Logging the Timber of Life

Day 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th
  0900 2100 0900 2100 0900 2100 0900 2100 0900 2100
Stress 8 8*                
Fanfest 0 0                
↕️ ↔️ ⬇️*                

* What might otherwise have been a 7.5 by evening was kept at 8 by a day spent feeling a tightness in the chest (although, please note: BP & heartrate not unusually elevated) - a physical symptom of anxiety and uncomfortable.

 

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AM Read book in garden for lunch break                
PM Ate half the nice potatoes with an M&S cheese & ham over chicken dinner - tasty tasty goodness all around.                

Things ordered/bought: 

  • In-line ignitor switch
  • Heating element (small)
  • Steel buckets
  • Plug end
  • Cabling

Things Done:

  • This list & tables
  • Agreed email w/JS to ask for battery data
  • Looked at length into available dataloggers in UK
  • Chatted briefly to Christopheles about wiring up BBQ lighter (or similar) element to plug

Things that need buying/ordering:

  • Thermocouple data loggers/DAQ (min. 16 channels, preferably 24+) - Expensive, WISH approval needed
  • SRF bale - difficult to source

Things that need doing:

  • Call MG, re: site address, dates etc. - URGENT but I still haven't done it, I can't summon the energy for it tonight
  • Wire up microDAQ - also URGENT and also not been done today even though it was today's priority
  • Wire up ignitor
  • Email JB re: collab w/ULancsh via DTC's new (battery fires) funded spot
  • Test ignitor, even just once, to see if it can work
  • Decide on August ignition method
  • Call AS (not before 20/07) re: monitoring, SRF bale etc.
  • Investigate ease of adding FLIR camera to Burn Box
  • Sort out van hire and moving of equipment to site
  • Wire up DAQs beforehand - label TCs
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