Lake Trent

Sunday, December 17, 2017

Project 2018: New work platform

Project 2018: Waterfall Weir Test Fit and new Lake Trent servers

First test fit of the 3 ft stainless steel water weir. This week's plans, foam installation and rock work. Waterfall computer with auto-valves and controller comes this week from Utah. It will be running a flavor of Linux Fedora and will control the entire operation of the waterfall. It's main job is to reduce splash back and to keep the flow rate the same at all times. It will have many sensors, some are embeded into the weir during manufacturing so that it knows exactly how much water is being pumped to the falls and how much goes over. It will know the speed of the water going over to reduce splash back. It will be in 24/7 communications with Lake Trent's Weather station and will adjust due to wind speed, temperatures. It will also shut down due to high winds. It will be in communications with Lake Trent's filtration computer and life support computer. Lake Trent's Lighting System will also be on the new network and all 5 will be monitor by their new boss, server, "Krang" named after supervillain from Teenage Mutant Nija Turtles.

Sunday, November 5, 2017

Project 2018 begins... New Waterfall. (11/5/17)

Unfortunately, the waterfall area that sits in the center of the filter building, rotted over the past 2 summers. There was an issue with the old waterfall blade leaking water behind the blade. Today I tore out all the rotted material.

A new 24 or 36 inch waterfall blade with long nose will be installed and new frame will be made. Plans have not been made yet. Stay tune all winter for updates.