Water Level Transmitter Installation in Myanmar - Day 2 (2019/01/29)

Hello, everyone. This is Liu Chang again writing about our water level installation trip in Yangon, Myanmar.

After a good sleep and delicious breadfast, in the morning went on the instllation site near Thanlyin Bridge.

breakfast at Super Yangon Hotel

As you can see from the picture below, our installation site is a small platform beside Thanlyin Bridge. The good new is that it's much bigger than we thought at first sight. All of us can stand on it and finish the installation together. The bad news is that it's a little bit dangerous to do this work considering it's about 10 m above the water surface.

installation platform

installation site from Google map

After discussing with construction contractors and students from YTU (thanks to Sann Win Maung and Chit BoBo Win), we decided to conduct the installation tomorrow morning. So the rest of our day will be to prepare the equipment for installation and testing its functions in SATREPS (Science and Technology Research Partnership for Sustainable Development) office at YTU (Yangon Techonological University).

At first, I thought it would be a simple task for I've got some experience about weather station. But it's quite a different thing to do it from beginning. I've been stuck at first level about how to install the solar panel. We have to consider about the latittude of installation spot, the direction of bridge and the influence of the bridge. To give the panel most sunshine even in rainy season, we decided to make the angel to be 20 degrees. However, it still took us a lot of time on fixing the steel framework. Of course, Ralph-san worked on the radar level transmitter of which he lacked experience. But everything worked out fine at last. So we are good to go further for tomorrow~

fixing the steel framework

testing the radar transmitter