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Log Book for February 8, 2003
GreenHab Report
Heike Wierzchowski Reporting

We raised the water use from 12 ga yesterday to 20 ga today to try to get enough water in the system and tank 5 filled half, but after turning on the pumps, the system run empty again. The TST is not filling. Tomorrow we'll try to raise the water use up to 30 gallons and maybe refill the TST manually. This morning the outside temperatures were -15° C and the water in the buckets inside the greenhab was frozen. The water supply to the washroom was also frozen and the outside freshwatertank had a 2 cm thick iceshift. This evening we noticed a smell like there's something on fire in the back airlock area and found the pump between the TST and the UV water sterilizator disconnected and run hot. We don't know, how this could happen. Maybe because it got too hot and the hose turned loose, maybe during the time, the filmcrew connected their lamps. We didn't saw it earlier, cause there was a waste bin in front of it. Last but not least the pump is out of order now. It was a "Hailea HX 6510 Power Head". We turned the pumps in tank 5 off now and closed the connection to the TST. But we don't think, that this was the major problem. The major problem seems to be the cold outside.

Because of the problems till now, we didn't do the nutrient test right now. We'll do them, when we get the system running.

Living Machine Status:   N=not checked; M=normal maintenance; C=checked OK; P=problem
  Environment Temperature in degrees F/C, Time in local time  
  Time 7:55 Dial Temp 48° / 8,9°  
  Indoor Temp 60° / 15,6° Outdoor Temp 2° / -16,7°  
  Tank #3 Temp 46° / 7,8° Rel Humidity 60%  
Comment: Compost Dial 10° / -12,2° Tank #5 Temp 42° / 5,6°  
Tank levels  T2, T3, T4 high, T5 normal, TST nearly empty      
Living Machine Status: P (TST not running)      
  Environment Temperature in degrees F/C, Time in local time  
  Time 12:04 Dial Temp 79° / 26,1°  
  Indoor Temp 70° / 21,1° Outdoor Temp 35° / 1,7°  
  Tank #3 Temp 57° / 13,9° Rel Humidity 30%  
Comment: Compost Dial 30° / -1,1° Tank #5 Temp 52° / 11,1°  
Tank levels T2, T3, T4 high, T5 nearly empty, TST empty, pumps T5 turned off, T4 off          
Living Machine Status: P (T5 pumps turned off, TST not filling)    
  Environment Temperature in degrees F/C, Time in local time  
  Time 20:23 Dial Temp 35° / 1,7° Max temp 112
  Indoor Temp 38° / 3,3° Outdoor Temp 22° / -5,6° Min temp 42
  Tank #3 Temp 56° / 13,3° Rel Humidity 60%  
Comment: Compost Dial 24° / -4,4° Tank #5 Temp 48° / 8,9°  
Tank levels T2, T3, T4 high, T5 half filled, TST empty      
Living Machine Status: P        

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