Hello,
I’ve been testing a rover/base setup with 2 identical Facet RTK receivers, I’ve set on as a base and the other as rover. I’m testing RTK drone usage and GCP placement.
After I set up the base I used the rover to measure the GCP positions. After about a half hour the rover was no longer connected to the base. The connection was down as the base had frozen, I held the power button for 30 seconds which restarted the unit. I removed the rubber bib to try to cool the unit, the temps jumped from 80F when I started to 100F here is Los Angeles.
I did some testing without the drone, just the base and rover measurements close to home, I set the base up without the bib, the temps rose from the mid 70’s to over 100*F, the base reset one time as indicated by the counter.
I’m going to test again but I think I’m going to try a sheer white cloth, (my hanky) to cover the unit to keep it cooler?
Anyone else having units crash in very hot weather?
Thanks,
Mike
I have had overheating. Where i’m, we reach easily 35 Celsius Degrees during very long summer. Maybe Sparkfun can consider releasing units with a white dome, that would help tremendous. You can 3d print a white dome, the files are online, but of course the quality would not be the same, both finish and durability vs a injected plastic.
Did another round of testing yesterday, the local temps were hitting 100*F.
I started the base without any internet connection, I set out 5 GCPs, used my second Facet with the LoRa Serial radios to get corrections from the base and measured the position of the GCPs, had Fix on all the targets.
After using the rover I switched to the drone for image capture, I changed profiles on the base to have a WiFi connection to run the Ntrip server over rtk2go.com. The drone controller would not connect with the Ntrip client, I checked the connection to the mount point use 2 other devices with Ntrip clients, all showed a good connection, with data passing. I restarted the controller, restarted the drone, restarted the network connection on the WiFi hotspot and finally restarted the base using the profile I had previously selected, a connection and seconds later a Fix solution.
I ran the base about 2 hours it didn’t freeze or restart, except for me changing profiles or parameters, I did remove the bibs on both units and the only other issue was a long time for a Fix solution at one GCP location.
I ran 2 identical missions except one was with RTK corrections to the drone the other without. I need a little time to review the data.