Season notes 2000/01
Thomas Nylen.
1. Station was constructed at Lake Hoare and partially dismantled and flown to Beacon Valley. The station was reconstructed and made operational.
2. Wind direction looked questionable. Did not have time to adjust, but check again when there in January. Wind rotated 180 degrees on January 15, 2001 @ 1400. Data was corrected in this file. Need to check the next file.
3. First 11 lines is data collected while station was at Lake Hoare, so ignore. 4. Adjusted regulator. 5. GPS Coordinates: S 77 49.681 E 160 38.422 6. Array ID for Beacon is 11, same as Vida. Change in program in Nov 2001
Season 2001/02
Thomas Nylen
file ben0122.dat
1) Adjusted regulator.
2) Array ID for Beacon is 11, same as Vida. Change in program in Nov 2001
file ben0123.dat
1) No missing data
2) Array ID for Beacon is 11, same as Vida. New array id on program on the existing module, but the program was not loaded on to the CR10X. Do next November
3) Adjusted clock <+00:00:16> on January 18, 2002 (18) @ 1025
4) Sensor numbers: SwRadIn: 18395, SwRadOut: 18400, PAR: Q23199
5) Check wind alignment on January 18, 2002 (18) @ 1035, no changes. Just before this the cross-arm was removed to tighten top middle post, which temporarily moved the wind vane and pyranometers. Check next file.
6) Replaced storage modules (1 x SM4M) on January 18, 2002 (18) @ 1039
Season 2003/03
Thomas Nylen
fie ben0231.dat
1) No Missing data
2) Array ID for Beacon is 11, same as Vida. New array id on program on the existing module, but the program was not loaded on to the CR10X. Do in January
3) Adjusted clock <-00:00:58> on December 4, 2002 (338) @ 1438
4) Check input values on December 4, 2002 (338) @ 1438, everything looks fine, except voltage is a bit high
5) Old Solar Sensor numbers: SwRadIn: 18395, SwRadOut: 18400, PAR: Q23199. Replaced pyranometers between 1500 and 1515. New numbers: Upward Pyranometers: PY23271; Downward Pyranometers: PY23277. Tried replacing Quantum, but wires near resistor was broken. Need to check before going in the field. Replace Quantum in January.
6) Check wind alignment on December 4, 2002 (338) @ 1445, rotated 5 degrees counterclockwise. Just before this the cross-arm was removed to tighten top middle post, which temporarily moved the wind vane and pyranometers. Check next file.
7) Replaced storage modules (1 x SM4M) on December 4, 2002 (338) @ 1528
file ben0232.dat
1) No Missing data
2) Array ID for Beacon is 11, same as Vida. New array id on program on the existing module, but the program was not loaded on to the CR10X. Do in January
3) Adjusted clock +16 seconds on January 29, 2003 (29) @ 1033
4) Check input values on January 29, 2003 (29) @ 1100, wind looks wrong. Check and found it was point the wrong way. Rotated it 180, but still reading backwards from north (20 degrees, read 340 degrees). All of the wind direction data back to the start of the station were adjusted by rotating the direction 180 degrees and then mirroring that result using the north-south axis. So, a value of 160 would be rotated to 340, and the mirror of that would be +20 degrees.
5) Replaced Quantum on January 29, 2003 (29) between 1045 and 1100. Old number Q23199 and new numbers is Q30806.
6) Replaced storage modules (1 x SM4M) on January 29, 2003 (29) @ 1110
[transcript incomplete]