Summary
ServicingDetails
- There were a few inches of snow at the site and on the road getting there from Maywood
- Removed snow layer from the top of the RadMet enclosure and then dried it off before opening the door
- Inside the RadMet enclosure, there was condensation underneath the top surface (where the snow had been sitting), a small pool of water had collected at the bottom in the back left corner, and a small drip coming down from the left side vent towards the back wall
- No AC voltage was measured inside enclosure at the RadMet breaker, nor inside of the outlet and the junction box. There was water that had leaked into the junction box. Dried it out with paper towels.
- All breakers were all still on including the breaker at the power pole, but the meter display was off. Found out this was due to a several-day outage in the region.
- Pulled SurfaceMet data from the Campbell logger onto WindyGap laptop
- Powered on the RadMet rugged computer with the UPS’ remaining battery, but the charge quickly drained. Used the truck’s inverter instead to power on the computer long enough to download high res MRR and disdrometer data. Shutdown the computer and turned the UPS on so that it could recover when power was restored
- Dried out the pool of water and condensation in the RadMet enclosure with paper towels. Removed surge protectors in the enclosure bottom side to check for any trapped moisture but none found. Removed all the side vents and reinstalled them with RTV beaded around the base and threads. Beaded RTV around the AC junction box gasket and seems as well. Put desiccant in the RadMet enclosure before sealing up the door.
- Removed a leaf from inside the tipping bucket, funnel was not clogged
- After a report from PSE that power would be restored at 2:30PM was changed to postponed to 3:30PM, we left the site
- Hourly GOES transmissions started at 3:05PM indicating that the power to the site was restored, but no data was included, assuming this was because the Python GOES script had not yet been started by the computer task scheduler. Later at 10:05PM the data started being included in the frames, meaning the script was started sometime before 9:50PM.
Service/Install Description (06 Dec 2023):
- Pulled high res surface met data and updated program with hard-coded initial distance for the SnowVue (see metadata updates above).
- Unable to connect to rugged computer via ethernet connection to field laptop and remote desktop.
- Discovered leak in RadMet enclosure. Used some (clean) socks to sop up the water. Water was dribbling down from furthest back vent on left side of enclosure:
