Enviro-weather, formerly Michigan Automated Weather Network

hastings — Maintenance Reports

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: Station / Logger Maintenance [1500]

- routine site maintenance

- battery upgrade

: Station Maintenance [1130]

- replaced faulty soil temp (5-cm) [soil0]

- replaced soil temp (10-cm) [soil1] sensor

- replaced cell modem

: Logger / Station Maintenance [1520]

- replaced logger (CR1000 -> CR1000)

- added PakBus modem

- loaded logger program: pcc-bbab

: Logger Maintenance [1225]

- resolved logger / communication issues

: Station Maintenance [1130]

- repaired tipping-bucket rain gauge

: Station Maintenance [1320]

- annual station / site maintenance

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- annual station / site maintenance

: Station Maintenance [1400]

- annual maintenance, including:

- wind vane calibration

: Station Maintenance [0005]

- loaded logger program "pcc-bbaa"

: Station Maintenance [1745]

- annual maintenance, including:

- rewired air temp/relh (HMP45C) to "continuous" power

: Station Maintenance [1300]

- annual maintenance and weed removal

: Station Maintenance [1135]

- routine station maintenance, including:

- cleaned leaf wetness sensors

- cleaned tipping-bucket rain gauge

- weed removal

: System Maintenance [1404]

- moved data-collection to new LoggerNet server

- loaded logger program "bbaa-tpd"

: Station Maintenance [1530]

- Routine maintenance

- cleaned temp/rh sensor

: Station Maintenance [1300]

- Replaced Soil Temp Sensors (2", 4")

- Replaced Air Temp/RH Sensor

- Cleaned Leaf Wetness Sensors

: Station Maintenance [1435]

- General station maintenance and system checks, including:

- Reinstallation of Soil Temp Probes.

- Soil Temp 1 (4") still has some issues and needs additional

repair or replacement.

: Station Maintenance [1400]

- Replaced Modem

: Station Maintenance [1700]

- General station maintenance and system checks, including:

- Tipping-bucket rain gauge test (faulty pcpn data

that was introduced was removed on 06/10/09)

: Data Cleanup

- Faulty 4" soil temperature sensor was replaced at

noon on Oct 09, 2008 (d=283). It appears that the

sensor sstarted to fail at noon on Sep 08, 2008

(d=252).

All 4" soil temperature during the following time

period was marked as "missing":

09/08/08 (d=252) 12:00 - 10/09/08 (d=283) 13:00

: Station Online

- Station added to MAWN web site.

: Data Collection Enabled

- Data Collection and Data Archive for new station begins:

First data report: Aug 07, 2008 - 00:05 (Day=220)

: Station Maintenance

- Established telecommunication between station cell-modem and

data collection PC/server on campus.

- Loaded MAWN Program: BBC-PCC

B => CR1000

B => CS616

C => Broadband Cell Modem (IP)

PCC => Station ID (Hastings)

- Now able to collect raw weather data.