George timmermans
  • About Me
    • Resume
    • Press releases
  • Blog
  • Projects
    • Long Range WiFi Link
    • Embedded Systems >
      • Photo Booth
      • Classroom VU meter
      • USB Media Controller
      • Weather Station
      • Arduino Swimming Pool Controller
      • GRBL Android Controller
      • Arduino Serial Driver
      • Arduino Multitasking
      • 8x8x8 LED Cube
      • Analog -> Digital Geiger Counter
    • 3D Printing >
      • Simplify3d Configuration
      • 3D print repairs
    • Home Brewing >
      • Mead Recipes >
        • Cinnamon Mead
        • Sweet Chili Mead
        • Lemon & Ginger Mead
        • Mead Liqueur
        • Honey Beer
      • Glühwein (Spiced Wine)
      • Limoncello
    • House
    • Toolmaking
    • Laser Cutting
  • Weather Cam
  • Contact

Summer WISP Maintenance

2/1/2019

0 Comments

 
The summer holiday is here and that always provides me with some time to make physical changes to the WISP equipment. Last year I made all the preparations to be able to swap the WiFi dishes over to a newly installed stronger mast. But unfortunately I ran out of time and good weather back then to finish the job. So this holiday it was at the top of my priority list to finish this. I also noticed that the RF armor radio cover had become brittle by the NZ sun and had been blown apart. So a good time to fix that too. And our previous weather installation wasn't installed particularly well and would cause some partial shade on the solar panel. This weather station was decommissioned some time ago so I figured I could just remove the old mounting hardware. But...
On arrival I spotted that the the local paragliders had installed the new weather station on our repeater box using the old mounting hardware. And even more damage was done by installing the weather station controller above our solar panel ?‍♂️ See photos below. 
In the end we spend almost three hours on two jobs. One, swapping the dishes over onto the new mast and aligning them again. Two, fix up the weather station install. The weather station also had another installation defect. The arm wasn't installed facing north, so the wind direction was always reported incorrectly. In the last couple off photos you can see that the weather station and controller have been moved backwards as not to create a shade over the solar panel. And the wind vane arm has been installed facing north instead of west.
The North facing camera still causes some shade over the panel at the very end off the day but that doesn't worry me too much. I might take a hacksaw next time and trim the lower waratah that also cast a bit of shad in the evening. 
0 Comments

    Author

    George Timmermans, Research Toolmaker, Software Engineer and Tinkerer

    View my profile on LinkedIn

    Archives

    January 2021
    November 2020
    July 2020
    May 2020
    November 2019
    August 2019
    January 2019
    October 2018
    January 2018
    November 2017
    October 2017
    August 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015

    Categories

    All
    3d Printing
    Photobooth
    Wisp

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly
  • About Me
    • Resume
    • Press releases
  • Blog
  • Projects
    • Long Range WiFi Link
    • Embedded Systems >
      • Photo Booth
      • Classroom VU meter
      • USB Media Controller
      • Weather Station
      • Arduino Swimming Pool Controller
      • GRBL Android Controller
      • Arduino Serial Driver
      • Arduino Multitasking
      • 8x8x8 LED Cube
      • Analog -> Digital Geiger Counter
    • 3D Printing >
      • Simplify3d Configuration
      • 3D print repairs
    • Home Brewing >
      • Mead Recipes >
        • Cinnamon Mead
        • Sweet Chili Mead
        • Lemon & Ginger Mead
        • Mead Liqueur
        • Honey Beer
      • Glühwein (Spiced Wine)
      • Limoncello
    • House
    • Toolmaking
    • Laser Cutting
  • Weather Cam
  • Contact