CuPIDO: Site 1 Messages, 23 Entries..

When I removed the TRH from site 1 I noticed that the fan blade was not attached
to the motor. This was detected when the TRH position was changed from
horizontal to vertical.

1 test tip at 11:36.

Changed Rnet desiccant at 11:35 MST.

A.J.I. and Steve S. arrived at 11:32 and left at ~12:00

Activities:
- Changed battery for electric fence
- Replaced desiccant on the Rnet, appeared clean
- 1 test tip at 11:36

Cleaned Rnet at 10:32

Replaced rain gauge at 10:28 and did 10 test tips at 10:30 and one further one
with water at 10:31.

A.J.I. and Steve O. arrived at 10:27 MST, and left at 10:48

Activities:
- Replace broken rain gauge at 10:28 MST
- 10 Test tips at 10:30
- 1 test tip with water at 10:31
- No need to replace the TRH fan, it sounds good
- Cleaned Rnet at 10:32 
- Grounded the datalogger Box

Rain guage not working due to electric shock.

The Rnet was hooked up at 11:34 MST, but was wired backwards for a few minutes 
before that. Later entered the calibration coefficient for the new Rnet at 
12:24 MST, changed values from 9.66 to 9.00 and 11.81 to 11.18.

Hooked up TRH at 11:00 but logger not hooked up until 11:02. Fan had a peculiar sound with not enough velocity. Dismounted TRH at 11:47 to inspect and the fan 
blade came off the mount. Glued back on, but the fan still sounds wimpy. The TRH
was back up at 12:19. 

A.J.I. and Steve Oncley arrived at station 1 at 10:55 on August 11,2006

Activities:
-Datalogger hooked up at 11:02 MST
-Hooked up TRH at 11:00 MST, then dismounted at 11:47 check peculiar fan 
sound, put back on at 12:19, but fan still sounds wimpy.
-Rnet was hooked up at 11:34, was wired backwards for a few minutes before that,
the Rnet coefficient was changed from 9.66 to 9.00 and 11.81 to 11.18 for new 
sensor at 12:24 
-Rain gauge has failed from electric shock

Arrived Aug 9 10:17 MST,  Oncley, Maclean

Station in bad shape after last nights storm.

Net radiometer head blown out from apparent lightning strike.

Blown fuse on charge controller board.  Swapped in fuse from
second charge circuit - immediately blew again.

Data box #9 interface panels show electrical arc-ing damage on 
ttyS3 (goes) and ttyS5 (logger) ports.  Putting power to this box 
blows fuses on the charge controller.


Removed box 9, swapped in spare box 8.

Barometer OK.  Prop vane OK.

TRH sent bad data for a short period: 
TRH08  with a T=39.94, RH=1.05, V=0 (wrong)
then reported the values typical of a A2D lockup: 
T=210, RH=257

Eventually would report the following after being plugged in:

TRH System Initialization Complete
A/D not responding

and then nothing.  Removed it for repair.

Installed 7.5 A fuse on load circuit of charge controller.

Serial connector on logger box looks fried.  Voltmeter
reported shorts between ground and most other pins.
Removed logger for repair.

GOES transceiver not responding.  SE 110, SN 1007.

Installed GOES SE 120, SN 3515.

Someone helped themselves to the step ladder which was
left beside the road while Steve drove
to Oracle for fuses and Gordon was at the site.

Station status:  station transmitting and archiving,
  prop vane OK, barometer OK.
  no T, RH, Vbatt, Rnet or Rainr data while sensors are repaired.

Left 12:45.

Later found that the usbdisk from this station is not
readable.  The light on the drive does not come on
when it is inserted. The last data from the last
disk swap was Aug 4 22:33, so it looks like data
about 5 days of archive data has been lost from this station.

1558 - 3 test rain gauge tips.

Arrived 15;40

GOES data recovery at this site has been bad since 02:00 MST, Jul 25.

statsproc running.

This site has a GOES 1200, software installed 10/14/2004 16:08:26.
Also has a surge arrestor.

Installed new nidas software.

Swapped usb disk.

GOES tranmission power measured: 9.8 Watts

Swapped in model 110.  Tranmission power 12 Watts.

Plan to install 1200 at a site nearer Tucson, like 7.

Cleaned Rnet.

Left 16:53 MST

Arrived 14:20 MST.

Net radiometer was level and clean.

Inspected rain-gauge by raising cylinder, and 
doing a tip, saw tip in logger data.

Top wire of electric fence had been knocked off a post.
Straightened out wire and posts. Hand-tested electric
fence.

Swapped usbdisk.

Left 14:40 MST

The GPS elevation of Site 1 was checked. A range of values were used over a period of 15 minutes (4353 ft - 4371 ft). Will utilize 4362 ft.

1250-1349.
The data drive was exchanged during this visit.
PVC heat outlet holes were incorporated into the GOES cooler.
The radiometer was cleaned (it had accumulated soil stains visible to the
naked eye).

An electric fence was installed at St 1 today (operational at 1300).

Net radiation was leveled at 1635 - 1640 LT.

The logger was manually elevated (on cactus husks) during this visit.

The latest software (.xml and GOES alts) was installed at ~ 1725.

Poulos observed cattle at Sites 1 and 2. We do not have fences at these sites.

2Jul06, 12:50-14:50 MST

Purpose: station down

Data System:
A USB failure caused the station to go down, not goes.

Yesterday, a new xml was installed but the station has been down since our visit.

Data system reported that the new usb disk was "Write Protected" and could not write to it: Lexar #12.
Checked it back at aster: nothing unusual with file protections EXCEPT:
I had put a copy of the new cupido.xml on it via root account.....doubt that
would be a problem and there were a couple of data files on it.

Swapped in Cruzer #1 and removed Lexar #12.

Rebooted and everything fine.

GOES:
Still need to reposition the antenna and pv's more, but there was a
good 10W output per the wattmeter and the angle looks close enough.

7/1/06 13:30-15:35 local

Purpose: TRH down, intermittent goes, new xml file

Data System:
- Initial checkout: showed data was being collected but the trh was once again in a strange mode.
Swapped TRH and also DISCOVERED A BAD SERIAL CABLE to the TRH.

goes
- ck_goes: ok.  Greg repositioned the antenna and stabilized it in hopes of improving the spotty reception.  Instead the station went down shortly afterwards.

Note: wildfire a couple of miles on a ridge to the south towards 2/3.

- installed new xml file:
- swapped usb: cruzer #512-2 out; lexar #512-12 in
- bootup OK
- data_stats: OK
- weep hole added

ToDo:
Elec. Fence:	Cows in area and no fence.  However they already have much
		to rub up against so hopefully they won't bother the
		station, and haven't so far.