsoil: ok
Rainr: ok.
Vbatt: ok

Clearing, breezy west wind. Poor conditions to do a turbine shutdown test 

Gordon left this morning, may the software gods be with us. 

T/RH: 42m  TRH reporting warmer and drier than at other levels. 
P: ok
2D Gill: ok

csat u,v:  ok
csat ldiag: ok
csat w, tc: ok
3D RMY: ok
EC150: ok
motes: ok
Wetness: ok
radiation: ok
Tsoil: ok
Gsoil: ok
Qsoil: Qsoil.5cm.s9 reporting intermittently
Cvsoil: ok
Rainr: ok.
Vbatt: ok

 

Clearing, breezy. West and NW winds (sad)

Kate finished her shift and left this afternoon.  Thanks Kate!

T/RH: 42m  TRH reporting warmer and drier than at other levels. 
P: ok
2D Gill: ok

csat u,v:  ok
csat ldiag: ok
csat w, tc: ok
3D RMY: ok
EC150: ok
motes: ok
Wetness: ok
radiation: ok
Tsoil: ok
Gsoil: ok
Qsoil: Qsoil.5cm.s9 reporting intermittently
Cvsoil: ok
Rainr: ok.
Vbatt: ok

Cloudy and warm with light rain in the afternoon. Winds from the South.

 

Pulled the boat out this afternoon, cleaned it and parked it in the East lot. Don't expect we will have to take it out tomorrow. 

 

T/RH: 42m  TRH reporting warmer and drier than at other levels. 
P: ok
2D Gill: ok

csat u,v:  ok
csat ldiag: ok
csat w, tc: ok
3D RMY: ok
EC150: ok
motes: ok
Wetness: ok
radiation: ok
Tsoil: ok
Gsoil: ok
Qsoil: Qsoil.5cm.s9 reporting intermittently
Cvsoil: ok
Rainr: ok.
Vbatt: ok

Second trip at high tide

 

Measured azimuth angles at site 10 and site 12

Swapped out T/RH at site 13 at 5:00pm EDT. (Didnt notice until replacement was complete that previous T/RH seems to have recovered around noon today).

TRH response was surprisingly slow. The inlet of the replacement was probably warmed by being hand carried.

Muddy trip at low tide

Kate and I went to 1,5,8 and 15.  

At 1:  removed TP01 to send back to Boulder. This had not been connected to the mote.

At 5: shot azimuths of the 2D and 3D soncis

At 8: shot azumiths

At 15: Shot  azimuths, and removed theTP01 (also had not been connected), at 1:56.  A cable fell from the mote when fiddling there. I plugged it back in and  pressed the I2C rescan button.  Looks like things are working.

 

Daily Log Entry 10-26-2016

Clear, cool, breezy. Light winds

 To do:

  • Reshoot boom angles at site 8 and 15 where we used tripod for stabilizing. We think tripod could be affecting the compass. (must be done at low tide, so this has to wait.
  • Replace T/RH sensor at site 13.
  • Pull soil sensor from Site 1
  • Shoot new angles for sites 5, 10 and 12 (these seem to have the largest discrepancies between past measurements) 

Ongoing:

  • Watching main tower wdir data and forecasts to determine appropriate conditions to have wind turbine turned off (at the request of the PI). She's looking for ENE winds between 40-80deg greater than 5m/s

T/RH: 42m  TRH reporting warmer and drier than at other levels. T/RH at Site 13 not working
P: ok
2D Gill: ok

csat u,v:  ok
csat ldiag: ok
csat w, tc: ok
3D RMY: ok
EC150: ok
motes: ok
Wetness: ok
radiation: ok
Tsoil: ok
Gsoil: ok
Qsoil: Qsoil.5cm.s9 reporting intermittently. 
Cvsoil: ok
Rainr: ok.
Vbatt: ok

Daily Log Entry 10-25-2016

Clear, cool, breezy. Winds prevailed from the NW

 

To do:

  • Reshoot boom angles at site 8 and 15 where we used tripod for stabilizing. We think tripod could be affecting the compass. (must be done at low tide, so this has to wait.
  • Replace T/RH sensor at site 13.

