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Rush Ranch: 2024-12-19 12:20:00 (DOY 354)
Author: Joe Verfaillie
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Summary: A quick stop to fix odds and ends, new met program, tipping bucket funnel, collected StarDot images, tested 7700 wash power, collected serial numbers
| Rush Ranch 2024-12-19 I arrived at about 12:20 PST. This was a quick trip to fix some odds and ends I missed yesterday. The weather is much colder and grayer than yesterday. I walked out from the parking lot again. The NERRs folks were at their tower doing regular maintenance and adding a new PAR sensor (looked like Apogee) just south of their tower. They said the one on top often has a bird (kestrel or red tail hawk) standing on it. They didn't know who set up the new game camera either. I gave them my contact info. They visit their site about once a month. I brought the tipping bucket funnel I forgot last time, however it still doesn't have a screen. I collected the met data and it only has AirT and RH as I suspected. I uploaded a new program to save everything. I also fixed (maybe) the air pressure - it was reading the wrong channel. Reading the right channel it still seemed low 97kPa. I added a grounding rod in the southeast corner but the ground was very soft there. Might need to move it. There is some extra slack in the wire. I checked the voltage on the wash pump line from the 7700. Only one pair of pins seemed to change when I turned the pump on and it only read about 6V. I guess it still could be a bad cable and maybe a bad pump. Or maybe the port on the 7700 is bad. I need to bring more testing stuff next time and maybe buy a cheap pump. I collected the StarDot images - more than 500. This camera has the newer firmware that saves the metadata text files too. I put hose clamps on the met box to mounting bracket. The clamps I brought were bigger than necessary - I think the final size is only about 1 inch. I wrote down all the serial numbers on the newly installed equipment I left at about 13:20 PST |
2 photos found
20241218RR_SoilSensors1.jpg ( 2024-12-18 13:46:11 ) Full size: 933x1920
Soil heat flux and soil moisture sensor installation
20241218RR_SoilSensors2.jpg ( 2024-12-18 13:42:10 ) Full size: 933x1920
Soil heat flux and soil moisture sensor installation
3 sets found
1 RR_cam graphs found
No data found for RR_met.
4 RR_flux graphs found