Overcast, rain off and on last night and more expected today. No IOP tonight.
- lconv down again, as expected, since there would have been no charging after I reoriented solar panels last evening
- I think relm stayed up (since cockpit is still running), presumably because I swapped in the battery last night
- csat3a.1.5m.rel still bad. We probably should swap in the .a1 head.
Actions done today:
- swapped csat3aw.1.5m.a1.rel with csat3aw.1.5.rel. a1 is now bad, as expected, but a lower priority
- taped up the cable end of the other 3 Gill WindObservers (but upon inspection, they all seemed dry and clean, despite rain overnight)
- added a pmon usb cable to relt (still need to add it to the config)
- added a third solar panel to each of the lconv and rel power systems, i.e 3 panels now go into 1 charger with 2 batteries, then duplicated at each site
- swapped a charged battery into each bank of lconv (though the old lconv batteries seemed to have charged up in the broken-to-scattered skies today). In the process, momentarily shorted the charge controller at lconv.a1, causing one of the ground traces to burn up!. Rewired the controller to make this work again. Drat.
- measured all guy wire tensions. Kate will have updated the wiki table by now.
- found that lconv2's Pi had locked up – perhaps associated with the power work I did earlier. Cycling power brought it back.
FYI, just after we returned to the hotel after dinner (about 9pm) a gust front with short-lived, but intense rain, went through. Radar showed that it went through the field site perhaps 30min earlier, with winds up to 10 m/s.