[HamWAN PSDR] Wind Storm Update

[Nigel Vander Houwen]

Thanks for the interest Bob,

The sites vary in terms of equipment, but we do have visibility into the state in places we’ve got batteries. In the case of Baldi it’s all attached to a conventional UPS system, and we’ve got graphs of that data, in the case of Capitol Park it’s some batteries attached to a custom PDU, and we’re still working on the software end of graphing the data, but it’s available to check up on.

If you’ve got further thoughts about specifics you’re curious about, or ideas you’ve got, please feel free to ping me off-list.

Nigel

> On Nov 13, 2017, at 23:13, Robert Edmiston <kg7ucl at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Nigel,
> Do you have IoT voltage data being reported about battery levels at all the Hamwan sites?  I work in IoT and would love to get that data reported if it's not being captured. That would give us a "last known capacity" rating of battery backup systems prior to the moment things went down.
> Bob Edmiston, KG7UCL
> 
> On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 10:59 PM, Nigel Vander Houwen <nigel at nigelvh.com <mailto:nigel at nigelvh.com>> wrote:
> Hey HamWAN Folks,
> 
> I wanted to give a quick update on how we’ve weathered the wind so far.
> 
> Very early this morning (~2AM Pacific), Gold Sector 3 went unresponsive. It appears the site saw a power blip, and everything else came back, but sector 3 didn’t. I’ve tried further power cycles to see if we can sort it out, but there’s been no luck so far. I’m not sure if there was anyone on sector 3 specifically, so hopefully the loss isn’t felt too greatly there. We’ll have to keep fiddling to see if we can bring it back, or if it will need more of an intervention.
> Early this afternoon Baldi lost commercial power. This fall a group of folks went up to install a large battery backup for our gear there, and the last number of hours on battery have barely scratched the surface. I’m extremely pleased with the new backup capacity there given the power issues we had last year at Baldi. We turned off the camera to save a little power, but otherwise the gear is fully operational.
> Capitol Park had a commercial power outage this afternoon, that resolved a short time ago. A few weeks ago we were able to get a bit of backup battery capacity for the HamWAN gear installed here as well, and it nicely carried us through the outage.
> 
> Overall I’m very pleased with seeing a couple of our sites lose commercial power today, without having impact to the gear. As such, I’d like to again give a big thanks to the folks who’ve volunteered their time and resources to the betterment of HamWAN. Thanks everyone!
> 
> Nigel
> 
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