Day Eight
A busy day today and yes it was still raining.
We took Todd shopping at Rema 1000 just outside Tromso. I note for future campaigners, it seemd that Rema 1000 do not tkae any credit cards that are not Norwegian. I think this is a new development as I am sure that I have used a credit card there before. Heck, even the petrol station outside of Skibotn takes credit cards!
After lunch we watched Todd set up his impressive camera. Thankfully it had all the necessary parts except for mouse, keyboard and monitor. Andrew and I were able to get ahold of these for him as well as a transformer to swap from 110 volts to 220 volts. Although this was the camera from NyAlesund on Svalbard, they have a room set up for them on 110 volts up there.
Everything seemed to work great. Todd is very keen on using an internet connection in the hut so that he can run things remotely. This may not be possible. The only internet connection is being used by the Canadians and they must have arranged for it to work with Chris Hall, since Mike never bothered having it switched on. Pulling the plug might not be viable as we do not know what the exact deal is or what information may be being passed through the connection.
We moved the camera and equipment to the hut and set up properly. Todd had to cut the hole in the wall a little larger to get all the cables through, but after some effort he got the tripod and camera up into the roof space with a few inches to spare between the lens and the dome. However, disaster struck before long. When we plugged the transformer into the socket and connected Todd's multisocket strip, it blew up and tripped the breaker. It seems that the output ground is connected to one of the input pins on the transformer; thus when plugged in one way up everything is fine (output ground is connected to the input neutral) and the other way and the output ground is connected to the input live. Result? Kaboom!
Thankfully the only thing to blow was the surge protector on the multisocket; Basically it was trying to account for 220 volts. If it had not been there we could have either fried thousands of pounds worth of equipment and/or one of us. It seems that this has happened before.
We have aquired (thanks to Mike Rietveld) a better transformer and we shall try to get hold of another surge protecter tomorrow. Then we shall see what happens.
The UHF was fixed today. Something had burned out in the Transmitter electronics. The Finns ran the ANTII experiment which may have been successful but since they recorded their data separately they will only know following analysis. The Heater worked!
The Finns are also running now. The sky is mostly cloudy but cleared enough for Andrew to get optimistic enough to go to the hut. We set the photometer running just to see what it would see. Unfortunately there was a lot of hazy cloud around making it difficult to focus DASI properly.
We took Todd shopping at Rema 1000 just outside Tromso. I note for future campaigners, it seemd that Rema 1000 do not tkae any credit cards that are not Norwegian. I think this is a new development as I am sure that I have used a credit card there before. Heck, even the petrol station outside of Skibotn takes credit cards!
After lunch we watched Todd set up his impressive camera. Thankfully it had all the necessary parts except for mouse, keyboard and monitor. Andrew and I were able to get ahold of these for him as well as a transformer to swap from 110 volts to 220 volts. Although this was the camera from NyAlesund on Svalbard, they have a room set up for them on 110 volts up there.
Everything seemed to work great. Todd is very keen on using an internet connection in the hut so that he can run things remotely. This may not be possible. The only internet connection is being used by the Canadians and they must have arranged for it to work with Chris Hall, since Mike never bothered having it switched on. Pulling the plug might not be viable as we do not know what the exact deal is or what information may be being passed through the connection.
We moved the camera and equipment to the hut and set up properly. Todd had to cut the hole in the wall a little larger to get all the cables through, but after some effort he got the tripod and camera up into the roof space with a few inches to spare between the lens and the dome. However, disaster struck before long. When we plugged the transformer into the socket and connected Todd's multisocket strip, it blew up and tripped the breaker. It seems that the output ground is connected to one of the input pins on the transformer; thus when plugged in one way up everything is fine (output ground is connected to the input neutral) and the other way and the output ground is connected to the input live. Result? Kaboom!
Thankfully the only thing to blow was the surge protector on the multisocket; Basically it was trying to account for 220 volts. If it had not been there we could have either fried thousands of pounds worth of equipment and/or one of us. It seems that this has happened before.
We have aquired (thanks to Mike Rietveld) a better transformer and we shall try to get hold of another surge protecter tomorrow. Then we shall see what happens.
The UHF was fixed today. Something had burned out in the Transmitter electronics. The Finns ran the ANTII experiment which may have been successful but since they recorded their data separately they will only know following analysis. The Heater worked!
The Finns are also running now. The sky is mostly cloudy but cleared enough for Andrew to get optimistic enough to go to the hut. We set the photometer running just to see what it would see. Unfortunately there was a lot of hazy cloud around making it difficult to focus DASI properly.
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