barnstar:excessive-enthusiasm
barnstar:excessive-enthusiasm


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mathew "@danbeavers I am interested in making our data usable in court, but I'm also trying to be budget-sensitive. we're looking to mail these around fro..." | Read more » over 9 years ago
nshapiro "i actually have three of those pumps on my desk. they have a counter up to 10 and a thermal ring (that doesn't appear to work) for temp and a tube ..." | Read more » over 9 years ago
danbeavers "Answering my own question: "The KITAGAWA air sampling pump reproducibly draws 100cc of sample air" So that would be 90 pump cycles thus makiing i..." | Read more » over 9 years ago
danbeavers "Mathew: Perhaps I am not understanding some objectives here. Is the idea to be able to use one of our measurements in court? I doubt that that i..." | Read more » over 9 years ago
nshapiro "I think this looks great! The air intake is in one end of the tube. so we could have one less inlet to cut in the top panel and we could have it s..." | Read more » over 9 years ago
mathew "I'm trying to think about how everything might go together for shipping-- I'd like to put the monitor in a plastic suitcase with a top panel cut to..." | Read more » over 9 years ago
mathew "@Danbeavers If you ream it you're right-- I was thinking about just a drill hole and that note. Vibrations on either a cheap drill or a poorly secu..." | Read more » over 9 years ago
nshapiro "+1 to the time relay delay it could be adhered to the belly of the pump. Digging the flow meter debate! " | Read more » over 9 years ago
danbeavers "Mathew: Why would you doubt the accuracy of a stepped bore? A reamer will provide very accurate hole size and ball bearings have very accurate di..." | Read more » over 9 years ago
mathew "@danbeavers hmm... the variability in the break and its effect on flow could be quantified with a more accurate flow meter. I wonder how variable ..." | Read more » over 9 years ago
danbeavers "Another approach to this problem would be essentially what Drager does. We could construct a manual vacuum pump. It would essentially be like a b..." | Read more » over 9 years ago
danbeavers "Thanks Nate for posting my thoughts. I wanted to comment on Mathew's idea of calibrating the pump before shipment. I assume what is meant is that..." | Read more » over 9 years ago
nshapiro "@danbeavers just sent me a great email about cheap flow meters. he told me I could repost it, so am putting it here: "I have been thinking/researc..." | Read more » over 9 years ago
nshapiro "Gotcha. In my testing in 2011 i did some of the test and mailed test kits to those i couldn't meet in person. altho it wasn't statistically signifi..." | Read more » over 9 years ago
mathew "The vintage timers are probably far too massive. I'm not as worried about tampering as I am about good faith forgetfulness-- I don't always hear t..." | Read more » over 9 years ago
nshapiro "This is great. The vintage timers are pretty amazing although they add a lot of weight and thus money and are not tamper proof. We could just inclu..." | Read more » over 9 years ago
mathew "following up on our discussion about trying to calibrate the pump without the flow meter-- could we calibrate the pump at our office, and then have..." | Read more » over 9 years ago
danbeavers "Oh, I was making assumptions. I had not seen a pump that was set up to have 2 different attach points. So never mind about my comment! " | Read more » over 9 years ago
nshapiro "@danbeavers were you using the whisper pump or another pump? I think the whisper pump can handle one pump and one vacuum if need be " | Read more » over 9 years ago
danbeavers "On reversing the aquarium pump: Be sure and reverse both diaphragms! " | Read more » over 9 years ago
gpenzo "Hallo khufkens. Off the shelve approch is a very good way, if it does the job why not. I will keep an eye on your project. The main reason for the..." | Read more » over 9 years ago
khufkens "Wow, that's an impressive project. I don't have the electronic engineering skills to finish such a polished product I fear. I use a more 'off the s..." | Read more » over 9 years ago
gpenzo "Nice. I'm trying to do the same thing with a beaglebone black. http://publiclab.org/notes/gpenzo/03-25-2015/ndvi-cape-for-the-beagle-bone Only I us..." | Read more » over 9 years ago
gpenzo "Hello Warren. I never measure the boot time but it boots fast, I can login via ssh after 1 minute or so. And it take a couple of minutes before my ..." | Read more » over 9 years ago