Equipment and Calibration
Equipment history at Tonzi| ALL | | Anemometer || Barometer || Battery Bank || Camera || CO2 Probe || Data Logger || Forced Diffusion || Gas Analyzer || Heat Flux Plate || Infrared Temperature || Interface || LED sensor || Moisture Point || Multiplexer || Narrow Band || Net Radiometer || PAR Sensor || Precipitation || Radio || RH & Temp || Soil Moisture Probe || Soil Water Potential || Solar Controller || Solar Panel || Water Level || Weather Station |
SELECT a.recno, a.eh_date, a.eh_loc1, a.eh_loc2, IF(a.eh_loc2=:loc, a.eh_locref2, a.eh_locref1) AS ref, a.eh_locref2, a.eh_title, a.eh_notes, a.eh_id, b.serialno, b.equip, b.modelno FROM equiphist a INNER JOIN equiplist b ON a.eh_id=b.recno WHERE (a.eh_loc1=:loc1 OR a.eh_loc2=:loc2) AND b.equip=:eq ORDER BY b.serialno, a.eh_date
| Date | Serial No. | Model | Action | Ref | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Battery Bank | |||||
| 2023-11-13 | BB-TF | BB-Fab | Upgrade | Battery Bank Floor | We removed four flooded batteries that came from the Tower. Two are probably still good. The other two seemed to be internally shorted. Four new group 27 AGM batteries were installed. |
| 2017-01-17 | BB-TT | BB-Fab | Maintenance | The Tower has been losing power over night recently. All the batteries were disconnected and tested them with the load tester. Four batteries tested bad. We removed them and reconnected the others. | |
| 2017-07-12 | BB-TT | BB-Fab | Maintenance | I swapped out the eight batteries remaining in the Tower battery bank sn BB-TT and replaced them with twelve new Duracell deep cycle marine group 27 lead acid batteries SLI27MDC from Batteries Plus. It’s still a 12V system pending a major rewiring in the future. | |
| 2017-09-28 | BB-TT | BB-Fab | Upgrade | The Tonzi Tower battery bank was rewired to be a 24V system for the upgrade of the solar power system. | |
| 2020-09-01 | BB-TT | BB-Fab | Maintenance | none | The batteries were bone dry, 8-9 gallons of water into the 12 batteries. 4-5 batteries on the east side of south row got purified water instead of distilled. Two western most batteries tested bad with load tester and were brought in. The rest tested good, were reconnected and powered up. |
| 2010-01-08 | BB-TZ_soilco2 | BB-Fab | Upgrade | I replaced both pairs of batteries in new pairs marker November 2009. | |
| 2010-01-27 | BB-TZ_soilco2 | BB-Fab | Maintenance | I moved and combined the east 24V system with the west 24V system. Four panels in two pairs now feed two pairs of batteries through one charge controller. | |
| 2018-06-26 | BB-TZ_soilco2 | BB-Fab | Maintenance | The top of the plates were visible in almost all cells. I refilled them all with DI water. | |
| 2018-12-13 | BB-TZ_soilco2 | BB-Fab | Upgrade | This system has been failing overnight partly because one set of Vaisala probes have not been cycling off. I also added to old batter most recently used on East End. | |
| 2019-07-16 | BB-TZ_soilco2 | BB-Fab | Maintenance | There are six batteries in three pairs for a 24V system – the original four plus two more we added last winter. Two of the originals test a little weak with the load tester so I disconnected them from the bank. | |
| 2019-08-22 | BB-TZ_soilco2 | BB-Fab | Upgrade | Six old weak batteries (four currently connected) were brought back to the lab and four new Duracell deep cycle flooded group 27 batteries were installed in pairs for a 24V system. The new batteries have 09/19 (Sept/2019) stickers. | |
| 2021-06-24 | BB-TZ_soilco2 | BB-Fab | Maintenance | Battery Bank soil co2 | Added about 1.5 gallons of DI to the four batteries in total. No plates exposed. |
| 2022-08-05 | BB-TZ_soilco2 | BB-Fab | Maintenance | Battery Bank soil co2 | The batteried in this bank have been temporarily removed to power the Tower. Likely this bank will be repopulated to power the OSU-SP1 system and a couple FD chambers as the Vaisala soil CO2 system is decommissioned. |
| 2022-08-25 | BB-TZ_soilco2 | BB-Fab | Maintenance | Battery Bank soil co2 | This battery bank had been without batteries since its batteries were moved to the Tower a few weeks ago. I installed three old batteries from the Floor system that tested ok with the load tester. I rewired the two larger solar panels to 12V. The two smaller panels had there leads chewed and I left them disconnected for now. |
| 2023-03-01 | BB-TZ_soilco2 | BB-Fab | Replaced | Battery Bank soil co2 | I brought the three batteries last remove from HS and put them under the solar panels. I rewired all the panels into a terminal strip. I used one of the old batteries for the fence charger and brought the rest in. |
| 2024-05-15 | BB-TZ_soilco2 | BB-Fab | Upgrade | Battery Bank soil co2 | I replaced the three flooded batteries in the Soil CO2 battery bank with two new SLA group 27 batteries. The cows had chewed up all the wiring. I replaced all the wires. Now only the two larger 40W panels are connect resulting in about 4.5A. The charge controller is only 6A. The new power line runs to the OSU SP1 box. |