IOP3 began today, with no glaring issues across the array. Jacquie and I had an easy morning and handled the 4 and 7 pm radiosonde launches at ISS2. 

Ongoing issues:

  • S10: The Victron continues to drop out regularly, but it also comes back up by restarting Nidas remotely (done at 20:50 tonight). 
  • S18: The wetness sensor needs to be reseated. We will visit tomorrow afternoon, where we will also start the 2nd round of soil samples.
  • S16: CO2 is bad more often than not. Jacquie will show me how to replace the desiccant on one of our spare EC150's at base so that I can do it at some point in the future. 

2 Comments

  1. Isabel Suhr

    You could consider replacing the Victron usb cable, if you haven't already. There should be several spare ones in the spares box. Our best guess about the similar issues with some HRXLs at CFACT was that some of their usb-serial cables were bad, which is why we saw the disconnects at only some sites, so this may be a similar issue. Not sure if it'll help but seems worth a try if you end up at s10 again.

  2. Steve Oncley

    There is a ziploc bag with several spare Victron cables in the "spares tub" in the pickup.