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Loaner licor (0287) is up and reporting.

SOAS ISFS Status, June 12, 2013

Summary: 32m Licor out, w/ replacement in base trailer being configured.  20m Licor is out.  Not reporting at all.  4.4cm soil temp is still flaky.  8m sonic was flaky last night.

Sonics: ok, w/ 8m was flaky last night but good now.

TRH, P:  ok

Wind speed & direction: ok

Soil, Rainr: Tsoil.4.4cm bad, may add additional Tsoil to replace this unit (an Oncley install)

Vmote.(rad,a,b):  all approx. 13.0V

Radiation, Wetness: ok

h2o, co2: 32m Licor gone.  20m Licor sick.  Kryptons both around 0.2V.

System (GPS, Vdsm): ok 

All Optics Cleaned

Cleaned all Licors, Kryptons, PARs, CNR4, 4-comp, Sunshine (both) and Pyranometer today.

webcam

The webcam appears to have resest itself back to factory settings, and as a result quit ftp-ing photos on Jun 7 13:17 UTC, 08:17 CDT. Last photo was 00B8FB0103C0(webcam)_0_20130607131722_1362.jpg

I reset things back and saved the config on flux: /usr/local/isff/projects/SOAS/ISFF/config/webcam_config.bin

The first photo after the restart was at time 2013 jun 11 16:45:47 UTC,

Here are some of the settings:

Alias Settings:
webcam

Date&Time
Timezone GMT
Sync with NTP Server yes
Ntp Server: ... 192.168.0.10

Basic Network
Obtain from DHCP Server: no
IP Addr: 192.168.0.90
Subnet: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.0.10
DNS Server: 192.168.90

Note that 192.168.0.10 is not an actual gateway to the internet. That is on purpose. We don't want the webcam to try to access the internet. We also set the DNS server to itself, otherwise the POS frequently tries to lookup an address for some hostname I've forgotten.

FTP Service Settings
Server 192.168.0.10
Port 21
User anonymous
Password: webcam (doesn't really matter)
Upload Folder: pub/isfs
Mode: PORT
Upload Interval: 600

In the real-time image window:
infinity sign: does this switch on the IR band?

Resolution: 640x480
mode: outdoor (don't know if it does anything)

The photo files are ftp'd to /var/ftp/pub/isfs on flux.

SOAS ISFS Status, June 11, 2013

Summary:  32m Licor is gone and expecting a loaner by tomorrow (12th).  Watching 8m level.

Sonics: ok, watching the 8m sonic.

TRH, P, p: ok

Wind speed & direction: ok

Soil, Rainr: ok

Vmote.(a,b,rad):  all around 13.0V

Radiation, Wetness: ok

h2o, co2:  ok, 32m licor has been removed and waiting on loaner.

System (GPS, Vdsm): ok

32m Licor Removed

Removed the 32m Licor.  Waiting on replaced (loaner) from Licor and shipping bad back to company.

Replaced all mote (rad,a,b).  Charging replaced batteries in base trailer.

Also, turned GPS off on Soilb.

SOAS ISFS Status, June 10, 2013

Summary: 32m Licor out, but rebooted and seem to have come back to life.  Will replace (tomorrow) with a loaner that Licor is sending today.  Soilb is out due to low voltage.  Will replace all batteries at one time. 

Sonics: ok

TRH, P:  ok

Wind speed & direction: ok

Soil, Rainr: Tsoil.4.4cm bad, may add additional Tsoil to replace this unit.

Vmote.(rad,a,b):  ~12.4V, 11.7V, <9.0V

Radiation, Wetness: ok

h2o, co2: 32m Licor sick. kh2oV.(2m, 13.9m) ~ 0.18, 0.24 V  (rain overnight with new horizontal orientation)

System (GPS, Vdsm): ok 

Andrew told us today that the 3kVA transformer blew it's surge fuse last night. He did some swapping of which instrument was tied to that leg and things seem to be fine now.

20m CSAT

Here's a snippet of hex data from the 20m CSAT while it was misbehaving. Basically a sample or two are mangled:

2013 06 08 16:01:35.1633  0.0489      12 e2 fb 5f 02 dc 05 55 1d f3 0f 55 aa 
2013 06 08 16:01:35.2196 0.05629      14 48 fc 44 02 fd 09 2a 32 e4 d5 64 0f 55 aa 
2013 06 08 16:01:35.3650  0.1454      23 a9 fb 2f 02 ec 05 52 ff aa a5 ff 71 fb 35 02 bd 05 5f 1d f8 0f 55 aa 
2013 06 08 16:01:35.4635 0.09851      12 c9 fb 16 02 d7 05 64 1d f9 0f 55 aa 
2013 06 08 16:01:35.5134 0.04988      12 f7 fb 35 02 f9 05 59 1d fa 0f 55 aa 

June 8 ~ 12:30 CDT - Chris oriented the krypton sensor heads horizontal to hopefully accelerated drying after rain.  They are below the boom and immediately behind the sonic head.

Licor 7500 at 32m

Licor at 32m stopped reporting again this morning.

Power cycling didn't help:

ssh mid
eio 9 0
eio 9 1

Also tried minicom, sending a BREAK (ctrl-A F) and the Outputs command. No response.

Here's the LICOR 7500 configuration for SOASl, output at 20 Hz, bandwidth 20Hz:

(Outputs (BW 20) (RS232 (Freq 20.0)  (Baud 19200) (EOL "0A") (Labels FALSE) (DiagRec FALSE) (Ndx FALSE) (Aux FALSE) (Cooler FALSE) (CO2Raw TRUE) (CO2D TRUE) (H2ORaw TRUE) (H2OD TRUE) (Temp  TRUE) (Pres TRUE) (DiagVal TRUE)))
(Outputs ?)
Daily status, June 9

SOAS ISFS Status, June 9, 2013

Summary: 32m Licor out; 20m sonic looks okay after 01:00 last night.  Soil.a okay except for Tsoil.4.4cm.a

Sonics: ok; 20m sonic now looks okay

TRH, P, p: Ifan.8m=0; restarted at 9:23 CDT

Wind speed & direction: ok

Soil, Rainr: soil.a mote as been working since Chris gave it love yesterday, however Tsoil.4.4cm now bad.

        Vmote.(rad,a,b) ~12.5, 19.9, 11.4 V.

Radiation, Wetness: ok

h2o, co2: 32m Licor not reporting.  kh2oV.(3m, 13.9m) ~ 0.37, 0.33 V  

System (GPS, Vdsm): ok 

June 8, 9:23 - Ifan.8m = 0, recycled power on TRH.8m to start fan

20m sonic is suspect

June 8: 2:40 - Note that the 20m sonic has anomolously high temperature variance and ldiag since ~ 20:00 June 7.