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Equipment Entry

Instrument:Precipitation
Manufacture:Texas Electronics
Model No:TE525MM
Serial No:49187-109
Tag No:
Acquisition Date:2009-05-05
Project:DWR-Rice
Location on 2020-07-09:Loaned,
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History

Rec No.DateLoc FromTitleLoc ToNotes
4611 2020-07-09 Loaned Disposed Disposed Given to Sabina of Hydrofocus. The DWR grant ended at the end of June 2020, and Bryan requested we hand off a tower to Hydrofocus.
4581 2020-07-09 Sherman Barn Precipitation Removed Loaned none Removed from Sherman Barn with its decommissioning and given to Sabina of Hydrofocus. The DWR grant ended at the end of June 2020, and Bryan requested we hand off a tower to Hydrofocus.
4160 2019-11-19 Sherman Barn Precipitation Tested Sherman Barn Precipitation Plug tipping bucket into the calibration CR23x and dripped 475ml of water through the bucket which should result in 100tips. Got 104 tips and turned both set screws 1/2 turn CCW.
4134 2019-10-31 Sherman Barn Precipitation Calibration Sherman Barn Precipitation After cleaning the tipping bucket we connected it to a CR23x and dripped 475ml of water through the bucket which should result in 100tips. We got 90 tips. We turned its set screws two full rotations CW.
3754 2018-10-18 Sherman Barn Precipitation Calibration Sherman Barn Precipitation Got 94 of 100 tips - adjusted by a total of 3.5 turns CCW (screws were loose, so this total is suspicious; should have been a CW adjustment when all was said and done)

2018-10-18: Got 94 of 100 tips - adjusted by 0.5 turns CW.
2018-12-18: Got 117 of 100 tips - adjusted by 1 turn CCW, but screws feel very loose.
2019-01-03: Got 118 of 100 tips - adjusted by 3 turns CCW. (previous adjustment of 1 turn CCW did not seem to make a difference).
2019-01-24: Got 100 of 100 tips! No adjustments made.
3586 2018-07-11 Lab none Installed Sherman Barn Precipitation Installed at Sherman Barn on a T-post in the northwest corner of the cow fence. This is the initial set up of the site.
3526 2018-06-13 Twitchell Alfalfa Precipitation Removed Lab none Removed with Twitchell Alfalfa site decommissioning.
3359 2017-05-10 Lab none Installed Twitchell Alfalfa Precipitation Installed at TA to the same pole as the soilco2 datalogger enclosure and wired it to the met CR1000. We realized this wiring under-measured precipitation and re-wired to a CR10x on 2018-02-13.
2685 2017-04-04 Twitchell Rice Precipitaion Removed Lab none Removed with the decommissioning of the Twitchell Rice site.
443 2011-11-02 Lab none Installed Twitchell Rice Precipitaion Reinstalled at Twitchell after the cable was spliced in the lab to repair a cut suffered in the field.
442 2011-10-27 Twitchell Rice Precipitaion Removed Lab none Removed from Twitchell because the cable was cut some time during the summer.
1745 2009-05-20 Lab none Installed Twitchell Rice Precipitaion Installed at Twitchell Rice on a stake south east of the tower.