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Equipment Entry

Instrument:Precipitation
Manufacture:Texas Electronics
Model No:TE525MM
Serial No:65552-615
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Acquisition Date:2015-09-28
Project:CDFW
Location on 2021-09-15:Gilbert Tract,
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History

Rec No.DateLoc FromTitleLoc ToNotes
5521 2021-09-15 Lab none Installed Gilbert Tract Precipitation Installed at Gilbert Tract on the northeast corn of the scaffolding.
5516 2021-09-02 Sherman Wetland Precipitation Removed Lab none Removed from Sherman Wetland with the decommissioning of the site.
4947 2020-11-12 Sherman Wetland Precipitation Tested Sherman Wetland Precipitation Dripped 475ml of water through the bucket which should result in 100tips. We got 92 tips. We turned its set screws two full rotations CW. We tested it again with another 475ml of water and got 96 tips. We left it as is. This needs to be tested again. One tipper also seems faster than the other.
4158 2019-11-19 Sherman Wetland Precipitation Tested Sherman Wetland Precipitation Plug tipping bucket into the calibration CR23x and dripped 475ml of water through the bucket which should result in 100tips. Got 100 tips and did not adjust the bucket.
4137 2019-10-31 Sherman Wetland Precipitation Tested Sherman Wetland Precipitation We tested the rain bucket but got 124 tips when we should have had 100. Spider webs on the tipper might have been the problem. The webs were cleaned out but it needs to be retested.
3750 2018-10-18 Sherman Wetland Precipitation Calibration Sherman Wetland Precipitation Got 94 of 100 tips - adjusted screws a total of 1.5 turns CW

2018-10-18: Got 94 of 100 tips - adjusted screws 0.5 turns CW
2018-10-25: Got 96 of 100 tips - adjusted set screws 1 turn CW.
2018-12-18: 102 tips - no adjustment.
2290 2016-05-24 Lab none Installed Sherman Wetland Precipitation Installed on the Sherman Wetland tower at the initial set up of the site.