Equipment and Calibration

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Equipment Entry

Instrument:Soil Moisture Probe
Manufacture:Delta-T
Model No:ML2x
Serial No:139/052
Tag No:
Acquisition Date:0000-00-00
Project:
Location on 2021-03-17:Lab, surface
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History

Rec No.DateLoc FromTitleLoc ToNotes
5530 2021-03-17 Lab none Calibration Lab none After looking at the data recorded from 2021-03-17 to 2021-10-06 it seemed that this probe was reading too low in the spring and too high in the fall. Most years the soil gets completely saturated in the spring and completely dry in the fall. If you take the max and min values from all years they are very similar. Min: 473mV STDEV=6.8mV, Max: 913mV STDEV 24.8. Then we can use these to scale this sensor's min and max with this year's data and we get

Corrected (mV) = raw (mV) * 1.272 -187.73

And using the manual's default conversion values for mineral soil (0.05 and -5), the total conversion is:

%m = mV * 0.636 + 4.39
5220 2021-03-17 Lab none Installed Tonzi Soil Moisture Probe F -0.50m Installed in the same location and depth as the one the died and was previously removed. This probe is buried vertically with its times at 44-50cm. It is at the drip line of the tree to the SE of the data logger box.
5196 2021-03-15 Lab none Tested Lab none Tested in the lab. In air it read about 19mv in tap water 1136mV. Seems okay.
1844 2015-05-12 Sherman Island Removed Lab none Removed with the decommissioning of the Sherman Cow Pasture site.
1828 2014-06-05 Sherman Island Removed Lab none Removed from Sherman due to negative readings.
1825 2014-04-17 Lab none Installed Sherman Island I reinstalled this probe at -30cm after completely replacing the cable in the lab.
1824 2014-04-10 Sherman Island Removed Lab none Removed from Sherman due to bad readings. This probe was only in a very short time to replace and older probe whose tines had rotted off, but this one doesn't seem to work either.
1823 2014-03-13 Lab none Installed Sherman Island Installed to replace probe with rotted tines previously removed.
5398 2012-08-02 Lab none Installed Sherman Island Soil Moisture Probe SoilCO2 C Installed at Sherman Island next to the East soil CO2 profile. This sensor was connected to the third position on the data logger.
706 2012-07-26 Twitchell Rice Soil Moisture Probe B Removed Lab none Removed from the Twitchell tower to be replaced by CS615 probes.
1327 2011-09-15 Lab none Installed Twitchell Rice Soil Moisture Probe B Probe re-installed at the rice. (Serial number not recorded in field notes, but by process of elimination, I can only assume it's this probe).
395 2011-07-07 Twitchell Rice Soil Moisture Probe B Removed Lab none Removed from the field after it was discovered that otters had chewed its cable.
707 2009-04-03 Lab none Installed Twitchell Rice Soil Moisture Probe B Installed with the Twitchell Rice tower.