Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Maintenance Update

Mike Jankulak:

Tuesday, October 3: boat-support for dive work; attempted to contact brain via radio units but couldn't; climbed stick, installed rungs and removed brain to take it back to land; downloaded memory module contents; replaced and rewired brain's radio unit; wrote a new CMRC3 program to include bic re-address logic and tested it thoroughly; pulled a new cable for shallow BIC and rewired its plug at top; swapped out surface bic; reinstalled brain (but GPS cable is knocked loose); confirmed that station was NOT transmitting

Wednesday: fixed GPS cable in brain; attempted to fix broken shallow-ctd plug but doesn't work; tidied/sealed station and removed rungs (twice!).

Jim Hendee:

The station lines and chains were cleaned, the shallow CTD swapped out, and all three BICs swapped out. Station should undergo some reorganization of the cables and more intensive cleaning.