Oct 14. Arrived on site 10:55 MDT.
Kurt Knudson and Gordon Maclean (EOL) and Fabian Guerrero and Armando Cisneros from CISL/NETS.
Installed DC power supply in the power/network enclosure at turbulence tower. It is charging one battery for the beacon and ?? batteries for the data system and sensors
Removed solar panels and other batteries from the site.
Fabian and Armando terminated and tested the fibers, installed fiber patch panels
at the tower enclosure and in the seatainer, and connected the fiber/copper media converters. The media converters (need model number) are temperature rated from 0 to 50 degC. At the enclosure the converter is in the metal enclosure with the power supply. Hopefully the converter's own heat will keep it warm enough.
The 30 foot run of ethernet cable from the enclosure to the data system at the tower is currently an indoor-rated cat 5 cable, with RJ45 connectors on each end. It is routed through a 1/2 hole in the side of the adam. It should be replaced with an outdoor rated cable through conduit.
We removed the WIFI equipment and cables at the turbulence tower and the walkup tower.
Configured the data system with IP address 192.168.100.202. With the fiber link it is now directly on the 192.168.100 subnet.
The etherant (unit C) at the turbulence tower was not working. Saw no light on the power LED, but the DC-DC converter was delivering 15 V to the interface panel inside the adam.
The adam had been working, even though it wasn't reachable over the wifi because of the problem with etherant C. The pocketec (#5) contained 12 days of data. Swapped in pocketec #3 and brought back #5 to Boulder.
Updated the NIDAS software on the system, revision 4985.
Measured the power draw of the data system with 5 sonics, GPS, barometer, PC104 stack and pocketec disk (no etherant): 12.8 Volts, current 1.4 to 1.61 A.
The fiber link was operational at 2:20 MDT. Left site shortly after. Late lunch at the BuckSnort in Sphinx Park.