Ongoing:

  • Watching main tower wdir data and forecasts to determine appropriate conditions to have wind turbine turned off (at the request of the PI). She's looking for ENE winds between 40-80deg greater than 5m/s

T/RH: 42m  TRH reporting warmer and drier than at other levels. T/RH at Site 13 failed yesterday
P: ok
2D Gill: ok

csat u,v:  ok
csat ldiag: ok
csat w, tc: ok
3D RMY: ok
EC150: ok
motes: ok
Wetness: ok
radiation: ok
Tsoil: ok
Gsoil: ok
Qsoil: Qsoil.5cm.s9 reporting intermittently. 
Cvsoil: ok
Rainr: ok.
Vbatt: ok

NR01 serial numbers

Info from the three NR01 boxes in the trailer:

typeSN
NR01-101424
NR01-T2-052540
NR01-T2-052541
TRH at s13 bonkers

T and RH at 13 has gone bad.  Ifan looks OK.

Here's the output from a rserial this morning:

rs 2
parameters: 9600 none 8 1 "\n" 1 0 prompted=false
TRH11 878.00 1393.27 33 0 30855 2033 105\r\n
TRH11 878.00 1397.10 34 0 30855 2019 108\r\n
TRH11 893.85 0.00 34 0 31744 16654 108\r\n
TRH11 878.14 1397.97 34 0 30863 2017 106\r\n

Tried a ctrl-U

Sensor ID11 I2C ADD: 12 data rate: 1 (secs) fan(0) max current: 80 (ma)\n
\rCalibration Dates: T - 050516, RH - 062016\r\n
resolution: 12 bits 1 sec MOTE: off\r\n
calibration coefficients:\r\n
Ta0 = -4.110268E+1\r\n
Ta1 = 4.140966E-2\r\n
Ta2 = -3.766565E-7\r\n
Ha0 = -8.208146E+0\r\n
Ha1 = 6.072641E-1\r\n
Ha2 = -4.611539E-4\r\n
Ha3 = 7.249655E-2\r\n
Ha4 = 1.125646E-3\r\n
Fa0 = 3.222650E-1\r\n
\0x15TRH11 897.32 0.00 35 0 31943 16071 109\r\n
\r\n
input command format: cmd [value] [[value] [value] ...]\r\n
\r\n
command\t desc\t\t\ttype\tquantity\r\n
MOT\t1 sec mote flag\t\tbyte\t1\r\n
FID\tFan ID\t\tbyte\t1\r\n
RES\tBit resolution\t\tbyte\t1\r\n
SID\tSensor ID\t\tbyte\t1\r\n
I2C\tI2C address\t\tbyte\t1\r\n
RAT\tData Rate\t\tint\t1\r\n
CUR\tMax Fan current\t\tint\t1\r\n
TM0\ttimer0 count\t\tint\t1\r\n
TA0\tT probe a0 Cof\t\tfloat\t1\r\n
TA1\tT probe a1 Cof\t\tfloat\t1\r\n
TA2\tT probe a2 Cof\t\tfloat\t1\r\n
HA0\tH probe a0 Cof\t\tfloat\t1\r\n
HA1\tH probe a1 Cof\t\tfloat\t1\r\n
HA2\tH probe a2 Cof\t\tfloat\t1\r\n
HA3\tH probe a3 Cof\t\tfloat\t1\r\n
HA4\tH probe a4 Cof\t\tfloat\t1\r\n
FA0\tFan current Cof\t\tfloat\t1\r\n
EEC\tclear EEPROM space\r\n
DEF\tDEFAULT flag\r\n
CMD\tprint command list\r\n
EXT\texit EEPROM handler\r\n
Warning: Upon exit EEPROM data will be downloaded to RAM\r\n
\n

Then EXT

Exit EEPROM LOADER - reset will take place\r\n
\r Sensor ID11 I2C ADD: 12 data rate: 1 (secs) fan(0) max current: 80 (ma)\n
\rCalibration Dates: T - 050516, RH - 062016\r\n
resolution: 14 bits 1 sec MOTE: off\r\n
calibration coefficients:\r\n
Ta0 = -4.110268E+1\r\n
Ta1 = 4.140966E-2\r\n
Ta2 = -3.766565E-7\r\n
Ha0 = -8.208146E+0\r\n
Ha1 = 6.072641E-1\r\n
Ha2 = -4.611539E-4\r\n
Ha3 = 7.249655E-2\r\n
Ha4 = 1.125646E-3\r\n
Fa0 = 3.222650E-1\r\n
TRH11 896.21 0.00 34 0 31879 31879 106\r\n
TRH11 -126.84 0.00 34 0 -2033 16700 106\r\n
TRH11 511.88 0.00 35 0 15555 4803 109\r\n
TRH11 879.09 0.00 35 0 30915 20679 109\r\n

Tried power cycling with "tio 2 0" , "tio 2 1" but the T,RH are still bad.

