Started working through the burn-in punch list, with an emphasis on the sites that have been down...

s6:

  • found that the bank2 fuse (1A) was blown, cutting off power to the FTDI board, USB devices, and of course the sensors.  Replaced with a 2A fuse. 
  • We didn't do anything special to the radiometer, and assume that the fuse issue was related to the NR01 outage in the data matrix.

s7:

  • found no manfrotto and thus radiometer.  Installed the manfrotto, and had a radiometer, but not a boom or top plate, so couldn't finish the install.
  • Not sure what we did that would have brought up the soils – the mote and sensors were already installed.

s8:

  • again, the bank2 fuse was thee culprit, and replaced with 2A. 
  • Yes, a strange install close to trees and a steep drop to the north.  I had thought this might have been installed a bit higher on the south side of the road, but not going to change now! 
  • Also found that the modem worked better outside the box than inside, despite a lot of towers being pretty close.  Chose to install an external omni antenna, which perked up the cell signal. 
  • Also, as with s15 yesterday, had to uncomment the RawSampleOutputStream on the station to get data flowing to barolo. 
  • I think Isabel also enabled the 4-hour watchdog.

Stopped for lunch at the El Capitan campground "market" and had a wicked Janga competition...

s3: needed a soil sensor installation.  Also, white tape around NR01 had popped open with the ventillation and was repaired.

s1:

  • needed both normal and "cr" soil installation.  This install was horrible, with very hard and dry ground.  I ended up placing both the TP01 AND the Gsoil in holes and covering them – something I've almost never done. 
  • Fan not wired on this NR01. 
  • Found that the OTT wasn't working, so replaced.  (I'm hoping that it is just a configuration issue.) 
  • The SHT probe had become loose under the Gortex cap.  We ended up replacing the entire SHT probe because I wasn't sure of the correct SHT85 orientation.  (I'll check this later in the base.)

A pretty good day to address a lot of issues!


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  1. Gary Granger

    So was anything done about a cell antenna at s6?  That site is still dropping off the net regularly.

    1. Isabel Suhr

      No, still haven't looked at a cell antenna there.