After a couple of days in Apia we returned to Savai'i for the final push.
This was fence day. While the equipment was pretty well protected, we wanted to put up a fence more to make the site look more important than to actually keep anyone out. The fence was also just to keep any random animals from chewing on anything important, not that there was much they could get at. In places like New Zealand a fence wouldn't have done much good since there were parrots capable of dismantling the wiring of a site in a short amount of time. It happened once.
We managed to get the fence posts set, but then had to wait for the cement footings to cure before we could do anything more.
Sigh. The battery. Again. When I looked over the information from the station I noticed that it had rebooted at roughly sunup that morning. I unplugged the solar panels and the station shut down. The battery was dead and the station was running on the solar panels alone. Johnny ran down the hill and found a replacement from the same place we bought the replacement battery for the station in Maota. We were able to get our money back from the dealer in Apia for the two batteries we bought with us, but weren't able to use in Savai'i.
2014-07-24