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Another banner day!
Kudos to my fabulous team, Chris, Gordon, and Gary Granger.
NEAR is instrumented except for a Krypton.
We also put up BASE and instrumented the 449 tower (wind head).
September 29
far FAR was instrumented (needs press pressure hose and grounding of dsm and soils turned on).
base BASE was mostly instrumented (needs 10 m sonic and networking).
networking Networking was worked on at near and rim.
solar Solar and rad was were worked on at near.
September 30
far FAR is finished (installed dsm gnds, turned on soils mote and installed press pressure port hose)
NEAR near is finished (beacon pwr cable, kH2O installed, mote and battery and cables for the SPN 1 sensor, dressed tower cables, etc.
rim RIM is finished
lidar power Power and Ethernet is installed for ASU lidar.
Chris: Our installation Our in ops in the crater was were very productive. These are the updates for the crater...
...Updates:
Met tower instrumented BUT had some complications:
-no power cable to solar panels
-no ethernet cables to UofU LIDAR
-solar stand (dark horse) is not in place
Pressure stands:
-all SSW, S, NNE and FLR pressures have been placed and check checked by SabastionSebastian.
-no sonic towers have been erected but the pressure transducers have been turned on for communication purposeschecks.
-Solar panels have not been brought to areas of these the sonic sites
Poopy PortaPotty
-Crapper PortaPotty has been installed on the Westside of mine fence
-Poopy buckets Composting need filled for usage.
-Tied down for high winds
October 1
Chris has spent two days in the crater, and accomplished the impossible.
All at FLR is operational now. (minus the two outlying sonics which have a potential battery-charging problem due to little sun)
Kurt spent the day with the county building inspector, who signed the permits, and cleaning up around the base site.
Slight problem with the power for the ASU Lidar which is stuck in London. Transformer and 240 V extension cord are fried. We will just use a 120 V extension cord and possibly move the ASU Lidar closer to the ISFS base.
Chris:
FLR is complete. All instruments are communicating BUT sonics at SSW2 and SSW4. Towers are installed at those two sites for pressure but no sonics. Hardware and ECHO boxes are at tower sites for sonic install. Installed one 64W panel at each tower hoping to get enough charge. SSW2 seems to have good sun but not SSW4...extremely steep. Solar panel is resting on sonic box that is held up by piled rocks. DO NOT CLIMB THESE TOWERS! PortaPotty is ready for use. Need toilet paper.
Tom:
Dave and I worked with the STEM Journals filming crew most of the day. Dave was going to take them into the crater today.