After this week's snow I checked on the 100S today. It was unresponsive through team viewer before heading to the NWTC. When I arrived about about 12:30 MDT it appeared that the system was staring to the NE , but further north than the M5 tower. After I wiped snow off the top of the box and scanner head, the head began rotating counter clock-wise and appeared to be taking a PPI scan at a low elevation angle (less than 10 deg. above the horizon). Considering snow was built up on the scanner head, I assume that the head had been stuck in that position for a considerable amount of time. The last data file before restarting was created on October 24 at 18:11:56 UTC (shortly after noon local time), but the file is over 2800 times larger than a typical PPI scan. A typical PPI scan lasts for about 1 minute.
I connected to the LIDAR through the laptop. Upon connecting, a windows dialogue box was warning that the Windsoft software had crashed. I closed that box and restarted the windsoft software. The system re-initialized and began taking PPI sector scans between the M5 tower and Alstom turbine.
Otherwise the water bucket was unfrozen and had plenty of water after topping it off some in the last two weeks.
The 100S data can be found on the breeze server under the following path:
/data/fielddata/TODS/100S/Data
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