We have 2 spares.  Will test those in the trailer and replace the unit at 13.

 

 

Clear, cool, breezy. Winds out of NW, but not NE, unfortuately.  Don't see NE winds in the next 10 day forecast.

Kate not feeling well.

Software/configuration changes:

  • Removied ".mN" from wisard variables, so they now just have a site suffix, except when multiple motes were at s15.
  • Added  "ldiag" for tower RMY sonics
  • Moved pressure plot (with Pirga) to tide, rain plot.
  • Added some plot titles
  • Make separate Tsoil profiles at the 3 stations.

Yesterday: Per SteveO's suggestion, emptied (about 2") water from the battery box at tower.  Voltage was healthy: 13V.

To do:

  • Reshoot boom angles at site 8 and 15 where we used tripod for stabilizing. We think tripod could be affecting the compass. (must be done at low tide, so this has to wait.
  • Shoot sonics on tower.

Ongoing:

  • Watching main tower wdir data and forecasts to determine appropriate conditions to have wind turbine turned off (at the request of the PI). She's looking for ENE winds between 40-80deg greater than 5m/s

T/RH: 42m  TRH reporting warmer and drier than at other levels. 
P: ok
2D Gill: ok

csat u,v:  ok
csat ldiag: ok
csat w, tc: ok
3D RMY: ok
EC150: ok
motes: ok
Wetness: ok
radiation: ok
Tsoil: ok
Gsoil: ok
Qsoil: Qsoil.5cm.s9 reporting intermittently
Cvsoil: ok
Rainr: ok.
Vbatt: ok

Clear, cool, breezy.

UDel network down yesterday. Things are mostly up now, but eddy cannot do http/ftp requests to the outside.  UPD data coming in though.

To do:

  • Reshoot boom angles at site 8 and 15 where we used tripod for stabilizing. We think tripod could be affecting the compass. (must be done at low tide, so this has to wait.
  • Shoot sonics on tower.

Ongoing:

  • Watching main tower wdir data and forecasts to determine appropriate conditions to have wind turbine turned off (at the request of the PI). She's looking for ENE winds between 40-80deg greater than 5m/s

T/RH: 42m  TRH reporting warmer and drier than at other levels.
P: ok
2D Gill: ok

csat u,v:  ok
csat ldiag: ok
csat w, tc: ok
3D RMY: ok
EC150: ok
motes: ok
Wetness: ok
radiation: ok
Tsoil: ok
Gsoil: ok
Qsoil: Qsoil.5cm.m1.s9 reporting intermittently
Cvsoil: ok
Rainr: ok.
Vbatt: ok

UDel network link down

This afternoon the link to the internet from the trailer went down.  The router could not make a connection on the UDel WAN.

Campus security stopped by the trailer to let us know it is a known issue and is being worked on.

Fairly windy with strong gusts. Temperatures in the 50s and overcast

 

To do:

  • Reshoot boom angles at site 8 and 15 where we used tripod for stabilizing. We think tripod could be affecting the compass. (must be done at low tide, so this has to wait. High tide starts around 10)

Ongoing:

  • Watching main tower wdir data and forecasts to determine appropriate conditions to have wind turbine turned off (at the request of the PI). She's looking for ENE winds between 40-80deg greater than 5m/s

 

T/RH: 42m  TRH still reporting warmer and drier than at other levels. RH at site 8 has dropped out for a period two nights in a row. Last night for about 2 hours, but it recovered.

P: ok
2D Gill: ok
csat u,v:  ok
csat ldiag: ok
csat w, tc: ok
3D RMY: ok
EC150: ok
motes: ok
Wetness: ok
radiation: ok
Tsoil: ok
Gsoil: ok
Qsoil: Qsoil.5cm.m1.s9 contained many NA values today, during each 6 hours cycle. Its been determined this measurement is bad.!
Cvsoil: ok
Rainr: ok.
Vbatt: ok