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Hi Jake, no “pressure sensor” is going to be able to be linear/accurate if ice is forming and expanding in the protective enclosure round the pressure sensor. My guess is  the whole sensor would have to be specially designed to allow for the ice expansion to even survive a freezing event.

My hypothesis (guess) would be that its the nearly…[Read more]

I wonder what the water temperature is, or if there are water temperature changes, when this is happening.

From the graph it reads the water level is at 20″ depth then on the 10th Feb it drops by up to 5″ for some  time (hours?) before recovering, with 3 other similar but not us pronounced events

IF any for of ice could build up in a pressure…[Read more]

@d_manning just wondering if you have had any insights

I did some blog posts in 2016 with a number of depth sensors that quoted an error for a very wide temperature compensation. They where the Insitu LT500 (best), Keller Nanolevel, Keller Acculevel, Keller Level gage (worst).

I setup a situation with the depth sensors in a jar of water (low depth)  with a good solar aspect to test how well they met…[Read more]

As you say from 2nd sept – something changed, after that it looks to me like its is triggered by the temperature changes. Its just a visual analysis, but also using the conductivity. With a rain event the conductivity also typically changes, and of course temperature can change.

For daily diurnal cycle after sept 2 the temperature starts varying…[Read more]

Just wondering if you could post a link to where the data is being collected, and look at it as a system.

Oh interesting, Thanks for sharing,   Sounds like it connected some of the time, showing that it was possible to connect.  I’ve found there are four source of failure – setup to cell tower,  TCP/IP setup, POST ack,   MMW timeout,

I found this  hardware data sheet – but it turns out there is a GM1 and GM2 – GM1 is the low power. I wonder which o…[Read more]

@tumayflybearriver – thanks for brining it up.  Its nuts, but  looks to me like the signature of  “thrown away data” by  ModularSensors software that runs on the Mayfly, and the ODM2  software on monitormywatershed.

I’ve raised the issue of reliable delivery in 2018, and implemented it on my systems and offered it to the mainline Modu…[Read more]

Hey thanks for the reference. I’ve also been monitoring blynk .

Do you offload the data regularly? – that seems to be the big gotcha is figuring out how often to download data.

Hi @braedon-dority, my take is that the first step is to have personal documentation to be able to repeat your work, and that you can read it. Just to be basic, part of the learning is how to do documentation that you can then read your self.

Personally I find I come back to a working sensor some years later – and then want a traceable reference…[Read more]

Congrats – nice to see.

I guess the fundamental problem of power management is still there and can bite any time the power drops – and then likely will require a site visit to get the site restarted. Getting enough power is a band aid to enable reporting readings. So long as the power supplied exceeds the power used by a good margin it works. :)…[Read more]

@jamesp  thanks for sharing. Interesting where the “banana skins” are to slip on.

Nice to know its got low quiescent current – end of last year I also  got the same  SanDisk Industrial MLC MicroSD SDHC UHS-I Class 10 SDSDQAF3-008G-I withs its specified Operating Temp Range: -25°C to 85°C , but haven’t measured its current

I’ve bought uSD with…[Read more]