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Sept 27

Sept 27

Kurt and I installed NCAR barometer 0001 from the Manitou Beachon tower at station A3 today.  We did not have a serial cable at the time, but Kurt will take one to the site this afternoon.

Sept 27:

Kurt and I installed CSAT 0800 from the Manitou Beachon tower at station 6.  Unfortunately we do not have a CSAT cable, but Jielun will bring one from Boulder on Friday.

Serial TRHs at the Ah (1,2,3,5,6), C and M towers report their serial numbers in every data record, and so they can be displayed in real-time with rserial, or from the data archive with data_dump. At the Ah sites, sensor id N,40 is the 0.5m TRH and N,50 is the 2m TRH, where N is the station number:

data_dump -i 1,40 -A isfs_20120927_080000.dat.bz2 
data_dump -i 1,50 -A isfs_20120927_080000.dat.bz2 

TRHs that are sampled by Wisard motes report their serial numbers periodically in the Wisard message block. NIDAS processing, such as statsproc, logs the Wisard sensor serial numbers that it finds in the data archive. One can grep the output of statsproc for the string TRH. The 0.5m TRH reports as sensorType 0x10, the 2 m as 0x11.

2012-09-27,09:16:36|INFO|A4:/dev/ttyS1: 2012 09 20 21:34:05.932, mote=4, sensorType=0x10 SN=52, typeName=TRH
2012-09-27,09:16:36|INFO|A4:/dev/ttyS1: 2012 09 20 21:34:05.932, mote=4, sensorType=0x11 SN=59, typeName=TRH

The TRH serial numbers of the initial deployment on Sep 20/21 are as follows, along with the UTC date, time and serial number date after a unit swap. The ids of the TRHs on the C and M towers are also shown.

The 0.5m TRH on 19, serial number 46, has failed. It worked initially after deployment from 9/20 16:00 MDT til 9/22 06:30 MDT, and then didn't report for 2 hours, then ran for 16 hours, then didn't report for 8.5 hours. It was removed from A19 yesterday, 9/26.

Sept 26, 2012

Gordon noticed a power dropout at stn 12 during the night.  He replaced the 12 V battery.

Sept 26, 2012

Gordon and I investigated three stations with a bad TRH:

Stn 5: The TRH on serial port 5 at 2.5m was dead on arrival; no fan running; it had blown the 12V power fuse.  We replaced it with a spare unit but used the original SHT sensor.   Returned bad TRH to the base.

Stn 19: The TRH with mote id 10 at 0.5m was bad (but fan running).  Tried replacing SHT but did not help.  Returned bad TRH to base with original SHT.

Tower C: The TRH on serial port 6 at 1m had a bad cable.  Replaced cable.

Today:

- Sonics 672 and 1123 were FedEx'd from Boulder to Campbell, after determining (through swapping head/electronics) that 1123's head was bad (and we knew that 672's head was loose).  Ed thought it was possible that these could be returned by mid next week.

- Chris and Lisa removed sonics from the 8m and 30m levels at MFO (sorry, Ned) and brought them back to Boulder.  Kurt will take them to SCP tomorrow to (finally) install A6 and replace A17.  We'll look at the data to see if sending A17 back to Campbell is justified.

- While at MFO, Chris and Lisa also replaced a PTB220 barometer with the MPL solid-state barometer.  Kurt also will take the PTB220 to SCP tomorrow to install at A3.  I verified that data were coming in from the MPL.  Note that I deleted the reference to a qc_file P.dat in manitou.xml (only on this DSM) since the default $QC didn't point to it and thus produced NANs.

SCP status 9/25 & 9/26 (rad & soil)

?I cycled through the dsm's and used rserial to examine each serial port.

Summary:

Known problem with Emerald card on A3.

Missing barometer at A3

TRH not reporting: s5 on A5 (no dc power on s5) & S6 on C20.

TRH data is nan, s1 on A19.

CSAT missing on A6

Ah1  s1 trh ok

        s2 csat ok (esc-h)
        s5 trh ok
        s6 handar ok
        s7 power ok (mote_dump 1,35)

Ah2  s1 trh ok
        s2 csat ok
        s5 trh ok
        s6 handar ok    
        s7 power ok 

Aph3 s1 p ** no data **
        s2 csat ok
        s5 trh ** emerald problem **
        s6 trh ** emerald problem **
        s7 handar ** emerald problem **

A4    s1 trh 10 ok (mote_dump 4,4)
        s1 trh 11 ok
        s1 power ok
        s2 csat ok

Ah5  s1 trh ok
        s2 csat ok
        s5 trh ** not reporting **
        s6 handar ok    
        s7 power ok

