Several fix-it tasks today:

  • found loose screw inside solar panel junction box supplying power to lconvm.  Now Icharge between lconvt and lconvm are the same, though still pretty marginal during today's totally overcast sky.  We may yet want to swap/add batteries.
  • added Ubiquiti to lconv.a1 as access point for P4.  Thought we had prepped by telling P4 to use the new SSID (now savant4, rather than savant, for this link), but the Ubiquti firmware wanted us to enter a confirmation command so it didn't take.  Later did the command at P4 and got it back on the network.  Repointed P4 Ubiquiti azimuth a bit.  Note that this link doesn't have line-of-sight, since the AP is only at 10' on lconv.a1.  P4 can only see above 7m on lconv, nevertheless, we got a link of about 67dB; 30Mb/s.  No error messages now display on the ustar console (that has been very distracting).
  • added usb cable to dustrack.6m.rel
  • reseated usb cable to dustrack.6m.lconv
  • replaced TRH housing at 6m.rel, with a very noisy fan
  • found chewed-up ethernet cable causing outages on relt, replaced with consumer grade, so this one will get eaten as well.  We are now on the search for better cable sleeving
  • various cable bundling and protection at lconv and rel

I note that the PIs have added AC power to rel, though AC would be live only during IOPs when the generator is turned on.  We definitely will NOT CLIMB when AC is live.  The connections are not weather-tight.  I just taped up the ones that I noticed, but this should be improved.

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  1. Steve Oncley AUTHOR

    Hendrik did swap out the two lconvm batteries, so the voltages now look like lconvt and <may> last the night...