Gate Report, Aug. 8, 2006

Gate Operation
At August’s LTPOA meeting there was a compliant that the call box’s display screen was hard to read when daytime temperatures were very high. In discussing this with a technician from the Gate Co. he suggested I check the thermistor. When I did this, I discovered there was no thermistor installed, just a fixed resistor (1k ohm). Since I installed a thermistor the readability of the screen seems much improved.

•	There was one intentional gate “break” discovered on Wed. Aug 16. The gate arm itself was not broken, but the bolt holding the arm to the motor shaft was sheared off. Mike Leiweke did the repair.
•	Sep 2 (Sat) at 12:00 PM -- The exit gate seized in the down position. The exit gate arm was removed by a resident. Later that day normal operation of the exit gate was restored by R Hirsch resetting the microcontroller. 
•	Sep 7 (Thurs) at 6:00 PM -- The road sealers blocked off the exit gate making it unusable. Someone (probably Jason Covington) locked the entry gate in the “UP” position so cars could exit thru the entry gate.
•	Sep 9 (Sat) overnight -- The exit gate arm operated erratically, often not closing immediately after a car exited. Problem solved by R Hirsch on Sun. by cleaning connectors with contact cleaner. There was some corrosion on one of the loop wires. The exit gate malfunction on Sep 2 may also have been caused by this.

Rich Hirsch

Volunteer Corps
Saturday Sep 16 marks the first Saturday of burn season. So in addition to the usual cutting of grass, the Volunteers will cut and burn debris near the Southside bridge and in the dam spillway. Another area that needs work is the new lakefront area. That area needs to be prepared for grass seeding by removing rocks, limbs, and other debris. -- Rich Hirsch for LT Volunteers