aetna — Maintenance Reports

04/27/2023: Station Maintenance [1330]

- site maintenance, including:

- checked anemometer (bearings good)

- checked battery (13.5 V)

- checked soil sensor and power cables (good)

- checked solar panel (22.3 V)

- checked tipping-bucket rain gauge (good)

- checked wind vane (properly aligned)

- cleaned atmp/relh sensor and radiation shield

- tested leaf wetness sensor [standard] (good)*

- replaced pyranometer

* site does not include a canopy sensor

07/23/2022: Station Maintenance [1110]

- routine site maintenance, including

- checked anemometer (bearings good)

- checked battery (13.32 V)

- checked pyranometer (good)

- checked soil sensor cables (good)

- checked solar panel (20.31 V)

- checked tipping-bucket rain gauge

- checked wind vane (properly aligned)

- checked / tested leaf wetness sensor [standard] (good)*

- cleaned atmp/relh sensor and radiation shield

- cleaned battery box

- weed removal

* site does not include a canopy sensor

06/13/2022: Station Maintenance [1030]

- routine site maintenance, including:

- checked anemometer (bearings good)

- checked pyranometer (adjusted mount / level)

- checked soil sensor cables (good)

- checked wind vane (properly aligned)

- checked / cleaned solar panel

- checked / cleaned tipping-bucket rain gauge

- checked / tested battery

- cleaned battery box

- replaced faulty leaf wetness sensor [standard mount]*

- weed removal

* site does not include a canopy sensor

07/14/2021: Station Maintenance [1110]

- routine site maintenance

06/04/2021: Station / Logger Maintenance [1150]

- routine site maintenance

- modem upgrade

- replaced soil temperature / moisture sensor [10cm]

05/16/2021: Station Maintenance [1520]

- replaced fault soil temp/soil moisture sensor [10cm]

07/17/2020: Station / Logger Maintenance [1145]

- repaired power issues

05/29/2020: Station Maintenance [1130]

- routine station maintenance

- installed new leaf wetness mount

- soil sensor wiring (power) adjustment

08/21/2019: Station Maintenance [1510]

- repaired atmp/relh/dwpt sensor

06/12/2019: Station Maintenance [1245]

- install soil sensors (i.e. soil temp/moisture)

04/12/2019: Station Online [1100]

- Station added to Enviroweather/MAWN database system

04/09/2019: Data Collection Enabled [1110]

- Data Collection and Data Archive for new station begins:

First data report: April 10, 2019 (d=100) 00:05

04/09/2019: Logger Setup [1110]

- Loaded MAWN Program: aet-bssd

aet => Station ID (aetna)

b => CR1000/MI (Logger/Site)

s => SDI-12 [CS650] (Soil Moisture)

s => SDI-12 [HygroVue10] (Temp/RH)

d => LWS-L (Leaf Wetness) [no canopy]

- Now able to collect raw weather data.

04/09/2019: Station Maintenance: [----]

- Established telecommunication between station cell-modem

and data-collection PC/server on campus.

04/07/2019: Station Setup [----]

- station setup/activated at field site