Pac Sci August 17 2018

Post date: Aug 22, 2018 5:18:6 AM

Accompanied a delightful group of discovery corp youth and staff for a night of observing. Trip went well, and the wasp nest was indeed gone, although there were still many wasps around. Setup a wasp trap near Mt Wallerstein to draw them away from the front door area. Anything that touches the bait becomes a magnet, so you'll find my gloves out there.

The water pump breaker was left on, and water was down to 7". This is lower than previous group reported, it's worth believing that there was a drip that took the water tank down 4" in that week. We were probably lucky that we didn't leave the observatory for too many weeks. Refilled to 31”, used it down to 20".

Heard the oven was tripping its breaker. Cleaned it, tested it, seems okay. Used it to cook dinner.

We tested the floor elevator to prep for fixing the dome slip motor, it tripped its breaker several times, so engineering use only. The breaker doesn't have a little red flag to report it's tripped, as more modern breakers do.

The AC tripped its breaker as well.

Cleared the fridge of perishables, left the condiments and eggs (I have pictures). Two blue jugs left up there (one is under the sink). 

Evora crashed at end of night on filter rotation?