Steve and I took a short trip to Marshall today, primarily to meet with NETS about networking for the ISFS tower. We worked out that they will activate a port for us in the further-out pedestal than the one we were looking at, and will leave a cable for us to set up the ubiquiti with on Thursday. We also discussed networking for ISS some, and decided the solution that will probably work best for the MISS trailer and iss5 is to set up ubiquiti links to the pedestal near the HAO trailer. Once we're ready to do that we'll let them know and they can turn on a port.

After that we took a quick stop at the tower. We brought out a good battery for the generator, but haven't run it yet since we still haven't gotten gas. Steve added waterproofing to the connections between extension cords and I got the MAC address of the dsm so we can get it a static IP. We tried a new USB cable to the power monitor, which now shows up as a USB device on the dsm and is giving data. However, now we're having problems with the serial board blowing fuses, so I couldn't check the rest of the data. We will need to bring fuses on Thursday so we can do more troubleshooting. We mounted the ubiquiti at the tower, pointing toward the pedestal, but haven't tested that yet (waiting on other ubiquiti and static IPs). 

To do on Thurday:

  • Gas for generator
  • Mount ubiquiti at pedestal, mount waterproofing box for POE injector
  • Set static IPs for ubiquitis and DSM (assuming I have heard back from CISL)
  • Check ubiquiti connection (looks like line-of-sight won't be a problem)
  • Lower tower (once we have gas in generator) and:
    • Replace tape w/ bulgin caps on EC100 boxes
    • Remove tennis ball
  • DSM serial board troubleshooting. Bring some fuses and maybe try unplugging sensors one by one to see when it fails.

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  1. Steve Oncley

    Went out on 5/27 and addressed all issues:

    Gas: Added 3 gallons to the tank, which moved the gauge from slightly below empty to about 0.6.  Label on the side of the tank says it should be 7 gallons, so it appears that we have to recalibrate the gauge a bit.  Generator worked fine with the new battery.

    Network: CWIG had given Isabel .81 subnet static IP addresses, which we loaded into the Ubquitis and DSM.  She was able to access them from the guest WiFi network at Marshall, but is having trouble now back at the FLAB.

    DSM: Using a 3A fuse for Bank2(?) brought back the FTDI board and sensors, though Isabel had to play with pio to get the sensors active.