Nice to visit the WCs after a light snowfall. Tracks in the snow showed that a rabbit had also been visiting, but thankfully our visitor did not munch on power cables.
WC-68 has been turning itself off periodically (or else someone has been turning it off when checking via TeamViewer), but this afternoon was operating just fine and collecting data with visibility all the way to 220m. I cleaned off .dsp files so disk space is only 40% full now. Will continue to monitor to ensure it is collecting data now that the other XPIA instruments are collecting data for comparison to these observations.
Concerned that we still can't access WC-49, I turned on WC-61, which had been making an unappealing fan noise. Said noise has disappeared and the lidar operated well for the 2+ hours I sat there in the cold, and is continuing to collect reasonable data. I also wiped fall 2014 .dsp files (space now at 30% full), transferred .sta and .rtd files to the external drive, and made sure the time was set correctly to UTC. Pitch is slightly off (0.8 deg) but I did not think I could adjust well on my own in the cold.
I attempted to access WC-49 repeatedly without success. The stage was rotating. I scavenged WC-49's modem to loan to Valerio Iungo for use with their 200S since WC-49 had only come on line once or twice in the last week.
To do:
- transfer files from external drive to breeze
- set up script for automated plots to display to XPIA collaborators
- ensure WC-68 and WC-61 continue to operate
- get into WC-49, collect alarm files to give to NRG for advice on repairs.
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