11:00 Pond wetness running again. Used another wisard board with I2C address 0x39. Had
to modify xml.
Cleaned domes while out there.
P.S. I recall that we had this replacement sensor shipped in from Boulder, hence the delay in getting it deployed.
8:15 - 9:15 There will be some tower climbing this morning. Ned is collecting data
with the LAI-2000 instrument. After that we will work on the 32m serial mote.
Weather: Cloudy, should burn off later today with no rain expected
Summary: Par, Tsfc, and wetness at 32m still down. Wetness at pond down. Sonic at 20m went out last night
at about 22:00. It came back to life around 7:00am this morning.
Sonics: ok, monitor 20m sonic
TRH, P: ok
Wind Speed & Dir: ok
Soil, Rainr: Tsoila & Tsoilb at 4.cm still bad, Qsoil.b intermittent through the night
Vmote (rad, a, a2, b): 11.9 to 12.4
Radiation, Wetness: wetness at pond still down, will install today
H2O, CO2: Krypton at 13.9m low signal through the night, coming in this morning
System (GPS, Vdsm): ok
Pond: ok except for wetness
16:00 The serial mote at 32m is down. based on data plots this occurred at about 11:00am.
DSM command eio did not bring it back to life. Due to present weather conditions we will hold off till tomorrow to investigate.
Just a light shower this time. Hope Steve and Jen are just about done with their Lidar work! Also a chance to see if the understory tipping bucket works again.
10:30 Upon inspection found the tipping bucket tube at soil.b was clogged with ill-defined organic matter.
Since the funnel was full, I tried to allow this water to be measured (post-rain), but only was able to get 2--3 tips to register. Also, this likely would have been an under-report since the funnel's capacity had been exceeded.
We have decided that checking for clogs should be a regular maintenance task.
Just to note:
During SCP, "cactus" wasn't charging for the first 18 days, during which time Vmote dropped from 12.9->11.3V, or about 0.1V/day.
I note that Tsoil.a2, which doesn't have a solar panel, over the last 2.5 days has dropped from 12.8->12.5, or about 0.1V/day.
It is nice to see consistency...
See subject. We also note that Tsoil.4.4cm.a appears to have become bad after an earlier rain event (Jun 7), though there was a data outage at that time.
Weather: Partly cloudy, maybe rain in the afternoon
Summary: 32m sonic down this morning (4:00 to 7:00). Back up, will monitor, no rain on rainr.b, Will check.
Sonics: ok, see note above
TRH, P: ok
Wind Speed & Dir: ok
Soil, Rainr: Tsoilb @ 4,4cm seems to be misbehaving. Rain event early this morning, ~3:00am, no rain action on rainr.b
Vmote (rad, a, a2, b): 11.8 to 12.5
Radiation, Wetness:ok, wetness at pond still down, waiting for spare
H2O, CO2: Krypton signals low, likely due to water on the lenses
System (GPS, Vdsm): ok
Pond: ok except for wetness
32m statistics were down (sonic, licor, pressure) at 32m from about 0400-0700 this morning. They are back now, either by themselves or by some action from Gordon.
This is related to a second rain event last night.
14:55 A storm has fell upon us. The skies started darking and the winds picked up about 15 minutes ago then
somebody turned on the garden hose! Winds on cockpit pushing 20 m/s at the top levels.
Wind just picked up from the WSW, with lightning upwind. We've heard things blowing around in the trees. Winds at the tower top gusting to 19m/s! Hopefully, the tower stays up...
11:30 - 13:50: The 8KVA blew its fuse so Steve and I decide to remove the surge suppression black box. It turned into a bigger deal since we had
to remove a side panel that had some rivets. To add to the fun, while going out to the site the car decided to place a small rock
between the brake pad and a pad cover which resulted in a horrible noise. So one of us played mechanic and the other electrician.
Weather: cloudy, potential rain this afternoon.
Summary: Wetness at pond down.
Sonics: ok, some LDIAG activity this morning (~6:30) on 43
TRH, P: ok, humidity pushing 100%
Wind Speed & Dir: ok
Soil, Rainr: ok
Vmote (rad, a, a2, b): 12 to 12.6
Radiation, Wetness: ok
H2O, CO2: ok
System (GPS, Vdsm): ok
Pond: ok, wetness out