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Author Bruce Smith | Letzte Aktualisierung: 04/15/2021 | Kommentare: 2
Has an electrical surge or other event made you concerned that your COM port or short haul modem may not be operating properly? Do you know how to test for this? In this brief article, we’ll look at some simple tests you can perform to...
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Author Bruce Smith | Letzte Aktualisierung: 06/08/2017 | Kommentare: 3
Have you ever heard someone mention "ET" and wondered what it meant? Assuming the person wasn’t talking about extra-terrestrials or Entertainment Tonight, the conversation was probably about evapotranspiration. Evapotranspiration (or "ET") is the water lost through plant transpiration and soil and plant evaporation. The images...
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Author Bruce Smith | Letzte Aktualisierung: 09/23/2015 | Kommentare: 0
Like most machines, automated weather stations require regular maintenance to provide you with better performance and longer life expectancy. A weather station designed to calculate evapotranspiration (ET) for commercial agriculture and irrigation scheduling has a number of components that require maintenance and calibration. Based on...
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Author Bruce Smith | Letzte Aktualisierung: 05/29/2015 | Kommentare: 0
Solar radiation is an important measurement for many researchers and those who are monitoring their evapotranspiration values for irrigation purposes. If you have been wondering how accurate your solar radiation measurement is, Apogee Instruments (an associated company of Campbell Scientific) has a Clear Sky Calculator mobile...
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