Ah6  s1 trh ok
        s2 ** csat missing **
        s5 trh ok
        s6 handar ok    
        s7 power ok

A7    s1 trh 10 ok (mote_dump 4,4)
        s1 trh 11 ok
        s1 power 13.8V
        s2 csat ok

Ap8  s1 p ok
        s2 csat ok
        bt trh 10 ok
        bt trh 11 ok

Ap9  s1 p ok
       s2 csat ok
        bt trh 10 ok
        bt trh 11 ok

Ap10 s1 p ok
        s2 csat ok
        bt trh 10 ok
        bt trh 11 ok
        bt power 13.8V

Ars11 s2 csat ok
        bt trh 10 ok
        bt trh 11 ok
        bt power 13.2V
        bt radiation ok (40)
        bt wetness ok (40)
        bt soil grass ok (41)
        bt soil cactus ok (42)

Ap12 s1 p ok
        s2 csat ok
        bt trh 10 ok
        bt trh 11 ok
        bt power 13.5V

A13  s1 trh 10 ok 
        s1 trh 11 ok
        s1 power 14.0V
        s2 csat ok

Ap14 s1 p ok
        s2 csat ok
        bt trh 10 ok
        bt trh 11 ok
        bt power 13.8V

A15  s1 trh 10 ok
        s1 trh 11 ok
        s1 power 14.0V
        s2 csat ok

A16  s1 trh 10 ok
        s1 trh 11 ok
        s1 power 14.0V
        s2 csat ok

A17  s1 trh 10 ok
        s1 trh 11 ok
        s1 power 13.5V
        s2 csat ok

A18  s1 trh 10 ok
        s1 trh 11 ok
        s1 power 13.8V
        s2 csat ok

A19  s1 trh 10 ** nan **
        s1 trh 11 ok
        s1 power 13.9V
        s2 csat ok

C20     s1 handar ok
        s2 trh ok
        s5 csat ok
        s6 trh ** not reporting **
        s7 trh ok
        s8 csat ok
        s9 trh ok
        10 p ok

M21  s1 csat ok
        s2 trh ok
        s5 csat ok
        s6 licor ok
        s7 p ok
        s8 trh ok
        s9 csat ok
        s10 licor ok
        s11 trh ok
        s12 csat ok
        s13 trh ok
        s14 csat ok
        s15 trh ok
        s16 csat ok
        s17 p ok
        s18 Picarro ** not reporting **

M22  s1 trh ok
        s2 handar ok
        s5 trh ok
        s6 handar ok
        s7 csat ok
        s8 trh ok
        s9 handar ok
        s10 csat ok
        s11 p ok

Sensor I.D.'s for the main tower:

20m         CSAT   0741

               PRES   B4

15m        Handar    678

               TRH       10

10m         CSAT    1119

               KH2O   1393

 8m          Handar     0370003

               TRH       20

 6m          Handar        1528

                TRH         4

 5m         CSAT         0671

              KH2O        1389

              Micro Baro ?

 4m         CSAT     0738

              TRH      6

 3m        CSAT    0540

             TRH    ?

 2.5m     TRH      12

2m          CSAT       0538

              Licor        1163

1.5m       TRH      37

1m         CSAT     1117

             Licor      1167

             PRES   B7

.5m        CSAT      1455

             TRH         13

Sept 24:

Five sites had bad/missinig/no-serial-cable sonics:

A6 - missing sonic: no change

A12 - bad sonic: replaced S/N 1123 with S/N 0855

A17 - (formerly) bad sonic:  seems to have fixed itself for the moment, no action taken

A19 - missing sonic: installed S/N 0178

M, serial port 12: missing cable:  installed new cable

Kurt is taking 1123 back to Boulder for Chris to test and likely ship to Campbell

Thus we need only one good sonic to install at A6 

Here is my current list -- not <too> long, but some serious:

A3 add barometer (since short one, might steal C20's)

A6 add CSAT (still at CSI?)

A8 barometer not mounted at correct height -- Jielun may do using level or theodolite.

A12 sonic can't acquire signal; head ok, connector ok, power ok, cable ok

A17 sonic can't acquire signal; head ok, connector ok, power ok, cable ok

A19 sonic back in Boulder since loose head

A19 GPS reports GSx messages (Gordon couldn't fix)

M21 3m sonic missing serial cable (Chris is fixing at FLAB?)

Also:

Set-up base computer; data archiving, statsproc, cockpit, WWW plots, etc.

Power, networking, space in base trailer, etc. for Christoph
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Since the array is broken, it needs to be returned to CSI.

I had a broken wire inside the tan box.

Installed the last M tower TRH at about 3.1m (due to other stuff on tower).

S/N 3

Repaired the chewed cable and reinstalled.